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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

courts, before any Judge, Judges or Justices with-
in this State and elsewhere, in all and all manner
of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and
demands of whatsoever kind, nature or form they
be, and all and every other matter and thing
therein to do, in as full and effectual a manner as
any other person or persons, bodies politic or cor-
porate within this State, or any of the United
States of America, in like case may or can do.

Invested with
power.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the said Trus-

tees and their successors, from time to time, and
at all times hereafter forever, shall have full
power and authority to constitute and appoint, in
such manner as they shall think best and most
convenient, a Principal and Vice Principal of the
said college and Professors, with proper Tutors
and Assistants, for instructing the students and
scholars of the said seminary in all the liberal
arts and sciences, and in the ancient and modern
tongues and languages, who shall be severally
styled Professors of such arts, sciences, languages
or tongues as they shall be nominated and ap-
appointed for, according to each particular nomi-
nation and appointment; and the said Principal,
Vice Principal and Professors so constituted and
appointed from time to time, shall be known and
distinguished forever as one learned body or fa-
culty, by the name of the Principal, Vice Princi-
pal and Professors of the Maryland Annual Con-
ference College, in Baltimore county or city, in
the State of Maryland, and in that name shall be
capable of exercising such powers and authorities
as the Trustees of the said college and their suc-
cessors shall, by their ordinance, think necessary
to delegate to them for the instruction, discipline
and government of the said seminary.

Value not tc
exceed $10,000

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the yearly
value of the messuages, houses, lands, tenements,
rents, annuities or other hereditaments and real
estate of the said college and corporation, exclu-
sive of the buildings and lot, shall not exceed ten
thousand dollars current money, and all gifts to
the said college and corporation after the yearly
value of their estates, shall amount to ten thousand
dollars as aforesaid, and all bargains and pur-
shases to be made by the same corporation, which