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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Public com-
mencement.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That for animat-
ing and encouraging the students of the said col-
lege to laudable diligence, industry and progress
in useful literature and science, the said Trustees
and their successors shall by a written mandate
under their privy seal and the hand of some one of
their Trustees to be chosen annually as their Presi-
dent, according to the ordinance to be made for
that purpose, have full power and authority to
direct the Principal, Vice Principal and Professors
to hold public commencements, either in stated
anntial days or occasionally, as the future ordi-
nances of the said seminary shall direct, and at
such commencements to admit any of the students
of said college, or any other person meriting the
same (whose names shall be severally inserted in
the same mandate) to any degree or degrees in any
of the faculties, arts and sciences and liberal pro-
fessions to which persons are usually admitted in
other colleges or universities in America.

Diplomas.

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That the Principal or
Vice Principal, or in case of his or their death or
absence, the senior Professor who may be present,
shall make out and sign with his name diplomas
or certificates of the admission to such degree or
degrees which shall be sealed with, the public or
great seal of the corporation or college and deliv-
ered to the graduates as honorable and perpetual
testimonials of such admission, which diploma, if
thought necessary for doing greater honor to such
graduate, shall also be signed with the names of
the President or Trustees and the different Profes-

Provisos.

sors, or as many of them as can conveniently sign
the same; provided, always, that no student or
students within the said seminary shall ever be
admitted to any such degree or degrees, or have
their names inserted in any mandate for a degree
until such student or students have been duly
examined and thought worthy of the same at a
public examination of candidates, to be held pre-
vious to the day of commencement, by and in the
presence of the said Trustees, or of such number
of them, not less than five, as the ordinances of
the college may authorize for that purpose, and in
the presence of any other person choosing to attend
the same; and, provided further , that no person or
persons, except the students belonging to the said