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the youth of this State, to the end that he may pass, without
interruption, from his primary and secondary studies to the
pursuit of the collegiate and the professional or the other higher
branches of education; and,

WHEREAS, It has been deemed advisable and as tending to
promote the cause of education, and to advance and make uni-
form the standard of scholarship, and to increase the oppor-
tunities and facilities for study and research, and to encourage
and promote higher education in this State, by creating an ex-
ecutive center about which the various collegiate, technical and
professional, and similar institutions of this State, may be co-
ordinated in carrying out a comprehensive and harmonious
scheme of education; and to utilize to the best advantage the
aid that may be contributed by the State and by individuals to
the cause of higher education; that provision should be made
by the General Assembly of this State for the creation of a
Maryland State University, and so to constitute it that as many
of the educational and kindred institutions of this State as shall
desire so to do may became affiliated with the said Maryland
State University; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a seminary of learning, by the name of the "Mary-
land State University," be, and is hereby, created and estab-
lished in this State; that Phillips Lee Goldsborough, Governor
of the State of Maryland; Emerson C. Harrington, Comptroller
of the Treasury of the State of Maryland; M. Bates Stephens,
State Superintendent of Education; Jesse W. Price, Peter J.
Campbell, William W. Beck, Edward M. Hammond, Arthur
P. Gorman. J. Frank Harper, Carville D. Benson, James McC.
Trippe, Lloyd Wilkinson, Andrew J. Cummings, Roscoe Jones,
James A. McQuade, James A. Dawkins, David J. McIntosh, Jr.,
Noble L. Mitchell, Thomas Fell, Robert Moss, James W. Cain,
James Alfred Pearce, Thomas H. Lewis,. Joshua W. Miles,
James Earle Maloy, Randolph Winslow, Thomas A. Ashby,
Henry Stockbridge, Wm. T. Rawls, Timothy O. Heatwole, Phile-
mon H. Tuck, Charles Caspari, Jr., Joseph H. Branham, Fred-
erick CroAvthers, William F. Lockwood, John W. Chambers,
Omer F. Hershey, George Moore Brady, J. Walter Engler, Ed-
ward C. Bixler and William Milnes Maloy, their associates and
successors, shall be, and are hereby constituted and declared to be
a corporation and body politic forever, by and under the" name
of the Maryland State University, and as such shall be entitled
to and shall possess, use and enjoy all and singular the general