1829.
LAWS
OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 44.
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under the management, direction and government of
five Trustees,
and be perpetuated in the manner hereinafter mentioned.
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Corporate powers
granted.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That Joseph E. Muse, Samuel
Lecompt, William W. Eccleston, Thomas Hayward and Anthony
C. Thompson, be and they are hereby appointed Trustees
of the said Academy, and the said Trustees, and their
successors to be elected in the manner herein after mentioned,
shall be, and they are hereby erected, established and declared
to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with
perpetual succession in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes
connected with the said institution, by the name and
style of the Cambridge Female Academy in Dorchester county,
by which name and title they, the said trustees and their
successors, shall be competent and capable in law and in equity,
to take and to hold to themselves and their successors, for
the use of the said Academy, any estate in any messuages, lands
and tenements, annuities, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by
the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest,
of any person or persons whatsoever, provided the same do
not exceed in the whole, the clear yearly value of five thousand
dollars; and the same messuages, lands and tenements, and
the other estate real and personal, to farm let and put out on
interest for the use of the said Academy, in such manner as to
them, or a majority of them, shall seem most beneficial to the
institution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income and
interest of the same, and to apply the emoluments thereof, to
the proper use and advancement of the said Academy.
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Vacancy of trustees
supplied.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted,
That at all times, forever hereafter,
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said
community of Trustees, by the death, resignation or refusal,
of any one or more of the members thereof, or by the wilful
neglect of any one or more of them to attend the meetings of the
Board of Trustees for the space of two years the remaining
Trustees, or a majority of them, shall, with all convenient
speed, proceed to elect by ballot, other sensible and discreet
person or persons of the said county, to be the Trustee or
Trustees to supply such vacancy or vacancies, and in like
manner shall future vacancies be supplied by the said Trustees
and their successors, or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate
the number of five persons as Trustees of the said Academy
forever.
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Legal powers conferred.
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted,
That the said Trustees and their
successors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable
in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any
Court or Courts, and before any Judge, Justice or Justices
within this State, in all manner of suits, complaints, pleas,
causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or
form they be, and all and every other matter or thing to do
therein, in as full and effectual manner as any person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate within this State, in like cases
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