1829.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 173.
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one or more of the members thereof, or by the wilful
neglect
on 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 all future
vacancies be supplied by the said trustees and their successors,
or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate the number of six
persons as trustees of the said Academy for ever.
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Legal capacity.
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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 and elsewhere, in all manner of suits, complaints,
pleas, causes, matters and demands of whatever 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 may or can do or perform; and the said trustees and
their successors, or a majority of them, shall have full power
and authority to have, make and use, one common seal, with
such devices and inscriptions as they shall think proper; and
therewith to pass and authenticate the certificates, acts and
orders of the said corporation, and the same seal, at their pleasure,
to break, alter and renew.
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General powers
conferred.
Proviso.
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Sec. 5. And be it enacted,
That the said trustees and their
successors, or a majority of them, from time to time, and at
all times hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute
and appoint professors, teachers and assistants, for instructing
the students and scholars of the said Academy in such
sciences and branches of education as they shall think proper
and suitable to be taught therein, and to make fundamental ordinances
or regulations for the good government of the said
Academy, and the instruction of the youth as aforesaid, and
by these ordinances to appoint such number of their own body,
not less than three, as they may think proper, to be a quorum
or committee for transacting all general and necessary business
of the said Seminary, and making temporary rules for the
management thereof, and also by the said ordinances to delegate
to the professors and teachers, such powers and authorities
as they shall think expedient for the standing government
and discipline of the said Seminary, and the execution of the
regulations thereof, and also, by the said ordinances, to make
such regulations for the directions, visitation and examinations
of the said Seminary and the students and scholars therein as
shall best promote the important objects of the institution;
Provided always, that the said ordinances be not repugnant to
the constitution and laws of this State.
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