1829.
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. 183.
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notice given to the whole body, shall have full power
and authority
to make fundamental ordinances for the government of
said college, and the instruction of youth as aforesaid, and the
same to repeal, alter or change at pleasure, and by their ordinances
to appoint from time to time, such a number of their
own body, not less than three, as they may think proper, to be
a quorum for transacting all general and necessary business of
the said seminary, and making temporary rules for the government
of the same, and also by the same fundamental ordinances,
to delegate the principal and professors such powers and
authority as they may think best for the standing government
of the said seminary, and for the execution of the ordinances
and rules of the same, and for animating and encouraging the
students of said college to a laudible diligence, industry and
progress in useful literature and science.
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Public commencements.
Degrees—diplomas.
Examination.
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted,
That the said president, visitors and
their successors, shall be a written mandate under the hand of
their president, according to the ordinance to be made for that
purpose, have full power and authority to direct the principal
and professors to hold [pub] commencements, either on stated
days or occasionally, as the future ordinances of the said
seminary shall direct, and at such commencements to admit
any of the students of the said college to any degree or degrees
in any of the faculties, arts and sciences and liberal professions,
except doctors of medicine, to which they are usually
admitted in other colleges or universities in the United States,
and it is hereby enacted, that the principal or in case of his
death the seinor 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 seal of the corporation or college, and delivered to the
graduates as honorable and perpetual testimonials of such admission,
which diplomas if thought necessary for greater honor
to such graduate, shall also be signed with the names of the
different professors, or as may of them as can conveniently
sign the same; Provided always, That no student or students,
within the said college shall ever be admitted to any such degree
or degrees or have their name invested in any mandate for
a degree, until such student or students, have been first duly examined
and thought worthy of the same at a public examination
of candidates, to be held previous to the day of commencement
in the said college, by and in the presence of said president
and visitors, or such number of them not less than a majority,
as the ordinance of the college may authorise for that purpose,
and in the presence of any other persons choosing to attend
the same.
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Explanatory.
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Sec. 5. And be it enacted,
That this charter and act of incorporation,
and as part thereof, every act and part of an act
heretofore passed, touching or concerning the Frederick county
school, so far as the same may be now in force, and not repugnant
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