JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

Sec 5. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
then successois or a majority of them, shall meet at least
twice in every year, instated semi-annual meetings, to be
appointed by their own ordinances, and at such other times
as by then said ordinances, or by their own adjournments
as, they may direct, and when so assembled they shall have
power from time to time to appoint a President, Treasurer,
and Secietary, to make contracts with the professors or
teachers relative to the instruction of the scholars, to be
placed under their caie, and for the payment of their sala-
ries, to examine the progress of the students and scholars,
to hear and determine on all complaints and appeals, ana all
matters touching the discipline and government of the said
Academy and the execution of then ordinance's, and gene-
rally to manage the state and concerns of the said seminary,
in such manner as they shall deem best for the advantage of
the institution.

CHAPTER 255

CHAP. 255.

Sen annual

meetings

An act to authorise John D. Perkins, of Kent County, in the
State of Delaware, to make and execute a Deed of Manu-
mission, and to have the same recorded in Queen Anne's
County Court.

Passed Mar. 20, 1835

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
John D. Perkins of Kent county, in the State of Delaware,
he and he is hereby authorised and empowered to make
and execute a deed of manumission, to the woman
named Nancy, and her children Robert, Samuel, and Clin-
ton, being the wife and children of Robert Rollins, a free
colored man, residing in Queen Anne's county, and the
clerk of Queen Anne's County court, is hereby authorised
and directed to record the same, winch when so recorded,
shall be good and valid, any law of this State to the con-
trary nothwithstanding.