JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832

Washington County Bank, at the Town of Williamsport,
in Washington county.

CHAP. 126.

CHAPTER 126.

An ad to Incorporate the Oakland Academy, in Baltimore
county.

Passed Mar. 2, 1833

WHEREAS, application has been made to this General
Assembly of Maryland, for the passage of a law to incor-
porate the Oakland Academy in Baltimore County: — There-
fore,

Preamble

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That Wesley Bennett, Edward Ireland, Jesse Ben-
nett, Benjamin Bennett, George Campbell, Elias Brown,
and Nicholas Harden, be and they are hereby appointed the
first trustees of the said Academy, and the said trustees and
their successors to be elected in the manner hereinafter
mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby established and
declared to be one community, corporation and body poli-
tic, with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to all
intents and purposes, connected with the said Institution,

Trustees incorpo-

rated

by the name or style of the Oakland Academy, 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, chatties, monies or
effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, device

Style

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 other estate, real or personal, to farm
let, and put out on interest, for the use of the said Acade-
my, in such manner as to them, or a majority of them,
shall seem most beneficial to the Institution, and to re-
ceive the rents, issues, profits, income and interests of the
same, and to apply the emoluments thereof, to the proper
use and advancement of the said Academy.

Estate limited.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That at all times forever here-
after, 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

Method of filling

vacancies