1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 163.

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.

Vacancies

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 to act of any one or more of the members there-
of, 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 one year, 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 vacan-
cy or vacancies, and in like manner shall all future vacan-
cies be supplied by the said trustees and their successors,
or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate the number of
seven persons as trustees of the said academy for ever.

Legal capacity.

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 corpo-
rate, within this state in like cases, may or can do or per-
form; and the said trustees and their successors or a ma-
jority of them, shall have full power and authority to have,
make, and use one common seal, with such devices and in-
scriptions 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.

Powers of trustees

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 author-
ity to constitute and appoint professors, teachers and as-
sistants, 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 there-
in, and to make ordinances or regulations for the good gov-
ernment of the said academy, and the instruction of the