JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and
such lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, or other
hereditaments, or any less estates, rights, or interests of or
in the same, at their pleasure to grant, alien, sell, and
transfer, in such manner and form as they shall think meet
and convenient for the furtherance of said College, and
also that they may take and receive any sum or sums of
money, any and every kind, manner, or portion of goods
and chatties, that may be sold or given to them by any
person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to
make a gift or sale thereof, and employ the same towards

judge most necessary and convenient for the instruction of

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students in medicine, and the sciences connected with it;
Provided, that at no time shall the whole value of the es-
tate and property of the said professors or their successors,
real, personal, and mixed, exceed the sum of fifty thousand
dollars.

Limitation

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said professors and
their successors, shall be able in law to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, in any court or courts, before any
judge, judges, or justices, within this state and elsewhere,
in all and all manner of suits and pleas of whatever kind,
nature or form they be, and to do all and every other mat-
ter and thing hereby contemplated to be done, in as full
and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bo-
dies politic or corporate, in like cases may or can do.

Legal capacity.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said professors and
their successors shall have full power and authority to
have, make, and use one common and public seal, and
likewise one privy seal, with such devices and inscriptions
as they shall think proper, and to ascertain, fix and regu-
late the uses of both seals by their own laws, and the said
seals, or either of them, to change, break, alter and renew
at their pleasure.

Legal capacity.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the professors and their
successors, or a majority of them, shall have full power
and authority to elect a President and other necessary offi-
cers of the College, they shall have the sole power of choos-
ing professors in the various branches of medicine, when
vacancies shall occur in their own body, also to appoint a
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, lecturers upon the
various branches of science, kindred to the science of me-
dicine, as well as those which may be considered subser-

General power of

professors.

vient thereto; Provided, that there shall always be in active
existence the pro+fessorships provided for in the second

Provisos.