1831

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 229.

McCay, be, and they are hereby appointed the first trus-
tees of the said academy, and the said trustees and their

Incorporated.

successors, to be elected in the manner herein after men-
tioned, shall be and they are hereby declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, with perpetual
succession, in deed and in law, to all intents and purpo-

Name and style

ses, connected with the said institution, by the name or
style of The Govanstown Academy, by which name and
title, they and their successors, shall be competent and ca-

Privileges granted

pable in law, and in equity, to take and to hold, to them-
selves and their successors, for the use of the said Acade-
my, any estate in any messuages, lands and tenements, an-
nuities, goods, chattels, moneys or effects, by the gift,
grant, or bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest, of any

Limit of estate

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 nnd tenements,
and other estate, real or personal, to farm-let and put out,
on interest for the use of the said Academy, in such man-

neficial to the institution, and to receive 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.

Vacancy of trus-
tees.

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 the
meetings of the board of trustees, for the space of one year,
the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall, with all

How supplies.

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 vacancy or vacancies; and
in like manner shall all future vacancies be supplied by said
trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, so as
to perpetuate the number of twelve persons, as trustees of
the said Academy forever.

Legal capacity.

Sec. 3. 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 and any
manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and
demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or form they may be,
and all and every other matter or thing to do therein, in as