1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND-

CHAP. 246.

Privileges.

trustees and their successors, shall be competent and capa-
ble at law or in equity, to hold to themselves and their suc-
cessors for the use of the said academy, goods, chatties,
moneys, stock or effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, con-
veyance, devise or bequest, of any person or persons what-
ever, and the same to convey, lease, loan, or otherwise to
dispose of, for the use of the said academy, in such manner
as to them, or a quorum of them shall deem most safe and
beneficial to the institution.

Case of vacancy

of trustees

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That at all times forever here-
after, when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in such
community of trustees by the death, resignation or refusal
of any one or more of the trustees thereof, or by wilful neg-
lect of any one or more of them to attend three succeed-
ing stated meetings of the board of trustees, the surviving
or remaining trustees or a quorum of them may proceed
to elect by ballot other competent, judicious and discreet
person or persons of the county aforesaid, to be trustee or
trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by
the respective causes aforementioned, and in such manner
may all future vacancy or vacancies be supplied by the
said trustees, and their successors or a quorum of them.

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 implead-
ed, in any court or courts, and before any judge, justice or
justices in this state or elsewhere, in all manner of suits,
complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands of what-
ever nature, kind or form, they be, and all and every other
matter or thing to do therein in as full and effectual man-
ner as any other person or persons, bodies politic, in like
cases, may or can do and perform, and the said trustees
and their successors or a quorum of them shall have full
power and authority to have, make and use one common seal
with such device or inscriptions as they shall think proper,
and the same seal, at their pleasure to alter or renew.

Powers and duties

of trustees

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors or a quorum of them from time to time,
and at all times hereafter shall have full power and author-
ity to constitute and appoint in such manner as they shall
think best and most convenient, professors, teachers, and
assistants for instructing the students and scholars of said
academy in the languages, and such sciences and branches
of education as they shall think proper and suitable to be
taught therein, and to make all such laws, ordinances,
rules, orders or regulations for the goverment of the said