JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR NOVEMBER;

1801

nation, and it also appearing that considerable sums of money have already been raised and ap-
plied to the benevolent purposes of the institution, by the means of which many of those, the
objects of their peculiar care, have already been rescued from ignorance and poverty, and placed
in situations with a fair prospect of obtaining for themselves an honest livelihood; and this gene-
ral assembly being desirous to assist such institutions, by investing their promoters with corporate
powers, therefore,

C H A P.
XLVIL

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the right reverend John Carroll,
bishop of the Roman catholic church, the reverend William Otterbein, the reverend I. Daniel
Kurtz, the reverend George Roberts, William Wilson, James H. M^cCulloch, Jesse Hollingsworth,
Charles Ridgely, of Hampton, and Emanuel Kent, and their successors in office, who shall be. du-
ly elected in the manner herein after described and directed, are hereby declared tu be one com-
munity, corporation and body politic, for ever hereafter, by the name and style of The Trustees
of the Female Humane Association Charity School, and by that name they shall be and hereby
are made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them
and their successors as aforesaid, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, and other heredi-
taments, in fee-simple or for a term of years, life, lives or otherwise, and also goods, chattels or
effects, of what nature, quality or kind soever, by The gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any per-
son or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the. same, or the same to grant, de-
mise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they may judge most conducive to the benevolent and
charitable use of said society ; provided always, that the said corporation or body politic shall
not, at any one time, hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in yearly value
the sum of three thousand dollars.

Persons incor-
porated, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any parents or guardians, or any orphans court, shall
have placed any female child or children in the before-mentioned institution, they shall thenceforth
be under the control and management of the said institution, until it shall be thought proper by
the directors, who shall be appointed as is herein after described and directed to regulate the con-
cerns of said institution, to bind out such female child or children for the term which by law other
females shall or may be bound, any law of this state to the contrary notwithstanding ; provided,
that nothing herein contained be construed to abridge the security afforded to such persons by
the law concerning apprentices.

Children to be
under their
control, &c

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the right reverend John Carroll, bishop of the Roman catho-
lic church, the reverend William Otterbein, the reverend I. Daniel Kurtz, the reverend George
Roberts, William Wilson, James H. M^cCulloch, Jesse Hollingsworth, Charles Ridgely, of Hamp-
ton and Emanuel Kent, and their successors, to be appointed as herein after set forth, shall be
and are hereby constituted trustees of the said female humane association charity school ; and in
case of death, resignation or disqualification, of any of the said trustees, the remaining trustees
shall notify to the female humane association such vacancy or vacancies, who are hereby autho-
rised and fully empowered to fill up the same, and shall forthwith hold an election, after due no-
tice given, and choose by ballot a trustee or trustees to fill up all such vacancy or vacancies, and
in the same mode shall choose and elect to fill up all vacancies, so that the number of nine trustees
shall be kept up and continued for ever ; and the members of the female humane association are
hereby authorised and empowered to assemble and meet at such times and places as they may agree
upon, then and there to choose and elect by ballot, of the members of the female humane associ-
ation, nine directors, to superintend the regulation and management of the school, and the said
nine directors shall in the same mode be annually appointed, and all vacancies filled, so that the
number of nine directors shall be kept up for ever, and by a majority of voices of the attending
directors to ordain, establish and put in execution, such by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as
to them shall seem conducive to the interests of the said institution, and necessary to the good
government and orderly management thereof, the same not being contrary to the laws of this
state or of the United States, and generally to do and execute all such acts, matters and things,
find in such manner and form as to them shall seem proper, in order the more effectually to carry
into effect the purposes of this act ; provided always, that a majority of the directors in being
shall always be necessary to form a quorum for the transaction of business.

Persons consti-
tuted trustees
&c.

A

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid trustees, and their successors, by the name afore-

'^r' §aid, shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered, defend and be defended, in all or any court of justice whatsoever, and also to make,
have and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew at pleasure.
VI. ANB

Trustees may
sue, &c.