1801.

NOVEMBER, LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. XL

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1801.

An additional supplement to the act entitled, An act for ereding a
public school in Frederick county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the trustees of Frederick academy,
and other inhabitants of Frederick county, that the present building is not sufficiently
large to accommodate the number of students that apply for admission at said academy, and they
have prayed that a law may pass authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money to. render said
building more commodious, and to procure a library for the benefit of the students of the said
academy ; and it appearing reasonable that an act should pass agreeably to said prayer, there-
fore,

Trustees may
propose a
scheme, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for
the trustees or visitors of Frederick county school, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or
schemes of a lottery for raising a sum of money not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars,
and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided, that the said trustees, or a majority of
them, as aforesaid, do, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in said lottery, give
their bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of five thousand dollars, conditioned, that
they will well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within three months after
the drawing of said lottery, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them.

Apply the mo-
ney, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after deducting the necessary expences in said lottery, the said
trustees, or a majority of them, shall apply the residue of the money raised by said lottery to en-
larging the building in which said academy is held, or in such manner as in their discretion they
shall think most promotive of benefit to said institution.

And report,

fee.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees aforesaid shall, and they are hereby directed, in
their next annual report to the general assembly, to state the manner in which the money raised
in conformity to this act has been applied.

V. AND, whereas it is stated to this general assembly, that the appointment of an additional
number of trustees or visitors would tend to the advancement of the objects contemplated in the
establishment of said seminary, and that the investing of certain powers in the principal professor

Trustees ap-
jointed, &c.

of said academy would be promotive of benefit to said institution, BE IT ENACTED, That William
Luckett, William Hobbs, of Samuel, Roger Nelson, Peter Mantz, John Schley, Joshua Dorsey,
Daniel Clarke, junior, and Robert Cummings, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of Fre-
derick county school, in addition to those already acting as trustees in pursuance of the act of as-
sembly, entitled, A supplement to the act, entitled, An act for erecting a public school in Frede-
rick county.

Principal to be
a trustee, &c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the principal professor of said school shall be, and he is here-
by declared to be, ex officio, one of the trustees of said school.

And to appoint
tutors, &c.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid principal .professor shall, in the first instance,
have authority to appoint all subordinate tutors or professors in said school, and any tutor or pro-
fessor thus appointed shall continue to act until the majority of all the trustees shall declare their
disapprobation of such tutor or professor, in which case the aforesaid majority of all the trustees
AS aforesaid shall appoint .another to fill the vacancy.

Trustees to di-
rect the pro-
portion, &c.

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees, or the majority of them, shall direct what pro-
portion of the annual donation of the state shall be paid to the principal, and the residue thereof
shall, by the principal, be annually apportioned among the subordinate tutors ; provided, that such
apportionment may be changed or altered by the trustees.

And ele& a
Measurer, &c.

IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees or visitors aforesaid shall, annually, on the first
day of January, or within ten days thereafter, elect by ballot, a treasurer, librarian and secretary,
which treasurer shall, within ten days after his eleftion, give bond, in the penalty of one thousand
dollars, for the faithful performance of his trust ; which said bond shall be lodged in the clerk's
office of said county, there to be recorded, for the recording of which the clerk shall receive the
sum of fifty cents.