1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LXII.

erection and endowment of a school in the county aforesaid, which, if encouraged by the legislature,
may become a useful institution; therefore,

An academy
erected, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly cf Maryland, That there be erected, and herein is
creeled and established, in the town of Centre-Ville, in Queen-Anne's county, an academy for the
liberal education of youth in such sciences and branches of learning as the trustees and professors
thereof shall from time to time think useful and expedient for the benefit and advancement of the
institution, and the said academy shall be regulated under the management, direction and govern-
ment, of twelve trustees, and be perpetuated in the manner herein alter mentioned.

Trustees ap-
pointed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Joseph H. Nicholson, Richard T. Earle, James Tilghman, James
Holliday, William Chambers, William Clayton, William Carmichael, Samuel Keene, junior, Philip
Fideman, Thomas Wright, of Thomas, Thomas Wright, of Solomon, and Henry Darden, be and
they are hereby appointed trustees of the said academy; and the sald trustees, and their successors,
to be elected in the manner herein after mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby erected, establish-
ed and dectared to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with perpetual succession, in
deed and in law, to all intents and purposes connected with the said institution, by che name and
style of The Trustees of the Centre-Ville Academy, in Queen-Anne's County, by which name and
title they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable, in law and in
equity, to take and to hold to themselves, and their successors, for the use of the said academy, any
estate in any messuages, lands and tenements, annuities, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the
gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever,
provided the same do not exceed, in the whole, the ctear yearly value of five thousand dollars, and
the same messuages, lands arid tenements, and other estate, real or personal, to farm let, and put
out on interest, for the use of the said academy, in such manner as to them, or a majority of them,
shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income and
interest, of the same, and to apply the emoluments thereof to the proper use and advancement of
the said academy.

How vacancies
are to be filled.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times for ever hereafter, 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 anyone or more of them to attend two suc-
ceeding stated meetings of the board of trustees, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them,
shall, with all 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 the said trustees, and their successors, or a ma-
jority of them, so as to perpetuate the number of twelve persons as trustees of the said academy for
ever,

Trustees may
sue, &c.

V. 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 all manner of
suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or form they be,
and all and every other matter or thing to do therein,) in as full and effectual manner as any person
or persons, bodies politic or corporate, within this state, in like cases may or can do or perform;
and the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority
to have, make and use, one common seal, with such devices and inscriptions as they shall think pro-
per, and therewith to pass and authenticate the certificates, acts and orders, of the said corpora-
tion, and the same seal, at their pleasure, to break, alter and renew.

May appoint
professors, &c

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them,
from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute and
appoint professors, teachers and assistants, for instructing the students and scholars of the said aca-
demy in such sciences and branches of education as they shall think proper and suitable to be taught
therein, and to make fundamental ordinances or regulations for the good government of the said aca-
demy, and the instruction of the youth as aforesaid, and by these ordinances to appoint such a num-
ber of their own body, not less than seven, as they may think proper, to be a quorum or committee
for transacting all general and necessary business of the said seminary, and making temporary rules
for the management thereof; and also by the said ordinances to delegate to the professors and
teachers such powers and authorities as they shall think expedient for the standing government and
discipline of the said seminary, and the execution of the regulations thereof; and also by the said
ordinances to make such regulations for the directions, visitation and examination, of the said semi-