ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1803.

and the said principal, vice-principal and professors, so constituted and appointed from time to time,
shall be known and distinguished for ever as one learned body or faculty, by the name of The Prin-
cipal, Vice-Principal and Professors, of Baltimore College, in the State of Maryland, and in that
name shall be capable of exercising such powers and authorities as the trustees of the said college,
and their successors, shall, by their ordinances, think necessary to delegate to them, for the instruc-
tion, discipline and government, of the said seminary, and of all the students, scholars, ministers
and servants, belonging to the same; and the said principal and vice-principal, professors, students,
scholars, and such necessary ministers and servants as give constant attendance upon the business of
the said college, shall be exempted from all rates and taxes on their salaries, and from military duties,
except in the case of an actual invasion of the state, and when general military law is dectared.

CHAP.
LXXIV,

IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the yearly value of the messuages, houses, lands, tenements,
rents, annuities or other hereditaments and real estate, of the said college and corporation, exctu-
sive of the buildings and lot, shall not exceed nine thousand pounds current money, to be reckoned
in silver milled dollars of the United States at the present rate and weight; and all gifts to the said
college and corporation, after the yearly value of their estates shall amount to nine thousand pounds
as aforesaid, and all bargains and purchases to be made by the same corporation, which may increase
the yearly value of said estate above or beyond the sum aforesaid, shall be absolutely void and of
none effect.

Yearly value
not to exceed
£. 9000, &c..

X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, shall meet at least four
times in every year in stated quarterly meetings, to be appointed by their own ordinances, and at
such other times as by their said ordinances they may direct, in order to examine the progress oi?
the students and scholars in literature, to hear and determine on all complaints and appeals, and upon
all matters touching the discipline of the seminary, and the good and wholesome execution of their
ordinances; in all which examinations, meetings and determinations, such number of. the said trus-
tees duly met, (provided they be not less than eleven,) shall be a quorum.

Trustees to
meet four times

a year, &c.

XL AND BE IT ENACTED, That a majority of the said trustees for the time being, when duly
assembled at any quarterly or other meeting, upon due notice given to the whole body, shall have
full power and authority to make fundamental ordinances for the government of the said college,
and the instruction of youth as aforesaid, and by these ordinances to appoint such a number of their
own body, not less than nine, as they may think proper, to be a quorum for transacting all general
and necessary business of the said seminary, and making temporary rules for the government of the
same, and also by the same fundamental ordinances to delegate to the principal, vice-principal and
professors, such powers and authorities as they may think best for the standing government of the
said seminary, and of the execution of the ordinances and rules of the same; provided always, that
they be not repugnant to the form of government or any laws of this state.

May make or-
dinances, &c.

XII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, shall have full power
and authority to have, make and use, one common and public seal, and likewise one privy seal, with
such devices and inscriptions as they shall think proper, and to ascertain, fix and regulate, the uses
of both seals by their own laws, and the same seals, or either of them, to change, break, alter and
renew, at their pleasure.

And a common;
seal, &c.

XIII. AND, for animating and encouraging the students of the said college to a laudable diligence,
industry and progress, in useful literature and science, BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors, shall, by a written mandate, under their privy seal and the hand of some of
the trustees, to be chosen annually as their president according to the ordinance to be made for that
purpose, have full power and authority to ctirect the principal, vice-principal and professors, to hold
public commencements, either on stated annual ctays, or occasionally, as the future ordinances of
the said seminary shall direct, and at such commencements to admit any of the students of the said
college, or any other persons, meriting the same, (whose names shall be severally inserted in the same
mandate,) to any degree or degrees in any of the faculties, arts and sciences, and liberal professions,
to which persons are usually admitted in other colleges or universities in America; and it is hereby
enacted, that the principal or vice-principal, or in case of his or their death or absence, the senior
professor who may be present, shall make out, and sign with his name, diplomas or certificates of
the admission to such degree or degrees, which shall be sealed with, the public or greater seal of the
corporation or college, and delivered to the graduates as honourable and perpetual testimonials of
such admission, which diploma, if thought necessary for doing greater honour to such graduates,
shall also be signed with the names of the different professors, or as many of them as can conveni-
G

They may dif-
rect the princi-
pal, &c.