t96                           LAWS OF MARYLAND.                   [CH. 265

CHAPTER 265.

AN ACT to sanction a lease made by the Trustees of the Fred-
erick Female Seminary, a body corporate, to the Board of
Education of Frederick County, under an agreement exe-
cuted by said Trustees and Board of Education and the
County Commissioners of Frederick County; and to au-
thorize said Trustees to lease or convey said property to the
said County Commissioners upon such terms as may be
agreed upon by said Trustees and County Commissioners;
and generally to authorize said Trustees to dispose of said
property by lease, sale or otherwise, and to use the income
from the lease of said property, or any proceeds of a sale
or other disposition thereof, for the promotion of female
education.

WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Maryland, by Chapter
217 of the Acts of 1839, after reciting the need in Frederick
City of a Seminary for the education of girls in the higher
departments of science and literature, created a corporation by
the name of The Frederick Female Seminary, and provided
that the property theretofore or thereafter acquired for the
use of said Seminary should be held by the Trustees named in
said Act, and their successors, in trust for the uses stated in
said Act, which were declared to be "the promotion and ad-
vancement of female education and the cultivation and dif-
fusion of literature and science"; and

WHEREAS, the said Seminary buildings and property have
been, until recently, occupied and used, by lessees from the
said Trustees, for the purposes of higher female education, the
last of said lessees having been Hood College, whose tenancy
expired, at its option, on August 1, 1930; and

WHEREAS, the said Trustees, in the absence of any existing
or prospective opportunity or ability to provide for the further
use and occupation of said Seminary property for the direct
purposes of female education, concluded that the lease or sale
thereof for a public use insuring the preservation of its com-
munity character and benefit would be the most suitable
method of serving, so far as practicable, the design of said Act
of 1839, and therefore leased said property to the Board of
Education of Frederick County, under an agreement, subject
to such legislative sanction as may be requisite, dated July 30,