1840.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 22.
How collected.

Collectors pow-
er and com-
pensation.

accomplish the purposes recited in this act, which tax shall
be collected and paid to the president and commissioners,
by a collector by them to be appointed, who shall have the
same power to distrain therefor, as the collector of the
public county assessment has to distrain for the same, and.
that the said president and commissioners shall fix the term
of office, responsibility and compensation of such collector.

To appoint a
bailiff.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority
annually to appoint a bailiff, whose duty it shall be to pre-
serve the peace and good order of said town, and for this
purpose he is hereby vested with the same power and au-
thority as any constable may now have under the laws of
this state.

Banking forbid.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contain-
ed shall be so construed as to authorise the corporation
hereby created, to issue any device, token note, certificate,
or evidence of debt, to be used as currency; and the legis-
lature reserves the right to amend or repeal this charter
when the same shall be deemed advisable.

Former act re-
pealed.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the bill passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter
one hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act to incorporate
the town of Frostburg, in Allegany county, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 22.

Passed Jan. 19,
1841.

An act to incorporate the United Seminary in Carroll
County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, John Williams, of Carroll county, has con-
veyed to John B. Chineweth, George Bramwell and Daniel
Stull, certain property in said county, in trust, for the bene-
fit of education, and for the foundation of an academy —
therefore,

Individuals in.
corporated.

Name — corpo-
rate powers

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John B. Chineweth, George Bramwell,
Daniel Stull and all other persons who now are, or shall here-
after become subscribers towards the support of said school
or academy, be and they are hereby constituted a body
corporate, and shall have perpetual succession, by the name
of the United Seminary of Carroll county, and by that
name may sue and be sued, and have a corporate seal,