WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

tels, to an amount not exceeding in yearly value, the sum
of five thousand dollars.

CHAP. 107.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporate powers
and capacity by this act conferred, shall be exercisable only
for the support and education of female children; and that
when any parent, guardian or orphans' court of this State,
shall have placed any female child or children with the said
body corporate, the said child or children shall be subject
to the regulations applicable by law to apprentices, until it
shall be thought proper by said body corporate to bind
them out, winch it is hereby authorised to do until they
reach the age of eighteen, in the manner in which other fe-
male children may be bound; provided, that nothing herein
contained be considered as abridging the security afforded
to such children by the laws concerning apprentices.

Corporate pow-
ers exercised
only for a spe-
cific purpose.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the authority hereinbe-
fore given to use a common seal, to implead and be implead-
ed, to purchase and convey lands, tenements and heredita-
ments, to bind out children and to appoint a board of
managers, as is hereinafter specified, shall reside in aboard
of governors, to consist of John S. Gittings, James Howard,
A. J. Henderson, Samuel Wyman and James Mason Camp-
bell, Esquires, and their successors, and that said board
shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur
among its members, by death, removal, resignation or other-
wise, and to make such officers from among their own
number, as they may think necessary.

Board of Gov-
ernors — powers
vested in.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the collection and em-
ployment of the means of said body corporate, in the sup-
port and education of female children, shall be confided to
a board of managers to consist of twenty-four ladies, either
married or unmarried, being annual contributors of five dol-
lars or upwards, to be annually appointed by the Governor,
upon whom shall devolve also the duty, if requested by the
said board of managers, of filling up any vacancies happen-
ing during the current year; said board of managers to have
power to contract in the name of the body corporate, for
the renting of houses, for the purchase of all things necessa-
ry for the support and education of the children, and for
the employment and compensation of agents and servants,
to appoint any officers they may think expedient, and de-
fine their duties and term of office; to pass such by-laws
for their government; and that of the assylum, as they con-
ceive proper, so that they be not against law, including
herein the power to determine what number of their body
shall constitute a quorum; and generally to have and exercise
all the powers which may by a liberal construction be ne-

Collections to
be paid over to
board of mana-
gers.

By-laws.