1841.                           LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 8. Corporate pow- ers. Proviso.	which name and title, the said trustees and their successors, shall be capable in law and equity to hold property, wheth- er acquired by purchase, gift or devise, property real, per- sonal or mixed; provided, it does not exceed at any time
Trustees elected annually.	two thousand dollars in value. Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the trustees for the time be- ing shall call a meeting of the subscribers of said school as- sociation, on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and on the same day in each and every succeed- ing year, or within thirty days thereafter, for the purpose of electing five trustees, to be chosen by, and amongst the sub- scribers, for the management of said school for one year from the day of said election, and the trustees herein ap- pointed, and who shall hereafter be elected, shall be entitled to hold their office until a new election shall be made, they
Vacancies—how filled.	shall have power to fill all vacancies which shall occur in their own body until the annual election, and to take and use all legal and proper measures for the improvement and preservation of the school aforesaid.
Trustees to keep books.	Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the trustees keep a book or books, or cause to be kept a book or books, for the use and property of said corporation, in which shall be duly en- tered all the subscriptions to the use of the corporated ob- jects, and other proceedings of said corporation, to which
Subscribers names to be en- tered.	entries of subscription each subscribers name shall be en- tered, and which, with proof of payment shall be evidence of a right to vote as a member of the corporation, and the proceedings of the trustees, and all other matters authorized
Majority to have control. Notice to be given.	by this act may be regulated by a majority of the members assembled at any annual meeting; and notice of said meeting be given in such manner as the trustees shall direct, and no person shall be entitled to a vote who shall not have paid two dollars to the object of said association.
Legal capacity.	Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and their successors duly appointed, shall be capable in law and in equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of law in this State, or before a justice of the peace, in case the matter in controversy shall be in the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace, and that the trustees shall have full power in connection with the legal voters present, or a
To establish by- laws.	majority of them, to order or establish such rules and by laws for government of said school as they shall deem pro- per.
Trustees to elect teacher. To establish rules.	Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the said school or a majority of them, arc hereby authorized and cm- powered to elect at their discretion, some suitable person as teacher of said school, and dictate and establish such rules. for the good government of said school as they or a majori- ty of them may think right, and that the said school shall be