LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

succession in deed and in law to all intents and purposes,
connected with said institutions, by the name and style of
The Island Creek Academy of Calvert County, by which
name and title they and their successors shall be competent
and capable in law and equity, to take and hold to them-
selves and their successors, for the use of the said academy,
any estate in messuages, lands and tenements, annuities,
goods, chattels, moneys or effects, by gift, grant or bargain
and sale, conveyance, devise or bequest of any person or

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persons whatsoever; provided, the same do not exceed in
the whole, the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars,
and the same messuages, lands and tenements, and other
estate, real or personal, to farm, let and put out on interest,
for the use of the said academy, in such manner as to them
or a majority of them shall seem most beneficial to the in-
stitution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income
and interest of the same, and to apply the emoluments
thereof to the proper use and advancement of said acade-
my.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on the first Monday in
April, in each and every year, an election shall be held by
the qualified voters of the academy, and the trustees in
power shall annually, ten days previous to the election, set
up three public notices, one at each of the most public
places in the neighbourhood, notifying the subscribers of
the election for trustees of said academy, which said elec-
tion shall be by ballot, and conducted as follows, to wit:
every subscriber to said institution shall be allowed one
vote, and the seven persons having a majority of the votes,
shall be declared duly elected the trustees for the ensuing
year; provided that no person but a subscriber shall be a
trustee.

Election first
Monday in
April.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after an annual election,
a vacancy shall occur among the members elected, by the
death, resignation or refusal of any one or more of the
trustees, or by the neglect of any one or more of them to
attend three regular meetings of the board of trustees, the
remaining trustees shall proceed with all convenient des-
patch to fill the vacancy, by electing by ballot other sen-
sible or discreet person or persons from among the subscri-
bers to said institution, so as to perpetuate the number of
seven persons as trustees of said academy.

Trustees to fill
vacancies.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors by the name and style aforesaid, shall be
capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded
in any court or courts, and before any judge, justice or jus-
tices within this state and elsewhere, in all and any manner

Corporate

powers.