LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

sons designated in said act, similar licenses to be. in force in
any county or district of this State specially designated
upon their face at the rate of seventy-five dollars each per
annum.

CHAP. 261.

CHAPTER 261.

An act to incorporate the. Trustees of New

Design School,
in Cecil County.

Passed March
8, 1843

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Robert McMaster, David Baird, Theo-
dore H. Knight, David Archibald and George W. Kidd,
and their successors, be and they are hereby incorporated,
and shall have succession by the name of The Trustees of the
New Design School, and by that name may sue and be sued,
and have a corporate seal, which they may break, alter
and change at pleasure, may hold property to an amount
not exceeding one thousand dollars and dispose of the same;
may make bye-laws, not contrary to the laws of this State,
or of the United States, and to do all other acts necessary
for the regulation, prosperity and the promotion of educa-
tion in said school.

Incorporation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall
hold till successors be elected, and that every free white
male citizen residing within three miles of the school-house
of said corporation, who may have contributed in any way
to the establishment or support of said school, shall have
a vote in the election of trustees, and that an annual election
for five trustees shall be held at such time and place as
may he prescribed by the bye-laws, and upon omission to
elect, the trustees shall hold till successors be elected.

Trustees, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the property now be-
longing to what is called the New Design School, in Cecil
county, shall be vested in the corporation by this act.

Property in-
vested in cor-
poration.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act be
construed so as to authorize the said corporation to issue
any note, token, device, scrip or other evidence of debt to
be used as currency.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act of incorpora-
tion shall enure for thirty years from its passage, and that
the legislature reserves to itself the right to alter or annul
this act of incorporation at pleasure.

To enure for
30 years.