1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 79.

John Wadlow, Nathan Brawne and Robert T. Shipley of
Carroll county, be, and they are hereby incorporated the
first trustees of the aforesaid Academy, and the said trus-
tees and their successors to be elected in the manner here-
inafter mentioned, shall lie, and they are hereby declared
to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with
perpetual succession in deed and in law, to all intents and
purposes connected with the said institutions by the name
and style of the Freedom Academy, of Carroll county, by
which name and title they and their successors shall be
competent and capable in law and in equity, to take and to
hold to themselves and their successors, for the use of the
said Academy, any estate in messuages, lands and tenements,
annuities, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the gift,
grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest of any

Proviso.

person or persons whatsoever, provided, the same do not
exceed in the whole, the clear value of five thousand dol-
lars, 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, and in such manner as to
them, or a majority of them, shall seem most beneficial to
the institution, mid to receive the rents, issues, profits, in-
come and interests of the same, and to apply the emolu-
ments thereof to the use and advancement of the said Aca-
demy.

Trustees to fill
vacancies.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all times hereafter,
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said
community of trustees by the death resignation or refusal
of any one or more of the members thereof, or by the wil-
ful neglect of any one or more of them to attend the meet-
ings of said board of trustees for the space of six months,
the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall with all
convenient despatch proceed to elect by ballot other sensi-
ble and discreet persons of said, county, to be trustee or
trustees to supply such vacancy or vacancies, and in like
manner shall all future vacancies be supplied by said trus-
tees and their successors or a majority of them, so as to
perpetuate the number of five persons as trustees of the
said Academy forever.

Corporate
Powers.

SEC. 3. 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 the State and elsewhere, in all and every man-
ner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands
of whatsoever kind, nature or form they may be, and all or
every other matter or thing to do therein, in as full and ef-