1843.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 247.

Brice, Nicholas R. Meiryman, Thos. Love, John D. Readel,
John S. Buck and Joshua T. Cockey, of Baltimore county,
be and they are hereby incorporated the first trustees of the
aforesaid Academy, and the said trustees and their suc-
cessors to be elected in the manner hereinafter mentioned,
shall be, and they are herebj declared to be, one commu-
nity, corporation and body politic, with perpetual succes-
sion in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes con-
nected with said institution by the name and style of the
Sherwood Academy of Baltimore 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 them-
selves and their sui cessors, for the use of said Academy,
any estate in messuages, lands and tenements, annuities,
goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the gift, grant, bar-
gain, sale conveyance, devise or bequest of any person

Proviso.

or persons whatsoever, provided, the same do not exceed
in the whole the clear value of five thousand dollars, and
the same messauges, lands and tenements and other estate,
real cr 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 or them, shall seem most beneficial to the insti-
tution, and to receive the rents, issues, profits income and
interests of the same, and to apply the emoluments to the

Trustees to fill
vacancies.

use and advancements of the said Academy.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That at all times hereaf-
ter, when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in ihe
said community of trustees by the death, resignation or
refusal of any one or more of the members thereof, or by
the wilful neglect of any one or more of them, to attend
the meetings of said board of trustees for the space of
six months, the remaining trustees or a majority of them,
shall with all convenient dispatch proceed to elect by bal-
lot other sensible 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 trustees, and their successors of a majority of them,
so as to perpeiuate the number of five persons as trustees

Corporate
powers.

of the said Academy forever.
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 implead-
ed, in any court or courts, and before any judge, justice
or justices within the state and elsewhere, in all and
every manner 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 there-
in, in as full and effectual a manner as any person or per-