1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
CXXXIV.

a number of their own body, less than seven, as they may think proper, to be a quorum or com-
mittee for transacting all necessary and general business of the said schools, and making temporary
rules for the management thereof, and also, by the said ordinances, to delegate to the professors and
teachers such powers and authorities as they shall think expedient for the standing government and
discipline of the said schools, and the execution of the regulations of the same, and also by the said
ordinances to make such regulations for the direction, visitation and examination, of the said schools,
and the students and scholars therein, as shall best promote the important objects of the institution;

provided always, that the said ordinances be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state.

Meet four times
a year, &c.

XII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them,
shall meet at least four times in every year, in stated quarterly meeting, to be appointed by their
own ordinances, and at such other times as by their said ordinances, or by their own adjournments,
they may direct, and when so assembled, they shall have power, from time to time, to appoint a pre-
sident, treasurer and secretary, to make contracts with the professors or teachers relative to the
instruction of the scholars to be placed under their care, and for the payment of their salaries, to
examine the progress of the students and scholars in their learning, to hear and determine on all
complaints and appeals, and upon all matters touching the discipline and government of the said
schools, and the wholesome execution of their ordinances, and generally to manage the estate and
concerns of the said schools, in like manner as is usually done for the advancement and advantage
of similar institutions.

Take an oath,
&c.

XIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any trustee herein before appointed, or hereafter to be
elected, shall proceed to execute the trusts and authorities delegated by this act, he shall qualify
himself before some magistrate, by taking an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that he will well,
truly and faithfully, execute and perform the duties of a trustee of the said schools, without partiality
or prejudice, according to the best of his skill and judgment, and agreeably to the directions of this
act; and a certificate of such qualification shall be delivered by the magistrate, and filed among their
proceedings.

And report
their proceed-
ings, &c.

XIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them,
shall, on the first Monday of January in each and every year, report their proceedings, and the state
of the schools, to the orphans court of Charles county, for their inspection and examination; and
this act of incorporation, and every part thereof, and the proceedings of the trustees in execution,
thereof, shall hive effect in law according to the true intent and meaning of the same respectively,
and shall be construed, reputed and adjudged, in all cases, most favourably on the behalf and for the
benefit of the said trustees, and their successors, so as most effectually to answer the objects and de-
sign of this act towards the advancement and promotion of knowledge and virtue.

CHAP. CXXXV.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT to authorise William Handy and James Riche to sell and
dispose of the real estate of Isaac Handy, late of Somerset county,
deceased.

Preamble

WHEREAS Mary G. Handy, Edward G. Handy, James H. Handy and Samuel W. Handy,
children and heirs of Isaac Handy, late of Somerset county, deceased, have by their peti*
tion to this general assembly set forth, that the said Isaac Handy died on or about the third day of
August, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-one, seized of considerable real estate in and
about the town of Salisbury, in Somerset county, consisting of several tracts or parts of tracts of
land, one moiety of a small saw-mill, and several houses and lots in the town of Salisbury, which
said property, from its contiguity to the said town of Salisbury, is liable to be much injured from
having the wood and timber thereof pillaged, and the houses are going to decay from the want of
tenants and bad tenants, and will in a few years be very much diminished in value: And whereas
the said petitioners, together with their mother, the widow of the said Isaac Handy, have removed
to the city of Washington, without any intention to return to this state: And whereas three of the
said petitioners are minors, under the age of twenty-one years, and the said property not only pro-
duces but a small revenue at present, but will become considerably less valuable before the arrival
at age of said petitioners, when they will be able to sell and dispose of the same: And whereas the
said petitioners have prayed to have a law passed authorising the sale thereof, and to have the mo-
ney invested in such manner as may be most adviseable; therefore,

Trustees ap-
pointed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Handy and James Ritche,
or the survivor of them, be and they are hereby appointed trustees, and are authorised and empow-