WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

William H. Foster, Matthias George, and Benjamin
Coppage, be, and they are hereby appointed the first
trustees of the said Academy, and the said trustees and
their successors to bo elected in the manner hereinaf-
ter mentioned, shall be, 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 institu-

CHAP. 219.

tion, by the name and style of the. Union Academy, by
which name and title they and their successors, shall
be competent and capable in law, and in equity, to take
and to to hold to themselves, and their successors, for

Name and style.

the use of the said Academy, any estate in messuages,
lands and tenements, annuities, goods, chatties, monies

or effects by the gift, grant, or bargain, sale convey-

ance, devise, or bequest. of any person or persons what-

May hold property.

soever; 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,

Limit $2, 000 annu-
al value.

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 institution, and to receive the rents, issues, pro-
fits, income and interest of the same, and to apply
the emoluments thereof, to the proper use and advance-
ment of the said Academy.

Dispose thereof.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all times forever
hereafter when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen
in the said community of trustees, by the death, resig-
nation 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 the board of trustees, for
the space of one year, the remaining trustees, or a ma-
jority of them, shall with all convenient speed, proceed

Case of vacancy or

neglect.

to elect by ballot, other sensible and discreet person
or persons, of the said county, to be trustee, or trustees,
to supply such vacancy, or vacancies, and in like man-
ner shall all future, vacancies be supplied by said trus-
tees, and their successors, or a majority of them, so
as to perpetuate the number from six to ten persons as
trustees of the said Academy forever.

Election directed.

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 im-

Legal capacity.