WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the trustees of any
of the Primary School School districts of Frederick

county, may in their discretion, rent any school house
in any of the said school districts, for the purposes of
a Primary School; provided, that said school house
shall be at the spot selected for the scite of the Primary
School house, by a majority of the voters of said Pri-
mary School district.

CHAPTER 240.

CHAP. 240.

Renting school-

houses authorised.

An act to Incorporate the St. Michael's Classical and
Mathematical Academy, in Talbot County.

Passed Mar. 26,
1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an academy he, and is hereby autho-
rized to be erected in the village of Saint Michael's, by
the name of the St. Michael's Classical and Mathema-

Academy created.

tical Academy, and the said academy shall be regula-
ted under the management, direction and government
of seven trustees, and be perpetuated in the manner

Seven trustees.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That, Alexander B. Har-
rison, Thomas Auld, Joseph Bruff, Dr. James Daw-
son, William Townsend, John Harrington, and John
Harper, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees of
the said academy, and the said trustees and their suc-
cessors to be elected in the manner hereinafter men-

Trustees named.

tioned, 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 institution, by

Corporate powers

conferred.

the name and style of the Trustees of the St. Michael's
Classical and Mathematical Academy, by which name
and title they, the said trustees and their successors,
shall be competent and capable in law and equity, to

Name and style.

take and to hold to themselves and their successors,
for the use of the said academy, any estate in any
messuages, lands and tenements, annuities, goods,
chattels, monies, or effects, by the gift, bargain, sale,
conveyance, devise or bequests of any person or per-
sons whatsoever; provided, the same does not exceed in
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May hold property.