WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees appoint-

ed under the act aforesaid, and their successors, officers

and agents, be, and they are hereby authorised and
directed forthwith to deliver to the regents of the
University of Maryland, or to the agents thereof, all
the estate, real and personal, including all stocks, mo-
nies, evidences of debt and choses in action, in the
hands or under the control of said trustees, as such,
or their agents.

CHAP. 334.

Trustees to deliver

over.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if the delivery afore-
said shall from any cause, be refused or fail to be made
within one month after the passage of this act, it shall
be lawful for Baltimore county court, on application
by the regents of the University of Maryland, to grant

of their agents or officers, duly appointed for that pur-
pose, to shew cause by reasons in writing and under
the oath or affirmation of the parties showing the same,
why process to enforce deli very should not issue, where-
upon, after such orders in reference to notice or other-
wise, as to the said court may seem proper, the said
court on being satisfied that the property claimed in
the application aforesaid, is in the hands or control of
said trustees, as such, or under color or by virtue of
their appointment as such trustees, or of their agents
or officers, or if default shall be made in showing cause

Case of failure to

deliver.

as aforesaid, may enforce delivery of the property so
claimed as aforesaid, by attachment of person, or by
writ of haberi facias possessionem. or by a writ de re-
torno habendo, or by all, as the case may require, di-
rected to the sheriff of Baltimore county.

Proceedings direct-

ed.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the matter of said ap-
plication shall be heard at the first term of the court,
to which the same shall be made; provided, that thirty
days of the said term shall remain, if not, at the se-
cond term thereof, and adjudged without delay.

Cause to be heard

at first term.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That before this act shall
have any force or effect, the regents of the University
of Maryland, shall first by a corporate act, under seal,
certify to the Treasurer of Maryland, that the pro-
perty and estate of the University of Maryland, shall
never be disposed of. or converted to any other use
than that of medical science, or the arts and sciences
generally, without the consent of the General Assembly

Previous conces-

sion required.