1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 197

Passed Jan. 17,
1840.

CHAPTER 196.

An act to authorise Richard R. Waters, late Sheriff and
Collector of Montgomery county, to complete his col-
lections.

Empowered
collect taxes.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Richard R. Waters, late sheriff and collector of Mont-
gomery county, be and he is hereby authorised to collect
until the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-
one, all fines, forfeitures, amercements, officers fees, pub-
lic dues and county taxes, which were placed in his hands
for collection during the time he was in office, and which
have not been collected, in the same manner as he might
have done within the time limited by law.

CHAPTER 197.

Passed Feb. 24,
1840.

An act to incorporate Perryville Academy, in Cecil County.

Trustees named
& incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Henry Chamberlaine, John Stump, Hugh
S. Boyd, Haslet Owens, Joseph Couden, Samuel Jackson,
of Edward, and George W. Moore, be and they are here-
by appointed trustees of a public school recently orga-
nized; and they and their successors, or majority of them,
are hereby created a body corporate, and shall have per

Name and style.

petual succession, by the name and style of the Trustees
of Perryville Academy, and by that name may sue and be

Corporate pow-

ers.

sued, and have a corporate seal, which they may break,
alter and change at pleasure; may hold property to an
amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, and dispose of
the same; may make bye-laws not contrary to the laws of
this State, or of the United States, and do all other acts
necessary for the regulation, prosperity and the promotion
of education in said academy.

Vacancies: how
filled.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted", That when a vacancy occurs
in the board of trustees, the same shall be filled by an elec-
tion, and at such election every free white citizen that may
have contributed to the building of said academy to the
amount of five dollars, or contributed to the support of said
academy, shall be entitled to vote tor trustees at such elec-
tion.