THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

qui tam action, one-half of which penalty shall be for
the benefit of the informer, and the remaining half
shall he paid over to the commissioners of Somerset
county, for the benefit of said county.

CHAP. 101.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the informer shall
be deemed a competent witness in each and every pro-
secution under this act.

CHAPTER 101.

Witness.

An act entitled, an act to Incorporate the Carroll Acade-
my and House of Public Worship.

Passed Feb. 26,
1838

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Shriver, Peter F. Myers,
James Hierd, William Burgoon and Joseph Keefer,
be appointed trustees for a school erected in Carroll
county, district number three, called "the Carroll
Academy and House of Public Worship," and their
successors to be appointed, as hereinafter directed,
shall forever hereafter be, and they are hereby erected
and established, and declared to he one body politic
and corporate, with perpetual succession, in deed and

Persons incor-
porated.

in law, by the name, and style and title of the Trus-
tees of ''The Carroll Academy and House of Public
Worship;" by which name and style the said trustees

Style.

and their successors shall be capable in law and in
equity to hold property, the value of which shall, at
no time, exceed the sum of one thousand dollars for
the said Academy and House of Public Worship.

Corporate pow-
ers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said house shall
be open and free for all Christian denominations to
worship in; provided, no meeting for public worship
shall interfere with school hours, unless by consent of
a majority of the trustees.

House of Wor-
ship.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if a vacancy occur
in the board of trustees, the same shall be filled by
the remaining trustees, until the next annual election
of the same,

Case of vacan-
cy.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That on the first day of
January in every year, an election shall be held by the
qualified voters at the academy; which said election

Annual elec-
tion.