1887.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 101.

shall be by ballot, and conducted as follows, to wit:
Every subscriber to said institution shall be allowed
one vote for each dollar by him subscribed, and one
vote only for any sum less than a dollar; the five per-
sons having a majority of the votes, shall be declared
the trustees for the ensuing year; provided, that no
person but a subscriber shall be a trustee.

Records.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees for said
academy shall keep or cause to be kept a book for the
use and as the property of said corporation, in which
shall be duly entered and recorded all the subscriptions
to and for the use of said corporate objects, and all
other proceedings of said corporation.

Trustees em-
powered.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said trustees
and their successors, or a majority of thorn, shall have
full power and authority to make fundamental ordi-
nances for the government of the academy aforesaid
and the education of youth, and to appoint such person
or persons as they or a majority of them may think
proper, to be a teacher or teachers of the said academy.

Meetings — du-
ties.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors, or a majority of them, shall meet at
least twice in each year, at such time as shall be ap-
pointed by their own ordinances, in order to examine
the progress of the students and scholars, and to hear
and determine on all complaints and appeals, and all
matters touching the discipline of the school, and the
good and wholesome execution of their ordinances; on
all which occasions a majority at least of the trustees
shall compose a quorum.

General powers.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said trustees
and their successors, by the name and style, aforesaid,
shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law
to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered, defend and be defended in any court
of justice whatever, and to make and use one common
seal, and the same to alter or renew at pleasure, and
severally to do and perform all things relative to the
management of the academy.