THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

Ballard, Charles L. Lawrence, John Miller, John S.
Zieber, James Stewart and John W. Crisfield, and
such other persons as now are or hereafter may become
subscribers, and their successors be, and they are here-
by declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the

CHAP. 125.

name, style and title of the "Franklin School of Somer-
set county," and by that name shall have perpetual

Style.

succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, im-
plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity
in this State or elsewhere, and to make and have a
common seal, and the same to break, alter or renew at
their pleasure, and also to ordain and establish such
bye laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary for
regulating the concerns of the school, and for promot-
ing literature within the same, not being repugnant to
the laws of this State.

Corporate pow-

ers.

By Laws.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid mem-
bers and their successors by the same name shall be
able and capable in law to purchase, have and enjoy to
them and their successors, in fee or any less estate or

General powers.

estates, any lands, tenements, annuities, pensions or
other hereditaments within this State, by gift, grant,
bargain or sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release or
confirmation of any person or persons, bodies corpo-
rate or politic, capable in law to make the same; and
such lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions or
other hereditaments or any less estates, rights, inte-
rests of, or in the same at their pleasure to grant, alien,
sell and transfer in such manner and form as they shall
think meet and convenient for the furtherance of the

Estate.

objects of the said society; provided nevertheless, that
the said body corporate and politic or association shall
not at any time hold or possess property, real, personal
and mixed, exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Limitation.

SEC. S. And be it enacted, That the election for
trustees shall be held on the first Monday of May,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and on the first
Monday of every succeeding May, at the said school
house, which said flection shall he by ballot, and con-
ducted as follows, to wit: every subscriber to said in-
stitution shall be allowed one vote for every five dol-
lars by him or her subscribed and paid, and the five
portions having the greatest number of votes shall be

Election of trus-

tees.