1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 125.

declared the trustees for the ensuing year; provided no
person shall be a trustee who is not a subscriber; and
provided also, that nothing in this act shall be constru-
ed to prevent the subscribers to said school from in-
creasing the number of trustees.

Powers of trus-
tees.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees and
their successors when appointed, or a majority of them,
from time to time and at all times, shall have power
and authority to constitute and appoint professors,
teachers and assistants for instructing the students and
scholars of said school in such sciences and branches
as they shall think proper to be taught therein; and to
make ordinances and regulations for the good govern-
ment of said school and instruction of youth, and to ap-
point such number of their own body as they may think
proper, to be a quorum or committee for transacting
all general and necessary business of the said seminary,
and making rules for the management thereof, and also
to make regulations for the direction and examination
of the students therein.

Book — Voters
ascertained.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of
ascertaining who are entitled to vote for trustees of
said institution, the trustees thereof shall record in a
book for that purpose, the names of all persons who
have subscribed thereto, and the amount subscribed by
each of them, and which said right to vote may be as-
signed or transfered by a simple transfer or assignment
in writing, under the hand of the party, attested by one
witness or more; and in case of the death of any per-
son entitled to vote as aforesaid without having assign-
ed the same as aforesaid or by last will, the same shall
descend to his legal representative.

Present trustees.

Vacancies.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That Samuel W. Jones,
John S. Zieber, Littleton Long, Theodore G. Dashiell
and John H. King be, and they are hereby appointed
trustees of the said school, who shall act until the time
appointed for the election of trustees; and in case of
the death, resignation or removal out of Somerset
county of any trustee, the remaining trustee or trus-
tees shall forthwith give notice to the members of the
aforesaid association to assemble within thirty days
from the time of such notification, at the said school
house, who shall then and there proceed to fill such va-