THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

after prescribed. — Third, that every parent, guardian
or master, who may send a scholar or scholar to Raid
academy, shall be entitled to a vote at the annual elec-
tion for trustees of said academy in proportion to the
number of shares so held 6y them, each share to con-
sist of twenty dollars.

CHAP. 191

Parents, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That William Matthews,
Charles Gorsuch, Enoch Dorsey, James McCulloch,
Simeon Markey, Doctor Ephram Bell, Robert R.
Thompson, John Michael, and William B. Hoffman,
be, and they are hereby appointed the first Trustees of
the said academy, and the said trustees, and their suc-
cessors forever, to be elected in the manner hereinafter

First trustees.

mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby declared to
be one community, corporation and body politic, with,
perpetual succession in deed and in law, to all intents
and purposes, connected with the said institution, by

lncorporated.

the name and style of the Union Academy, by which

name and title they and their successors shall be com-
petent and capable in law and in equity, to take and to
hold to themselves and their successors, for the use of

Style.

Corporate pow-
ers.

said academy, any estate, in messuages, lands and tene-
merits, annuities, goods, chatties, monies or effects, by
the gift, grant or bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or
bequest of any person or persons whatsoever; provided,
the same do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly
value of two thousand dollars; and the same messuages,
lands and tenements, and other estate, real or person-
al, to farm, let and put out on interest for the use of the
said academy in such manner as to them, or a majority
of them, shall seem most beneficial to the institution;
and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income and
interest of the same, and to apply the emoluments there-
of to the proper use and advancement of the said aca-
demy.

Estate— limita-
tion.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a board of trustees,
composed of nine persons, shall be elected annually at
such time and in such places as they may think most
proper and convenient, by all those who may be legal-
ly entitled to vote at such election of trustees, and that
the board of trustees, or any number thereof, shall be
eligible to a re-election from time to time, and when
elected by ballot shall enter upon their duties, and that

Annual elec-
tions.