1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 40.

ed by law, and to deliver the same for collection to such
person or persons as the said Orphans court of Calvert
county, may appoint as agent or agents for the collection
thereof, and that such agent or agents shall have and ex-
ercise all the powers, for collecting the same, that could
be exercised by any sheriff, if the same were placed in
the sheriffs' hands tor collection according to law, pro-

Provisoes.

vided, that said fees shall be made out and delivered to
such agent or agents on or before the first day of Septem-
ber next; and provided, that the powers reposed in said
agent or agents, under this act shall cease and determine
on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and for-

Execute bond.

ty-six.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That before the collector so
appointed, shall proceed to act as such, he shall execute
a bond to the said Samuel Y. Harris in a penalty, and
with sureties to be approved by the said Orphan's court,
conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties im-
posed by his appointment as collector aforesaid.

CHAPTER 40.

Passed Feb.
3, 1845.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Columbian Aca-
demy in Baltimore County,

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Caleb D. Owings, James J. Hamilton,
Lemuel Offuth, Nicholas D. Worthington, and Robert
Baker, be and they or a majority of them are hereby ap-
pointed trustees of the Columbian Academy in Baltimore
county, and the said trustees and their successors, shall
be, and are hereby established and declared to be one
community, corporation, or body politic with succession,
in fact, and in law, for all purposes connected with the
said institution, and shall bear the name and style of the
trustees of the Columbian Academy, and by that name
may have, and use a common seal, sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, in courts of law, or equity, and shall
have power to take, receive, and hold property, real, per-
sonal or mixed, which they may acquire by purchase, be-
quest or devise; provided, they shall at no time hold pro-
perty, real, personal, or mixed over and above the value

Corporate
powers.

of three thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall
have power to pass such by-laws, for the regulation of