1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 75.

Passed Feb.
6, 1846.

CHAPTER 75.

An act entitled, an ait to authorise and direct the Attor-
ney General to institute proceedings against the Board
of Commissioners for the Frederick Female Seminary.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General As-
sembly of Maryland, on the memorial of Alexander 8.
Hanson and Jacob Markell, two of the commissioners of
the Frederick Female Seminary, that the charter or
franchise of said institution hath been forfeited by certain
acts of Gideon Bantz, David Boyd and Christian Steiner,
three of the commissioners of said institution, which said
acts and forfeiture have been, on the counter memorial
of said three commissioners, denied; and whereas, by
mutual consent of the said parties, it hath been agreed
that a scire facias be issued to try the alleged forfeiture—
therefore,

Attorney Ge-
neral authors-
ed to institute
proceedings.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Attorney General of this State be,
and he is hereby authorised and directed to institute pro-
cecdings against the board of commissioners for the
Frederick Female Seminary, to ascertain whether the
charter and corporate powers and franchises of the said
board of commissioners for the Frederick Female Semi-
nary ought, by reason of abuser of such powers or fran-
chises, to be vacated and annulled.

In case of for-
feiture, proper-
ty, &c vest in
commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in case the acts of the
said board of commissioners, or a majority of them, shall
be judicially declared to amount to a forfeiture of their
charter or franchises, such judicial declaration shall not
in fact work a forfeiture of the charter, franchises and
endowments of said Seminary, but that the property, ef-
fects, endowments and all grants heretofore made by the
General Assembly of Maryland shall vest in Alexander
B. Hanson, Jacob Markell, Gideon Bantz, David Boyd,
Christian Steiner, Richard Potts, Frederick A. Schley,
Samuel Tyler and Lloyd Dorsey and their successors, as
commissioners and trustees of the Frederick Female
Seminary, in the same manner in which said property
and franchises are now vested in the original commis-
sioners and trustees, by the act of eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine, chapter two hundred and seventeen, and its
several supplements, who shall be incorporated by said

Powers, &c.

name, and shall be vested with the same powers, rights,
duties and obligations conferred upon the said original
commissioners and trustees by the last said act.