THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

dred and thirty-six be, and the same is hereby made

valid to all intents and purposes, as tar as relates to the
acknowledgment of the same, any law or custom of this
State to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 68.

CHAP. 68.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of Buckingham Acade-
my and Female Seminary of Berlin.

Passed Feb.
17, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That there shall he founded an Elementary
and Classical School and Female Seminary of Learning,
in or near Berlin, Worcester county, Maryland.

Founded.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said schools shall
be under the direction and management of Zadock P.
Henry, James W. L. Sturgis, James R. S. Purnell,
Elisha L. Purnell, John C. Derickson, Henry Franklin,
John R. Pitts, John S. Purnell, James Derickson, Little-
ton D. Powell and John E. H. Marshall, trustees, which
trustees and their successors are hereby constituted a
body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession,
by the name and style of the Buckingham Academy and
Female Seminary, of Berlin, by which name and title,
the said trusses and their successors shall be competent
and capable at law and in equity, to take to themselves
and their successors for the said schools, any estate in
lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chatties, monies,
or other effects, by the gift, grant, bargains, sale or be-

Incorporated.

quests of any person or persons whatsoever; provided,
the same shall not exceed in the whole the yearly value
of five thousand dollars; and the lands, tenements, he-
reditaments, goods, chattles, monies, and other effects,
to grant, bargain, sell, demise, and place out on interest,
or otherwise dispose of, for the use of the said schools,
in such manner as to them, or at least a majority of them,
shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to re-
ceive the rents, profits and issues arising therefrom, and
to apply the same to the proper use and support of said
schools; and by the same name to sue and be sued;
commence, prosecute and defend, implead and be im-
pleaded, in any court of law or equity, and in all manner
of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally in and by
the same name, to do and perform any act or acts which

Proviso.