1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 101

CHAPTER 101.

Passed Feb.
28, 1847.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of East Nottingham
School Association in Cecil County,

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William P. Jones, David B. Trimble,
and Joseph Haines, trustees for a school erected in Cecil
county, named the East Nottingham School Association,,
and their successors to be hereinafter directed, shall from
the passage of this act, be and they are hereby created,
established and declared to be one body politic and cor-

Name, style
and title.

porate, by the name, style and title of the East Nutting-
ham School Association in Cecil county, by which name
and title the said trustees and their successors shall be
capable in law and equity to hold property whether ac-
quired by purchase, gift, or devise, property real, personal

Proviso.

or mixed; provided, it does not exceed at any time two
thousand dollars in value.

Meeting of the

subscribers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the
time being, shall call a meeting of the subscribers of said
school association on the first day of March, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, and on the same day in each and,
every succeeding year, or within thirty days thereafter,
for the purpose of electing three trustees, to be chosen by
and amongst the subscribers, for the management of said
school for one year from the day of said election, and the
trustees herein appointed, and who shall hereafter be
elected, shall be entitled to hold their office until a new
election shall be made, they shall have power to fill all
vacancies which shall occur in their own body until the
annual election, and to take and use all legal and proper
measures for the improvement and preservation of the
school aforesaid.

Books to be
kept for the
use of the cor-
poration.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the trustees shall
keep a book or books, or cause to be kept a book or
books, for the use of said corporation, in which shall be
duly entered all the subscriptions to the use of the corpo-
rated objects, and other proceedings of said corporation
to which entries of subscription, each subscriber's name
shall be entered, and which with proof of payment, shall
be evidence of a right to vote as a member of the cor-
poration, and the proceedings of the trustees, and all
other matters authorised by this act, may be regulated by
a majority of the members assembled at any annual
meeting, and notice of said meeting be given in such
manner as the trustees shall direct, and no person shall