1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 204

and execute to the said purchaser or purchasers, a re-
ceipt or release in such form and in such manner as to
guarantee the right and title of said purchaser or purcha-

Proviso.

sers, in and to the said house; provided however, that
nothing in this act shall be so construed as to give the said
Holland and others, any jurisdiction whatever over the
land whereon said house now stands.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act
shall be in force, from and after the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 204.

Passed

Feb. 28, 1850.

An act to incorporate Mechanicstown Academy, in
Frederick county.

Incorporated,
&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Daniel Rouzer, William C. Lan-
ders, John Rouzer, John Arthur, Captain George Har-
man, Reverend Simeon Harkey, Reverend Sidney
Harkey, Joseph Willhide, Leonard Peekins, Henry
Rouzer, George H. Johnson, Charles Gilpin, Theo-
dore Curry, William Cover, Christian Harman, Joshua
Stokes, Jacob Lynn, and such others as may become
contributors to the amount of ten dollars, shall be, and
they are hereby declared to be our community, corpora-
tion, and body politic, with succession in deed and in
law, to all intents and purposes connected with the
said institution, by the name and style of the Mechan-
icstown Academy, by which name and title they or any
five of them elected trustees as hereinafter provided, as
their successors, shall be competent in law and equity,
to take and hold to themselves and their successors, for
the use of the said academy, any estate in any messuage,
lands, tenements, immunities., goods, chatties, monies,
or effects, by the gift, grant, or bargain, sale, convey-
ance, devise, or bequest, of any person or persons

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whatever; provided, the same do not exceed in the
whole, the clear yearly value of four thousand dollars,
and the same messuages, lands and tenements, and
other estate, real or personal, to farm, and let, and put out
at interest, for the use of said academy, in such manner
as to them or a majority of them shall seem most bene-
ficial to the institution, and to receive the rents, issues,
profits, income, and interests of the game, and apply
the emoluments thereof, to the payment on the original