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Directing the
erection of an
academy in said
county.
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BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That there be erected, and hereby is erect-
ed and established near Lower West-Nottingham
Presbyterian meeting house, in West-Nottingham
hundred, Cecil county, an academy for the liberal ed-
ucation of youth in such sciences and branches of
learning as the trustees and professors thereof shall
from time to time think useful and expedient for the
benefit and advancement of the institution; and the
said academy shall be regulated under the manage-
ment, direction and government of fifteen trustees,
and be perpetuated in the manner herein-after men-
tioned.
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Trustees by this
act appointed
and their suc-
cessors declared
to be a corpo-
ration and body
politic They
may acquire
and hold pro-
perty to a cer-
tain amount.
They may farm-
let and put said
property &c.
out to interest,
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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That George Gale,
Thomas W. Veazey, Robert Archer, John Groome,
Samuel a Hall, William C. Miller, Robert Evans,
David Patton, John Tray, James Sims, George Kidd,
James Maxwell, John Creswell, Henry W. Physick
and the Reverend James Magraw, be, and they are
hereby appointed trustees of the said academy,
and the said trustees, and their successors to be
elected in the manner herein after mentioned, shall
be, and they are hereby erected, established and de-
clared to be one community, corporation and body
politic, with perpetual succession in deed and in law,
to all intents and purposes connected with the said in-
stitution, by the name and style of " The West-Not-
tingham Academy in Cecil county; " by which name
and title, they, the said trustees and their successors,
shall be competent and capable in law and in equity,
to take and to hold to themselves and their successors
for the use of the said academy, any estate in any
messuages, lands and tenements, annuities, goods,
chattels, monies or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain,
sale, conveyance, devise or bequest of any person or
persons whatsoever; Provided, The same do not ex-
ceed in the whole the clear yearly value of five thou-
sand dollars; and the same messuages, lands and ten-
ements and other estate real or personal, to farm-let
and put out on interest for the use of the said acade-
my, in such manner as to them or a majority of them
shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to re-
ceive the rents, issues, profits, income and interest of
the same, and to apply the emoluments thereof to the
proper use and advancement of the said academy.
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