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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1612,

vernment of fifteen trustees; and be perpetuated in
the manner hereinafter mentioned,,

Trustees ap
pointed and de-
clared a corpo-
ration and body
politic— their
powers.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Thomas Hope,
David Street, Joshua Rutledge, John Moores, William
Smith, (of Samuel, ) Henry Dorsey, Doctor Hugh
Whiteford, John Street, John Forwood, William
Wilson, Matthew Hawkins, James Weatherall, Eli-
jah Davis, John Jolley and Paca Smith, be, and they
are hereby appointed trustees of the said academy;
and the said trustees and their successors, to be elect-
ed in the manner herein after mentioned, shall be, and
they are hereby erected, established and declared 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 institution, by
the name and style of The Harford County Academy;
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, an-
nuities, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the gift,
grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest of

Proviso.

any person or persons whatsoever; Provided, the same
do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of
five thousand dollars; and the same messuages, lands
and tenements and other estate, real or personal, to
farm-let, and put out on interest, for the use of the
said academy, in such manner as to them, or a majori-
ty of them shall seem most beneficial to the institu-
tion; and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income
and interest of the same; and to apply the emolu-
ments thereof to the proper use and advancement of
the said academy.

Vacancies—
how to be sup-
plied.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times
forever hereafter, when any vacancy or vacancies
shall happen in the said community of trustees, by the
death, resignation, or refusal of any one or more of
the members thereof, or by the wilful neglect, of any
one or more of them to attend the meetings of the
board of trustees for the space of two years, the re-
maining trustees or a majority of them, shall, with all
convenient speed, proceed to elect, by ballot otter
sensible and discreet person or persons of the said coun-
ty, to be the trustee or trustees to supply such vacan-
cy or vacancies; and in like manner shall all future
vacancies be supplied by the said trustees and their
successors, or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate