T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 36.

AN ACT to incorporate St. Mary's Institute near Bry-
antown, in Charles county.

Passed
Mar. 1, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That Mary Martin, Winefred Mar-
tin, Ellen Downey, and Annie Downey, and their suc-
cessors, be and they are hereby created and declared to
be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style
of St. Mary's Institute, and by that name to have suc-
cession, and be capable at law and in equity, to sue
and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court or
courts; and before any judge or justice, or justices in
this State, and it shall and may be lawful for said cor-
poration to make, have and use a common seal and the
same to change and alter at pleasure.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corpora-
tion, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable
in law, to purchase, take and hold, any real or personal
estate, and to sell, lease or dispose of the same, either

Power to pur-
chase proper-
ty.

absolutely or upon condition; Provided, that the said
association shall not at any one time hold and possess
more than fifty acres of land, and that the nett annual
value of said real or personal estate, exclusive of the
buildings, appropriated for the use of the students and
professors of said institute shall not exceed the sum of
ten thousand dollars.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the members of
said corporation may assemble as soon as convenient,
after the passage of this act, and make, ordain and pass
such ordinances and by-laws not contrary to the con-
stitution and laws of this State, for the good government
of said corporation, and may at the same time elect,
from their own number, a president, vice president and
such other officers, as they may deem requisite for the
administration of the government of said institute, and
they shall assemble annually thereafter at such time and
place as the ordinances and by laws of said corporation,
shall direct, to elect a president, vice president and other
officers as aforesaid, and may from time to time appoint
such teachers and professors as they may deem neces-
sary; and that it shall be lawful for said corporation to
admit such persons as members thereof as they may
deem fit, and in such manner as the ordinances and by-
laws of said association may prescribe.

May pass
by-laws.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That said corporation
shall have and is hereby invested with full power to

Power to con-
fer honors,