T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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laudable industry and applied with admirable suc-
cess the arts and sciences to oilier pursuits, the
most necessary, useful and honorable pursuits of
agriculturists have so far been most lamentably neg-
lected; and whereas, it is the province and duty of
the Legislature to encourage and aid the philan-
thropic and patriotic citizens in their efforts to
disseminate useful knowledge by establishing an
Agricultural College, and Model Farm, which
shall in addition to the usual course of scholastic
learning particularly indoctrinate the youth of
Maryland, theoretically and practically in those
arts and sciences, which with good manners and
morals shall enable them to subdue the earth and
elevate the State to the lofty position its advanta-
ges in soil, climate, &c., and the moral and mental
capacities of its citizens entitles it to attain;
Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That James T. Earle, John O.
Wharton, Nicholas B. Worthington, Charles B.
Calvert, George W. Hughes, Walter W. W. Bowie,
Ramsay McHenry, J. Carroll Walsh and A. B. Davis,
Esquires, be and they are hereby appointed commis-
sioners by whom or under whose direction subscrip-
tions may be solicited and obtained to the stock of
the Maryland Agricultural College, and they are
hereby authorised to take, hold and dispose of as
hereinafter provided, for voluntary subscriptions, to
the amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dol-
lars in shares of twenty-live dollars each.

Commission-
ers appointed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That as soon as at
least two thousand shares of stock aforesaid, shall
in manner aforesaid, be subscribed for, the subscri-
bers aforesaid, their successors and assigns, shall be
and are hereby made and declared to be incorporated
into a company by the name and style of the "Mary-
land Agricultural College," and by that name be
capable in law of suing and being sued, taking and
holding real and personal property, of contracting
and being contracted with, instituting, establishing
and continuing in successful operation the Maryland
Agricultural College and Model Farm, to have and
use a corporate seal, and to do and cause to be done
all things necessary for the attainment of the ob-
ject aforesaid.

Incorporated.