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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That for the purpose of establishing,
permanently, a Female College of the highest order,
the persons herein named to wit: Elias Heiner, Wil-
liam B. Sewart, George Lewis Staley, George Gel-
back, Jr., Goldsborough S. Griffith, Sheridan Gui-
teau, Lewis H. Steiner, Andrew P. Freese, Richard
F. Maynard, Harlow W. Heath, William S. Reese,
Daniel Gans, Henry W. Super, James S. Suter, Pe-
ter S. Davis, Joshua Vansant, Benjamin Kurtz,
Augustus Mathiot, Thomas Bingham, and Charles W.
, Ridgely, and their successors, who shall be duly ap-
pointed and elected, in the manner hereinafter direct-
ed, be and they are hereby declared to be a body
politic, and corporate, under the name and style of
the Hoard of Visitors, of the Mount Washington Fe-
male College and by that name they shall be, and
are hereby made able and capable in law to sue, and
be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in any court, or
before any Judge or Justice of the Peace, within the
State or elsewhere, to have and use a common seal,
and the same to alter, and amend at pleasure, to have,
purchase, receive, possess, and enjoy, for the use of
said College, any estate in lands, tenements, annuities,
goods, chattels, money, or effects, and to grant, de-
vise, or dispose of the same, in such manner as they
may deem most conducive to the interests of the col-
lege; Provided, that the aggregate of the property,
so held, shall not exceed at any one time the value
of fifty thousand dollars.
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Declared du-
ly incorpora-
ted.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Board
of Visitors of the Mount Washington Female Col-
lege, shall have power to appoint from '.heir own
body, a president, and such other officers as they may
deem necessary for the purpose of their creation; and
in case of the death, resignation, or refusal to serve,
of any of their number, the remaining members of
said board shall elect and appoint other persons in
lieu of those whose places may have been vaca-
ted; said board shall have power to appoint three or
more of their number as an examining committee,
to visit and examine the condition of the College,
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Power to ap-
point officers.
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