THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 101.

AN ACT to preserve the existence of the St.
Mary's Female Seminary.

Passed Febru-
ary 24, 1858.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-
bly, That the St. Mary's Female Seminary has
been discontinued by the present board of Trus-
tees, and that said building and furniture is
falling into a state of decay; And whereas,
said board of Trustees hare failed to comply
with the requirements of the act of eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, chapter one hundred
and ninety, by which they are enjoined to
make annual reports of the progress and situa-
tion of said Seminary to the Legislature; And
whereas, they have petitioned the General As-
sembly for the sale of said Seminary and its
property and effects, with full discretion inves-
ted in said Trustees to appropriate the proceeds
of said sale to the Primary School fund of St.
Mary's county, or to invest said proceeds in
another institution for purposes of female edu-
cation upon some other site than the site of the
old city of St. Mary's; And whereas, the sale
of said Female Seminary and the appropriation
of the proceeds thereof to any other purpose
than that of female education upon any other
site than the site of old St. Mary's city, as pray-
ed for in the petition of the aforesaid trustees,
is a perversion of the monumental and educa-
tional object of the act of eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine, chapter one hundred and ninety ;
Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That so much of the act of
eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter two hun-
dred and fifty-seven, which incorporated Corne-
lius Coonley, Caleb M. Jones, John W. Bennett,
W. Coad, James T. Blackistone, Joseph F. Shaw,
William L. Smith, Henry Sewall, Benedict J.
Heard, Henry G. S. Key, William J. Edelen,
William Briscoe and Thomas Loker, and their suc-
cessors, as a body politic and corporate, under the
name, style and title of the Trustees of St. Mary's
Female Seminary, is hereby repealed.

Repealed.