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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to be incorporated under the authority of the State
of Maryland, and that care should be taken, in
that event that the succession to, and government
of the trust, so as aforesaid created by him, and
the ends and aims which he thereby contemplated,
and the means of their attainment, should be kept
and observed inviolate, as set forth in said letter,
and the above recited provisions of said deed.
And whereas, William H. Keighler Esq., has
been duly chosen in place of William Prescott
Smith, Esq., who declined as aforesaid; And
whereas, for the purpose of carrying out, effectu-
ally the design of Mr. Peabody, and of perpetu-
ating and forever preserving, for the benefit of fu-
ture generations, the noble institution which he
has founded, a special act of incorporation is ne-
cessary and proper; Therefore,

Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That William E. Mayhew, John
P. Kennedy, Charles J. M. Eaton, Thomas Swann,
George Brown, John B. Morris, S. Owings Hoff-
man, G. W. Burnap, William H. D. C. Wright,
Josias Pennington, William McKim, David S.
Wilson, John M. Gordon, Samuel W. Smith,
Chauncy Brooks, William F. Murdock, Enoch
Pratt, J. Mason Campbell, George W. Brown,
Galloway Cheston, George P. Tiffany, Charles
Bradenbaugh, Edw. M. Greenway, Jr., William
C. Shaw and William H. Keighler, be and they
are hereby incorporated by the name of "The
Peabody Institute of the city of Baltimore," and
said persons and their successors, shall constitute
a board of trustees, twenty-five in number, of said
institute, to be maintained in perpetual succession,
and shall have all the powers of a body corporate,
necessary or proper to accomplish and carry out
the purposes for which said institute is designed,
as declared and set forth in said letter of said
George Peabody, first above recited, and in the
clauses and provisions above recited, of said deed
of said Peabody.

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laws.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said
board of trustees, shall have the power to make
all necessary or proper by-laws, and to alter or re-
peal the same at pleasure, and to fill up by elec-
tion all vacancies which shall occur in their body,