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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sum of four hundred dollars, the same being the
amount paid by the said William H. Herring, in
his life time to the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore city, for a commission under an ap-
pointment of the Governor of Maryland.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 381.

Passed March
8, 1858.

AN ACT supplementary to the act of December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter
two hundred and fifty-three, entitled, an act to
incorporate a Literary Institution in Washington
county, under the name and style of Saint James.

Management
vested in Board
of Trustees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the third section of the
act to which to which this is a supplement be
amended so as to read as follows: "And be it en-
acted, that the entire management of the affairs
and concerns of the said Corporation and College,
and all the corporate powers hereby granted,
shall be and they are hereby vested in a board of
nine trustees, seven of whom shall always be re-
sidents of this State, and the persons named in
the first section of this act, shall be the first
trustees."

Power of Trus-
tees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees
shall have power to establish said corporation in
any county within this State, and to remove the
same from county to county in this State, as often
as to them shall seem expedient and advisable.

To take effect.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect as soon as the said corporation shall
signify its acceptance of the same, by writing, un-
der its corporate seal, filed with the Governor of
this State, to be by him preserved among the
executive records.