1820.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 134.

are hereby appointed trustees of Taylor's Island Seminary, in
Dorchester county; and the said trustees, and their successors, (to
be elected in the manner hereinafter mentioned,) shall be and they
are hereby erected and created, and declared to be, one commu-
nity, corporation and body politic, with perpetual succession, in

fact and in law, to all intents and purposes connected with the
said institution, by the name and style of Taylor's Island Semi-
nary, in Dorchester county, by winch name and title the said
trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable at
law or in equity, to take and to hold, to themselves and their suc-
cessors, for the use of the said seminary, any estate in lands, te-
nements, goods, chattels, monies, stock, limits or effects, by the
gift, grant, bargain, sales, conveyance, devise, or bequest, of any
person or persons whatsoever, provided the same do not exceed
in the whole the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars, and
the same to convey, lease, loan, or otherwise dispose of, for the
use of the said seminary, in such manner as to them, or a quo-
rum of them, shall seem most beneficial to the constitution.

Vacancies, how
to be supplied.

2. And be it enacted, That at. all events for ever hereafter,
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said commu-
nity of trustees, by the death, resignation, or refusal of any one
or more of the trustees thereof to attend four succeeding stated
meetings of the board of trustees, the surviving or remaining
trustees, or a quorum of them, may proceed to elect by ballot,
other sensible, judicious, and discreet person or persons of the
county, to he trustee or trusties to supply the vacancy or vacan-
cies occasioned by the respective causes aforesaid, and in such
manner may all future vacancy or vacancies be supplied by the
said trustees, and their successors, or a quorum of them, so as to
perpetuate not less than the number of live persons as trustees of
the said seminary for ever.

Made capable to
sue and be sued

&c.

3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and their succes-
sors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law to
sue, and be sued, answer and be answered, in any court or courts,
and before any judge, justice or justices, within this state and
elsewhere, in all and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, caus-
es, matters and demands, of whatsoever nature, kind or form they
be, and all and every other matter or thing to do therein, in as
full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bo-
dies corporate or politic, within this state, in like cases may do
and perform; and the said trustees, and their successors, or a
quorum of them, shall have full power and authority to have,
make and use, one common seal, with such devices and inscrip-
tions as they shall think proper, and the same at their pleasure to
break, alter and renew.

Quorum. Meet-
ings.

4. And be it enacted, That any three or more of the said trus-
tees shall he and they are hereby constituted a quorum, and are
hereby empowered to meet from time to time at the said semina-
ry, or at any other place within Dorchester county, previously
designated by the said trustees at their last meeting, and when so
assembled may, in the absence of the other trustees at their last
meeting, and when so assembled may, in the absence of the other
trustees who do not attend, do any act, matter or thing, which the
whole number of trustees, or a majority of them, might do were