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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec Ses. 1822

the use and benefit of a school in said county, for the education of poor
children; and whereas it appears that the benevolent intentions of the
grantor are likely to be frustrated by reason of the neglect of the visi-
tors aforesaid to supply vacancies accruing by the death and resigna-
tion of the visitors; and whereas it appears that all the visitors afore-
said are now dead, and the said land is exposed to the depredations
of evil disposed persons, and has become entirely useless; therefore,

Incorporation

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Joseph Patterson, John Beale Howard, Tobias E. Stansbury,
John Buck, Upton-Head, Benjamin Buck and Joseph R. Ford, be,
and they are hereby created and declared a body politic and corpo-
rate, by the name, style and title of the visitors of the Baltimore coun-
ty school, and by the same name shall have perpetual, succession,
and that when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said
board of visitors, by death, resignation, or refusal to act, of any of
the visitors to said school, the surviving or remaining visitors, or a
majority of them, may proceed to fill up such vacancy or vacancies,
so as to perpetuate the number of seven visitors to said school for
ever, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,
in any court of law or equity in this state, or elsewhere, and to make
and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or renew at
their pleasure; and also to ordain and establish such by-laws and
ordinances as shall appear necessary for regulating the concerns of
the said school, and for promoting literature within the same, not
being repugnant to the laws of this state.

Property ves-
ted.

2. And be it enacted. That all that tract of land heretofore convey-
ed to the Rev. William Tibbs, John Dorsey, William Hambleton,
John Stokes, Thomas Sheredine and Roger Matthews, and their suc-
cessors, for the use and benefit of the Baltimore county school, to-
gether with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging, be, and the
same is hereby vested in the visitors aforesaid, and their successors
for ever, for the use and benefit of the said school, and for no other
use, intent, or purpose, whatsoever.

Acts or deeds
valid in law.

3. And be it enacted. That all acts or deeds of the said corporation
shall be signed by the visitors, or a majority of them, in behalf of the
corporation and sealed with their corporate seal; and all acts or deeds
of the said body corporate, so authenticated, shall be valid and effec-
tual in law.

May acquire
property.

4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall be capable of
purchasing, hereafter, real or personal property, for the use and bene-
fit of said school.

Passed Feb.

22, 1823.
Authorised to
import slaves

CHAPTER 190.

An act for the relief of Benjamin Day, of Prince George's county.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Ben-
jamin Day be, and he is hereby authorised to remove, import and
bring into this state from Tennessee, at any time within one year af-
ter the passage of this act, the within named negroes, Grig and Dick;
Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorise the said Ben-
jamin Day to sell the said negroes Grig and Dick, for three years
next after their arrival into this state, and that he have them register-
ed in the clerk's office of Prince George's county, within three
months from the time of their arrival into this state.