LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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CHAPTER 68.

A supplement to the act, entitled, An act to incorporate the managers
of Back Creek school.
Whereas the trustees of Washington Academy have represent-
ed that a greater number of trustees might be advantageous to the
said academy, and have by their petition prayed that the number may
be increased to twenty-five, and that the persons hereinafter men-

Dec Ses. 1822

Passed Jan.
23, 1823.
Preamble.

tioned be appointed additional trustees of said academy.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That William Williams, jun. William Bounds, John Handy, Charles
Jones, James Polk, George Jones (of Robert) and Joshua Bratton,
are hereby appointed additional trustees of Washington Academy,
and that the number of the trustees of said academy shall hereafter
be twenty-five, and that the said trustees and their successors shall
and may at all times hereafter fill up any vacancy that may be, by
election.

Additional
trustees.

9. And be it enacted, That the persons appointed, or who may be
elected, in pursuance of this act, shall qualify in the same manner
and upon such qualifications, have, and be invested with all the
powers and authority, which the present trustees have and are in-
vested with by the said act, for incorporating the managers of Back
Creek school.

Qualify, &c.

3. And be it enacted, That after the passage of this act, any eight
or more of the said trustees shall be a quorum, and are hereby em-
powered to meet at Washington Academy, from time to time, and
when they shall so have met may do any act, matter, or thing which
a majority of twenty-five trustees might do, any thing in any law to
contrary notwithstanding..

Quorum.

CHAPTER. 69.

An act to authorise the trustees of the poor of Cecil county, to dispose
of certain lands therein mentioned, and to purchase other lands, &c.
Section. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the trustees of the poor of Cecil county, or a majority of them,
by and with the consent of the justices of the levy court of said
county, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to sell,
at public or private sale, the land, or any part thereof, as they or a
majority of them shall think fit, heretofore purchased to supply the
poorhouse in said county with fuel; and to apply the proceeds arising
therefrom to the purchase of such other land as they shall think fit.

Passed Jan.

24, 1823.

Empowered
to sell.

2 And be it enacted, That the trustees of the poor of said county
are hereby authorised and directed, after any sale made as aforesaid,
to execute a deed of conveyance to the purchaser or purchasers of
said land, and when the same shall be recorded as directed by law
for the recording of deeds, it shall be valid and effectual to pass to the
purchaser or purchasers, all the right, title and interest of said county
in and to the same; and the trustees of the poor as aforesaid, shall
also be entitled to demand and receive from the person or persons
from whom any land shall be purchased as aforesaid, a good and suf-
ficient deed of conveyance, vesting the right, title and interest in and
to the same, in the trustees of the poor and their successors, for the
use and benefit of the poor of said county forever.

Deed.