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Passed Feb.
26, 1825.
Preamble.
Incorpora-
tion.
Officers.
Elections.
Powers gran-
ted.
Present offi-
cers.
Legal capaci-
ty.
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CHAPTER 192.
• An act to incorporate the Frederick Town Free School Society, and for other
purposes.
Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly, that sun-
dry inhabitants of Frederick Town, have associated together for
the philanthropic and benevolent purpose -of gratuitously extend-
ing the blessings of education to children of said town; and whereas
intellectual improvement is calculated to promote the cause of reli-
gion and morality, to secure more permanently the civil and poli-
tical institutions of our country, and to advance, the happiness of
the people; Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Richard Potts, William Ross, Doctor William B. Tyler,
George Baltzell, Lewis Medtart, John Schley, John McPherson,
John Nelson, W. R. Sanderson, Steuart Gaither, Henry Steiner,
lily Dorsey, David Schley, John P. Thompson, George W. Ent;
John Kunkle, Frederick Nusz, B. S. Pignam, Lewis Green, Wil-
liam Schley, Michael Buckey, George Rohr, B. M. Miller and Doct-
or John Baltzell and others, that now are or may hereafter be-
come members of the said corporation herein erected, or may be
admitted into the said corporation agreeably to the constitution,
rules and by-lawn of the same, and their successors are hereby
declared to be one community, corporation and body politic, for-
ever, by the name style and title of the "Frederick Town Free
School."
2. And be it enacted, That the officers of the society aforesaid,
shall be a president, two vice presidents, a secretary and treasurer
and twenty-four-directors, to be chosen annually, between the first
day of February and first day of April, by the members of said
corporation; the first election to be held in the year eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-six.
3. And be it enacted, That the officers of said society or the
members thereof in general meeting, shall have full powers to form
such rules and regulations, and enact such by-laws, as may be necessa-
ry for as suring and carrying into effect the benevolent purposes of
this act; provided, such rules, regulations and by-laws, be not re-
pugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United
States.
4. And be it enacted, That all appointments of officers for the
said society, heretofore made by the members thereof, in their pri-
vate capacities, shall respectively continue and be in full force until
the time specified by this act for the first election of officers for the
said corporation.
5. And be it enacted, That the corporation, and their successors,
by the name aforesaid, shall be forever hereafter able and capable
in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be
answered unto, defend and be defended in all or any courts of
justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons whatsoe-
ver, in all and singular actions, matters and demands whatsoever;
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