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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR:

Dec. Ses. 1824

youth, and to enable them the better to carry this laudable inten-
tion into effect, have prayed an act of incorporation; and the pray-
er of the said petitioners appearing reasonable and correct, There-
fore,

Corporate
powers gran-
ted.

Capable in
law.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Matthias Zacharias, senior, George Flack, John Picking,
John Martin, William Hiteshew, Christian Zacharias, Samuel
Singe, Matthias Zacharias, junr. Adam Flack, John Zacharias,
Abia Martin, Christopher Chase, John Hankeye, Michael Pre-
deaux, Joseph Martin, D. Risk, Frederick Wilson, Joseph Wil-
son, Benjamin Crabbs, Thomas Clabaugh, Samuel Valentine, Isaac
Wilson, Henry Ocker, William Mooney, Frederick Troxell,
George Troxell, and Lewis Motter, and their successors, be, and
they are hereby created and declared a body politic and corporate,
by the name, style and title of "The Franklin School Association
of Monococy and Tom's Creek," and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead
and be impleaded, in any court of law and 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 es-
tablish such by-laws and ordinances as shall appear necessary for
regulating the concerns of said school, and for promoting litera-
ture within the same, not being repugnant to the laws of this state;
2. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid members and their suc-
cessors by the same name, shall be able and capable in law to pur-
chase, have and enjoy to them and their successors in fee, or any
other less estate or estates, any lands, tenements, annuities, pen-
sions or other hereditaments within this state, by the gift, grant,
bargain, bale, alienation, enfeoffment, release or confirmation of
any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic capable to make
the same; and such land, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, or
other hereditaments, or any less estates, rights or interests of or in
the same, at their pleasure, to grant, alien, sell and transfer, in such
manner and form as they shall think meet and convenient for the

Proviso.

furtherance of the objects of the said society; Provided neverthe-
less, that the said body corporate and politic or association, shall
not at any time (in their said corporate capacity) hold or possess
property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding the sum of ten thou-
sand dollars.

Meeting--
elections.

3. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid members and their suc-
cessors shall meet at such place as they may ordain, on the first
Monday of March, eighteen hundred and twenty six, and annually
thereafter, and elect from among themselves three persons to act
as trustees of said school association, who shall be governed in
their proceedings by the by-laws and ordinance of the association.

Present trus-
tees—Vacan-
cies.

4. And be it enacted, That John Martin, John Picking and Wil-
liam Hiteshew, be, and they are hereby constituted and appointed
trustees of the association aforesaid, who shall act until the time
before appointed for the election of trustees; and in case of the
death, resignation or removal out of the neighborhood of any
trustee appointed under this act, or any of their successors, the re-
maining trustee or trustees shall forthwith give notice to the mem-
bers of the aforesaid association, to assemble within thirty days