LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

William F. Selby, John P. Marshall, James A. Collins,
John I. Williams, Isaac Franklin, and Cord Hazzard,
trustees: which trustees and their successors, are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, with perpetual
succession, by the name and style of The Buckingham
Academy; by which name and title, the said trustees,
and their successors, shall be competent and capable at
law and in equity, to take to themselves and their suc-
cessors, tor the said school, any estate in lands, tene-
ments, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, or other

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effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale or bequest, of
any person or persons whatsoever; Provided the same
shall not exceed, in the whole, the yearly value of three
thousand dollars: and the said lands, tenements, heredi-
taments, goods, chattels, monies, and other effects,
to grant, bargain, sell, demise, and place out on interest,
or otherwise dispose of, for the use of the said school, in
such manner as to them, or at least a majority of them,
shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to receive
the rents, profits and issues arising therefrom, and to ap-
ply the same to the proper use and support of said school;
and by the same name to sue and be sued, commence,
prosecute and defend, implead and be impleaded, in any
court of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and ac-
tions whatsoever, and generally in and by the same name
to do and perform any act or acts which any corpora-
tion, or body politic within this state, in like cases may
or can do and perform. And the said trustees, and their
successors, are hereby authorised to have one common
seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.

Proviso.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any of
the trustees of said school shall die, resign, or refuse to
act or qualify, or remove from the county, or shall neg-
lect to attend the meetings of the said board more than
one year, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them,
shall elect by ballot, a person or persons to fill such va-
cancy or vacancies.

Vacancies.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority of them, shall meet for the first time, on
the second Monday of April next, or as soon thereafter
as may be convenient, and quality, by taking the follow-
ing oath, to wit: I, A. B. do swear, that I will duly and
faithfully discharge the trust committed to me, as trustee
of the Buckingham Academy, to the best of my skill and
knowledge, so help me God: which oath any justice of
the peace may administer.

Meetings of
trustees—oath.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors, or a majority of them, shall have
full power and authority to make fundamental ordinances
for the government of the school or seminary aforesaid,
and the education of youth, and to appoint such person or

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Ordinances.