LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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forever hereafter when any vacancy or vacancies
shall happen in the said community of trustees, by the
death, resignation or refusal of any one or more of the
members thereof, or by the willful neglect of any one or
more of them to attend two succeeding stated meetings
of the board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trus-
tees, or a majority of them shall, with all convenient
speed, proceed to elect by ballot, other sensible and dis-
creet person or persons of the county to be the trustee or
trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies to be supplied
by the said trustees and their successors, or a majority
of them, so as to perpetuate the number of seven persons

as trustees of the said Academy forever.

DEC. SESS.

1814.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
and their successors, by the name and style aforesaid,
shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded in any court or courts, and before any judge,
justice or justices within this state and elsewhere, in all
and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, mat-
ters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or form
they be, and all and every other matter or thing to do
therein, in as full and effectual manner as any other per-
son or persons, bodies politic or corporate, within this
state, or any other of the United States, in like cases
may or can do or perform; and the said trustees and
their successors, or a majority of them, shall have full
power and authority to have, make and use one common,
seal, with such devices and inscriptions as they shall think
proper, and therewith to pass and authenticate the certi-
ficates, acts and orders of the said corporation, and the
same seal at their pleasure to break, alter and renew.

Powers & pri-
vileges— seal.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
and their successors, or a majority of them, from time to
time, and at all times hereafter, shall have full power and
authority to constitute and appoint, in such manner as
they shall think best and most convenient, professors,
teachers and assistants, for instructing the students and
scholars of the said Academy in the vernacular and learn-
ed languages, and such sciences and branches of education
as they shall think proper and suitable to be taught there,
in, and to make fundamental ordinances or regulations
for the good government of the said academy, and the in-
struction of the youth as aforesaid; and by these ordinan-
ces to appoint such a number of their own body, not less
than four, as, they may think proper to be a quorum or com-
mittee for transacting all general and necessary business
of the said seminary, and making temporary rules for the
management thereof; and also by the said ordinances to
delegate to the professors and teachers such powers and
authorities as they shall think expedient, for the standing
government and discipline of the said seminary, and the
execution of the regulations of the same; and also by the
said ordinances to make such regulations for the direc-

Professors, &c.
— committee--
ordinances,
&c.