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state of Virginia three whole years next preceding such removal
or importation, and the same to retain as slaves, provided that
said Howard shall cause the slaves aforesaid to be registered in
Montgomery county court.
2. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to enable the said Henry Howard, of John, to sell and
dispose of the slaves imported by virtue of this act, until the
said slaves shall have resided within this state three whole years
next preceding such sale, except in cases of disposition by last
will and testament, and disposition by law for bona fide debts, or
consequent upon intestacy.
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Dec. Ses. 1816
Not to dispose
of them until
they have re-
sided three
years in state.
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CHAPTER 206.
An act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Shrewsbury
Academy, in Kent County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That John H. Nowland, Doctor Edward Scott, William Pryor,
Philip T. Rasin, George William Wilson, James Pearce, and
William Keating, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of
the Shrewsbury Academy; and the said trustees, and their suc-
cessors, to be elected in the manner herein alter mentioned, shall be,
and they are hereby erected, established and declared to be, one
community, corporation and body politic, with perpetual suc-
cession in fact and in law, to all intents and purposes connected
with the said institution, by the name and style of The Shrews-
bury Academy, by which name and title the said trustees, and
their successors, shall be competent and capable in law, or in
equity, to take and to held to themselves, and their successors,
for the use of the said academy, any estate in lands and tene-
ments, goods, chattels, monies, stock and effects, by the gift,
grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest, of any per-
son or persons whatsoever, provided the same do not exceed in
the whole the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars, and
the same to sell, convey, lease, loan, or otherwise dispose of, for
the use of the said academy, in such manner as to them, or a
quorum of them, shall seem most beneficial to the institution.
2. And be it enacted, That at all times for ever hereafter,
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said commu-
nity of trustees, by the death, resignation, or refusal of any one
or more of the trustees thereof, or by the neglect of any one or
more of them to attend four succeeding stated meetings of the
board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a quo-
rum of them, may proceed to elect, by ballot, other sensible, ju-
dicious, and discreet person or persons of the county, to be the trus-
tee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by
the restrictive causes aforesaid, and in such manner may all fu-
ture vacancy or vacancies be supplied by the, said trustees, and
their successors, or a quorum of them, so as to perpetuate not
less than the number of seven persons as trustees of the said aca-
demy for ever.
3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, and their succes-
sors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be. capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and impleaded, in any court or courts,
and before any judge, justice or justices, within this state, and
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Passed Feb. 3.
Trustees in-
corporated.
Vacancies.
Privileges of
company.
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