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CHAPTER 131.
An act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Church Hill Aca-
demy in Queen-Anne's County.
Whereas, sundry inhabitants of the village of Church Hill, and
its vicinity, have by their petition set forth, that they have erect-
ed a large and convenient brick building for an academy, and pray
for an act of incorporation for the organization of the same; and it
appearing reasonable that the prayer of said petition be granted;
Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland That
the said school shall be under the direction and management of
James Brown, Samuel Burgess, William Jacobs, James Butcher,
George Burgess, Jonathan Crain, Parran Taylor, Thomas Grain,
James G. Rochester, James Hall, Campbell J. Cornelius, John Hol-
lingsworth, John Hackett, Robert Carson, John S. Blake, trustees
of the Church Hill Academy; which trustees and their successors,
are hereby constituted a body corporate, with perpetual succession,
by the name and style of The Trustees of the Church Hill Acade-
my, 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 successors, for the said school, any estate in
lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, or other
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 fifteen hundred dollars, and the said lands
and tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, and other ef-
fects, 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 benefici-
al to the said institution, and to receive the rents, profits and is-
sues, arising therefrom, and to apply the same to the proper use
and support of said school; and by the same name to sue and be su-
ed, commence, prosecute and defend, implead and be impleaded, in
any court of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and actions
whatsoever, and generally, in and by the same name, to do and
perform any act or acts which any corporation or body politic with-
in 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.
2. 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 neglect 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 vacancy
or vacancies.
3. 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 semi-
nary aforesaid, and the education of youth, and to appoint such per-
son or persons as they or a majority of them may think proper, to
be a teacher or teachers of the said school.
4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, and their successors,
or a majority of them, shall meet at least twice in each year, at
such time as shall be appointed by their own ordinances, in order
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Dec. Ses. 1817
Passed Feb. 6
Preamble.
Trustees in-
corporated.
Vacancies.
Trustees to
make ordinan-
ces.
------to meet
twice a year.
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