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the protectors shall be necessary to form a quorum for the transac-
tion of business, and also that the said corporation shall not at any
time hold or possess property real, personal or mixed, exceeding in
yearly value the sum of five thousand dollars.
2. And be it enacted, That Mrs. L. Ann Tiernan, Mrs. P. Ann
S. Tiernan, Mrs. Eliza M. Scott, Mrs. Jane Chatard, Mrs. Juliana
Williamson, Mrs. Sarah White, Mrs. Ann Groe, Mrs. Harriet
Chequiere and Mrs. Letitia Boyle, be, and they are hereby declared
to be, sole managers of the said orphaline female school, and that
they shall continue to have, hold and enjoy, the full administration of
the same, (each lady retaining the respective office she now holds
in the said school,) until the ensuing election of another board of
managers,
3. And be it enacted, That on or before the first day of April
next, the said Mrs. L. Ann Tiernan, Mrs. P. Ann Tiernan, Mrs.
Eliza M. Scott, Mrs. Jane Chatard, Mrs. Juliana Williamson,
Mrs. Sarah White, Mrs. Ann Groe, Mrs. Harriet Chequiere and
Mrs. Letitia Boyle, shall draw up a list of the charitable ladies,
members of the Metropolitan church, not exceeding twenty-four
in number, who either by their donations, or by the activity of their
zeal, shall have most contributed to the welfare of the said Orpha-
line Female School, and that the present board of ladies, mana-
gers, together with the ladies on the said list, or a majority of
them, shall meet together, in the presence at least of the. said pro-
tectors of St. Mary's Orphaline Female School, and shall proceed,
by a majority of votes, to the election of a new board of managers
for the ensuing year; that is to say, of a president, treasurer, se-
cretary, and six directresses, which said election shall take place in
the same manner yearly and every year during the continuance of
this association,
4. And be it enacted, That the board of ladies, managers, so
chosen as aforesaid, shall have power and authority, notwithstand-
ing their present and future coverture, and the same is hereby
granted to them, to elect, by a majority of votes, the gentlemen
protectors of the said school, whose office shall continue for three
years; to fill up all vacancies that may happen either by death or
resignation in the board of protectors; and that the said board of
ladies, managers, shall have the sole superintendance, care and
direction, of the said school, and may pass ordinances for the
orderly management and good government thereof, the same not
being inconsistent with this law, the laws of this state, or of the
United States; Provided always, that a majority of said board of
managers shall be necessary in all cases to form a quorum for the
transaction of business.
5. And be it enacted, That when any parent or guardian, or
orphans court, shall have placed any female child or children in
the before mentioned school, they shall be subject to the same re-
gulations that apprentices are by the laws of this state, until it
shall be thought proper by the female managers of the said school
to bind out such female child or children, which the said managers
are hereby authorised and empowered to do, for the term and
in the manner that other female children shall or may be bound;
Provided, that nothing herein contained be considered as abridg-
ing the security afforded, to such person by the law concerning ap-
prentices.
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CHAP. 71.
Certain ladies de-
clared sole mana-
gers of school.
Election of new
board of managers.
To elect the gen-
tlemen protectors
of said school.
Proviso.
Children placed
in school to be
subject to some
regulation as ap-
prentices, &c.
Proviso.
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