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funds or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, de-
vise or bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever, provided the
same do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of two
thousand dollars, and the same to 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 con-
stitution.
2. And be it enacted, That at all times for ever 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 trustees thereof to attend four succeeding stated meetings of
the board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a
quorum of them, may proceed to elect by ballot, other sensible,
judicious, and discreet person or persons of the county, to be trus-
tee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by the
respective causes aforesaid, and a such manner may all future va-
cancy or vacancies be supplied by the said trustees, and their suc-
cessors, or a quorum of them, so as to perpetuate not less than the
number of live persons as trustees of the said academy for ever.
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, answer and be answered, in any court or courts, and be-
fore any judge, justice, or jus ices, within this state and elsewhere,
in all and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters
and demands, of whatsoever nature, kind or form they be, and all
and every other matter or thing to do therein, in as full and effec-
tual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies corporate or
politic, within this state, in like cases may do and perform; and
the said trustees, and their successors, or a quorum 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 the same at their pleasure to break, alter and renew.
4. And be it enacted, That any three or more of the said trus-
tees shall be and are hereby constituted a quorum, and are hereby
empowered to meet from time to time at the said academy, or at
any other place within Dorchester county, previously designated
by the said trustees at their last meeting, and when so assembled
may, in the absence of the other trustees who do not attend, do any
act, matter or thing, which the whole number of trustees, or a
majority of them, might do were they present or attending, any
thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
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chap. 135.
Vacancies, how to
be supplied.
Made capable in
law to sue and be
sued, &c.
Any three or more
constituted a quo-
rum.
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CHAPTER 136.
An act for the benefit of Levin Craig, infant child and heir
of Margaret Craig, late of Dorchester county, deceased.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the county court of Dorchester county be and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, if they are of opinion it will be advanta-
geous to the infant child and heir of Margaret Craig, late the wife
of Levin Craig of said county, to appoint a guardian to convey to
John Smith of the said county, by a good and sufficient deed of
bargain and sale, to be recorded according to law, all the right,
title, claim and interest, of the said infant child and heir of the
said Margaret, of, in and to, the real estate of which her father
died seized and possessed,
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Passed Feb 6 1819
County court au-
thorised to ap-
point a guardian to
convey infants
right, to certain
real estate to John
Smith.
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