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CHAP. 24.
Trustees appoint-
ed
Vacancies how to
be supplied
Property convey-
ed to be held in
the name of the
trustees
Trustees autho-
rised to sue and
be sued, &c.
In case of failure
to carry into effect
this law, corpora-
tion to be dissolv-
ed.
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sons, Isaac M'Kim and William D. M'Kim, to convey to trustees to
be appointed out of the society or people, professing the religious
principles of "Friends," who assemble to perform divine worship
at the meeting house on the east side of Jones's Falls, ground
rents or annuities in the city aforesaid to the amount of six hun-
dred dollars per annum, to remain as a perpetual fund for the edu-
cation and schooling of poor youths: And whereas, it is expedient
and proper to carry into effect the benevolent views of the donor
aforesaid, therefore
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
William Brown, Joseph Townsend, Ely Balderson, David Wilson,
John Wilson, Rossister Scott, Josiah Brown, Joshua Mott, John
Dukehart, William Proctor, Samuel Register and Joseph Brevett,
be and they are hereby appointed trustees for the purposes afore-
said; which said trustees, and their successors, to be elected as
herein after mentioned, shall for ever hereafter be, and they are
hereby erected and established, and declared to be, one body poli-
tic and corporate, with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to
all intents and purposes whatever, by the name, style and title, of
The Trustees of M'Kim's School, by which name and style the
said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable
in law and equity, to take to themselves, and their successors, for
the said school, all those annuities, ground rents, or lots of ground,
on which annual rents have been reserved, that may be conveyed
to them the said trustees, by the above named Isaac M'Kim and
William D. M'Kim, pursuant to the request and desire of their
late deceased father John M'Kim. and also any other estate in
lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, or other
effects, that may be given, granted or bequeathed, by any other
person or persons whomsoever, provided the same do not exceed in
the whole the yearly value or sum of three thousand dollars; and
to receive the rents, profits and issues, arising therefrom, and to
apply the same to the proper use and support of said school.
2. And be it enacted, That in case of the death, resignation, re-
fusal to act, or removal from Baltimore, of any of the said trus-
tees, the vacancy so happening shall be filled up by ballot by the
remaining trustees, the said trustees being first duly notified of
the time and place of the meeting to be held for that purpose.
3. And be it enacted, That the property that may be thus con-
veyed to the trustees as aforesaid, by the said Isaac M'Kim and Wil-
liam D. M'Kim, shall be held in the name of the trustees of said
school, and no part thereof, except the interest, rent or income,
shall be disposed of by the said trustees, but that the same shall
remain forever as a fund for the support and maintenance, of said
school.
4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, and their successors
in office, duly circled, by the name aforesaid, shall be capable in
law and equity to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend
and be defended, in any court of justice whatever, and may have a
common seal, and the same may alter, break, or renew at pleasure.
5. And be it enacted, That in case the trustees herein before
named, or those who may be appointed their successors, shall here-
after fail to carry into effect the views and objects contemplated
by the provisions of this law, then the said corporation; or trus-
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