522                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 401

Governor or the Alumni Association, depending upon whether said
vacancy is to be filled by the appointment of the Governor or the
election of the alumni, and should the Governor or the alumni fail
to appoint or elect, as the case may be, a successor to fill said
vacancy within six months after the receipt of said notice, then the
Visitors and Governors shall proceed to fill said vacancy for the
unexpired term; and vacancies among the members elected by the
Board shall be filled for the unexpired term by election of the Board
in the same manner as is provided for their original election.

(e) Any graduate of the Collegiate or Normal Department of
Washington College and any student who left the college in good
standing after having completed sufficient work to entitle him or her
to a sophomore or senior normal rating shall be qualified to partici-
pate in the election by the Alumni of Washington College of mem-
bers of the Visitors and Governors of said college; provided that no
ex-student shall be entitled to participate in said election until after
the class to which he or she belongs shall have been graduated.

HI. The said Visitors and Governors, and their successors, shall
be able and capable in law to purchase, have and enjoy, to them and
their successors, in fee, or for any other lesser estate or estates, any
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, or other hereditaments,
within this State, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienation, enfeoff-
ment, release, confirmation or devise, of any person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the same; and such
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions or other hereditaments,
or any lesser estates, rights or interests, of or in the same, includ-
ing the estate of the said Kent County School, at their pleasure to
grant, alien, sell and transfer, in such manner and form as they shall
think meet and convenient for the furtherance of said college; and
also that they may take and receive any sum or sums of money, and
any kind, manner or portion, of goods and chattels that shall be
given, sold or bequeathed, to them, by any person or persons, bodies
politic or corporate, capable to make a gift, sale or bequest thereof,
and employ the same towards erecting, setting up and maintaining,
the said college, in such manner as they shall judge most necessary
and convenient for the instruction, improvement and education of
youth, in the vernacular and learned languages, and generally in any
kind of literature, arts and sciences, which they shall think proper
to be taught, for training up good, useful and accomplished men and
women for the service of their country in church and states ; and
youth of all religious denominations and persuasions shall be
freely and liberally admitted to equal privileges and advantages of
education, and to all the literary honours of the college, according
to their merit, and the standing rules of the seminary, without
requiring or enforcing any religious or civil test whatsoever upon
any student, scholar or member, of the said college, other than such
oath of fidelity to the state as the laws hereof may require of the
visitors, governors, masters, professors and teachers, in schools and
seminaries of learning in general; nor shall any preference be given
in the choice of any visitor and governor of the said college, or of
the president, administrative officers, professors or officers of in-
struction, on account of his religious persuasions, but merely on
account of his literary and other necessary qualifications to fill the
place for which he is chosen.