524                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 401

sign with his name, diplomas or certificates of the admission to such
degree or degrees, which shall be sealed with the public or greater
seal of the said corporation or college, and delivered to the graduates
as honourable and perpetual testimonials of such admission; which
diplomas, if thought necessary, for doing greater honour to such
graduates, shall also be signed with the names of the different pro-
fessors, or as many of them as can conveniently sign the same.

IX.    No student or students within the said College shall ever be
admitted to any such degree or degrees until such student or students
have duly fulfilled all the requirements for such a degree or degrees,
as established by the faculty of the College with the approval of the
Visitors and Governors.

X.    The ordinances which shall be from time to time made by the
Visitors and Governors of the said College, and their successors, with
an account of their other proceedings, and of the management of the
estate and monies committed to their trust, shall, when required, be
laid before the General Assembly of Maryland, for their inspection
and examination; but in case at any time hereafter, through over-
sight, or otherwise through misapprehensions and mistakes, con-
structions of the powers, liberties and franchises, in this charter
or act of incorporation granted or intended to be granted, any or-
dinances should be made by the said Visitors and Governors of said
corporation, or any matters done and transacted by the corporation,
contrary to the tenor hereof, it is enacted, that although all such
ordinances, acts and doings, shall in themselves be null and void,
yet they shall not, however, in any courts of law, or by the General
Assembly, be deemed, taken, interpreted or adjudged into an avoid-
ance or forfeiture of this charter and act of incorporation, but the
same shall be and remain unhurt, inviolate and entire unto the said
corporation in perpetual succession; and all its acts conformable to
the powers, true intent and meaning hereof shall be and remain in
full force and validity, the nullity and avoidance of such illegal acts
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

XI.    The said Visitors and Governors, and their successors, shall
have all the general powers granted to corporations under the Public
General Laws of the State of Maryland, and that this charter and
act of incorporation and every part thereof, shall be good and avail-
able in all things in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be construed, reputed and adjudged, in all cases,
most favorably on the behalf and for the best benefits and behoof
of the said Visitors and Governors, and their successors, so as most
effectually to answer the valuable ends of this act of incorporation,
towards the general advancement and promotion of useful knowledge,
science and virtue.

XII.    No person shall act as Visitor or Governor, or as president,
administrative officer or officers of instruction in the said College
before he shall take the oath of fidelity and support to this state.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall be
construed to affect the tenure of any member of the Board of Visitors
and Governors of Washington College at the time this Act becomes
effective. All such memberships shall continue as if this Act had not
been passed. If there is any conflict between the terms of this Act
and the qualifications of the members of said Board at the time this