1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 176.

mation as the case may be, before some of the justice's of
peace, that they will without favor, partiality, or prejudu-
ce, assess the damages sustained by the person through
whose lands the said road shall pass.

Not to prevent
the right of
appeal.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in
this act, shall be so construed as to prevent the rights of
appeal in like manner as though the commissioners had been
appointed in the usual way.

CHAPTER 170.

Passed Feb.
1, 1843.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Prospect School in
Harford County.

Incorporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Benjamin Sliver, John Loflin, William
Chesney, David Silver and William Trago, trustees for a
a school established in the fifth election district of Harford
county, known as the Prospect School, and their successors to
be appointed or elected as hereinafter directed, shall from
and after the passage of this act, be and they are hereby
created established and declared to be one body politic, and
corporate, by the name, style, and title, of the trustees of
the Prospect School of Harford county, by which name and
title the said trustees and their successors, shall be capable

Proviso.

in law and equity, to hold property real, personal, or mixed,
whether acquired by purchase, gift, on devise; provided.
such property does not exceed at any time two thousand
dollars in value.

Trustees to
call a meeting
of subscribers
in June.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Trustees afore-
said and their successors shall call a meeting of the subscri-
bers to said school on the first Monday in June in every
year or within twenty days thereafter, for the purpose of
electing five trustees to be chosen by and amongst the sub-
scribers for the management of said school for one year
from the day of said election, and the trustees herein ap-
pointed and who shall hereafter be elected shall be entitled
to hold their office until a new election shall be made, and
they shall have power to fill all vacancies which shall occur
in their own body, until the annual election.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the said trustees, their suc-
cessors, duly appointed, shall be capable in law and equity,
to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of
law in this State, or before a justice of the peace in case
the matter in controversy shall be within the jurisdiction of