1849.

LAWS OP MARYLAND

CHAP. 8.

CHAPTER 8.

Passed Jan.
17, 1850.

An act entitled, an act to Incorporate the Trustees of
Friendship School in Washington county.

Incorporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Summers, John Kendell and
Martin Startzman, trustees for a school established in
election district, number three, in Washington county,
known as the Friendship 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 a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of the trus-
tees of Friendship school of Washington county, by
which name and style the said trustees and their succes-
sors shall be capable in law and equity, to hold property,
real, personal or mixed, whether acquired by purchase,

gift or devise; provided, such property does not exceed
at any time two thousand dollars in value.

Acts of Trus-
tees made va-
lid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all conveyan-
ces or sales of property made to the trustees aforesaid,
or any of them, for the use and benefit of said school,
before the passage of this act, shall be valid to all in-
tents and purposes, as if the said trustees had been in-
corporated at the time of such conveyance or sale, and
the trustees aforesaid are hereby invested with the same
duties and powers in complying with and enforcing
compliance with the terms of such conveyances or sales,
as if the same had been made after the passage of this
act.

Trustees may
fill vacancies.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at all times here-
after, whenever a vacancy or vacancies shall occur in
said board of trustees, a majority of those sending chil-
dren to said school at the time, may elect a person or
persons to fill said vacancy or vacancies.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That said trustees, or
their successors duly appointed, shall be capable in law
and equity to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
in any court of law or equity, in fill or any courts of jus-
tice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters or de-
mands whatsoever; and that said trustees and their suc-
cessors, or a majority of them, shall have full power to
elect at their discretion, some suitable person as teacher
of said school, and order and establish such rules and
regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the State,
as they may deem proper.