SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

and this law had not been passed, and that the judge and court,
or commissioners, to whom the said Ernest Voigt shall make
application for a personal and final discharge respectively, as the
case may be, shall he respectively satisfied, by competent testi-
mony, other than the oath of the said Ernest Voigt himself,
that he came to this state from Germany with the bona fide inten-
tion of settling therein, or in some other of the United States,
and not for the purpose of avoiding the payment of his debts,
and is in confinement at the suit of the said Bernard H. Cook, or
his legal representatives, and of no other person.

CHAP. 42.

CHAP. XLIII.

An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Franklin Academy or School in
Baltimore County.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,That John
Tolly Worthington, Doctor Thomas Cradock Walker, Nimrod
Cromwell, Adam Showers, John Tolly Hood Worthington, Eli-
sha Sollers Johnson, John Charles Worthington, Garrett G. Wor-
thington, and Richard Johns, bo and they are hereby appointed
Trustees of the Franklin Academy or School, and the said trus-
tees, and their successors, to be elected in the manner hereafter
mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby erected, established
and declared to he, one community, and body politic, with
perpetual succession in fact and in law, to all intents and purpos-
es connected with the institution, by the name and style of The
Trustees of the Franklin Academy or School in Baltimore Coun-
ty, by which name and title the said trustees, and their succes-
sors, shall be competent and capable at law or in equity to take
and to hold to themselves, and their successors, for the use of the
said academy or school, any estate in lands or tenements, goods,
chattels, monies, stock or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale,
conveyance, devise or bequest, of any person or persons whate-
ver, provided the same do not exceed in the whole clear yearly
value of five thousand dollars, and the same to sell, convey, lease,
loan, or otherwise to dispose of, for the use of the said academy or
school, in such manner as to them, or a quorum of them, shall
seem most beneficial to the institution.

Passed Jan. 10 1821.

Trustees appoint-
ed and incorpo-
rated.

2. And be it enacted, That at all times for ever hereafter when
any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said community of
trustees, by the death, resignation, or refusal of any or more
of the trustees thereof, or by the wilful neglect of any one or
more of them to attend three succeeding stated meetings of the
board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a quo-
rum of them, may proceed to elect, by ballot, other sensible, ju-
dicious, and discreet person or persons of the county, to be the
trustee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned
by the respective causes aforesaid, and in such manner may all
future vacancy or vacancies be supplied by the said trustees, and
their successors, or a quorum of them, so as to perpetuate not
less than the number of nine persons as trustees of the said aca-
demy or school forever.

Vacancies, how to
be supplied.

3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, and their succes-
sors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court or courts,

To be capable to

sue, &c.