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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XIII.
An Act to incorporate the Buckingham Academy, in Worcester County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 9. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 13.
Passed Dec. 22. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That
there shall be founded a school or seminary of learning in Buckingham
Hundred, in Worcester county, under such regulations and
restrictions as are hereinafter prescribed, which shall be known by
the name of The Buckingham Academy. |
Academy to be
founded. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said school
shall be under
the direction and management of Thomas S. Fassit, Thomas N.
Williams, George W. Purnell, William F. Selby, John P. Marshall,
James A. Collins, John I. Williams, Isaac Franklin and
Cord Hazzard, trustees; which trustees, and their successors, are
hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, with perpetual
succession, by the name and style of The Buckingham Academy,
by which name and title the said trustees, and their successors,
shall be competent and capable at law and in equity to take to
themselves, and their successors, for the said school, any estate in
lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies or other
effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale or bequest, of any person
or persons whatsoever, provided the same shall not exceed in the
whole the yearly value of three thousand dollars; and the said lands,
tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, and other effects,
to grant, bargain, sell, demise, and place out on interest, or
otherwise dispose of, for the use of the said school, in such manner
as to them, or at least a majority of them, shall seem most
beneficial to the institution, and to receive the rents, profits and issues,
arising therefrom, and to apply the same to the proper use
and support of said school; and by the same name to sue and be
sued, commence, prosecute and defend, implead and be impleaded,
in any court of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and actions
whatsoever; and generally in and by the same name to do
and perform any act or acts which any corporation or body politic
within this state in like cases may or can do and perform; and the
said trustees, and their successors, are hereby authorised to have
one common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure. |
Under whose management.
Powers
and privileges. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any of
the trustees of
said school shall die, resign, or refuse to act or qualify, or remove
from the county, or shall neglect to attend the meetings of the
said board more than one year, the remaining trustees, or a majority
of them, shall elect by ballot a person or persons to fill such
vacancy or vacancies. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority
of them, shall meet for the first time on the second Monday of
April next, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and qualify
by taking the following oath, to wit: " I, A. B. do swear, that
I
will duly and faithfully discharge the trust committed to me, as
trustee of the Buckingham Academy, to the best of my skill and
knowledge so help me God;" which oath any justice of the peace
may administer. |
Meetings of trustees
—Oath. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority
to make fundamental ordinances for the government of the school |
Ordinances.
Examination of
students. |
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