1843.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 46.

CHAPTER 46.

Passed Jan.
25, 1844.

An act to incorporate the trustees of Taney-town Aca-
demy, in Carroll County.

Incorporated.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Solomon Sentman, Israel Hiteshue, Thom-
as Rudisel, John B. Boyle and John Thompson, be appointed
trustees for the Taney-town Academy, in Taney-town,
Carroll county, and their successors to be appointed as
hereinafter directed, shall forever hereafter be and they
are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate,
with perpetual succession, in deed and in law by the name
and style of the trustees of the Taney-town Academy, by
which name and style the said trustees and their successors
shall be capable in law and in equity, to hold property the
value of which shall at no time exceed five thousand dollars
for the said academy.

Trustees to
fill vacancies.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if a vacancy occur in
the board of trustees the same shall be filled by the remain-
ing trustees until the next annual election of the same.

Election by
ballot

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That on the first Monday in
October, or within thirty days thereafter, in every year, an
election shall be held by the qualified voters at the academy,
which said election shall be by ballot and conducted as
follows, to wit: every person subscribing to said institution
one dollar or more, shall be entitled to one vote, only the
five persons having a majority of the votes shall be declared

Proviso.

the trustees for the ensuing year, provided that no person but
a subscriber shall be a trustee.

Trustees to
keep a book.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the said
academy, shall keep or cause to be kept a book for the use
and as the property of said corporation, in which shall be
duly entered and recorded all subscriptions to and for the
use of said corporate objects, and all other proceedings of
said corporation.

Trustees to
appoint teach-
ers, &c.

Sec. 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 academy aforesaid, and the educa-
tion of youth and to appoint such person or persons, as
they or a majority of them may think proper, to be a teacher
or teachers of the said academy.

To examine
students.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors or a majority of them, shall meet at such
time as shall be appointed by their own ordinances in order
to examine the progress of the students and scholars and
to hear and determine in all complaints and appeals, and