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Dec. Ses. 1817
Proviso.
Vacancies.
President, se-
cretary &. trea-
surer to be ap-
pointed.
May sue and
be sued, &c.
President, pro-
fessors and tu-
tors, to be ap-
pointed.
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College, be established in the city of Baltimore, and that the said
college shall be founded and maintained for ever, upon a plan the
most liberal, for the benefit of vouch of every religious denomina-
tion, who shall be freely admitted to equal privileges and advanta-
ges of education, and to all the literary honours of the college, ac-
cording to their merit, under the direction of the following nine
trustees, viz. George Roberts, Abner Neal, William Wilkins, jun.,
Philip Littig, William Baker, Samuel Harden, Moses Hand, Isaac
N. Toy, and John Brice, jun. and their successors in office, who
shall be duly elected in the manner hereinafter described and di-
rected, who are hereby declared to be corporation and body po-
litic, for ever hereafter, by the name and style of The Trustees of
Asbury College, and by that name they shall bo, and are hereby
made able and capable in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, as aforesaid, lands,
tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, and other hereditaments, in
fee simple, or for a term of years, life, lives, or otherwise, and also
goods, chattels or effects, of whatever nature, quality, or kind so-
ever, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons,
body politic or corporate, capable to make the same, or the same
to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they may
judge most conducive to the interest of said institution: Provided
always, that the said trustees shall not possess at any one time,
property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in nett yearly value
the sum of five thousand dollars.
2. And be it enacted, That in case of the death, resignation, or re-
fusal to serve, of any of the trustees, then and in such case the re-
maining trustees shall, at their next meeting, proceed to vote by
ballot, and elect and appoint another trustee or trustees in the place
of those whose scats may have been vacated as aforesaid, in order
to keep up the said number of nine trustees for ever, and the said
trustees shall have power to expel any member for improper con-
duct.
3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall have full power
and authority to appoint, out of their own body, a president of the
board, treasurer and secretary: and in case of a vacancy in the pre-
sidency by death, or otherwise, they shall appoint one of their own
body to fill such vacancy; and in case of the absence of the presi-
dent at any meeting of the board, the trustees shall appoint a pre-
sident pro tempore.
4. And be it enacted, That the trustees, and their successors,
shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
in any court or courts, before any judge, judges or justices, within
this state, and elsewhere, in all and all mariner of suits, complaints,
pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature,
or form they be, and all and every other matter and thing therein
to do, in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or per-
sons, bodies politic or corporate, of like nature within this state
may or can do.
5. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, and their successors,
from time to time, and at all times hereafter for ever, shall have
full power and authority to constitute and appoint, in such man-
ner as they shall think best and most, convenient, a president, who
shall be ex officio a trustee, and shall also appoint professors, with
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