Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-05-15

for, the subscribers aforesaid, their success
sors and assigns, shall be, and are hereby
made and declared to be, incorporated into
company by the name and style of the
Maryland Agricultural College, and by that
name be capable in law Of sueing and being
sued, taking and holding real and personal
property, of contracting and being contract
ed with, instituting, establishing and con-
tinuing in successful operation the Mary
land Agricultural College and Model Farm,
to have and use corporate seal, and to do
and cause to be done all things necessary
for the attainment of the object aforesaid.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That as
soon as two thousand shares of the stock
aforesaid have been as aforesaid subscribed
for, and one-half thereof has been in cash
paid in, and the other half thereof secured
to be paid when required, the said stock
holders, upon sufficient notice of the time
and place of meeting being given, shall, or
majority Of them, meet and select by bal
lot twenty-one persons, one from each coun-
ty and one from the city of Baltimore, any
five of whom shall constitute a quorum ca
pable of transacting business.
Sec f. And be it enacted, That the trus-
tees so as aforesaid, by the stockholders as
aforesaid, first elected, shall continue in of
flee for five years, and until their successors
are in manner aforesaid elected, and all
subsequent elections and continuation in Of
flee of trustees shall be for two years, and
until their successors are in manner afore-
said elected.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the
board of trustees aforesaid or quorum of
them, shall have power and authority to ap-
point professors and teachers in the college
aforesaid, prescribe their duties, salaries,
and fix the determine the duties, wages,
cost and charge of all other officers and SER
wants, tuition and board of students, course
of study, vacations, examinations, exhibit
tions, and control and manage all persons
and thing in and belonging to the said Ag-
ricultural College, and do and perform and
cause to be done and performed all things
necessary and proper to continue the sue
cessful operation the Agricultural College
and Model Farm, as fully as is herein set
forth and mentioned.
Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the said board of trustees to
Iorder and direct to be made or instituted on
said model farm annually a series Of oxpa-
riments upon the cultivation Of cereal and
other plants, adapted to the latitude and
climate of the State of Maryland. and cause
to be carefully noticed upon the records of
said institution the character of said expert
ments, the kind of soil upon which they
were undertaken, the system of cultivation
adopted, the state Of the atmosphere and
other particulars which may be necessary to
fair and complete understanding ofthe re-
suit of said experiments, and they shall also
require the instructor Of chemistry, as far
as may be consistent with his other duties
in said institution, to carefully annalyze all
specimens of soil that may be submitted to
him by any citizens of this State, free of
charge, and specially furnish the applicant
with an accurate statement Of the result
Sec. I. And be it enacted, That the trus-
tees as aforementioned shall have the care,
control, and management of all the real and
personal property and money of said COM
pany, and shall appoint register and cause
to be registered in book kept for that pur-
pose all the acts, orders, and proceedings OF
the said board of trustees at their several
meetings, and they shall determine the
times of meeting, which meetings shall be
held at the college aforesaid not less than
four times in each year thereafter, and the
said board of trustees shall at every session
of the Legislature present in printed pamph-
let form full and correct report Of the condi-
ton of the said Agricultural College and
Model Farm, and the condition or final re-
suit of all experiments undertaken as provi-
ded for in the aforegoing statements.
Sec s. And be it enacted, That if with
in two years from the first day of February
1856, the said stockholders shall have re-
ceived bona fde subscriptions for two thou
sand shares of twenty-five dollars each tc
the stock aforesaid, and shall have elected
trustees as aforesaid, that then the said
stockholders, under the name and style ot
the Maryland Agricultural College, shall be
entitled from the treasury of the State OF
Maryland, to the annual sum of six thou.
sand dollars, which said annual sum of SIX
thous and dollars is hereby appropriated as
perpetual endowment to the said MARYLAND
Agricultural College, and shall, by tht
board of trustees hereinafter mentioned, b.
applied to the payment of salaries of profes
sors, and such other purposes as shall pro
mote the welfare and success of the said Ag
ricultural College; and upon notice beins
given in writing by the said Maryland Ag
ricultural College that the subscri iptions a
foresaid have been bona fde made, and
board of trustees duly appointed as aforesaid
to the comptroller of the treasury, he shal
forthwith, if at any time before the Is
day of February, 1858, said report is made
issue his warrant to the treasurer, and tn,
treasurer shall pay to the said board o
trustees, or their order, then and annual,
thereafter, the said sum of six thousand dol
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