STATUTES OF GEORGIA, 1857.

PART II. LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.

ACADEMIES, COLLEGES, TEACHERS OF THE POOR, &C.

DIV. I.-ACADEMIES AND COLLEGES.

II. POOR SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, &c.

DIV. I.-ACADEMIES AND COLLEGES.

Section 1, Bainbridge Masonic Male Institute, | Sec, 35. Marietta Female College incorpo

Corporators.

The Bain

Male Inst.

Bainbridge Masonic Male Institute.

(No. 109.)

An Act to incorporate the Bainbridge Masonic Male Institute, and for other purposes.

1. Section I. Be it enacted, That the Master and Wardens, for the time being, of Orion Lodge No. 8., of Free and Accepted Masons, with such other persons as they may, from time to time, associate with them, be and they are hereby incorporated, and made a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of " the Bainbridge Masonic Male Institute," and by that name, may sue and bridge Mas, be sued, contract and be contracted with, make, have and use a incorporat'd common seal, purchase, take, lease, have and hold, sell and convey, Powers, and otherwise receive and dispose of property, both real and perrights, etc. sonal, may elect or appoint in such manner as they may deterTeachers, mine, all necessary professors, teachers and other officers as may be necessary, fix their compensation and define their duties; may ordain and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations, for the government of their affairs, and enjoy all such rights, powers and privileges as are necessary or properly incidental to them as a body corporate, and may have perpetual sucsession.

etc.

By-laws

Faculty etc,

2. Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That the persons above inFree corporated, shall have power and authority to establish a Faculty for said Institute, and appoint a President thereof, and said President and Faculty, shall have power and authority to confer such Honors, de- honors and degrees, as are usually conferred in Colleges and UniDiplomas. Versities, and to grant such certificates and diplomas as are usual in such cases, in such manner and style as they shall deem appropriate, and shall prescribe and fix the course of studies to be purstudy. sued and taught in said Institute.

grees, etc.

Course of

3. Sec. III. And it is further enacted, That the eighth section of Mas. Hall in an Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Masonic Hall in the town Milledgeville of Milledgeville,* be and the same is hereby amended so as to auVacancies. thorize the remaining Trustees to fill, by election, such vacancies as

may have occurred in said corporation, and the number of said No. of Trus-Trustees be hereafter reduced to five, a majority of whom shall be competent to transact the business of said corporation.

tees.

Quorum.

Preamble,

4. Sec. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Act amendatory of the above entitled Act, approved March 5th, 1856,† be, and the same is hereby repealed.

5. Sec. V. (Repeals conflicting laws.)

Assented to December 22d, 1857.

(No. 110)

An Act to make legal the sale of the Bainbridge Academy lot.

Whereas, on the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, Joseph Law, John M. Potter and Alexander A. Allen, *See Acts 1831, pam. p. 251.

See Acts of 1855 and 1856, page 479.

Bowden Collegiate Institute.

Trustees of the Bainbridge Academy, in the county of Decatur, did, by deed, sell to Orion Lodge number 8, Free and Accepted Masons, the Bainbridge Academy lot. And, whereas a question may arise as to the authority of the said Trustees to make said sale; and, whereas it will tend to the advancement of education for said sale to be confirmed:

Trus, of

Orion Lodge

6. Sec. I. It is therefore enacted, That the deed of conveyance deed from from the Trustees of Bainbridge Academy to Orion Lodge No. 8, Bainbridge F. and A. M., of the Bainbridge Academy lot, as referred to in the Academy to foregoing preamble to this Act, be and the same is hereby declared etc. made legal and binding, and that the said Orion Lodge be and is hereby confirmed in all the rights in said deed of conveyance set forth. Assented to December 21st, 1857.

(No. 111.)

An Act to incorporate the Bowden Collegiate Institute, to appoint
Trustees for the same, and to confer certain privileges.

valid.

7. Sec. I. Be it enacted, That from and after the passage of this Corporators. Act, Charles A. McDaniel, John M. Richardson, John B. McDaniel R. S. Tommie, N. Shellnut, Samuel Copeland and H. M. Westbrook, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the Trustees Trustees of of the Bowden Collegiate Institute, in the county of Carroll.

Bowden
Coll. Inst.

8. Sec. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, incorporat'd That the said Trustees and Teachers shall have power and authority to confer such honors, degrees, medals and privileges as are usually Honors, deconferred in Colleges and Universities, to grant diplomas in such manner and style as they may deem appropriate.

grees, etc. Diplomas.

Prin, and

study.

9. Sec. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have power to ap- assistants. point a principal for said Institute, and said principal shall have the right to appoint assistants, prescribe a course of studies, to make Course of and enforce all such laws as the interest of said Collegiate Institute may require, establish the rates of tuition, and to adopt all such Tuition. regulations as the interests of said Institute may require. Provided, Regulations. such principal shall employ such assistant teacher, prescribe such a course of studies, and shall establish such rates of tuition as meets with the approval of said Trustees or a majority of them.

Trust. must

approve of

Gen. powers

10. Sec. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, them. That said trustees and their successors in office, under the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable of suing and being sued, plead- etc. ing and being impleaded, also to have, take, possess or acquire by gift, grant or purchase, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattles and other estates, to be used for the purposes aforementioned only.

11. Sec. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees aforesaid, in their corporate capacity, character and Perpetual name shall have perpetual succession, and when any vacancy shall

succession:

Vacancies, how filled.

Effingham County Academy, Glynn County Academy.

occur in said board of trustees by death, resignation, or otherwise, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall have power to fill such vacancy.

12. Sec. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Collegiate Institute with all the apparatus attached thereto, as also the lot upon which it is situated, shall be exempt from Exempt from taxes. State and county taxes.

Act of Mar. 4th, 1856, repealed.

Assented to December 22d, 1857.

(No. 112.)

An Act to repeal an Act to provide for the election of Trustees of
Effingham County Academy, and for other purposes, approved
March 4th, 1856.

13. Sec. I. Be it enacted, That the Act to provide for the election of Trustees of Effingham County Academy, and for other purposes, approved 4th March, 1856,* be and the same is hereby repealed.

Assented to December 15th, 1857.

(No. 113.)

Trustees of
Glynn Co.
Acad. may

An Act to authorize the Trustees of Glynn County Academy to lease
or sell the academy building, und estate of said academ
emy, and to
protect the property and collect the funds of the same, and for
other purposes therein named.†

14. Sec. I. Be it enacted, That the Trustees of Glynn County Sell Property Academy, are authorized to lease or to sell and convey any of the Academy buildings, and real estate of said Academy, situate in the old town of Brunswick, which has been assigned, appropriated or reserved for or dedicated to said institution, or heretofore authorized to be sold for the use and benefit of said Academy, by any of the former Acts of the Legislature of this State, and to convey the right and title of said Academy, and of the State, in all the lands situate in said old town, which are hereby confirmed to said Academy, to low water mark on Turtle river; and it shall be the duty of said Trustees to proceed to make available said estate for said Academy; and May adopt for this purpose they are authorized to make any arrangement or conveyance, or to adopt any measures which they may deem proper, and to exercise all the rights of the State, and of said Academy, to any of said lands, and for their recovery and the protection of the title of said Academy to them, and no provision of the Act apdoes not run proved March 6th, 1856, limiting the tine in which suits in the Courts of law in this State must be brought, shall be construed to bar the right of said Academy to recover any of said property, and

all necessary

measures.

limitations

against the

Academy,