Edgecombe County, NC – New-Hope Academy – Act to Establish, 1826

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An Act to establish New-Hope Academy, in the county of Edgecombe, and 
to incorporate the trustees thereof

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Micajah 
Pettaway, Reddick Barnes, Martin Thorn, William O. Carter, James 
Pender, Stephen Robbins, Thomas Gill and Egbert H. Williams, be, and 
they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, known and 
distinguished by the name and style of “The Trustees of New-Hope 
Academy,” and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession; 
and they, or a majority of  them, or their successors, shall be able 
and capable in law to take, demand, receive and possess money, goods 
and chattels, lands and tenements, for the use of said Academy, and 
apply the same according to the will of the donor.

And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of 
them, and their successors, shall be able and capable in law to sue and 
be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Court of this State, and to do 
all such acts and things as may be necessary and proper to be done by 
bodies corporate, for the advancement and promotion of science in said 
institution, not inconsistent with the laws of the State.

And be it further enacted, That whenever any of the aforesaid trustees 
shall die, remove, resign, or by any other means become incapable of 
performing their duties as trustees of said institution, a majority of 
those remaining shall elect some fir and suitable person, or persons in 
his or their stead, who shall have the same powers as their 
predecessors.


Source:
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1826
Chapter CLIII
Page 82

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