Nash County, NC – Male & Female Academies - Act to Incorporate, 1826

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An Act to incorporate the Nashville male and female academies

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 George Boddie, Henry Blount, 
James S. Battle, Nicholas J. Drake, Isaac Hilliard, jr., Archibald Lamon, John 
Ricks, Joseph Phillips, Isaac Sessions, James N. Mann, and Colonel Joseph 
Arrington, and their successors, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body 
politic and corporate, to be known by the name and style of “the Trustees of 
the Nashville Male Academy,” and by that name may have perpetual succession, 
and shall be able and capable, in law, to have, hold and possess any lands and 
tenements, goods, chattels and money that may be given them, and apply the same 
according to the will of the donor, and dispose of the same, when not forbidden 
by the terms of the gift; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any 
court of law in this State; shall have power to appoint other and more trustees 
to fill the place of those that may die, remove, resign or become incapable of 
acting; and establish such laws and regulations for the government of said 
institution as may be necessary for the preservation of order and good morals; 
elect a professor or professors, tutors and other officers, and to do and 
perform all other acts and things as are incident to, and usually exercised by 
bodies politic and corporate.

And be it further enacted, That five of said trustees shall be a number 
sufficient to form a quorum, and transact business.

And be it further enacted, That John H. Drake, sen’r, Samuel W.W. Vick, 
Bartholomew F. Moore, Jonathan Wood, Benjamin B. Hunter, Jonn N. Bennett, 
Archibald Davis, Edwin D. Whitehead, Bennett Bunn, George Cooper, and John H. 
Drake, jr. be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, 
by the name of “the Trustees of the Nashville Female Academy,” and the said 
trustees and their successors shall and may have and exercise all and singular 
the rights, powers and authorities given to the trustees of the Nashville Male 
Academy, by the first section of this act, in as full and as ample manner as if 
the same were here again particularly set forth and recited.

[Since no county is mentioned in this record, it is assumed to be Nashville, 
Nash County, NC]


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1826
Chapter LVIII
Page 38

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