Person County, NC - Ebenezer Academy - Act to Incorporate

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An Act to incorporate Ebenezer Academy, in the county of Person

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 Willis L.
Taylor, William L. Graham, William A. Lea, William Lea, Daniel Malone, 
Nicholas Thompson and Elijah Morton, of the county of Caswell, John 
Bradsher, Col. Jesse Bradsher, Hyram Dollerhide, Kindle Vanhook, Archibald
Lipscombe, Maurice Smith and Thomas P. Evans, of the county of Person,
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
Ebenezer Academy, of Person county," and by that name and style shall
have perpetual succession and a common seal, 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 and benefit 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 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 this State.

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


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1823-26
Chapter CVIII
Page 74

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