Warren County, NC - Shocco Female Academy - Act to Incorporate

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An Act to incorporate the Shocco Female Academy in Warren County

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 Henry
G. Williams, Joseph Hawkins, William K. Kearney, James Allen, Whitmel
Alston, Jacob Hunter, and James Southerland, shall be, and are hereby
declared a body politic and corporate, to be known and distinguished
by the name of the President and Trustees of the Shocco Female Academy, 
and by that name shall have perpetual succession; and they and their
successors, or a majority of them, by the name aforesaid, shall be
capable in law to receive and possess any quantity of lands or tenements,
goods or monies, that may be given to the use of the Academy, and apply
the same according to the will of the donor.

And be it further enacted, That said Trustees may sell and dispose of 
any lands or tenements, goods or chattels, that may be given to the use 
of said Academy, when the will of the donor does not forbid it.

And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, by the name aforesaid,
to wit: The President and Trustees of the Shocco Female Academy, shall
be able and capable, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any
court within this state, and shall have power to do all such things as
are incident to, and usually exercised by bodies politic for the promotion
of the objects contemplated, not incompatible with the constitution of
this state.

[Remainder of chapter not copied]


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1819-22
Chapter 80
Page 61

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