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of the school to have it an incorporated academy, which might 

 secure a grant of land in Maine. Accordingly we find them, with 

 commendable promptness, voting on April 4, 1797, " that General 

 Lincoln be appointed a committee to apply to the General Court 

 in behalf of the trustees, that the style of the Derby School may 

 be changed to that of the Derby Academy, and that it may be 

 entitled to all the privileges which are granted to academies." 



Acts op 1797, Chap. 9. Passed June 17, 1797. 



An Act to erect Derby School, in the North Parish in Hingham, into an 

 Academy, by the name of Derby Academy. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 

 Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the School estab- 

 lished in the North Parish in Hingham, by the name of Derby School, 

 by an Act entitled " An Act for establishing a School in the North 

 Parish in Hingham, by the name of Derby School, and for appointing 

 and incorporating Trustees of said School," passed the eleventh day of 

 November, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-four, 

 be, and hereby is made and erected into an Academy ; and the Trustees 

 named and incorporated in the Act aforesaid, and their successors forever, 

 shall be bound to perform all the duties required in said Act, of the Trus- 

 tees of Derby School, and may sue and be sued, and shall hold, enjoy, 

 and exercise all the interests, rights, privileges, and immunities which 

 were, or might have been held, enjoyed, and exercised by, and were 

 secured to, the Trustees of the said School by the aforesaid Act, in the 

 same manner, and to all intents and purposes as they would have, had not 

 the said School been erected into an Academy. 



The desired benefit was secured a few vears later. 



Resolves, June, 1803. XXIX. 



Resolve on the petition of Benjamin Lincoln, Esq., granting half 

 township of land to Derby Academy at Hingham, June 18, 1803. 



On the petition of Benjamin Lincoln, Esq., in behalf of the Trustees 

 of the Derby Academy, in the town of Hingham, praying for the grant 

 of a township of land for the use of said Academy. 



Resolved, That there be, and hereby is granted to the Trustees of the 

 Derby Academy, in the town of Hingham, and their successors, one half 

 township of land of six miles square, for said Academy, to be laid out or 

 assigned by the agents or committee for the sale of Eastern lands, in some 

 of the unappropriated lands in the district of Maine, belonging to this 

 Commonwealth, excepting the ten townships lately purchased of the 

 Penobscot Indians, with the reservations and conditions of settlement 

 which have been usually made in cases of similar grants, which tract 

 the said Trustees are hereby empowered to use, sell, or dispose of as they 

 may think most for the interest and benefit of that institution. 



