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College, any sum not less than ^^500 current money, payable in Spanish 

 milled dollars, or tlie value thereof, as the same may be at the times 

 of payment, in good merchantable wheat or tobacco, the said Visitors 

 i.nd their successors, may covenant and agree with such subscribers and 

 contributors, that there shall be one Visitor and Governor of the said 

 College, chosen for ever out of such county, for every ;^5oo of specie 

 so subscribed and paid, or secured to be paid, towards founding and 

 supporting the said College, and that the first election of every such 

 county Visitor and Governor of the said College, shall be made by the 

 subscribers and contributors in the county, within three months after 

 the sum of ^^500, or the value thereof, shall be subscribed and paid, or 

 secured to be paid as aforesaid ; and due notice of the time and place 

 of election shall be given to the subscribers and centributors in every 

 county, in such form and manner as shall be agreed upon by the 

 Visitors of Kent county school, and set forth in the preamble of the 

 subscription papers, which the said Visitors shall send into the several 

 counties for obtaining subscriptions towards founding and asupi^orting 

 the said College. 



Secondly. If the Visitors of any county school on the said Eastern 

 Shore, for the more effectual advancement of useful knowledge, and the 

 better promoting the good purposes for which such county schools were 

 originally founded, shall be desirous to engraft and consolidate the 

 funds and estate of such county school, or any part or parts of the same 

 with the funds and estate of the said intended College, the Visitors of 

 Kent county school, for and during the term of five years next after 

 passing this act, (unless the said College is sooner established agreeably 

 to the tenor hereof) and the Visitors and Governors of the College, at 

 any time after the same shall be so established, shall have full power 

 and authority to treat and agree with the Visitors of such county school, 

 and to allow one Visitor and Governor of the College, to be for ever 

 chosen from among the inhabitants of such county, for every ^^500 

 which any such county schools may contribute towards founding and 

 supporting the said College, the first choice to be in the Visitors of such 

 county school ; or in consideration of the said ;^5oo contribution, or 

 of any sum or estate of greater or less value, that may be thus given by 

 any county school, towards the said College ; any other privileges and 

 advantages, in respect to the education of the youth of such county 

 in the College, may be fixed and agreed upon, as shall be judged 

 reasonable between the Visitors and Governors of the College, and the 

 Visitors of such county school, instead of fixing any Visitor and Gov- 

 ernor to be for ever chosen from the said county. And all contracts 

 and agreements truly and fairly made for founding and supporting the 

 said College as above set forth, shall be good and effectual in law, 

 according to the yjlain intent, and the true and legal construction of the 



