1782] REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 73 



sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court or courts, before any judge, 

 judges or justices within this State and elsewhere, in all and all manner 

 of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever 

 kind, nature or form they be ; and all and every other matter and thing 

 therein to do in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or 

 persons, bodies politic or corporate within this State, or any of the 

 United States of America, in like cases, may or can do. 



And be it enacted, That the said Visitors and Governors, and their 

 successors, shall have full power and authority to have, make, and use 

 one common and public seal, and likewise one privy seal, with such 

 devices and inscriptions as they shall think proper, and to ascertain, fix 

 and regulate the uses of both seals by their own laws, and the same seals, 

 or either of them, to change, break, alter, and renew at their pleasure. 



And be it enacted. That the said Visitors and Governors, and their 

 successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter forever, shall 

 have full power and authority to constitute and appoint, in such manner 

 as they shall think best and most convenient, a Principal and Vice- 

 Principal of the said College, and Professors, with proper Tutors and 

 Assistants, for instructing the students and scholars of the said Seminary, 

 in all the liberal arts and sciences, and in the ancient and modern 

 tongues and languages ; who shall be severally styled Professors of such 

 arts, sciences, languages, or tongues as they shall be nominated and 

 appointed for, according to each particular nom.ination and appoint- 

 ment ; and the said Principal, Vice-Principal, and Professors so con- 

 stituted and appointed from time to time, shall be known and distin- 

 guished forever as one learned body or faculty, by the name of "The 

 Principal, Vice-Principal and Professors of Washington College, in the 

 State of Maryland," and by that name shall be capable of exercising 

 such powers and authorities as the Visitors and Governors of the said 

 College, and their successors, shall, by their ordinances, think necessary 

 to delegate to them for the instruction, discipline and government of 

 the said Seminary, and of all the students, scholars, ministers and ser- 

 vants belonging to the same ; and the said Principal and Vice-Principal, 

 Professors, students, scholars, and such necessary ministers and servants 

 as give constant attendance upon the business of the College, shall be 

 exempted from all rates and taxes on their salaries, and from all military 

 duties, except in the case of an actual invasion of the State, and when 

 general military law is declared. 



And be it enacted. That the clear yearly value of the messuages, 

 houses, lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments and 

 real estate of the said College and corporation, shall not exceed six 

 thousand pounds current m.oney, to be reckoned in Spanish milled dol- 

 lars, at the present rate and weight ; and all gifts, grants and bequests 

 to the said College and corporation, after the yearly value of their 



