West Denison Elementary School

JAS. J. FARAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WILLIAM HAWKINS, Speaker of the Senate.
March 13, 1839.
AN ACT
To incorporate the Brooklyn Centre Academy.

Sec. 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Joseph Weller, William Richard, L. S. Pelton, Richard Vaughn, Russell Pelton, A. L. Palmer, Diodate Clark, Peter Elbridge, Moses Merrill, John Boyden, Henry S. Hanchett, Samuel Storer, Benjamin Sawtell, Alexander Ingram, Samuel W. Turner and Henry Chapman, together with such other persons as may be hereafter associated with them, for the purpose of establishing an academy at Brooklyn Centre in the county of Cuyahoga, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate with succession for thirty years, by the name of the Brooklyn Centre academy, and by that name shall be competent to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all courts of law and equity; and to acquire, possess and enjoy, and to sell and convey, and dispose of property, both real and personal: Provided, That the annual income of such property shall not exceed three thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. That any three of the above named persons shall have power to call a meeting by giving ten days previous notice thereof by advertisement set up at three of the most public places in the town of Brooklyn, or by publication in either of the public newspapers of that town or county.

Sec. 3. That any future legislature may modify or repeal this act: Provided, That any property, real or personal, acquired or conveyed under its provisions, shall not be thereby aifected or diverted to any other purposes than that originally designated.

--ACTS OF A GENERAL NATURE, Passed BY The Thirty-Seventh General Assembly of Ohio at its first session. Held in the city of Columbus, and commencing December 8, 1838, in the thirty-seventh year of said state. VOL XXXVII, Columbus.