Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-12-21

OF iuuds a. they think beet, 10 4 nics question oil
law, on which intelligent ncu dGer IN opinion. Blu
admitting that such power does exist, the question
then occurs Ia the prudent Il discreet exercise
ofiheir undoubed Constitutional power, u would be
proper that the legislature should any such con.
d,On 10 The act vt removal. 10 this question,
il oniy necessary thar the Legislature should enquire
whether the annual Income of the College 10 TOO re
for the just and liberal support Of bcneiceut iasu
lion. ] do confidently assert, without tho fear OF
contradictions that the annual income Of the College
does not much exceed five thousand DOLLARS aud thai
this last is all that has een paid for many wears
or that he paid TO tho President aud Proft ssors
by way Of salary. The President receives Eve hun
dIed dollars, the three Protectors Of Moral Philoso
ply, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy, twelve
hundi eel and fifty dollars each, aud the Professor Of
Law seven hundred and fy dollars II The College
enoved'o Richmond, there ongh, TO be Professor
OF Humanity, or Of tho ancient languages, and pei,
haps an Adj""ct Professor, or Usher. A salary of
five hundred ol!a,s 10 the Turner, aud two hundred
,.t hy 10 the latter, would Iequ,se "a reduction in
the salaries Ut others IL has also been sad tina,
Medical School, will probably he oprmed : ON thus
sulj.ct have formed no opinion. tank il proba-
bic that School Of Anatomy, and hledirinc upom
81 large scale cannon he established ehes here or a,
the Unisers'ty hut I am mistaken IN this, and
suei, schoU should he established, there must he
sal, further reduction in the salaries Of The existing
proiessnrships.
l will ask whe,het the sum of 6yc thousand doI-
iis Is 100 pnch 10 he distributed amongst five s'x
Professors! Ine Teachers ia College ought not 10
lie pad salary Sd high 10 iiJuce them neglec'
their dnnrs The, ought To 10 required 10 look To
their ieesor the principal source Of their subsisience
nu considerable advantage gained 10 the commu-
h'y Ivy making apart OF their income 10 consist Of
SALARY. by adopting This piun. the fees oil Tuition
may he lowered, the ben, fi,s Of liberal education
extended TO those rery moderate circumstances
Tuiiioa fees which without salary, would he ili,
Sky dollars, may be reduced, by the annexation
of SALARY To the Professor ship, TO the picons
bic sam VI fifteen twenty dSilars. A salary az one
thousand, seven buntIred and fifty dollars would
ma he too LIse To bcsiow industrious L. learn
ed Professor and II might lie sufficient To enable HIM,
with the MD VI The regular fees Obtained r fit, ar
sky pupils, TO supper, his family comfortably Il gen.
treli,. The funds then Of The College Of W,iiian =,
and hl"ry not too large for the supper, OF ha,
si,'u'oi, and IN my humble opinion would he un-
wise III The Legislature TO annex any condition tho
removal, which would alarm the fears of the existing
corpora ION, and induce suspicion The community
Iia' Is intended 10 transfer the funds Of this Iusti-
tuition 10 The University, TO divide them aud tie
them away amongst other Colleges.
Nor 40 think that IL would he a proof OF co nss-
iency, or modesy IN aay friend and supporter of The
Universiy e"hert propose, vote Tor such condi-
ton. u fifteen thousand doars he not TOO large =
Sum Tor the salaries Of the Professors in that Ins,ru-
ton, how eau five Thousand be too much for the Col.
irge Vi William aud M,r?
FRIEND TO EDUCATION.