Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-06-05
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SECOND ArDroRs OFricE,
Richmond 3D. .3prd lS'5.
FHNiE General Assembly their last session adopt-
nj ed resolution, a copy of which is herewith sent
requiring the President and Directors of the Literary
Fund to procure certain information respecting the con-
diton and wants of the University of Virginia and of
the Colleges and Academies of the State, and autho-
rising them to call upon the Directory and Trustees of
those Institutions and upon the Boards of School Com
ssoners of the several counties and corporate towns
Tor such detailed statements as will eroe them TO per-
form this duty
The inornation thus called for appears to be intend
Cd TO serve as basis upon which form general and
equitable system fer the appropriation of the surlus in
come of the Literary Fund.- to the endowment of such
Colleges, Academies, and intermediate Schools as may
be hereafter designated established by the General
Assembly 1t is Indispensable, therefore not only that
The number revenue usefulness and locality of all the
existing institutions of that description should be fully
presented Tor the consideration OF the Legislature
that the fact OF the non-exisence of such institutions in
any county or section of the State should be distinctly
stated.
The President and Directors of the Literary Fund be-
eving that the resolution itself is expressed with sui
Gent mnnteness and precision, respectfully refer there
10 and request that early steps may be put them
IN possession of the Reports of the respective function
aries above mentioned before the first Monday in
December NEXT in order that they may be laid before the
General Assembly.
BY order of the President and Directors of the Lite.
rary Fund, j. BROWN, JR. Second .7uditor.
Resolution Of the General lssem6 calling for infor,na
ton respecting tic University Of Frgind, and the Col
lcgcS aud .lcndeDies ofhe &aie Passed E,b o6 IS95
Whereas the General Assembly on the twenty fourth
day OF febrmary, eighteen hundred and twenty
acted, uBycnevcr the annual income of the Literary
Fund should exceed sixty thousand dollars the surplus
above that sum- until such surplus should amount to
twenty thousand douis should be appropriated TO the
endowment OF such colleges academies and ntermcdi-
ate schools, within this Commonwealth. the General
Assslbly ngIit thereafter designate fit institutions
Tor sGch endowment: And whereas it appears from tic
report OF the Second Auditor that there viii accr,e dur
ing the current fiscal year. surplus Of more than TWEEN
" thousand dollars above the charges the Literary
Fund and that the said surplus will probably continue 10
increase every year. to render il expedent de-
wise some general system for lis appropriation and dis
bution, iulhmen of the original designs of this As
sembiy, which amoun cannot be done for the want
OF certain requisite information in relation all these
Institutions
the President and Directors of the Literary Fund be re-
qucsed To report 10 the General Assembly the con-
dillon and wants of the University Colleges and Acade-
mics III STATE which have been endowed by the pre-
sent or former government. or by private munccncc
and the state of their funds ananoun of their annual
revenues, with of the sources Of their d,1
vaton and the modes OF their investments also deluil-
edstatement OF the condition of each of these scminJ=
3 III respect To its accommodations for teachers and
pupils tle number of its professors teachers with
ul amount of their respective salnIics the number
oil students; the branches of science and learning
taught IN IT. the fees of tuiton and the rules of s
government and, farther, which of these semi
narics have been incorporated by law And i'm or
der to enable the aforesaid President and Directors
TO make the statement and report herein REQUIRED they
are hereby authorized and empowered call upon the
directory OF the several colleges the trustees of The scye
RAJ academies so far as they he ascerained and the
boards OF school commissioners of the several counties
and corporate towns Of the State furnish such detailed
statements they may deem necessary to enable them
to accomplish the objects of this resolution.
:, Agreed to by both Houses OF the General Assembly
May 10 gIamt36s