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From the American Farmer.

From the American Farmer.
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Our readers who bear in mind the earnest
ness with which, in our opening editorial in
January, we pressed upon the attention of
Maryland farmers, as their first and highest
duty, the proper education of their sons for
the duties of their vocation and position in
life, will understand the pleasure we now
have in introducing to their notice the
ssMaryland Agricultural College" The
Maryland Legislature have nobly responded
to the call made upon them by the farmers
of the State. The sum of six thousand dol
lars annually, it will be seen by the charter
which we publish herewith, has been appro-
priated as an endowment, upon the condi-
tions contained in the bill It is worthy Of
remark that the proposition of the committee
of the State Agricultural Society, as origi-
nally made, was unanimously concurred in
by the committees of agriculture of the two
Houses. That it passed the Senate (with
no amendments except such as were perfect
ly satisfactory to its friends) by an almost
unanimous vote, and the lower House with
out an attempt to alter or amend, by vote
of forty to twenty-four The bill passed
too. distinctly and emphatically upon it's own
merits, without reference to, or dependence
upon. any other measure. The friends Of
the bill owe much to Col. Sothoron, of the
Senate, and Mr.. Davis, of the House, the
Chairmen of the Committees of Agriculture
of the respective bodies, and to the high
sense of public duty on the part Of the most
q IL T IL,
brought to it an intelligent and earnest sup
port rarely enjoyed by any measure.
This Agricultural College is the favorite
measure of the men who for ten years past
have been prominently and earnestly engag-
ed in efforts to advance and promote the
farming interests of the State. They look
upon it as the grand instrument ofimprove-
ment, compared with which all their efforts
in this behalf are of little worth That the
farmers of the State generally will endorse
and sustain this patriotic design we do not
doubt. We anticipate that at no distant
day the sons of Maryland will find within
her borders an institution of learning of the
highest order, especially adapted and design
ed to prepare them for the high and noble
profession of agriculture
An act to establish and endo1o an Agricul-
tural College an the State Of Maryland.
Whereas it hath been represented to the
Legislature that certain wise and virtuous
citizens are desirous of instituting and es-
tablishing in some convenient locality with
in this State an Agricultural College and
Model Farm, in which the youthful student
may especially be instructed in those arts
and sciences indispensable to successful ag-
ricultural pursuits; and whereas it doth ap-
pear to this Legislature that, while the wise
and learned in the present age have culti-
waited with laudable industry, and applied
with admirable success the arts and sciences
to other pursuits, the most necessary, use
full and honorable pursuit of agriculture has
SO far been most lamentably neglected; and
whereas it is the province and duty of the
Legislature to encourage and aid the philan-
thropic and patriotic citizens in their efforts
to disseminate useful knowledge by estab-
fishing an Agricultural College and Model
Farm, which shall, in addition to the usual
course of scholastic learning, particularly
indoctrinate the youth of Maryland, theo-
-retically and practically, in those arts and
sciences which, with good manners and
morals, shall enable them to subdue the
earth and elevate the State to the lofty po-
sition its advantages, in soil and climate,
&c., and the moral and mental capacities o1
its citizens entitle it to attain; therefore,
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly of Maryland, That James 7
Earle, John @. Wharton, Nicholas B
Worthington, Charles B. Calvert, George
w. Hughes, Walter W.. w. Bowie, Ram:
say McHenry, J. Carroll Walsh, A. B
Davis, Esquires, be, and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, by whom or under
whose direction subscriptions may be solici
ted and obtained to the stock of the Mary
land Agricultural College, and they are here
81 authorized to take, hold, and dispose of
a. asMhereinafter provided for, voluntary
subscriptions to the amount not exceeding
I've red thousand dollars in shares O
twenty We dollars each.
Becs - And be it enated, That as soor
as Il lesst two thousand shares of stock afore
said slall ID manner aforesaid be subscribed