The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-23

history of this Association, taken from their publ
cation:
On the .24th of July, 1904, the Society held the
Meeting, between Broad and Tradt-strccts. This
removal with the extension of the School, induced
them to revise their rules, which were confirmed
on the 9th December, 1908, and published as the
In December, 1911, public schools were cstab-
hshed hy the Legislature of South Carolina, to
which every citizen of the State is entitled to send
his children free of expense. This phanthropc
system rendered it no longer necessary for the
South-Carolina Society to continue their free
school, OH which they had annually expended more
than $4,000. It therefore resolved, on the 18th
of November, 1926 that their free school should
cease to exist on their ensuing annversary,in March,
1896 AS this school had been founded with the
immediate design of educating the children of in
digcnt members, committee was instructed, pur-
suant to this prominent feature in it's original for
mati0n, to digest plan for the endowment of
male and female academy, wherein should be conf
hincd, with the usual studies of an English cduca-
literature. That the children of needy parents,
or Of widowed pensioners, should be educated at
the cost of the charity; whilst those of contribu-
ting members, OF who had been such ut their de-
cease, should be instructed at the expense of their
respective parents or guardians, but Mt reduced
rates of tuition. Whilst u system of bylaws on
these prescribed outlines maturing, it became
u question whether the free school could be abol-
lscd without an infringement of the charter; and
whether, also, the charity fund could be applied to
the exclusive and indiscriminate advantage of their
corporate community 1t was the concurrent
opinion Of the Attorney-Gencral and the Solicitor
OF the Society, to whom these objections were sub
mitted that there was no legal impeachment to the
discontnuance of the free school; but that money
could not be drawn from the clcemosynary fund
for the support of school, other than for helpless
orphans, or the issue of destitute parents. The
Society thus legally advised, sought for
largemcnt of their charter, which they obtained
on the goth December, 1896, whereby they arc en-
powered to erect such seminaries of learning as
they shall fit, and to appropriate for their sup
port any moneys which may thereafter accrue or
under special donation. A male and female acatc-
my were accordingly instituted, and the annual
sum Of one thousand five hundred dollars appro-
priated i'll aid OF their means. A further sum
might, on any cmcrgcnt requisition, bc assigned
for their use; prochted, the additional appropra-
ton did not exceed one thousand dollars in any
one year. The academies were opened i'll the So
cictys hall ON the 2d of July, 1927. when an inau
gural address was delivered by William e. Read,
principal of the male academy, to numerous and
highly respectable audience.
On the I'd of October, 1927, tho capital of the
South Carolina Society Gncluding with the evidence
of debt, the value of their lands and improve
mcnts) amounted to one hundred and tfty-sx
Thousand hundred and thirty-threo dollars
and nnety-five cents. With the income arising
arrearaSes and admission of members, they shell
tered the housclcss, fed the hungry, clothed the
naked, and gratnitonsiy bestowed ON the children
of their impoverished members an education
adapted to their destined occupations and pur-
snits, whether they were toIbe manual or intellcc
tual.
The two academies werethns opened with very
| fiattering prospects, and With number of schol-
i'll each, fully equal to the expectations of their
projectors and patrons. During thirteen or four
teen years of their continuance, the Society were
gratifed to See the children of their unfortunate
members sitting side by side with their chill
dren, and receiving the same instruction from the
same instructors, without the smallest feeling of
obligation or inequality i'll the breasts Of any of
the parties.
Although these were free schools to some, they
really were Society schools to ALL and as many in
timaccs and attachments were formed between
the children of the necessitous and of those who
were not such, az had previously existed between
their parents, while in social Intercourse, they
contributed alike to the same fund, for dffusing
education and charity. From the concurrence of
various Causes these academies after some years,
declined in the number of scholars, and became
| expensive. BY vote of the Society, i'll December,
1889, the male academy was closed and the female
academy in March, 1841. But instruction to the
| children Of unfortunate members was not disc0n-
tinued with these schools. The males were all
educated at the High School of the city, and the
females, with the appreciation of their mothers,
in some of the most respectable schools in tho
State-bOth being under the care of the Committee
of Charity. In November 1842, there were twelve
girls and seven boys educated by the Society, at
cost Of seven hundred and sixty dollars per an
mum; the number of families receiving ad ALSO
from the Society, was thirty-seven, and the sum
paid to them was thousand and forty dollars,
which, with the schooling, amounted to seven
thousand eight hundred dollars, and this has in
some years exceeded eight thousand dollars.
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