The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1865-03-01

lars, and bill has already been introduced
appropriating al amount sufficient 10 pay
this Indebtedness.
II is estimated that on account Of the
great advance in the price Of labor and
building material. that ninety-eight thou
sand more Will be required 10 erect finish
and furnish the north wing Of the building
and your committee have accordingly
brought in bill providing Tor that sum
THE FEMALE COLLEGE.
On Thursday. in the Senate, Z memorial
was presented from the Misses Rodgers, OF
this City. respecting the Female College,
as follows:
Your memOrialists be- leave 10 reprs-
semi 10 your honorable body, that for ten
years they have devoted themselves entirely
70 the work OF eldeavOring 70 establish in
Lansing an institution OF learning that
should give 10 young women the best pos
sl0.e opportunities for intellectual disci-
pine and culture. That with the advice
and assistance OF the Faculty Of the Uni
yersity OF Michigan. they have adopted q
course OF study under which twenty-ei-ht
young ladies have already graduated. while
they have a. the same time kept IN opera
ton z well sustained and successful prepar-
atOry department.
But the building which they have erect
ed, by the aid Of the citizens Of Lansing
and other friends OF education. IS now filed
10 lis utmost capacity, and further accom-
modatlOns are very much needed, the est
mated expenditures Of which would be
about twenty thousand dollars.
Your memOrialists desire-they have
always very earnestly desired-to see the
result Of their labor made permanent and
durable for the public good, and they pray
your honorable body to accept what they
have done Is trust Tor the daughters OF
the State, and provide for the completion Of
the building; or, # this is deemed al pres
ent inexpedlent, by appropriating Tor that
purpose ten thousand dollars, either in
money or lands, upon condition that your
mem0rialists also raise ten thousand dol
lars for the same purpose: provided, also,
that this twenty thousand dollars, and also
The whole chartered property OF the institu
ton be held in trust for the State by the
present board OF trustees, namely, the Hon.
John W. LOngyear. L. 3. Ward, ESQ. Hon
John Owen Hon. o. ". Barnes. Miss \. c.
Rogers, and their legal successors.
The action Of this Legislature, and that
OF 1868, IN unanimously asking apprOpria-
tons Of land from Congress. for the pur-
pose Of endowing Female Colleges in all the
States, encourages them TO believe that
the time IS speedily coming when, without
regard 10 sex or condition, equal Justice
viii be done 10 all the youth Of the country.
But 1t must be years before the benh-
cence Of the general government eau be
felt If granted and as in the meantime the
wants OF the present must be supplied.
they cannot but hope that IS Michigan has
been the first State TO ask, so she will be
the first 10 act in this good cause
During the last ten years the Legisla-
lures OF this state have RENTED $50. 600
interest 10 the University OF Michigan. be-
sides the appropriations made 10 the Agri-
cultural College. For the two years 10
come, the University interest will amount
10 Sl2, 900, and the estimates for the Agri-
cultural College for the same time are $50
OO0 but with female education il is yet the
day OF small things and We venture 10 ask
for the young women Of Michigan only
crumb from the table Of their more fortu-
nate brothers"
The memorial was ordered printed in the
journal