354 Assembly Proceedings, May 14-June 6, 1719.

U. H. J.

of most of the People here has Little Claim to a Truly Gen-
erous and Liberall Education yet Abundance of youth now
Growing up are unhappily Destitute of those Comon Improve-
ments w^ch Nature hath made them very Capable of for the
Rendering them better Christians better Subjects to his Maj-
esty & Better Qualified psons for the Just Discharge of the
Sev^ll Trusts To which Your Lordship or your Successors may
have Occasion to Appoint them as well in the Offices of State
as in the Distribution of Justice & all Other the Exigencys of
Life

Wee Humbly Begg leave to Lay before your Lordships that
by an Act of Parliament of the 25^th of King Charles the second
a Duty of One penny p pound was Laid upon all Tobacco

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transported from Plantation to Plantation the whole of which
Revenue by the Royall Donation of the late King William
the Third of Glorious memory was Appropriated to the Build-
ing and maintaining a Colledge of Learning in Virginia ever
since which the good People of this pvince have paid Large
Sums of mony towards the Encouragement of Learning there
which the Distance of the Place And the Great Charge of
Schooling Children hath made Altogether useless to us ; For
such psons as are of Ability to Defray such Charge choose
Rather to Educate their Children in Great Brittain whilst the
middling Sort of People who only Stand in need for the Edu-
cation of their Children of such Pious and Charitable Founda-
tion reap not the least Benefitt thereby.
But if the Royal Grants of King William af^d be Limitted to
a Certain time when it shall Determine as we are informed it
is then we are in Great hopes that upon the proper Application
to his most sacred Majesty setting forth that we Your Lord-
ships Tenants of this pvince are alike Subjects of Great Brit-
tain with those of Virginia that we are under much Greater
Difficultys as to Schools that there hath been Sums of mony

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Collected on the said Duty of One penny p pound and applyed
to the Colledge af^d that a Magnificent Colledge is and hath
been Long since Built in Virginia We are Humbly of Opinion
that it may now be thought Reasonable that we his Majestys
Loyall Subjects of this pvince should have some share in his
Royall Bounty Towards the Support of a Free School already
Built at Annapolis And that the One Penny p pound to be
Collected within this pvince after the Determination of the
Grant to the Gov^r and Trustees of the College in Virginia af^d
might be applyed to the use and Support thereof
Wherefore we humbly Implore your Lordships kind En-
deavours in Assisting & Carrying on a Design so truly noble &