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Black Book
No. 10
Letter
No. 21

cation here, on Account of their Dissenting from the Established
Church.
The Proposals

The Collegiate School or Academy, as to the Heads and Teachers,
to be Compose! of five Persons, with Suitable annual Sallanes, under
the Protection and Inspection of his Excellency as Chancellor of the
Academy and a certain number of Visitors; and to be thus De-
nominated.
I^st A Senior Lecturer or Regent, who shall be Professer of Divin-
ity, Moral Philosophy &c. and the Classics.
2^nd A Latin and Greek Master, or Junior Lecturer, qualified to
Assist or to supply the Place of the Former, and Vice versa, in Case
of Sickness or Mortality.
3^rd A Submaster or Usher, qualified likewise as the Master.
4^th A Writing master, who is to have a Competent Knowledge
of the Mathematicks
5^th An English Master who on Occasion can likewise teach reading
& Acc^ts
Under These the Youth are gradually to be Instructed from the
first Rudiments to the last stage of usefull Learning; and the Pro-
poser promises (being already Assured of them on a Moderate
Encouragement) to procure the above Masters well Qualified for
their Several Provinces.

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The Annual Salaries, and the quarterly Dues of the several Mas-
ters for Tuition or Instruction or for Lodging and Boarding in their
Houses the Youth under their Care, to be Ascertain'd; and the
Visitors to be impowr'd, by the Act of Assembly for Founding the
Academy to make from time to time such By-laws or Statutes, as may
be judged most proper for the Regulation and Economy for the
Seminary.
Upon the Death or Removal of the Regent, or any of the Masters,
the Loss to be supplied by one of the Survivors, until a proper Suc-
cessor can be Provided, of known Abilities from England or else-
where.

N. B. It is hoped in a few Years that Ingenious Men shall be bred
up in the Collegiate School, capable of filling the Vacancies without
having Recourse to Europe or any extra-provincial Place whatever.
It is humbly thought adviseable, that the Regent and Latin and
Greek Master be Clergymen, as best qualified for Instructing the
Young Gentlemen designd for Holy Orders: and likewise that if
they should become Old and Infirm, they may hope their past Ser-
vices to the Publick should recommend them to the Favour of the
Lord Proprietary and Governor in Succeeding to Vacant Benefices,
with permission to keep Curates, if they are incapable of Attending