Ivi Introduction.

the means of support of the college, the Lower House knew full well that the
upper chamber would reject the bill, as monies derived from this source were
claimed by the Proprietary as his prerogative. The "proposal", however, was
not actually embodied in the form of a bill, the Assembly adjourning before
the Lower House could take final action (Arch Md. LVI; ixvii-lxviii).

Why the matter of the college did not come up again at the 1762 session
is not clear, unless the delegates were too much preoccupied with their final
and ninth unsuccessful effort to pass the controversial Assessment or Supply
bill. It did, however, come up again at the October-November, 1763, session,
when on October n, a very large committee composed of thirteen leading
delegates, several of them members of the Proprietary party, and headed by
James Tilghman, was directed to enquire as to the best means of raising a
sufficient sum "to erect a Seminary of Learning in this Province", and pro-
viding for its support (p. 307). Two days later the committee reported that
it was estimated that £2,500 would complete the dwelling house intended for
the Governor, and that £500 additional would be required for furnishing the
house, for building a brick stable, and for a "garden yard"; and it was pro-
posed that this £3,000 be taken out of monies belonging to the Province in
the Loan Office. Annual expenses for maintenance were estimated at £1,360,
this to be raised by a tax on ordinaries, estimated to produce £600 annually;
a graduated tax on bachelors based upon their "value", to be levied at rates
ranging from five to twenty shillings per poll, estimated to yield £420; the
balance to be made up by the annual "donation" of £40 which Benedict Leonard
Calvert had made for the support of King William's School, Annapolis, and
from the tuition fees, or "profit", from eighty boys at £4 per annum,
totalling £320. In addition the bill provided for the appointment of two per-
sons in each county who were to raise additional funds by subscriptions to be
used for other college purposes. The £1,360 that was to be paid as salaries
to the masters of the school, was divided as follows: (i) salary for a president
or first master, £300; (2) second, third, and fourth masters, and a mathematical
master, £200 each; (3) two English and writing masters at £100 each;
(4) four servants and a boy totalling £60 (pp. 309-310, 314-316).

The Lower House approved by a vote of twenty-four to fifteen that the
£3,000 required for completing the building and grounds and for furnishings
be taken from available public funds in the Loan Office. Party lines were not
strictly drawn on this vote, the opposition coming largely from Eastern Shore
members. The house next, by a vote of twenty-two to sixteen, approved the
method proposed by its committee for raising funds for the support of the
college. Upon the motion of Colonel Edward Tilghman, who offered the
measure, it was ordered that the proposal for establishing a college which had
been concurred in by the Lower House at the April, 1761, session be now
again read to the delegates (pp. 314, 316). When the bill came up again on
October 28, a motion was made that the taxes levied for the support of the
college be paid at the same ratios of coins to tobacco that were in force in
the existing Tobacco Inspection law which was about to expire. This motion
was carried by a vote of twenty-one to nineteen, the Proprietary party in