sum the State has since continued to pay to the college.
But the arrearages claimed of this old annuity under the orig-
inal contract, exceed two hundred thousand dollars, and never
have been paid. It should here be stated that the college real-
ized about $20,000 by the sale of lottery scheme granted to it
by the State, in the law of 1821, chapter 46. This money
was afterwards expended towards the erection of some of the
buildings on the college premises.

The college failing to obtain these arrearages from the
General Assembly, after the decision of the Court of Appeals,
instituted legal proceedings to recover them; but the Court
of Appeals, held that the college by accepting this partial
annuity of $3,000, under the resolution of 1832 and releasing
as was therein required, all claim upon the State, had placed
it out of their power to recover these arrearages from the
State.

From this decision of the Court of Appeals, the college
took measures for an appeal to the Supreme Court of the
United States, but pending this proceeding, they presented to
the General Assembly, at its last eession, a memorial (see
page 178 of the House Journal, 22d January, 1866.) In that
memorial, they set forth their claims, and state that "to their
own feelings as Marylanders, they will be doing violence in
seeking redress for the wrongs of the oldest Maryland Literary
Institution in a tribunal beyond its jurisdiction and territory;
and before they take that course, your memorialists are anx-
ious to do all in their power to repair the losses sus-
tained by the college through the unwise and joint action of
their own predecessors, and the predecessors of your Honora-
ble Bodies, in enacting and executing this resolution of 1832,
however important or necessary at that time they may have
deemed it to be.

This memorial further stated that the Visitors and Gover-
nors had secured the services of Henry Barnard, L. L. D., as
their Principal, a man well known throughout the country
for learning, wisdom and practical knowledge on all subjets
connected with education; that under his superintendence and
with the liberal aid and assistance which were due to St.
John's and collegiate education, and which the memorialists
most respectfully sought from the State, they confidently
hoped to revive in the future her past history of distinguished
usefulness to the State and nation.

In response to this memorial, the General Assembly at that
session by the Act of 1866, chapter 101, restored the arrearages
of the annuity of $3,000 which had been suspended during the
war, and appropriated to the college twelve thousand dollars
annually, on and after the first day of June, 1868, for and
during the term of five years.