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giving a history of the founding of the College, recounting
the troubles and difficulties they had sustained from the war,
deprecating the necessities impelling them to enforce what
they believed to be justly due before a tribunal of the United
States, and praying relief from the General Assembly to en-
able them to establish upon a firm basis of usefulness to the
State this ancient institution of St. John's College.

This memorial, to which the undersigned beg leave to refer,
will be found in the House Journal and Documents of 1866,
page 178.

In response to this memorial, the Legislature, by the Act

of 1866, chapter 102, restored the arrearages of the partial
annuity of $3000, which had been suspended during the war,
and appropriated to the future support of the College an ad-
ditional annuity of $12,000 for the limited term of five
years, commencing on the 1st day of June, 1868.

Relying upon this legislation as such to which subsequent
Legislatures would adhere, the Board of Visitors of the Col-
lege unanimously adopted resolutions, to be found on the 5th
page of their Animal Report to the General Assembly for the
year 1868, ordering the appeal proposed to be taken to
the Supreme Court of the United States from the decision of
the Court of Appeals to be abandoned.

The undersigned respectfully beg leave to report that they
believe the Act of 1866, chapter 101, was passed by the
Legislature in view and in consideration of the facts pre-
sented in the memorial hereinbefore referred to. That it was
passed by the Legislature in good faith, accepted in good
faith by the Visitors and Governors of the College, and that
the latter in good faith, on the passage of said Act, aban-
doned all legal proceedings against the State before the Su-
preme Court of the United States. That in view of the pas-
sage of this Act making said appropriation, and in full reli-
ance upon the fulfillment thereof, the Visitors and Governors
proceeded to reorganize the College, which had been broken
up by occupation by the Federal troops during the war.
That the present Faculty and Board of Professors was ap-
pointed, and that the Governors entered into such engage-
ments as, in view of the said Act, they were justified in
doing, and which they believed would result in finally estab-
lishing the College upon a basis of usefulness to the State.

The undersigned fully appreciate the importance to the
people of Maryland of having within the borders of their
State, an institution of learning, at which, their sons may
receive at home, an education equal at least, to that obtained
at Colleges located in other States. Whether or not this will

be accomplished by the Act of 1866, they do not express an