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Mr. Peabo-
dy's first letter.
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the Trustees, in order to encourage and reward
merit, should adopt a regulation by which a num-
ber of the graduates of the public High Schools
of the city, not exceeding fifty of each sex in each
year, who shall have obtained, by their profi-
ciency in their studies and their good behavior,
certificates of merit from the commissioners or
superintending authorities, of the schools to which
they may be attached, may, by virtue of such cer-
tificates, be entitled, as an honorary mark of dis-
tinction, to free admission to the lectures for one
term or season after obtaining the certificates.
I also desire, that for the same purpose of en-
couraging merit, the Trustees shall make suitable
provision for an annual grant of twelve hundred
dollars; of which five hundred shall be distribu-
ted every year, in money prizes, graduated ac-
cording to merit, of suras of not less than fifty
dollars, nor more than one hundred for each prize,
to be given to such graduates of the public Male
High Schools, now existing or which may here-
after be established, as shall in each year, upon
examination and certificate of the School Commis-
sioners, or other persons having the chief superin-
tendence of the same, be adjudged most worthy,
from their fidelity to their studies, their attain-
ments, their moral deportment, their personal hab-
its of cleanliness, and propriety of manners; the
sum of two hundred dollars to be appropriated to
the purchase, in every year, of gold medals of two
degrees, of which ten shall be of the value of ten
dollars each, and twenty of the value of five dol-
lars each, to be annually distributed to the most
meritorious of the graduating classes of the public
Female High Schools; these prizes to be adjudged
for the same merit, and under the like regulations,
as the prizes to be given to the graduates of the
Male High Schools; the remaining five hundred
dollars to be, in like manner distributed in money
prizes, as provided above for the graduates of the
Male High School, in the same amounts respec-
tively, to the yearly graduates in the school of
Design, attached to the Mechanics Institute of
this city.
To render this annual distribution of prizes,
effective to the end I have in view, I desire that
the Trustees shall digest, propose and adopt, all
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