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on such a footing with others, as to challenge the confidence and
support of parents and guardians, and this we hope in time to
see accomplished.

It is useless to indicate supposed causes of its present condi-
tion, when the Legislature has not the power to remove them,
but we do not think it ascribable to any want of merit in the
Professors, or to the general administration of its affairs.

And here we desire to suggest that the liberality of the State
in endorsing an agricultural College at the present session, may
probably be made available in advancing literature and science,
by the union of this college with the proposed institution, if here-
after that union should be deemed practicable and useful to the
important ends in view. Without expressing any decisive opin-
ion on this question, being without sufficient information to ena-
ble us to frame a plan, we desire to submit it to those having in
charge the interests of both institutions, as in every way worthy
of serious consideration.

e. j. Hall,

H. W. HEATH,

J. T. McCULLOUGH.

                              STATEMENT.

Annapolis, 3rd March, 1856.

For the Honorable, the Committees of ike Senate and House of
Delegates, on the Memorial of Hon. John T. Mason.

Gentlemen:

The undersigned, a Committee appointed by the Visitors and
Governors of St. John's College, to meet you and afford you any
facilities thai may be required in relation to the College and its
re-organization, beg leave respectfully to stale, that since they had
the honor to inform you of their appointment, and of their readi-
ness to afford you these facilities, and to exhibit to you the Col-
lege premises and properly, and all its books and proceedings,
they have patiently awaited the action of your Committees.

This morning, the undersigned, at the meeting in the College
appointed by you, were informed that they were at liberty to re-
spond to certain interrogatories propounded by the memorialist,
to be answered by the Visitors and Governors, which had been
recently and informally shown to some of the undersigned; they
therefore respect fully beg leave to to answer these interrogatories
by the paper herewith submitted, and that the same may be con-
sidered as the answers of the Visitors and Governors to these in-
terrogatories.