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Which was referred to the Montgomery county delegation.

Mr. Larrimore presented a petition from Walter K. White
and other citizens of Kent Island, Queen Anne's county, for
an act authorising the Trustees of a certain District to re-
move the site and build a new school house;

Which was referred to the Queen Anne's county delega-
tion.

Mr. Baker presented a petition from E. W. Gallup and
sixty-eight citizens of Harford county, asking for an appro-
priation to Hall's Park Academy;

Which was referred to the committee on Education.
Mr. Duvall presented the following petition :

To the Honorable,

The General Assembly of Maryland.

The undersigned, Trustees of the Brookville Academy, in
Montgomery county, "beg leave to present to your Honorable
body, this, their memorial, praying for an increase of dona-
tion from the State, for the benefit of the Institution over
which they preside.

The Brookville Academy was established by act of incor-
poration in January, 1815, and is now in the forty-fourth
year of its existence, as an educational institution. During
the whole of this period it has applied itself steadily and with
an ever increasing energy, to its great work of providing for
all who could avail themselves thereof, the means of a sub-
stantial and thorough education; and, considering the diffi-
culties and embarrassments under which, from want of all
endowment and sufficient duration, the institution has labor-
ed, its success has been remarkable. It is presumed that it
will be generally admitted, that in character, position, influ-
ence and extended usefulness, this institution stands second
to no academy in this State. Many young men, educated
within her walls, and now established in useful and impor-
tant positions in Maryland, and the District of Columbia,
will bear witness to the peculiar advantages of intellectual
education and moral training here enjoyed, as will also many
gentlemen of high position and confidence in the community
who have been connected with this Institution as professors
and instructors.

And yet, as your memorialists humbly conceive, and would
earnestly represent, this academy has never received from the
State that fostering care and substantial aid so necessary for
its successful work. It has had to struggle on from its very
incorporation, with restricted and slender means. For the
first nineteen years of its existence as an academy, it received
no pecuniary aid whatever from the State—the present annu-