390             JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 16.

al donation of two hundred dollars, not having been granted
till the year 1834. The want of a large and liberal donation
from the State, has been ever felt as its most pressing neces-
sity. The trustees have never been able, as they desired, to
enlarge the facilities and extend the means of its usefulness.
But your memorialists would humbly present, that notwith-
standing the difficulties under which they have labored, their
academy has accomplished, in behalf of education, a very
considerable work; and they would earnestly ask the atten-
tion of your Honorable body, to a statement of its present
position and future prospects, and pray that a larger and
more adequate donation may be granted by the State.

This institution has succeeded in building up for itself an
honorable reputation in this county, and throughout the
State; it has, from year to year, sent forth many pupils, well
instructed and well trained, in the different branches of aca-
demical learning; it has secured for its school purposes a spa-
cious and substantial stone edifice of two stories height; it
has, in order to meet the demand for boarding pupils from a
distance, been necessitated, out of its slender resources, and.
from assistance generously extended by private contribution,
to purchase a large dwelling (near the premises of the acad-
emy buildings,) to answer for a boarding establishment; it
has, for years past, and with few fluctuations, enjoyed a large
and increasing patronage, and has now registered on it pub-
lished catalogue of the last year and its present roll, seventy
students—more than half of whom are from the adjoining
counties and different sections of the State; it numbers among
its present patrons and friends, gentlemen of prominence and
high character, here in Maryland, and in the District of Co-
lumbia; it has, available for the use of its students, a good
chemical and philosophical apparatus; with access to a large
and valuable library; above all, the institution stands located
in a retired country village, with daily mail and daily access
to the cities of Baltimore and Washington; in a section of
country which is pre-eminent for its healthfulness, for the
intelligence, morality, and agricultural enterprise of its in-
habitants; and where all the influences and incitements, in-
tellectual, social, moral and religious, tend directly to the
favorable impression and culture of the youthful mind and
character. It has, also, for the last twenty-four years fur-
nished gratuitous instruction to two pupils; and has always
placed its terms of board and tuition below the average prices
for education in institutions of a similar character.

Such is the position, and such the work of the Brookville
Academy; and your memorialists, the Trustees, humbly pray
your Honorable body to increase the annual donation from
the State to this academy, to the amount of eight hundred