33^ Memorial of George Droivu Goode. 



monies, and otherwise carry into execution their ordinances and resohitions. He 

 shall be director of the Professorate ; order the courses of lectures and other modes 

 of instruction and objects of study ; confer degrees in the central universit}' ; appoint 

 examiners, either at the district colleges or at the central university, for the admis- 

 sion of students into the latter; fill vacancies in the Professorate, until the next 

 meeting of the board of trustees; and he shall have power to suspend from office a 

 professor, until the time of such meeting. He shall instruct and direct in their mis- 

 sion, such traveling professors as the board of trustees shall employ, for the objects 

 of science, in our own country or abroad. 



The board of trustees shall consist of fifteen members; they shall be first appointed 

 by the President of the United States, and hold their office during the pleasure of 

 the Institution. They shall give bonds with surety for the faithful execution of 

 their trust. They and the chancellor are, of course, members of the Institution. As 

 soon as convenient after their appointment, they are to assemble at the seat of gov- 

 ernment, elect by ballot fifteen additional members of the Institution, appoint three 

 professors, and transact such other business as they may think proper. But no more 

 than the second fifteen members of the Institution shall be elected, until the last 

 Wednesday in November next. On which day a general meeting of the Institution 

 shall be held at the seat of government; and the members then present may proceed 

 to elect fifteen additional members. Two months after which, another election of 

 fifteen members may take place; but no more until the November then next. Thus 

 tliey may proceed to hold two elections in each year, of fifteen members each, if they 

 think proper, till the whole number allowed by law shall be elected. The Institu- 

 tion will fill its own vacancies, and those in the board of trustees, appoint its treas- 

 urer and secretaries and, on all occasions after the first, elect the chancellor. 



The chancellor and board of trustees shall have the sole management of the funds 

 of the Institution, whether in lands or movables; they shall organize the Professorate, 

 appoint the professors and other masters and teachers; assign them their compensa- 

 tions, and remove them at pleasure. They shall establish a central university at or 

 near the seat of government, and such other universities, colleges, and schools of 

 education, as the funds of the Institution will enable them to do, whether in the city 

 of Washington, or in other parts of the United States; and make the necessary regu- 

 lations for the government and discipline of the same. They may likewise establish 

 printing presses for the use of the Institution, laboratories, libraries, and apparatus 

 for the sciences and the arts; and gardens for botany and agricultural experiments. 



Thus organized, and with proper endowments, the National Institution will be able 

 to expand itself to a large breadth of public utility. It will, by its correspondence, 

 its various establishments, its premiums, its gratuities, and other encouragements, 

 excite a scrupulous attention to the duties of education in every part of the United 

 States. By printing school books in the vast quantities that are wanted, and .selling 

 them at prime cost, it will furnish them at one-third of the price usually demanded ; 

 and by an able selection or composition of such as are best adapted to the purpose, it 

 will give a uniformity to the moral sentiment, a republican energ}- to the character, 

 a liberal cast to the mind and manners of the rising and following generations. 

 None will deny that these things are peculiarly essential to the people of this coun- 

 try; for the preservation of their republican principles, and especially of their federal 

 system. 



Add to this the advantages that the government will draw, in its projected plans of 

 public improvement, from this facility of concentrating the rays of science upon the 

 most useful objects ; from directing the researches of so many of the ablest men in 

 the country to the best modes of increasing its productions and its happiness ; from 

 having a greater choice of young and well-taught engineers, civil and military; as 

 well as mechanicians, architects, geologists; and men versed in the mathematical 

 sciences and political economy. 



