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Sept. 15, 1790, in the Senate. " Petition of the Trustees of the Derby 

 School for authority to fill such vacancies as may from time to time take 

 place in their body from any part of the State, without limitation or 

 restriction. 



" Read and ordered to be referred to the next session of the General 

 Court." 



This application being made, the terms of the codicil were 

 complied with, but there seems to have been no further action at 

 the next session of the General Court. 



Resolves, March, 1793. CLXVII. 



Resolve on the petition of Benjamin Lincoln and Christopher Gore, 

 Esquires, Trustees of Derby School in Bingham, March 28, 1793. 



On the petition of Benjamin Lincoln, Esq., and Christopher Gore, Esq., 

 two of the Trustees of the Derby School in Hingham ; and it appearing 

 that the estate hereinafter mentioned is not returned for the valuation of 

 that town : — 



Resolved, That all and singular the lands, buildings, and personal es- 

 tate, within the said town of Hingham, the income whereof is by a certain 

 deed, and by the last will of the late Mrs. Sarah Derby, appropriated to 

 the use and support of said Derby School, are, and shall remain, during 

 such appropriation, wholly discharged of all public taxes : and the as- 

 sessors of the said town shall govern themselves accordingly. 



The Massachusetts policy of incorporated academies is set forth 

 in the following document : — 



" At the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts held 

 on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1797. 



" Ordered, That the secretary be, and hereby is, directed to cause the 

 report of a committee of both houses on the subject of grants of land to 

 sundry academies within this Commonwealth, to be printed with the 

 resolves which shall pass the General Court at the present session. 



" And be it further ordered, That the grants of land specified in said 

 report shall be made to the trustees of any association within the respec- 

 tive counties mentioned in said report, where there is no academy at 

 present instituted, who shall first make application to the General Court 

 for that purpose ; provided, they produce evidence that the sum required 

 in said report is secured to the use of such institution ; and provided, that 

 the place contemplated for the situation of the academy be approved of 

 by the legislature." 



The " Report on the Subject of Academies at Large, Feb. 

 27, 1797," speaks of " Derby School, which serves all the general 

 purposes of an academy." This report, said to have been written 

 by Nathan Dane, of Beverly, recommends " half a township of six 

 miles square, of the unappropriated lands in the district of Maine, 

 to be granted to each academy having secured to it the private 

 funds of towns and individual donors." 



Manifestly the Trustees deemed it for the pecuniary advantage 



