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II. For the greater ease of the Subscribers, the payments shall be 

 made in three equal parts; one-third part on the first Monday in Janu- 

 ary, 1783; another third part on the first Monday in January, 1784; 

 and the remaining third on the first Monday in January, 1785 ; which 

 several payments shall be made to the Treasurer of Kent County School, 

 till the College is established according to law, and afterwards to the 

 Treasurer of the College, as nominated by the Visitors and Governors 

 thereof; and the hand-writing of every particular subscriber shall be 

 binding in law on himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, for 

 the sum subscribed, or the value thereof, with legal interest, if not paid 

 when clue ; and the receipt of the Treasurer aforesaid shall be a sufficient 

 discharge for all subscfiptions and contributions. 



Within three months after the sum of ;^5oo shall be subscribed by 

 any number of contributors or persons in any county, or district of a 

 county, in sums not less than £^<) or £^i per annum for three years, by 

 single subscribers or contributors, and the same shall be notified by any 

 three of the subscribers to the Visitors of Kent County School, accom- 

 panied with an authentic list of the subscribers, the said Visitors, agree- 

 able to the foregoing Act, will fix a convenient time and place for such 

 subscribers and contributors of fy and upwards, to meet within the 

 county, for electing one person as a Visitor and Governor of the Col- 

 lege for such county, or district of the county ; and will cause written 

 or printed notices of the time and place of election, to be fixed up at the 

 Court-House and different Parish Churches within such county, at least 

 ten days before the day of election, that all persons concerned may duly 

 attend. 



In less than three months the subscription-papers were filled up 

 by subscriptions in the different counties on the Eastern Shore, 

 and on the 26th of November, 1782, were delivered to the General 

 Assembly, agreeably to the Charter or Incorporating Act of the 

 College. They were thus : 



Subscriptions, &c. 



His Excellency George Wash- £. s. d. 



ington, Esq., General and Amount brought up I92 17 10 

 Commander in Chief of the 



Armies of the United States, John Page 25 o o 



as an Earnest of his Good- John Lambert AVilmer 30 o o 



will, Fifty Guineas £?>'J 10 o Richard Graves 30 o o 



Robert Buchanan 20 o o 



Kent County. Thomas .Smyth 30 o o 



jT. s. d. William Dunn 900 



John Cadwalader 50 o o Simon Wickes 900 



William Slubey 55 7 10 James Claypoole 900 



Amount carried forward ;i^i92 17 10 Amount carried forward ^354 17 10 



