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this feminary might be rendered more effeftual, propofed to place 

 k under the public fanilion, and appoint governors and truftecs by 

 h\v. They likewife intended, that one hundred acres of land 

 fliould be purchafed contiguous to the Ichool ; and that twenty, 

 acres fliould be cleared and fenced; and 500/. be granted to truflees 

 for this purpofe ; and, being of opinion that 50/. per anmitn^ 

 though as little as could be allowed for fchooling, board, wafliing, 

 and lodging, was too large a fum for pcrfons of middling fortunes 

 and numerous families to afford, they propoied that the naafter fhould 

 give board, wafhing, and lodging, for 30/. a year, and education 

 for 20/., of which no more than 5/. to be paid by the reipeftive pa- 

 rents, or guardians; and the remaining 15/. by the public. Such 

 were their good intentions ; which, if carried to effeft, might have 

 rendered this a veiy flourilhing inftitution. But, before any bill 

 could be framed, the houfe became involved in a hot difpute with 

 the o-overnor, which was followed with feveral diflblutions, and an 

 utter interruption of bufinefs for a year, and half; after which, fuch 

 a variety of other matters called for prefent attention, that this 

 affair was not refumed. In the mean while, the mailer, for want 

 of the publicfupport, of which he began to defpair, found himfelt 

 under neceffity of quitting it, and of betaking himfelf to foma 

 other employment, that might yield him a better maintenance. In 

 confequence of his refignation, the buildings,, on which fo much 

 money had been expended, remained without a tenant: and, in 

 J 767, the land and buildings were vefted, by ad of aflembly, in 

 truftees, with a power. to fell the fame, and apply the money to the 

 purchafe of land and eredion of a fchool-houfe in fome other part 

 of the parifli. The pream.ble of the a6l alledges^ that the fituatiou 

 bad been found improper : but this remains to be proved. 



If the aflemibly Ihould hereafter be convinced of the very many 

 benefits which this ifland might reap from a well-concerted plan 

 of this nature ; there is no pa.rr of it better calculated for a public 

 fchool than this Savannah. 



The principal points refpeding fituation are ;• 



111, That it Ihould be retired, free from the contamination of 

 thofe vices which infeft towns and places of much public refort. 



2dly, That it fliould be on a dry, healthy fpot, in an. air entirely 



free 



