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of its being the first of its kind received, deserves a place 

 here. 



AN OFFER OF A SITE BY JUDGE MILES. 



Gentlemen: Believing the Agricultural interests of our 

 State may be greatly and eminently promoted by the early 

 establishment of the Farmers' High School of Pennsylva- 

 nia, where a thorough, practical and scientific education 

 may be acquired by the youth of our State who desire to 

 make the tillage of the soil the business of their lives, I 

 beg to make known to you, and through you to the gen- 

 tlemen who are, or may be appointed trustees of the Far- 

 mers' High School of Pennsylvania, that I will give to the 

 Institution, two hundred acres of land, situated in Girard 

 Township, Erie County, provided said School be located 

 on said land. 



Yours truly, JAMES MILES. 



Subsequent to this, the Legislature passed the following 

 Act of Incorporation of the Farmers' High School of 

 Pennsylvania. 



An Act to Incorporate "The Farmers' High School of Penn- 

 sylvania : " 



SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As- 

 sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the 

 same, That there be and is hereby erected and established, at the 

 place which shall be designated by the authority, and as herein- 

 after provided, an Institution for the education of youth in the 

 various branches of science, learning and practical agriculture, as 

 they are connected with each other, by the name, style and title of 

 " The Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania." 



SEC. 2. That the said Institution shall be under the manage- 

 ment and government of a Board of Trustees, of whom there shall 

 be thirteen, and seven of whom shall be a quorum, competent to 

 perform the duties hereinafter authorized and required. 



SEC. 3. That the Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, 

 the President of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, 

 and the Principal of the Institution, shall each be ex-officio a mem- 

 ber of the Board of Trustees, and they with Dr. Alfred L. El- 

 wyn, and Algernon S. Roberts of the City of Philadelphia, H. N. 



