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week besides firewood, to be paid quarterly. No scholar 

 was to be adrnitted to the academy for a period less than 

 three months. The owners of shares were entitled to send 

 one scholar for each share, and then other parties could 

 fill up the rest of the full number of scholars. There were 

 four vacations each year. 



There was no financial income from the enterprise, and 

 some of the shareholders failed to keep up their assess- 

 ments ; accordingly, for the sake of better management, 

 the "Academy and Hall " were rented in 1801 to Sam- 

 uel Brown, Christopher James, and Elisha Doane, free 

 of charge for two years, provided they should keep the 

 school. 



The total cost of the building was $1,924.90; and of 

 teaching services, $1,340.81. This total of more than 

 three thousand dollars was none too large a burden for the 

 nineteen proprietors, but more men were now anxious to 

 have a part in these educational privileges. The old 

 proprietors voted to have the stock divided into thirty 

 shares instead of twenty-four, and no proprietor was 

 allowed to own more than one share. 



The old and new proprietors together were as follows : — 



LIST OF THE THIRTY PROPRIETORS OF THE COHASSET 

 ACADEMY, MARCH 27, 1804. 



Joseph Bates. Elisha Lincoln. 



Jonathan Bates. John J. Lothrop. 



Bela Bates. Peter Lothrop. 



Daniel Bates. Israel Nichols. 



David Beal. Caleb Nichols. 



John Beal. Captain Nathaniel Nichols. 



Thomas Bourne. Naaman Nichols. 



Samuel Browne. John Nichols. 



Elisha Doane. Samuel Pratt. 



Elisha Doane, Jr. John Pratt. 



Christopher James. Gershom Pratt. 



Susannah Lewis. Captain Lutlier Stephenson. 



