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which was fixed by the charter, and being therefore 

 confined in the number of professorships, undertook to 

 change the objects of the professorships. They excUid- 

 ed the two schools for divinity, and that for the Greek 

 and Latin languages, and substituted others ; so that at 

 present they stand thus: 



A Professorship for Law and Police ; 

 Anatomy and Medicine: 

 NaturalPhilosophy and Mathematics: 

 Moral Philosophy, the Law of Nature and Na- 

 tions, the Fine Arts: 

 Modern Languages: 

 For the Brafferton. 



And it is proposed, so soon as the legislature shall 

 have leisure to take up this subject, to desire authority 

 from them to increase the number of professorships, as 

 well for the ])ur})ose of subdividing those already insti- 

 tuted, as of adding others for other branches of science. 

 To the professorships usually established in the uni- 

 versities of Europe, it would seem proper to add one 

 for the ancient languages and literature of the North, 

 on the account of their connexion with our own lan- 

 guage, laws, customs, and history. The purposes of 

 the BraflTerton institution would be better answered by 

 maintaining a perpetual mission among the Indian 

 tribes, the object of which, besides instructing theni in 

 the principles of Christianity, as the founder requires, 

 should be to collect tlieir traditions, laws, customs, lan- 

 guages, and other circumstances which might lead to 

 a discovery of their relation with one another, or de- 

 scent from other nations. When these objects are ac- 

 complished with one tribe, missionary might i)ass on 

 to another. 



The roads are under the government of the county 

 courts, subject to be controlled by the general com-t. 

 They order new roads to be opened wherever they 

 think them necessary. The inhabitants of the county 

 are by them laid off into precincts, to each of which 



