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of cloth. To this gift he added another, of six fat hens, four 

 pounds of cold viands, and a pair of gloves. These disburse- 

 ments, united with the expences attendant on the public exhi- 

 bition of a bull fight, in the great square, on the day of ad- 

 mission, and the sumptuous entertainment given to all who 

 w^ere present, were found, on an average estimate made in 

 1743, to amount to the extravagant sum of ten thousand pi- 

 astres for each degree. To remedy this inconvenience, it was 

 then settled that the graduate should pay into the chest of the 

 institution the sum of two thousand piastres, to be divided 

 equally among the do6lors ; and should provide a slight re- 

 freshment for those who were present at his examination. He 

 was, besides, to bestow small fees on there6tor, head master, 

 register, and other persons holding literary employments in 

 the college. The gross amount of the charges has been since 

 reduced to one thousand and sixty-six piastres. 



To obtain the degree of do6lor, that of bachelor is, in the 

 first instance, indispensably requisite. For this purpose, the 

 student must be provided with a certificate of his having at- 

 tended five courses in the faculty to which he aspires, together 

 with another certificate of his having taken the private lessons, 

 without which his studies would have been incomplete. The 

 expences of this degree are moderate, amounting to twenty- 

 five piastres only. Conformably to the spirit and tenor of the 

 laws of the kingdom, whenever ten degrees of bachelor have 

 been conferred, a similar degree is to be bestowed on a poor 

 scholar, as a stimulus to application, and a recompense for 

 the successful prosecution of his studies ; but this favour has 

 been liberally dispensed by the academy, which, with a view 

 to the prosperity and cultivation of the sciences, has not li- 



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