Scamman, April 21, 1821. He was president of the Manufacturers Bank 1825-32, representative to the Legislature 1840 and 1841. He lived in the house now occupied by John Berry at the corner of Main and School Streets. He died February 9, 1861.

The trustees organized at Cutts Hall near the new meetinghouse in Saco, with Hon. Cyrus King, secretary, Col. Thomas Cutts, president and Daniel Cleaves, Esq., treasurer, March 25, 1811.

Jonathan Tucker and Major John Spring with the treasurer of said trustees were appointed a committee to solicit donations for the academy.

Thomas G. Thornton, Wm. Moody and James Gray, Esqs., were elected a committee to draw and report at an adjourned meeting a suitable plan for the academy: and report a suitable situation for the building and of what materials it ought to be constructed and whether the same ought to be built by contract or otherwise.

At the same meeting the treasurer was requested to receive notes payable to the trustees, one-half on the first day of July next, and the other half on the first day of October next, of those subscribers to said academy who do not pay in advance for the amount of their respective subscriptions.

At an adjourned meeting March 30, the committee on building and location submitted a plan of a house forty-two feet long in front, and thirty feet wide, one story, twelve feet in the clear with a cellar under the same, said house or academy to be built of wood and accommodate fifty-six scholars or more if necessary,

with two chimneys or fireplaces. For a more particular description they refer to a plan which I am unable to find.

They also report that "having considered the difficulties of building said house by contract, in consequence of disappointing those subscribers who may be best accommodated by supplying materials and labour and thereby exclude those who may yet be induced to appropriate labour or materials, they are of opinion that sd. Academy ought not to be built by

contract."

They also say "they are of opinion the most suitable situation for said Academy is on the Northeast side of the road leading from the post road to the old meetinghouse, on land given to town of Saco by the State, if the same can be obtained without purchase & that sd. house or academy have its front and face to the Northwest with a projection from the house to admit a door on the Southwest side of the same, & serve as a base for a balcony."

Jonathan Tucker was appointed a committee to obtain of the town of Saco and secure to said incorporation the situation for the academy reported by said committee and that the same person be authorized to build said academy agreeably to the plan reported with the alterations mentioned in the acceptance of said report, in such time and manner as he shall think most for the interest of said institution and of the subscribers thereto.

Joseph Leland, Esq., and Col. Wm. Moody were appointed a committee to advise with Mr. Tucker. VOL. X. 3

The academy building was erected as the committee planned near the place where the Unitarian vestry now stands on Pepperell Park.

On November 23 and November 30, 1812. the trustees met to determine "when said academy shall be

ACADEMY BUILDING, BURNED 1848.

opened & what is necessary to be done preparatory therefor." The following votes were passed:

Voted: That the tuition & expense for scholars to pay at the Saco Academy be at present fixed at $3 per quarter, able in advance quarterly to the Treasurer of sd. Trustees.

pay

Voted: That as soon as forty scholars can be engaged for one quarter at least each, a suitable person shall be immediately hired for a Preceptor.

Voted: That the salary of the Preceptor of said Academy shall at the present be five hundred Dollars, payable from the tuition & other funds, quarterly with an understanding that sd. salary shall be increased if the Preceptor should prove useful & the Academy should flourish under his care.

Voted: That a Committee of three be appointed to receive subscriptions for scholars: first from subscribers, secondly, from nonsubscribers in Saco & Biddeford, thirdly elsewhere. That the number of scholars at present to be rec'd. into said Academy shall not exceed forty, and the Committee aforesaid shall judge of the age & qualifications of the scholars to be received into said Academy. That sd. Committee engage the Preceptor to continue so long as he shall prove useful & as the funds of sd. Academy shall permit.

Voted: That if sd. Committee should succeed in obtaining a sufficient number of scholars, they make every necessary arrangement for opening the Academy for instruction soon as may be: and that they prepare and lay before the Trustees suitable rules and regulations for the government and conducting said Academy & from time to time determine what books it may be proper to introduce therein.

Rev. Jona Cogswell, Cyrus King and Daniel Granger were appointed committee and were authorized to procure a bell by donation or otherwise.1

On the twenty-eighth of December, 1812, "It was voted that there shall be 4 vacations in each year, one week at the end of each quarter, and the Sec'y. be directed to post up notifications informing the subscribers whose children are expected to enter sd. Academy, that their children are requested to attend for that purpose on Monday next at one of the clock in

1 The bell cost seventy-eight dollars, including hanging, etc.

the afternoon: and also that any who shall not be furnished with Books & Stationery may be supplied at the Academy by paying therefor & that they come prepared to pay their quarters advance to the Treasurer."

Joseph Leland, Esq., was authorized to buy twenty cords of wood [at two dollars per cord] for the academy this winter, for the two fireplaces.

Capt. Samuel Hartley was authorized to furnish "little necessaries" as the committee may find convenient for the academy.

The trustees then adjourned to Monday, January 4, A. D. 1813, at 9 o'clock A. M., at the office of Hon. Cyrus King, Esq. At this meeting the following rules and regulations reported by the committee were accepted, to wit:

1. The Academy shall be opened and closed with prayer every morning.

2. A portion of the Scriptures shall be read in the morning by the Preceptor & in the evening by the scholars.

3. During six months of the year including the Winter season, the hours of study shall commence at 9 o'clock A. M. and at 1 P. M. making six hours at least: And in the Summer season, the hours of study shall commence at 8 o'c. A. M. & at 2 o'c. P. M. making six

hours at least.

4. If a member of the Academy be habitually profane or disobedient to the Preceptor, negligent in his attendance at the Academy, or in any other respect an improper member he or she shall be cut off from its privileges.

5. No scholar shall be allowed to whisper or leave his or her seat during the hours of study, except to speak with the Preceptor or by his permission.