any other application of the moneys to arise from the profits of the said lottery, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each and every representative in General Assembly for the time being, who shall hereafter in General Assembly, move or consent to the applying or appropriating the said moneys to any other purpose whatever, than the founding the colledge aforesaid, shall be and hereby is declared and made forever incapable of sitting and voting in this or any future General Assembly, and new writs shall issue accordingly."

AN ACT FOR RAISING THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED POUNDS BY A PUBLICK LOTTERY FOR A FURTHER PROVISION TOWARDS FOUNDING A COLLEGE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING WITHIN THIS COLONY. PASSED APRIL 8, 1748.

LAWS OF 1748, CHAP. 860.

Contains recitals and provisions similar to the foregoing act passed December 6, 1746, and directs that the balance of the moneys arising from the lottery, after deducting fifteen per cent. for expenses, be paid to the Treasurer "to and for the purpose of founding a college for the education of youths and to and for no other purpose whatever."

AN ACT TO Revive an Act ENTITULED AN ACT FOR RAISING THE SUM OF EIGHTEEN Hundred PoundS BY A PUBLICK LOTTERY FOR A FURTHER PROVISION TOWARDS FOUNDING A COLLEGE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING WITHIN THIS COLONY, WITH AN ADDITION THERETO. PASSED OCTOBER 28, 1748. LAWS OF 1748, CHAP. 870.

The time for raising the sum specified in the foregoing act, passed April 9, 1748, having expired in September, for want of a sufficient number of contributions, the said act was revived, and the time for the drawing of the lottery as therein provided was extended to November 14.

AN ACT FOR VESTING IN TRUSTEES THE SUM OF THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE POUNDS, EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS, RAISED BY WAY OF A LOTTERY FOR ERECTING A COLLEGE WITHIN THIS COLONY. PASSED NOVEMBER 25, 1751. LAWS OF 1751, CHAP. 909.

Recites that "Whereas the sum of three thousand four hundred and forty-three pounds, eighteen shillings, has been raised within this colony, by way of lottery, for erecting a College for the education of youths within the same; which sum being not conceived sufficient, without further addition, to answer the said end of erecting, compleating & establishing a college for the advancement of useful learning, it is conceived necessary that Trustees be appointed, as well for the setting at interest the said sum of three thousand four hundred and forty-three pounds, eighteen shillings, already raised for the said purpose, as for receiving the contributions and donations of such persons as may be charitably disposed to be benefactors and encouragers of so laudable an undertaking," and appoints as Trustees "the eldest Councellor residing in this Colony, the Speaker of the General Assembly, and the Judges of the Supreme Court, the Mayor of the City of New York, the Treasurer of this Colony for the time being, together with James Livingston, Esq., Mr. Benjamin Nicoll and Mr. William Livingston," with power to manage the said sum and additional contributions, and to receive proposals from any of the cities or counties within this colony, desirous of having the said college erected therein.

AN ACT FURTHER TO CONTINUE THE DUTY OF EXCISE, AND THE CURRENCY OF THE BILLS OF CREDIT EMITTED THEREON, FOR THE PURPOSES IN THE FORMER ACT, AND HEREIN MENTIONED.

PASSED JULY 4, 1753.
LAWS OF 1753, CHAP. 12.

The Act provides for various duties and authorizes the payment by the Treasurer of the Colony to the Trustees mentioned and

appointed in and by the foregoing Act passed November 25, 1751, the annual sum of five hundred pounds, for the term of seven years, for the payment of salaries and for such other uses and purposes concerning the establishment of the said Seminary" as the Trustees think needful.

AN ACT FOR RAISING THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS, BY A PUBLICK LOTTERY FOR THIS COLONY FOR A FURTHER PROVISION TOWARDS FOUNDING A COLLEGE WITHIN THE SAME. PASSED DECEMBER 12, 1753. LAWS OF 1753, CHAP. 17.

Contains recitals and provisions similar to those contained in the Acts passed December 6, 1746, and April 9, 1748, and appoints as managers, Abraham Van Wyck and Abraham Leynsen, Esquires. The Act also provides that the proceeds of the lottery, after the payment of expenses, shall be paid to the Trustees appointed in and by the Act passed November 25, 1751, "and by them put out at Interest according to the directions of the said Act untill the same shall be employed by some Future Act for and towards founding a College for the advancement of learning within this Colony."

PETITION FOR A CHARTER.

TO THE HONOURABLE JAMES DELANCEY ESQR. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE PROV INCE OF NEW YORK, AND TERRITORIES-THEREON DEPENDING AMERICA. IN COUNCIL

IN

The Petition of the Trustees mentioned and appointed in by An Act, passed in the twenty fifth year of his present Majesty's Reign, Entituled An Act for vesting in Trustees the Sum of Three Thousand four hundred and forty-three pounds eighteen shillings, raised by way of Lottery for erecting a Colledge within this Colony. HUMBLY SHEWETH.

That divers Sums of money having been raised by several Acts of the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of this of New York, for the establishing a Colledge in the said province Your petitioners by Acts afterwards made, were appointed Trustees for putting the said Moneys at Interest, and to receive proposals, accept Donations, and procure Masters and Tutors, in order to make a Beginning of the said Seminary according to the trust reposed in them.

Your Petitioners further shew unto your Honour, That in pursuance of the said Trust, they have endeavoured to get a proper Master and Tutor for the said intended Seminary, But find that as your Petitioners, are enabled to give Salarys for seven years only, that they are under great difficulty to procure a fit and proper person to undertake the office of master or head of the said Seminary: Your petitioners further shew unto your Honour, that the Rector and Inhabitants of the City of New York in Communion of the Church of England as by Law established, being willing to encourage the said Good design of establishing a Seminary or College for the education of Youth, in the Liberal Arts or Sciences, have offered unto your Petitioners, a very valuable parcel of Ground on the west side of the Broadway, in the west ward of the City of New York, for the use of the said intended Seminary or College, and are ready and desirous to convey the said Lands for the said use, on Condition that the

head or Master of the said Seminary or Colledge, be a Member of and in Communion with the Church of England as by Law Established, and that the Liturgy of the said Church or a Collection of prayers out of the said Liturgy, be the constant morning and evening service, used in the said College forever, which said parcel of Land so offered by the said Rector and Inhabitants, your Petitioners considering as the most proper place for erecting of the said Seminary or College upon, and that their obtaining his Majesty's Charter to them or such others as your Honour shall think proper for the said Trust, will the better enable your petitioners in conjunction with those your Honour shall incorporate by his Majesty's Charter, to provide a proper Master, or head of the said Seminary, and Tutors for the Education of Youth, and thereby greatly tend to promote and further the intent and design of establishing a Seminary or College for the Education of Youth among us.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, that in order to promote so good a design, and the more effectual obtaining a grant of the said parcel of Land for the use and benefit of the said Seminary or College, that your Honour would be pleased to grant to your Petitioners, or to such other persons as your Honour shall think proper, his Majesty's Charter of Incorporation, with such privileges as to your Honour shall seem meet, the better to enable them to prosecute the said design of Establishing a Seminary or College for the Instruction of Youth.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray. New York, May 20th, 1754. WM. LIVINGSTON

by order of the Trustees.