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2. That Columbia College was once in possession of landed property, which if she still retained it, would be amply sufficient for her wants, & would save your Memorialists from the afflicting necessity of importuning your honorable body. That property was transferred by the State of New York, on great political Considerations to other hands. It was entirely lost to the College, and no Relief, under the privations which the loss occasioned, has hitherto been extended to her.

Your Memorialists therefore pray that your honorable body will take the Premises into favorable Consideration, & grant such assistance therein as to your wisdom shall seem meet.

March 7, 1814.

RICHARD VARICK, Chairman.

AN ACT INSTITUTING A LOTTERY FOR THE PROMOTION OF LITERATURE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

PASSED APRIL 13, 1814.

LAWS OF 1814, CHAPTER 120.

Recites that "Whereas well regulated seminaries of learning are of immense importance to every country, and tend especially, by the diffusion of science and the promotion of morals, to defend and perpetuate the liberties of a free state," and provides for a lottery, the proceeds of which shall be paid to Union College, Hamilton College, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Asbury African Church in the City of New York. The Act

further provides:

VI. And be it further enacted, That all the right, title, and interest of the people of this state in and to all that certain piece or parcel of land, with the appurtenances, situate in the ninth ward of the city of New-York, known by the name of the Botanic Garden, and lately conveyed to the people of this state by David Hosack, with the appurtenances, be and the same is hereby granted to and vested in the trustees of Columbia college, in the city of New-York, their successors and assigns; but this grant is made upon the express condition, that the college establish

* See Letters Patent, page 70.

ment shall be removed to the said tract of land hereby granted, or to lands adjacent thereto, within twelve years from this time; and if the said establishment shall not be so removed within the time above limited, then and from thenceforth, this grant shall cease and be void, and the premises hereby granted shall thereupon revert to the people of this state. (For Amendment, See Laws 1819, Chapter 19.)

VII. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of Columbia college shall, within three months from the time of the passage of this act, transmit to the trustees of each of the other colleges in this state, a list of the different kinds of plants, flowers, and shrubs in said garden; and within one year thereafter, the said trustees of Columbia college, shall deliver at the said garden, if required, at least one healthy exotic flower, shrub, or plant of each kind, of which they shall have more than one at the time of application, together with the jar or vessel containing the same, to the trustees of each of the other colleges of this state, who shall apply therefor. (Repealed by Laws 1819, Chapter 19.)

AN ACT RELATIVE TO COLUMBIA COLLEGE, IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. PASSED FEBRUARY 19, 1819. LAWS OF 1819, CHAPTER 19.

Whereas, it is of the first importance in a free state, that seminaries of learning should be carefully protected, and, from time to time, receive the fostering aid of the legislature: And whereas, with these views, all the right, title and interest of the people of this state in a certain piece or parcel of land, situate in the ninth ward of the city of New-York, called "The Botanic Garden," was in and by an act of the legislature, entitled an act instituting a lottery for the promotion of literature, and for other purposes," passed April 13th, 1814, given and granted to Columbia College, subject to certain conditions therein specified: And whereas the said grant has not been productive of the benefits intended by the said act: Therefore,

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, rep

resented in Senate and Assembly, That that part of the sixth section of the act, entitled, "an act instituting a lottery for the promotion of literature, and for other purposes," passed April 13th, 1814, which contains a condition to the grant made to the trustees of Columbia college, that the college establishment shall be removed to the tract of land thereby granted, or to the lands adjacent thereto, and the seventh section of the said act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

II. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be paid by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the trustees of Columbia College, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to be applied by the said trustees as the interests of the said college may require.

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT, COLUMBIA COLLEGE, IN THE city of New-York," passed MARCH 23, 1810. PASSED APRIL 15, 1852. LAWS OF 1852, CHAPTER 310.

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The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ I. The ninth section of the act entitled, "An act relative to Columbia College, in the city of New-York," passed March 23d, eighteen hundred and ten, is hereby amended, by adding at the end of said section the following words: "unless the consent of said grantors in writing, under their corporate seal, shall be first had and obtained to the disposal thereof, free from such restriction."

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TO TAKE AND HOLD CERTAIN REAL PASSED MARCH 19, 1857. LAWS OF 1857, CHAPTER 132.

ESTATE.

The People of the State of New York, represented in the Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ I. The Trustees of Columbia College, in the City of New York, are hereby authorized to purchase and take, and to hold in fee simple, and dispose of a certain parcel of land, situated in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of New York, and bounded northerly by the southerly side of Fiftieth Street, southerly by the northerly side of Forty-ninth Street, easterly by a line parallel with and one hundred feet distant westerly from the westerly side of the Fourth Avenue, and westerly by a line parallel with and five hundred feet distant easterly from the easterly side of Fifth Avenue, or any part or parts thereof, and dispose of the proceeds for the use and purposes of said college.

§ II. This act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA College, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TO TAKE AND HOLD CERTAIN REAL PASSED MARCH 2, 1860. LAWS OF 1860, CHAPTER 51.

ESTATE.

The People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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§ I. The Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York, are hereby authorized to purchase, and take and to hold in fee simple and dispose of such land, in addition to that which they were authorized to take and hold under the act entitled 'An Act to Authorize the Trustees of Columbia College, in the City of New York to take and hold certain real estate passed March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty seven, as shall be situated in the City of New York, and shall, together with the land taken and held under the said act, be comprehended within the following bounds, to wit: the southerly side of Fiftieth Street, the westerly side of the Fourth Avenue, the Northerly side of Forty-ninth Street, and a line drawn parallel with Fourth Avenue and distant four hundred and fifty feet Westerly therefrom, or any part or parts thereof.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE LAW SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA College.

PASSED APRIL 7, 1860.

LAWS OF 1860, CHAPTER 202.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The professors in the Law School of Columbia College, and the law committee of the Trustees of said College, viz. Samuel B. Ruggles, Hamilton Fish, Alexander W. Bradford, Gouverneur M. Ogden, George T. Strong and William Betts, and such persons as shall from time to time form such law committee, any three of whom, being counsellors at law, shall form a quorum upon whose examination and recommendation, as evidenced by the diploma of said College granted upon such recommendation, any graduate of said law school shall be