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 RBLA.TING TO 
 
 KING'S COLLEGE, NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 No. 279. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 
 Downing Street, I3th August, 1851. 
 
 Sir, — With reference to the Act passed in the last Session of the 
 Legislat! 'e of Nova Scotia, for withdrawing the annual grant from 
 King's College, Windsor, T transmit to you the copy of a memorid 
 which I have received against it from the Society for promoting 
 Christian Knowledge. 
 
 2. While I regret the decision of the Legislature to withdraw the 
 grant hitherto made for the support of the College, I cannot but re- 
 cognize the full right of that body to object to the continuance of 
 such a grant from the Revenue of the Province, if the Institution is 
 not regarded as producing advantages to the public equivalent to the 
 cost incurred for it. 
 
 3. I am, therefore, not prepared to advise Her Majesty to with- 
 hold her assent from the measure in question, provided it can be 
 shown that du». regard has been paid to vested interests. 
 
 4. But I have to call your attention to a statement in the memorial 
 from the College, transmitted to me in Sir John Harvey's despatch 
 of 14th May last, to the effect that the President and one at least of 
 the Professors have been induced to leave other situations on the 
 faith of the continuance of that permanent provision which the Act 
 of 1787 appeared to have guaranteed. 
 
 5. If this statement is well founded, it would be my duty to ad- 
 vise Her Majesty to disallow the Act, unless it were amended by 
 making some provision for the President and existing Professors 
 during their lives, or while they continue to discharge the duties of 
 their office. 
 
 I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, 
 
 Grby. 
 The Officer Administering tiie Government j 
 of Nova Scotia. / 
 
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 To the Ri^'ht Honorable Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Principal 
 
 Secretury of State for the Colonies. The Memorial of the 
 
 Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, respectfully 
 
 sheweth — 
 
 That when his late Majesty King George thf; Third was pleased, 
 
 in the year 1787, to found the first Colonial Bishopric in the British 
 
 dominions, bv erecting the Province of Nova Scotia into an Episcopal 
 
 See, it was thought essential to the object of that foundation that 
 
 provision should b3 made towards procuring the blessings; of a sound 
 
 religious and general education within tlie Province, and accordingly 
 
 the attention of the Lieutenant-Governor was immediately called to 
 
 the subject bv special ipstructions from ti.e Crown. 
 
 That in compliance with these instructions measures were adopted 
 for the establishment of Kh.g's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, aid, 
 was generously afforded bv the Provincial Legislature, and m the 
 year 1789 an Act was passed by the local Government, securing by 
 law an annual payment of four hundred pounds oterUng, to be made 
 yearly and every year for the permanent endowment and effectual 
 support of the College, as expressly declared by the said Act. Thia 
 annual sum has been regularly paid since the year 1790, but in the 
 present year this grant has 'been repea'-d by the local Legislature, 
 and the existence of the College thereby endangered. 
 
 That in reliance on the permanence of the said grant, as guaran- 
 teed by the State, large pecuniary assistance has from time to time 
 been rendered to the College by Societies and individuals ; and that 
 the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge has made consider- 
 able grants in pioportion to its means for that object. 
 
 That all efforts which have thus been made for the promotion of 
 the designs for which *^e College was instituted will be in vain, un- 
 less the Act now passt by the local Legislature be disallowed by Her 
 Majesty. 
 
 That the Institution has continued during successive years to an- 
 swer the purposes of its foundation. Religious education, according 
 to the principles and discipline of the Established Church, having 
 always been afforded within the walls of King's College, where most 
 of the Episcopal Clergy of the Province, and many now faithfully 
 labouring in other places, have been diligently instructed, and that 
 there can be no reasonable hope of providing a supply of men equally 
 prepared for their important work to succeed them in the ministry if 
 the present means of support be withheld from the College. 
 
 Considering, therefore, the importance of this object to the best 
 interests of the Colony, your Memorialists earnestly and humbly pray 
 that Her Majesty will be graciously pleased to disallow the said Act. 
 (Signed) J- B. Cantuar, 
 
 President of the Society for promoting 
 Christian Knowledge. 
 
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 No. 17. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 Government House, Halifax, June 3. 1852. 
 
 Sin,— I have the honour to transmit, to be laid before the Queen, 
 the enclosed Address to Her Majesty from the House of Assembly of 
 this Province, received this day. praying Her Majesty, for the reasons 
 stated in the Address, to leave to its operation the Act passed by the 
 Legislature of Nova Scotia in the first Session of the year 18-51, for 
 discontinuing the Provincial Grant ii King's College, Windsor. 
 
 I also transmit, to accompany th? i Address, a Memorial of the 
 Governors, President and Fellows of the College, dated 7th May. 
 1852, with enclosures; — a communication dated 5th idem, from the 
 Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, and a Memorial 
 from the Associated Alumui of King's College, dated 13th May, 1852. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 
 (Signed) John Bazalgette, Administrator. 
 
 The Risrht Honorable John S. Pakington, Bart. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 Halifax, Nova Scotia, May oth, \8o2. 
 
 Sir —As Visitor of King's College, Windsor, in my Diocese, 1 
 be"- leave to offer some remarks upon the Address lately adopted by 
 the House of Assembly of this Province, praying Her Majesty to give 
 Her Roval Assent to an Act passed m the Session of 1851, to de- 
 prive the said College of a large part of its endowments. 
 
 You will observe, in the first place, that there is no attempt in this 
 long Address to meet Lord Grey's objections to the Act, as stated in 
 his Lordship's Despatch of Aug. I3th. l8ol, or to show that " due 
 re-ard has been paid to vested interests." No answer is given to 
 the statement mentioned in Clause 4 of the Despatch ; and they re- 
 fuse to make the provision required in Clause 5, in default of which 
 his Lordship stated " that it would be his duty th advise Her Ma- 
 iesty to disallow the Act." I doubt not, therefore, that in this matter 
 you will at least cari-y out the d^.clared intention of your predecessor, 
 and that inasmuch as the conditions enjoined have not been com- 
 plied with, the Act will be absolutely disallowed. 
 
 But I venture also to express a hope. Sir, that you wil Jo more 
 than this, and on a full consideration of the whole case, will '.epu^ 
 diate Lord Grey's recognition of the right of the Legislatuix, to with- 
 draw the grant, and will declare that you cannot sanction the pro- 
 
po-'ed withdrawal, involving as it docs u breach of faith and disregard 
 of public pledges, even though the interests of existing office-bearers 
 should be provided for. Fur full information upon the character and 
 claims of the College, I beg to refer you to the Memorial from the 
 Governors, transmitted in May last, and noticed in the despatch; to 
 that from the Society for promoting Christias Knowledge, accom- 
 panying it, and to the Memorials from the Arciibishop of Canterbury 
 as Patron, and from myself as visitor, addressed to his Lordship in 
 ,Tune last. In tlie Address. Clause 2, it is stated. " that the College 
 has long ceased to realise the objects for which it was endowed." 
 This statement is unsupported by any evidence whatever. On the 
 contrary, it may be clearly proved that'it is still, andalwavshas been, 
 conducted upon the ])rinciples on which it was founded andendowed by 
 the Legislature. That it was to be an Institution closelv c nnected 
 with the Church of England is evident, for by the Act of 1789 the 
 Bishop is appointed an Official Governor, and it is enacted that " the 
 President is alwnys to be a Clergyman of the Established Chvrch of 
 England." But though thus characterized, it is not conducted in any 
 exclusive spirit, for though the Professors mjst be members of the 
 Church of England, the only qualifications for the admission of 
 students are " competent skill in the Greek and Latin languages, and 
 ability to construe the books usually read bv bovs in the higher classes 
 in the public schools in Great Britain." Subscription to the Articles 
 was indeed required by Statutes provisionally framed in 1803, but 
 they were disallowed, and the obnoxious clause expunged within 
 
 /three years, so that in fact the requirement has never lieen part of 
 the law of the College. This modification, moreover, was not made 
 in consequence of any pressure from without, but by the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury as Patron, under the authority conferred by the Char- 
 ter, at the urgent solicitation of the Bishop of this Diocese, who had 
 strenuously objected to the clause when first proposed by the Board 
 of Governors. 
 
 Address, Clause 3. The ex-officio Governors appointed by the 
 Charter were those previously named in the Act, with one addition, 
 the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Thus far it cannot be pretended 
 that the spirit of the Act was violated, though the language of the 
 Address might lead to the supposition that an entirely different 
 Board had been appointed. The only real difference was a permis- 
 sion to elect four others, including the President of the College, and 
 I submit that this addition could not possibly " neutralize and defeat 
 the policy of the Board proposed by the Act/' for they are only four, 
 and are to be elected by that very Board of eight ex-officio Gover- 
 nors, and one of them is to be the President, appointed by them- 
 selves. At the present moment, I may add, that one of the four is 
 also Governor ex-officio, being Her Majesty's Attorney General. 
 
 Address, Clause 4. I have no means of ascertaining the relative 
 proportions of the various denominations in 1789, but I beg you to 
 
observe this fact, that in the year 1758 the Lepisl'iture of tliis Tro- 
 vince enacted that " the sacred rites and ceremonies of Divine Wor- 
 ship according to the Liturgy of the Church, established by the laws 
 of England, shall be deemed the fixed form of worship amongst us ;" 
 which enactment continued in force until repealed on the revision of 
 the Statutes last year. 
 
 Address, Clause 5. The Institution at Pictou was established 
 simply as an Academy for the benefit of the eastern part of the Pro- 
 x'ince. and on this ground it was aided by some of the most zealous 
 members of the Church at that time in the Council. The allusions 
 to •■ a more liberal and enlightened management, &c.," are met by 
 my observations on Clause 2. But I would ask how it is that four 
 Educational Institutir.ns. beside King's College, have sprung up ? 
 i^ur i*^ " i;be other religious denominations v.ere alienated from 
 K.",i5g'<.' CDllege by the exclusive s|)irit and invidious preferences ma- 
 il t'tcitec' n it3 rnanagement," surely " one other institution under a 
 more iioeral aud euli^htened management, would have been more 
 beneficial than four. 
 
 A luress, Clauses 6 & 7. The relative proportions of the several 
 denor:iinalions atpre'^eut .la not affejt the question at issue, for it is 
 certain thai our nurcbsr is greater, and our contributions to the Re- 
 venu.^ much larger n w than when the permanent endowment was 
 first granted. We have not the slightest wish to interfere with 
 other institutions, neither should we complain of any increpse in the 
 sums granted to them. We only claim for ourselves what has been 
 granted to us in perpetuity, as it is expressed in the Address, 
 " under a permanent Act of the Legislature." 
 
 Address, Clause 8. Other Institutions of a " kindred character" 
 are mentio :?d, but they are not in existence, — those referred to are 
 merely Academies or Grammar Schools, whereas King's College is 
 constituted a University by Royal Charter, with power to confer 
 degrees, and all corresponding privileges. We have indeed, in con- 
 nexion with the College, a Collegiate School, to prepare Students 
 for the higher department, and it is to this alone that the Academies 
 can be properly compared. 
 
 Address, Clause 9. I earnestly pray you to consider the mischief 
 likely to result from the admission of the "full right" of the Legis- 
 lature to withdraw an endowment guaranteed by itself — for if this 
 principle is sanctioned, public faith in this Province will henceforth 
 be a delusion ; moreover, the honor of the Crown itself is concerned, 
 for the Charter especially recites the endowment as part of the foun- 
 dation on which it rests. And, indeed, the grant of a Charter, con- 
 stituting a University, where no endov^'ment was secured, would have 
 been altogether anomalous, and without precedent. Although Colo- 
 nial Legislatures may "regret" that a regard to vested interests is 
 enforced, I trust that the day is yet fur distant when English States- 
 men wilt sanction a neglect of the claims of men, who, having relin- 
 
quished other (•ppointmenfs for the sake of their prenent situations. 
 are diiujently and faithfully performing their duties. Regard should 
 also be paid to the vested interests of the numerous Graduates of 
 this University, as well as of the Professors. 
 
 Address, Clause 10. Although the Salaries of the Officers of the 
 College amount to a larger Sum than the Grarjt, it is only by its 
 aid that they can be made up, for though ihey have been reduced to 
 the lowest amount compatible with the great object of obtaining 
 well (jualiricd men, the total income of the College is even now barely 
 adequfite to the expenditure. 
 
 The suggestion, that the Governors who were authorized and 
 required both by the Act and Charter to appomt Oilicers, should 
 now be respon^^ible for the remuneration, is too unreasonable to 
 deserve any notice. 
 
 Address, Clause 1 1 . The Grant of £1000 per annum was merely 
 an annual Grant without any pledge or guarantf^e for its perma- 
 nency, consequently its withdrawal is no precedent whatever for the 
 course pursued by the Legislature of this Province. 
 
 Address, Clause 12, This Clause is a summary of the misrepre- 
 sentations contained in the former part of the Address, and, as I 
 humbly conceive, exposed and fully refuted above. For I have 
 proved that the Act did not " contemplate a different Board of 
 Governors," and that the College was by its Constitution evidently 
 intended '* to be chiefly managed and controlled by one body of 
 Christians," though open to all. The statement that it is r.othing 
 more than a respectable High School, is a gross calumny, which I 
 have already refuted in my observations on Clause 8 ; and I can 
 moreover testify from my own knowledge, that the standard of quali- 
 fications for a degree here is not lower than for an ordinary degree 
 in the English Universities. 
 
 The mention for an " annual" grant of £250, is likely to mislead, 
 as it was expressly limited to one year. 
 
 I must also object to the mode in which this Address was intro- 
 duced and passed. It was only proposed on the last day of the 
 Session, a few hours before the prorogation, so that no opportunity 
 was afforded for discussion or amendment. 
 
 In conclusion, I venture to affirm, that the whole Province has 
 been and is materially benefitted by King's College, where many of 
 the principal ornaments of all the learned professions here have been 
 educated ; and if it is sacrificed to the miserable feelings of jealousy 
 which tempt men to destroy what they are unable to emulate, I 
 believe that an irreparable injury will be inflicted upon the Colony, 
 and the most talented young men, and the sons of all the principal 
 inhabitants, will be sent to England for their education, and will 
 finally be induced to remain there, deserting their native country — 
 an evil, the diead of which appears to have influenced Mr. Grenville 
 
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 and the other Statesmen of the dnv, when tliey determined to afford 
 all possible encouragement to Kin^^'s College. 
 
 As the Act of 18.'^ I was passed without amy suspending clause, I 
 venture to sugj^cst that it is very desirable that it should be dis- 
 allowed as soon as you can conveniently advise Her Majesty to 
 declare her disallowance thereof. 
 
 I have, &c.. 
 (Signed) II. Novascotia. 
 
 The Right Ildiiornhle 
 Sir JuiiN S. Pakinuion, lian., &c., kc, kc. 
 
 No. 5. 
 
 (Copy.) 
 
 Downing Street, I5th July, 1852. 
 
 Sir— I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 1 7, 
 of the 3rd June last, transmitting an Address to Her Majesty from 
 the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, praying that the Act of 
 1851, for the discontinuing the Provincial Grant to King's College, 
 Windsor, may be left to its operation, together with counter Peti- 
 tions from the Governors, President, and Alumni of the College, and 
 a letter to the same effect from the Bishop of Nova Scotia. 
 
 I have to desire that you will inform the Assembly, that I have 
 laid their Address before the Queen, and that Her Majesty has been 
 pleased to receive it very graciously, but that I have been unable to 
 advise Her Majesty to accede to the prayer of it, as I feel compelled 
 to adhc7-e to the Resolution expressed by my predecessor in his Despatch 
 to Sir Jonn Hervey, of the 13th August, No. 279, as regards the 
 provision which it is necessary to secure for certain vested interests 
 before leaving the Act in question to its operation. 
 
 I have, &c., 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 John S. Pakinoton. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor Sm J. Gaspard I.e Marchant, or 
 the Officer administering the Government of Nova Scotin. 
 
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 (J<OTK.)—ne following arc lopies [received 9ih Feby., 1853) of 
 certain Documents forwarded and refernd to in Colonel Bazalaett/s 
 Despatch, No. 17. dated June 3rd, 1852. to Sir 'ohn Pakmgton, Bart. 
 
 Fro. Secy's Office, 10th "el)y., 1853. 
 
 To the Riirht Honorable Her Majesty's Secretary of State for 
 the Colonics. The Memorial of the Governors. President, 
 and l-cilows of Kin-'s College at Windsor, in the Province 
 of IV ova bcotja, respertfully sheweth — 
 
 That they beg leave respectfully .o submit to the Right HonorabI* 
 the Secretary of btate for the Colonies, the Copy of a Memorial 
 addressed by them to his predecessor, requesting that Her Majesty 
 would be graciously pleased to ^Jisallow an Act passed la^t year by 
 the 1 rovinciui Legislature, to discontinue the grant made by a uer- 
 ma^ent Law. in the year 1789. to that Institution. 
 
 the Right Honorable Earl Grey was pleased to state, in answer to 
 t lat Memorial that he admitted the full right of the Legislature to 
 withdraw the ..rant if the College had failed to fulfil the object for 
 which It was established, but he could not adv.se Her Majest- to 
 allow the Act. unless provision were made for those officer i who 
 would thereby be deprived of the means (.f subpistence. 
 
 Had the College failed to fulfil the object for which it was esta- 
 blished, tl-.o Governors would not advocate its continuance, but this 
 IS by no means the case. The -majority of the Legislature of the 
 present day appear to think that the College at Windsor was origin- 
 ally drsigne( for all classes and creeds. It is so stated in the 
 Address which passed the House of Assembly at the close of the late 
 feess.on. liut tlmt opinion is altogether srroneous. When the first 
 bishop of Nova Scotia arrived here, in the month of October, 1787, 
 he found himself surrounded by a la^ge number of his fellow Loyal- 
 ists. who had tak-^n refuge in Nova Scotia, many of whom were 
 Members of the Legislature and of the Church of England. He 
 ana they, felt the want of the means of educating their children in 
 the principles of the Clmrch. and by their joint exertions the Act 
 providing tor the establishment of King's College at Windsor, passed 
 the Legislature in April, 178.9. .ia»»cu 
 
 The Act placed the Government of the College in seven public 
 ()fficers. among whom was the Bishop. All those Ofl^cers were 
 then Churchmen, as were their successors for many years ; and it 
 was expressly enacted that the President should always be a Clergy- ■ 
 *":''! 1 J f .^^"'"^ ""^ England, which had been declared to be the 
 established Hel|gion of this Province, by an Act passed in the first 
 bession of the General Assembly in 1 7.-)8. 
 
 The College from its erection was always considered and governed 
 as an Institution connected with the Church and when, many vears 
 ago. the Governors passed a Statute obliging Student, to sign the 
 3J Articles at matriculation, not a voice was even ruised against 
 
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 that iiieasurp iu the Legislature, which would have been a st.ange 
 neglect of duty had it been as is now asserted, an Institution 
 intended for all classes an'^. creeds. Many Churchmen, and the 
 Bishop among them, thought this Statute very injudicious, and ii 
 was subsequently repealed, not because it was deemed inconsistent 
 with the principles upon which thp Institution was established, but 
 because the Governors becOiiC convinced that by excluding the sons 
 of Dissenters, they prevented them from becoming acquainted with 
 the doctrine and discipline of the Church, which they would Irarn at 
 King's College, and which the more they art known the better they 
 will be appreciated. 
 
 The Governors confidently assert, that King's College has not 
 failed in its object. The greai. body '' our Clergy have been edu- 
 cated the,-e ; many of the most disti'n/. bed members of the Bench 
 and the Bar, in tliM and the neighho-nmg Colonies, are among its 
 Alumni, and it can boast of several others engaged in the varioua 
 walks of life. 
 
 It was still pursuing its useful course, when, without a complaint 
 alleged against it, this attempt was made to withdraw the provision 
 tor its support. 
 
 The plea alleged for this harsh measure, is, that the rat^mbers r,i 
 the Church are now, ard always have been, a minority of the popu- 
 lation. If they always have been in a minority, which may he 
 doubted, the Dissenters of u former day dealt more liberally with 
 them than their surccssors. That Churchmen are now in a minority 
 IS admitted, and we regret that we have such cause to lament it. A 
 large portion of the Country was a wilderness when the Act of 1789 
 passed ; that wilderness has since been peopled by emigration vron. 
 Scotland and Ireland, in consequence of which the Presbyterians and 
 members of the Church of Rome now outnumber any other denomi- 
 nation in the I'rovince. 
 
 But though Chu-jhmen have received but little addition to their 
 numbers from this source, they still form a respectable body, much 
 more numerous at this day than they were iu 1 789, and they feel 
 It a seriouB evil that an Institution which they have long fostered, 
 Ef.d v;hich has become endeared to so many of them as their Alma 
 Mater, should thus be threatened "ith dest-'uction. 
 
 The members of the Church do not object to grants to other deno- 
 minations, in such proportion r.s the Legislature may deem fit. but 
 they feel it a grievance to be deprived of the sum which was perma- 
 nently granted to them out of a Revenue of about £8000 a year 
 when that Revenue has increased to upwards of £100,000, to which 
 they largely contribute. 
 
 They are still desirous of combining instruction in the prinnnlog 
 of Religion with secular knowledge, and therefore wish to presei e 
 an Institution in which they know that object will always be kept in 
 view, and the existence of which ia deemed by its opponents t.j pre- 
 
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 sent a great obstacle to the estublishment of one great College, from 
 which all religious instruction wiU be banished. 
 
 Ill addition to .hese observations, the Governors of King s College 
 resi)ectfully submit the language of the Royal Charter to the con- 
 sideration of the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the 
 Colonies — which thus commences and terminates : 
 
 •• George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the 
 Faith, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : — 
 
 •' Whereas v e have declared our Royal intention to establish within 
 our Province of Nova Scotia, in North America, a College for the 
 education of youth in the principles of true Religion, and for their 
 instruction in the different branches of Science and Literatuie which 
 are taught in our Universities in this Kingdom. 
 
 " And whereas the Sum of four thousand pounds granted by our 
 Parliament in that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain, 
 hath been applied in erecting a suitable building within the Town of 
 Windsor in our said Province, on a piece of land which had been 
 purchased by means of a Grant of the General Assembly of our said 
 Province for that purpose. 
 
 " And whereas the said building hath been fitted for the residence 
 of Professors and Students, and an endowment of * Four hundred 
 pounds currency of that Province (equal to Three hundred and sixty 
 pounds British sterling) per annum hath been granted for the support 
 thereof by the General Assembly. ^ 
 
 " And lastly, we do hereby promise and declare for us, our heirs, 
 and successors, that we and they shall and will at all times hereafter 
 give and grant to the aforesaid Governors, President, and Fellows, 
 and their successors, such other reasonable powers and authorities 
 as may be necessary for the government of the said College, and 
 more effectual execution of the premises." 
 
 They also beg to turn the attention of the Secretary of State to 
 the annexed letter, dated "London, 1st June, 1802," and signed by 
 " Scrope Bernard, M.P.," " Jos. Planta," " William WiU^erforce, 
 INI.P." and " John Wilmot," in which the views of the friends of the 
 Institution were in that day so clearly expressed to their brother 
 Churchmen in England, who were thereby induced to contribute 
 liberally to its support and advancement. 
 
 The Governors of King's College trust that this statement will 
 convince the Right Honourable the^Secretary of State for the Colo- 
 nies that the Institution has not failed to fulfil its object— that ' ■ has 
 acquired a vested right in the sum thus granted to it— and they 
 
 • Errata.— The amount by the Provincial Act is £iii: 10s. 10^(1, currency, 
 r ipial tn £ 100 sterling. 
 
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 humbly conceive that it would be inconsistent with the honour of the 
 Crown to assent to bn act which would deprive it of that right, and 
 will probably destroy that Institution founded by the Provincial Le- 
 gislature and fostered by the Crown. 
 
 In conclusion, they would remark, that the Assemhli/ have not only 
 failed to provide for the oncers alluded to in Lord Grey's despatch, 
 but have suggested that the burthen of doing so should be thrown upon 
 the Governors, whom they vmild deprive of the means of discharging 
 that or any other of those duties which they have always gratuitously 
 performed. 
 
 The Governors respectfully remind the Right Honorable the Se- 
 cretary of State for the Colonies, that unless her Majesty's dissent 
 to this Act is expressed before three years elapse from the tiwe c' its 
 passing, it will b-tjome law. 
 
 And, as in duty bound, your Memorialists will ever pray, &c. 
 
 In the name and by the order of the Governors, President, 
 and Fellows of King's College, at Windsor, in the Pro- 
 vince of Nova Scotia. 
 
 (College Seal.) 
 
 Halifax, N. S., May 7ih, 1852. 
 
 John C. Halliburton, 
 Secretary of King's College, at Windsor. 
 
 Copy of His Majesty'' s Royal Charter for Founa'ng and Incorporating 
 King's College., at Windsor, in the Province of Nova Scotia, dated 
 Uth May, 42nd George III., 1802. 
 
 George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United King- 
 dom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the 
 Faith, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : — 
 
 Whereas we have declared our Royal Intention to establish within 
 our Province of Nova Scotia, in North America, a College for the 
 education of youth in the principles of true Religion, and for their 
 instruction in the different branches of Science and Literature which 
 are taught at our Universities in this Kingdom. 
 
 And whereas the sum of Four thousand pounds, granted by our 
 Parliament in that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain, 
 hath been applied in erecting a suitable Building within the Town of 
 Windsor, in our said Province, on a piece of land which had been 
 purchased by means of a grant of the General Assembly of our 
 said Province for that purpose. 
 
 And whereas the said Building hath been fitted for the residence 
 of Professors and Students, and an endowment of Four hundred 
 
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 pounds currency of that Province (equal to Three hundred and sixty 
 pound.* British sterling) per annum, hath been granted for the 
 support thereof, by the said General Assembly. 
 
 y^«^H.W/s humble application hath been mude to us by many 
 ot our lovmg subjects in our said Province, that we would be pleaded 
 to grant our Royal Charter for the more perfect establishment of the 
 said Lollege, and for incorporating the members thereof for the 
 purposes aforesaid, and for sujh other endowment thereof as to us 
 should seem meet. 
 
 We having taken the premises into our Roval consideration, and 
 duly weighing the great utility and importance of such an institu- 
 tion are willing and desirous to condescend to their request : Know 
 ye. therefore, that we. of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and 
 mere motion, nave willed, ordained, and granted, and do by these 
 presents for us. our heirs, and successors, will, ordain, and grant 
 that upon the said land, and in the building or buildings so erected' 
 or to be erected thereon at our tow- of Windsor, in our said Pro-' 
 vince of Nova Scotia, there shall be established from this time one 
 College the^mother of an University, for the education and instruction 
 ot vouth and students, in arts and faculties, to continue for ever • 
 and to be called King's College: and that our trusty and well- 
 beloved Sir John Wentworth, Baronet, Lieutenant-Governor of our 
 said Province or the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor of our said 
 Province for the time being; the Right Reverend Father in God. 
 Charles Inglis. Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, or the Bishop 
 of the said Diocese for the time being; our tru.tv and well-beloved 
 bampson Salter Blowers, Chief Justice of our said Province of Nova 
 ocotm, or the Ohief ..ustice of our said Province for the time beinjr • 
 °?Vr"'^'I .^"'^ well-beloved Alexander Croke. Judge of our Court 
 of Vice-Admiralty in Nova Scotia, or the Judge of our Court of 
 V^ice-Admiralty in our said Province for the time being; our trustv 
 and wel beloved Richard Jo^n Uniacke, Speaker of our House of 
 Assembly and Attorney-General of our said Province of Nova Scotia 
 or the Speaker of our House of Assemblv and the Attornev-General 
 for our said Province severally for the time being ; our trusty and 
 well--beloved James Stewart, Solicitor- General of our said Province 
 or the So icitor. General of the said Province for the time being; our 
 truscy and well-beloved Benning Wentworth. Secretary of our said 
 Provmce of Nova Scotia, or the Secretarv of our said Province for 
 the time being, together with such other" person or persons as shall 
 be elected in manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be Governors of 
 the said College, and that the said College shall consist of one Pre- 
 sident, th^-ee or more Fellows and Professors, and twelve or more 
 Scholars, at such salaries, and subject to such provisions, regulations 
 limitations, rules, qualifications, and restrictions as shall he.-eafter 
 be appointed by the statutes, rules, and ordinances of the said 
 College, and until such statutes, rules, and oidihances shall have 
 
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 been franipcl, subject in all respects to the orders and directions, and 
 eligible and removable at the pleasure of the said Governors, or of 
 the major part of them. And that the said Governors, or the'major 
 part of them, shall have the power of electing the President of the 
 said College for the time being, to he a Governor of the said CoUen-e, 
 and also of electing any other person or pt. jons, not exceeding three 
 m number (subject to such regulations as shall be appointed^v the 
 statutes, rules, and ordinances of the said College) to be a governor 
 or governors of the said College. 
 
 And we do by these presents, for us. our heirs and successors 
 wil , ordam and grant that the said Governors, President and 
 tellows, and their successors for ever, shall be one distinct and sepa- 
 rate body politic and corporate, iii deed and in name, bv the name 
 and style of the Governors, President and Fellows of King' Colle"-e 
 at Windsor, in the Province of iNova Scotia ; and that by the same 
 name they shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, and 
 that they and their successors shall, from time to time, have full 
 po\yer to break, alter, make new, or change, such common seal, at 
 their will and pleasure, and as shall be found expedient ; and that by 
 the said name the said Governors. President and Fellows, and their 
 successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall be a 
 body politic and corporate, in deed and in law. and be able and 
 capable to have, take, receive, purchase, acquire, hold, possess, en- 
 joy, and retain ; and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors 
 give and grant full authority and free licence to them and their sue-' 
 cessors by the name aforesaid, to have, take, receive, purchase, ac 
 quire, hold, possess, enjoy and retain, to and for the use o*^ the said 
 College, notwithstanding any statutes or statute of mortn^ain, any 
 manors, rectories, advowsons, messuages, lands, tenements, rent« 
 and hereditameiics of what kind, nature or qualitv soever, so as that 
 the same do not exceed in yearly value the sum of six thousand 
 pounds above all charges : and moreover, to take, purchase, acqui-e 
 have, liold, enjoy, receive, possess and retain, notwithstanding any 
 such statutes or statute to the contrary, all or anv goods chattels 
 charitable and other contributions, gift's and benefactions whatsoever • 
 and that the said Governors, President and Fellows, and their succesl 
 sors, by the same name, shall and may be able and capable in law to 
 sue and oe sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered 
 m a.l or any court, or courts of record, or places of judicature within 
 our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and our said 
 1 rovmce of Nova Scotia, and other our dominions, and in all and 
 singular actions, causes, pleas, suits, matters and demands whatso- 
 ever in what kind, or nature, or son oever, in as large, ample and 
 benehcial manner and form as any other body politic and corporate 
 or any other our liege subjects, being persons able and capable in 
 law, may or can have., take, purchase, receive, hold, possess, enjoy 
 
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 retain, sue, implead or answer, or be sued, impleaded, or answered 
 in any manner whatsoever. 
 
 And we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, 
 will, ordain and /^rant that the governors of the said College, or the 
 major part of them, shall have power and authority to frame and 
 make statrtes, rules and ordinances, touching and concerning the 
 good government of the said College, the performance of divine 
 service therein, the studies, lectures, exercises, degrees in aris and 
 faculties, and all matters regarding the same ; the election, qualifi- 
 cation and residence of the President, Fellows, and Scholars ; the mr.- 
 nageraent of the revenues and property of the said College ; the 
 salaries, stipends and provision for the President, Fellows, Scholars 
 and officers of the said College : and also touching and concerning 
 any other matter or thing which to them shall seem good, fit, useful, 
 and agreeable to this our Charter : and also from time to time to 
 revoke, augment, or alter all, every or any of the said statutes, rules, 
 and ordinances, as to them, or the major part of them, shall seem 
 meet and expedient. Provided, that the said statutes, rules and or- 
 dinances, or any of them, shall not be repugnant to the laws and 
 statutes of this our realm, and of our said Province of Nova Scotia ; 
 provided also, that the said statutes, rules and ordinances, or any 
 revocation, augmentation or alteration thereof be subject to the ap- 
 probation of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being, 
 and shall be forthwith transmitted to the said Lord Archbishop for 
 that purpose ; and that in case the said Lord Archbishop shall sig- 
 nify, in writing, his disapprobation thereof within three years of the 
 time of their being so made and framed, or of their being so '•evoked, 
 augmented, or altered, the same, or such part thereof as shall be so 
 disapproved by the said Lord Archbishop, shall, from the time of 
 such disapproi3ation being made known, be utterly void and of no 
 efFect, but otherwise shall be and remain in full force and virtue. 
 
 And we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, charge and 
 command that the statutes, rules and ordinances aforesaid, subject to 
 the said provisions, shall be strictly and inviolably observed, kept 
 and performed, from time to time, so long as they shall respectively 
 remain in full vigour and eflfect, under the penalties to be thereby or 
 therein inflicted or contained. 
 
 And we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will, 
 order, direct, and appoint that the said Lord Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury for the time being be Patron of the said College, and ihe Bishop 
 of Nova Scotia for the time being shall be Visitor of the said College. 
 And we do further will, ordain and grant that the said College 
 shah be deemed and taken to be an University, and shall have and 
 enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by other Uni- 
 versities in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as far 
 as the same are capable of being had and enjoyed, by virtue of these 
 our letters patent. And that the students in the said College 
 
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 shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees of Bachelor, 
 Master and Doctor in the several arts and faculties at the appointed 
 times; an shall have liberty within themselves of performing all 
 scholastic exercises for the conferring such degrees, in such manner 
 as shall be directed by the statutes, rules and ordinances of the said 
 College. 
 
 And we will, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and succes- 
 sors, do grant find declare, that these our letters patent, vr the eu- 
 roinient or exempKfications thereof, shall and may be good, firm, 
 valid, sufficient and effectual in the law, according to the true intent 
 and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed and ad- 
 judged in th-i most favourable and beneficial sense, for the best ad- 
 vantage of tne said Governors, President and Fellows of the said Col- 
 lege at Windsor aforesaid, as well in all our courts of record as 
 elsewhere, and by all and singular judges, justices, o.ficers, ministers, 
 and other subjects whatsoever, of us, our heirs and successors, any 
 mis-recital, non-recital, omission, imperfection, defect, matter, cause 
 or thing whatsoever to che contrary thereof in anywise notwithstand- 
 ing, without fine or fee, great or small, to be for the same in any 
 manner rendered, done or paid to us in our Hanaper, or elsewhere to 
 our use. 
 
 And lastly, we do hereby premise and declare, for us, our heirs 
 and successors, that we and they shall and will, at all times here- 
 after,give and grant to the aforesaid Governors, President and Fellows, 
 and their successors, such other reasonable powers and authorities as 
 may be necessary for the government of the said College, and the 
 more effectual execution of the premises. 
 
 In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made 
 patent. — Witness ourself at Westminster, the twelfth day of May, in 
 the forty-second year of our reign. 
 
 LIBRARY.— KING'S COLLEGE. NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 London, 1st June, 1802. 
 
 We, whose names are hereun<-o subscribed, have been desired by 
 the Governors of King's College, in Nova Scotia, publicly to express 
 their gratitude for the great assistance received from their friends 
 and benefactors in this Kingdom, in forming a Library for this infant 
 Seminary. 
 
 By the munificence of His Majesty, and of the British Parliament, 
 in addition to the liberal support cf the Legislature of the Province;, 
 a spacious and convenient building was erected in 1 79S, at Windsor, 
 
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 in Nova Scotia, where many young men have already completed 
 their studies. But as the funds of the College were inadequate to 
 the purchase of a sufficient library, many contributions in books and 
 inoney were received last year for this purpose, under the patronage 
 of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishops of 
 London and Rochester. 
 
 His Majesty has been since graciously pleased to grant his royal 
 charter, dated 12th May 1802. for founding and incorporating the 
 said College, by the name and style of " The Governors, President, 
 and Fellows of King's College at Windsor, in Nova Scotia," for the 
 education of youth in the principles of true religion, and for their 
 instruction m the different branches of science and literature, which 
 are taught at the universities in this United Kingdom. It must be 
 particularly gratifying to every friend of his country, to find that the 
 munificence which has distinguished His Majesty's reign, is thus 
 extended to the remotest provinces of his dominions. 
 
 The genuine patriot, the sincere Christian, and the lover of clas- 
 sical and pohte literature and the sciences, will rejoice to see the 
 blessings of the mother country communicated to the distant regions 
 of North America ; and from the establishment of this infant college 
 "^S^u IV^^'°P'^^ ^^^' ^^''^^^ter become, as the charter expresses it' 
 Ihe Mother of an University,'^ will anticipate the most important 
 and beneficial effects ; the general diffusion of sound learning the 
 promotion of every liberal art and science, and above all, the firm 
 support of the Christian religion, as professed and taught by our 
 Reformed Episcopal Church. 
 
 Experience has abundantly proved, that as nations advance in 
 wealth and luxury, in commerce and the arts, truths, the most uni- 
 versally received and the most highly respected, are apt gradually to 
 lose their estimation : hence the value of Schools, and Colleges, and 
 other learned foundations ; hence the value of the Institution for 
 which we presume to solicit the public support. Jn the New World 
 such an Institution was peculiarly necessary, and is likely to be 
 attended with inestimable benefits. In the American College, for 
 Which we are now pleading, the doctrines and discipline ''of the 
 Church of England, fixed on firm foundations, will hand down, from 
 age to age. the genuine principles of the Christian reli-ion in their 
 original purity, as the most valuable treasure which could be secured 
 to posterity by the provident wisdom of their ancestors. 
 
 These important objects, however, will be greatly promoted by the 
 extension of the patronage already experienced, and by the friendly 
 aid ot a generous and munificent public. 
 
 Whilst then, in the name of the Governors of this Institution, we 
 return their grateiul acknowledgments to the following Subscribers 
 and Benefactors, we cannot help earnestly requesting the assistance 
 of others in promoting its welfare, either by a contribution in books, 
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 His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Patron of 
 
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 Sir John Wentworth, Bart., Governor N 
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 Visitor of King's College 
 Hon. S. S. Blowers, Chief Justice 
 Richard I. Uniacke, Esq., Attorney- General 
 James Stuart, Solicitor-General 
 Sir Thomas A. Strange, late Chief Justice 
 Alexander Brymer, Esq., Paymaster 
 The liOrd Bishop of Durham 
 Hen. Thornton, Esq. M.P. 
 Scrope Bernard, Esq., M.P. - 
 W. Wilberforce, Esq , M.P. - 
 
 Hon. George Knox, M.P. for the University of Dublin 
 John Wilmot, Esq. - - . - 
 
 William Lambert, Esq. - , - 
 
 Hon. Mr. Eardley . . . - 
 
 Rev. J. H. Michell, King's College, Cambridge 
 Culling Smith, Esq. - . . - 
 
 W. Waterhouse, Esq. - . - 
 
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 His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of 
 London, the Lord Bishop of Durham, the Lord Bishop of Meath, 
 the Right Rev. the Dean, and Ptev. the Chapter of Westminster, the 
 University of Oxford, the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, 
 Trustees for the British Museum, Society for bettering the condition 
 of the Poor, the Right Honorable Lord Eardley. Scrope Bernard, 
 Esq., M.P. Mr. Baron Maseres, Mrs. H.More, William Wilberforce. 
 Esq., M.P., John Wilmot, Esq., Hon. Mr. Eardlev. Culling Smith, 
 
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 Cobbett and Morgan, Debrett, Faulder, Harding, Hookham. Law, 
 Longman and Rees, Miller, Nicoll, Payne, Rivington, Robson, 
 Vernor and Hood, White. 
 
 To the Right Honorable the Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Secretary 
 of State for the Colonies. The Memorial of the Governors, 
 President, and Fellows of King's College, at Windsor, in the 
 Province of Nova Scotia, humbly sheweth — 
 
 That at the termination of the American Revolution, a large body 
 of the American loyalists removed into the province of Nova S^-otia 
 V ere they found that little provision had been made to afford to the 
 rmng generation the benefits of a liberal education. 
 
 That to remedy this evil an Act was passed by the provincial 
 legislature m 1789. for founding, establishing, and maintaining a 
 College— which reciting that " Whereas the permanent establish- 
 ment and effectual support of a College at Windsor, would by the 
 blessing of God, become of the greatest public utilitv to this Pro- 
 vince, and to His Majesty's neighbouring colonies," enacted bv the 
 first clause, that the sum of £400 sterling should be granted and 
 paid yearly, and every year, to the governors of the said college 
 towards its maintenance and support. ' 
 
 The Act then named the Governor of the Province, the Lieutenant- 
 Governor, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, th- Chief Justice, the Secre- 
 tary of the Province, the Speaker of the House of Assembly the 
 Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-General, as the Governors of 
 the said College, and created them a Body Politic and Corporate, 
 and directed them to appoint a President and Piofessors, with a 
 stipulation that the President should always be a Clergyman of the 
 iliStablished Church ot England. 
 
 The Governors and other friends of the Church, both in this Pro- 
 vmce and in England, exerted themselves to the utmost to carry the 
 benevolent intentions of the Provincial Legislature ii.to effect, in 
 which they were most liberally aided bv the Government 'J the mo- 
 her country and a Royal Charter was' granted, as contemplated by 
 the Provincial Act under which the endor-ment was Lnven 
 
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 Tlicse efforts were very successful ; a building was soon erected 
 at Windsor, affording accommodation for the President, Professors, 
 and Students. The kind contributions of many zealous Churchmen 
 in England provided a valuable Library, and the Institution has for 
 nearly sixty years past, supplied this and the neighbouring Colonies 
 with many valuable Pastors and other public servi nts, few of whom 
 would have able to obtain a liberal education elsewhere. 
 
 It is with the deepest regret that your Petitioners now see this 
 valuable Institution threatened with ruin. 
 
 While it was quietly pursuing its useful career, without any 
 complaint having been preferred against it, without calling upon 
 your Petitioners for any explaination, if any such complaint unknown 
 to them existed, without inquiry or investigation to the know' dge 
 of your Petitioners, a Bill was introduced into the Assembly b . a 
 private member for a second time during the last Sessions, andwhich, 
 to the astonishment of all friends of the Institution, tb^i passed, 
 depriving the College of the annual sum of £400, which was per- 
 manently given to it by the Act of 1 789. 
 
 Bij that Act your Petitioners were directed to procure and employ a 
 President and Professors and to pay them their salaries out of the sum 
 so permanently granted. In compliance with these directions, a Presi- 
 dent and a Professor have bei-n long appointed and employed, and while 
 they were in the faithful discharge of their duties (without a complaint 
 being urged against themj the means of paying them are withdrawn 
 The President wos induced, some years ago to leave a situation in the 
 College of New Brunswick to become President of King's College, at 
 Windsor, where he had been educated, and of which he has long been 
 an ornament. The Professor of Mathematics was more recently in- 
 duced to quit England, and remove to Windsor, where his services 
 are deservedly valued. 
 
 Notwitstanding the exertions of the Alumni and other friends of 
 the Institution, these Gentlemen must be left without their sti- 
 pulated salaries, if Her Majesty allows this act to become a Law ; 
 and your Petitioners feel it their duty to bring these circumstances 
 under your Lordship's consideration without further comment, in 
 the humble hope that your Lordship will be of opinion that good 
 faith ought to be kept with them and with those they were not only 
 empowered but directed to employ. 
 
 And, as in duty bound your Petitioners will ever pray, &c. 
 
 In the name and by the order of the Governors, President, 
 and Fellows of King's College at Windsor, in the Pro- 
 vince of Nova Scotia. 
 
 (College Seal.) John C. Halltdubton, 
 
 Secretary, King's College at Windsor. 
 Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 13th l!SJ3. 
 
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 Extract from the Journals of the Legislative Council of 4th April, 
 
 185 1, Puffes 123—4. 
 
 A Bi'l, entitled an Act to discontinue the Grant to King's Col- 
 lege, Windsor was read a third time, and the question was put by 
 the President, 
 
 Whethc'- this Rill sliall pass ? 
 
 It v.as resolved in the affirmative. 
 
 Dissentient : 
 
 1. Because the Act of 29 Geo III., was passed ior founding, 
 establishing, avd maintaining a College in this Province, and by the 
 tirst clause thereof, the sum of Four Hundred Pounds Sterling, was 
 given in perpetuity for the permanrnt estahlisliment and effectual sup- 
 port of this College, in anticipation of great public utility therefrom 
 to this and the neighbouring Colonies, which has been realized be- 
 yond the expectations of its wise and bene\olent founders. 
 
 2. Because from the very long period during which the said Act 
 has been in force (now G2 years) the sanction of time has also 
 been given to this permanent endowment, and the approbation of 
 successive Provincial Parliaments has ratified the wisdom of our 
 ancestors in making it. 
 
 3. Because such an Institution, from its very nature, requires a 
 permanent endowment, and to deprive it of this, is not merely to 
 cripple its resources and to diminish its usefulness, but to destroy 
 that which the other unrepealed clauses of the Act still uphold. 
 
 4. Because, therefore in rcpealin;;' this first clause, whilst the 
 Legislature still continues the others in foicc, they recognize the ad- 
 vantage of this Institution, which they at the same time tend to 
 destroy, and are thus inconsistent with themselves. 
 
 5. Because confiding in the permanent and effectual support on 
 which this College was established, many pious and beneficent indi- 
 viduals have, from time to time, given to it pecuniary and other 
 gifts, and now to withdraw this permanent support, and to risk its 
 very existence, would be unfair and unjust to there contributors, 
 
 6. Because it woald be unfair and unjust to the numerous Gradu- 
 ates of this College to destroy that upon which their honorary dis- 
 tinctions and honors depend, which Trust fall with it. 
 
 7. Because the fourth Clause of the 29 Geo. III., directed the 
 Governors of the College to procure and employ the officers requisite 
 to carrv the intention of the JiCgislature, as expressed in that Act. 
 into execution, and therefore in so doing, the Governors acted as 
 the agents of the Province 
 
 8. By this Act repealing the first Clause of the 29 Geo. III., de- 
 priving the Institution of the permanent grant made for its support 
 the Governors are deprived of the power of paying the officers they were 
 directed to employ, when it is not even aileged that the Governors have 
 
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 exceeded their powers, or that the officers have failed to fulfil the duties 
 they engaged to perform. 
 
 9. liecauso, that if this wore a transaction between private persons, 
 the ordinary trihtinals of the Country would compel the principal to 
 
 fulfil the contract which his agent hitd made by hist authority. 
 
 10. Because it is unworthy of the Province of Nova Scotia to de- 
 prive its a Jurats of the means of fulfilling the contracts entered into 
 l)y them on behalf of fhe Province, because there is no tribunal that 
 cui: compel the Province to fulfil them. 
 
 11. Because the Institution, has over sin^e its establishment, 
 widely diffused abroad, leariimg, science, tuste, and refinement, and 
 extensively promoted the cause of good morals and religion, and 
 good government, of which these are the basis, and thus has re- 
 turned, in ample measure, all the pecuniary aid which it has derived 
 from the Provincial grants, and that to check such public benefits, 
 by a repeal of its grant, is unworthy of an enlightened age, and the 
 Legislature of a free and liberal people. 
 
 12. Because this College ofFers the strongest proofs of its useful- 
 ness and excellence in the many able and learned men whom it has 
 educated, and of whom some are the ornament and honor of our 
 Legislature, and others fill the highest offices in this and neighbour- 
 ing countries, and having thus largely contributed to raise the cha- 
 racter of the Province here and its reputation abroad, l* s ill-deserved 
 the ungrateful requital of this present measure. 
 
 13. Because no complaint has ever been alleged agaiutit the College, 
 nor a single petition presented for ihe repeal of the grant, which is 
 consequently a pure gratuitous wrong to the Institution. 
 
 14. Because the present measure is a great discouragement to 
 Literature in general, shewing at how low an estimate it is held, 
 vhen for so small a saving this long established College, the oldest 
 in British North America, is thus endangered by an Act, which will 
 1 c held in future times a blot and blemish on the Legislature by 
 which it is passed. 
 
 15. Because the Act to repeal the permanent endowment is, under 
 all these circumstances, in our opinion, a palpable and direct breach 
 of public faith. 
 
 16. Because at the time when a great public work is in con- 
 templation, for the completion of which the credit of the Province 
 may be staked, it is especially unwise to show to the world how 
 easily an Act may be repealed by which a permanent grant has been 
 pledged for a most useful purpose, and on how insecure a foundation 
 rests the dependance upon the public faith of the Province. 
 
 M. B. Almon, 
 W. A. Black, 
 H. G. Pined, 
 John E. Fairbanks, 
 A. Keith. 
 
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 (Copy.) 
 
 To the Right Honorable Sir John Pakinglon, Bart., her Ma- 
 jesty's Principal Secretary of iate for the Coloniea. the 
 Memorial of the Aaiociateu ilunni cf ...iVs College, 
 Windsor, in the Province of No''a Scotia, respectfully 
 sheweth : — 
 
 That in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, an 
 Act of the Provincial Legislature was passed, p^runting a sum of Four 
 liundred pounds sterling per annum, to be p.iid " yearly and every 
 year," in order to the " permanent establishment und effectual sup- 
 port of a College at Windsor," as appenrs by the preamble of the 
 Act. 
 
 That by the fouith clause of the Act tha Governors of the College 
 are empowered and directed to appoint a President and Professors, 
 and to assign them respectively, out of the sum granted, such Sa- 
 laries and Allowances as they shall think fit. 
 
 That when the office of President became vacant, seifcral years ago, 
 the Governors in discharge of that duty, apjjointed to the office the able 
 und learned Gentleman who now holds it. He then held a Professor- 
 shir m the College in New Brunswick, which he resigned, upon the firm 
 conviction, entertained equally by himself and the Governors, that he 
 ws to hold his office, and receive its emoluments, so long as he dis- 
 charged its duties faithfully . 
 
 That the Professor of Mathematics was within these few years 
 induced to quit a situation in England and come to this country 
 under a similar understanding. 
 
 That in the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, an 
 Act was passed in the Provincial Legislature, to repeal that part of 
 the Act of the ye'^r \T^\) which grants the sum of Four hundred 
 pounds sterling per annum, leaving still in force ihe other portions 
 of the Act which confer the control of the College on u Beard of 
 Governors, composed almost entirely of public and legal Function- 
 aries, who may be, 'itli the single exception of the Bishop of the 
 Diocese, Dissenters from the Church cf Fnglaad, and some of whom, 
 at ♦his moment, ■ i" iw.t ci y Dissenters, but actuated by feelings of 
 avowed hostility to the College. 
 
 That the Royal assent having been hitherto withheld from that 
 Act, (of 1851), a Memorial has passed the House of Assembly of 
 this Province, praying that such assent may be given, but that 
 should tho Act of 1789 be repealed, in accordance with that Memo- 
 rial, it will be impossible for the Governors of the College to retain 
 the services of the above-named gentlemen, and equally impossible 
 o dismiss them without a flagrant breach of faith. 
 
 Thav your Memorialists humbly beg to deny, in the most empha- 
 tic manner, that the College at Windsor is of an exclusive character, 
 
99 
 
 " rcftlize 
 as stated 
 
 the c'-jCct*^ for which it was ori- 
 thc Memorial of the House cf 
 
 m 
 
 years ago, 
 -.e the able 
 '^ro/essor- 
 n tlie firm 
 '•s, that he 
 IS he dis- 
 
 few years 
 3 country 
 
 ;y-one, an 
 at part of 
 • hundred 
 r portions 
 Beard of 
 Function- 
 lop of the 
 of whom, 
 "eeUngs of 
 
 from that 
 isembly of 
 but that 
 at Memo- 
 2 to retain 
 mpossible 
 
 st empha- 
 character, 
 
 or that it has fuiled to 
 ginuUy endowed," 
 Assembly. 
 
 That in proof of the benefits which have resulted from the Cota- 
 blishnient of the College, they can point with pride to many of tht 
 most eminent men in the, British North \merican Provinces, who 
 have received their education within its walls, but in order to pla''e 
 their assertions beyond dispute, they beg leave to adduce the tes- 
 timony of a witness above impeachment, and to refer to the follow- 
 ing extracts from a public address delivered by the late Lieutenant- 
 Governor of this Province, Sir John Harvey, at the Encoenia of the 
 College, in the year 1846. 
 
 *' In the cause of education generally, and mo 'e espt riallg a$ respects 
 its widely extended diffusion, I have at all times fell a deep degree of 
 interest, and with reference to this particular establishment, I may be 
 permitted to say, that the respect which I have always mtertained 
 towards it, during a connectioh with the British North Anu • ifi-i Colo- 
 nies, extending over a period of thirty-four years, has been founded not 
 tvon any intimate individual acquaintance on my part with the institU' 
 tton itself, but upon the fat* that its benefits are so co-extensive with 
 all those Colonies, in every — the most remoe parts of which, (in which 
 I have resided, or which I have visitedj the Alum, ' of Windsor College 
 are to be found prominent among their most enlightened inhabitants." 
 
 They also beg leave to refer to the following extract from the 
 same address, in order t(> refute the cha'ge of exclusiveness. After 
 acknowledging the merits and claims of the Institution upon the 
 public suppor*, his Excellency proceeded to say, '• but those claims 
 are greatly strengthened in my estimation, when it is cjnaidered 
 that by the absence of all stringent regulations, tests, or conditions 
 of admission, any character of ' exclusiveness' which it may have been 
 attempted to affix upon it is best refuted.' 
 
 That, in corroboration of this testimony, they refer to the fact, 
 that dissenters have availed themselves, and do still avail themselves 
 of the advantages offered by the Institution, and that they have, as 
 is well and publicly known in this Province, obtained the highest 
 honours in the gift of the College. 
 
 Your Memorialists would further state in proof of the estimation 
 in which this College is held by the Public, that when the grant 
 formerly made by the Society for the propagation of the Jospel in 
 foreign parts to the Institution was withdrawn, and an appeal was 
 made to supply the deficiency, your Memoriahslj* Association was 
 at once formed, who have raised a sum of Two thousand pounus as 
 the nucleus of a permanent fund in aid of the Colif ge, in addition 
 to an annual subscription of upwards of One hundred and twenty 
 pounds for the s-xme object. 
 
 That with respecri to the charge contained in the iliird clause of 
 the address of the House of Assembly, your r lemorialists beg to 
 
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 state, that it is calculated to create an impression directly opposed to 
 fact ; that the ex-officio Governors of the College form the large 
 majority of the Board, and that the only Governors holding seats at 
 the Board, in addition to the ex-officio members, are Mr. Justice 
 Bliss, the senior Puisne Judge of her Majesty's Supreme Court of 
 this Province, and a Master of Arts of the College, Lewis M. Wil- 
 kins. Esquire, one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, 
 formerly a member of her Majesty's Executive Council, and also a 
 Master of Arts, and the Reverend George M'Cawley, Doctor of 
 Divinity, the President of the College ; while the ex-officio Governors 
 number eight, of whom but one, the Bishop of the Diocese, is ne- 
 cessarily a member of the Church of England. 
 
 Your Memorialists therefore pray that you will De"~[/icased to 
 advise her Majesty not to allow the passage of the Act for repealing 
 the grant, or in any case to require such a provision for the present 
 incumbents as shall enable the Governors to keep their faith un- 
 broken. And your Memorialists, as in duty, &c. 
 
 (Signed) 
 Halifax, May 13, 1852. 
 
 H. H. Cogswell, D.C.L., Presvlent. 
 P. Carteret Hill, A.B„ Secretary > 
 
 Governors' Memorial to Three Branches of the Legislature against the 
 Repeal of the Endowment Act, 
 To the Honorable the House of Assembly of the Province of 
 Nova Scotia. The Memorial of the Governors of King's 
 College, Nova Scotia, resoectfuUy sheweth — 
 
 That a Bill has been introduced into your Honorable House to 
 repeal the first Clause of the Act 29 Geo. HL c. 14, entitled " An 
 Act for founding, establishing, and maintaining a College in this 
 Province," and by which Clause the sum of £400 sterling per 
 annum was granted and secured towaids the permanent establishment 
 and effectual support of the College at Windsor. 
 
 That the objects contemplated by this Bill were, as expressed in 
 the preamble, that this College might, by the blessing of God, 
 become of the greatest public utility to this province and to Her 
 Majesty's neighbouring colonies. 
 
 That the pious anticipation of the Legisk.are in making this 
 endowment has, under the favour of Almighty God, alre-'dy received, 
 and is continually receiving, its fulfilment, in the education within 
 this college of numbers of this and the neighbouring^ colonies in the 
 moral and religious instruction there combined with the higher 
 branches of learning and science ; and in the spread of divine truth, 
 the general increase of knowledge, literature, and the love of letters ; 
 the improvement of taste and refinement of mind which adoru and 
 elevate the character of a people. 
 
Q5 
 
 pposed to 
 the large 
 T seats at 
 r. Justice 
 Court of 
 M. Wil- 
 the Law, 
 .nd also a 
 Doctor of 
 irovernors 
 se, is ne- 
 
 Icased to 
 
 repealing 
 
 le present 
 
 faith un- 
 
 '^resi'lent. 
 ecretarv. 
 
 gainst the 
 
 ovince of 
 )f King's 
 
 House to 
 led " An 
 e in this 
 rling per 
 iblishment 
 
 )ressed in 
 
 of God, 
 
 d to Her 
 
 king this 
 received, 
 on within 
 lies in the 
 le higher 
 ine truth, 
 )f letters ; 
 idora and 
 
 That these are the general advantages flowing directly froni this 
 8cat of learning, which, as a natural consequence, excite others to a 
 generous emulation, and lead to the same happy results. 
 
 That since its first establishment;, this College has supplied to all 
 the learned professions, and to various employments in life, here and 
 elsewhere, many eminent and distinguished men, and able and useful 
 members of society ; and it ia not a little remarkable that at this 
 very time her sons are to be seen on the Bench in Canada, in Gibraltar, 
 in New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island, as well as in Nova 
 Scotia.* That these many public benefits have well repaid the wise 
 liberality of your predecessors, and it is confidently believed cannot 
 fail to obtain from every Legislature, approbation, encouragement, 
 and support. 
 
 That the establishment of a College, unlike many objects of Legis- 
 lative aid, is essentially of a permanent nature. Formed not to suit 
 the purpose of the day, nor the variable feelings, passions, or pre- 
 judices of men — its very character — its institutions — its objects — its 
 distinctions (the fair reward of learning) and its usefulness suppose 
 and require a permanency of existence. Chartered for all times and 
 above all changes, it holds the even tenor of its way, fulfilling 
 its duties, and diff'using the blessings of education and the light of 
 science and truth abroad through the land. 
 
 That this continuing existence was beyond all doubt the intention 
 of the Legislature who thus expressly endowed the College in perpe- 
 tuity. 
 
 That encouraged by that permanent endowment, and relying on the 
 faith of the Legislature thus pledged, other munificent benefactors 
 have contributed their support to the Coll3ge in money, books, and 
 instruments, and enabled it to attain to its present usefulness, which 
 mrst necessarily be greatly impaired, if the Institution be not itself 
 destroyed, should the proposed measure now before youi Honorable 
 House pass into a law. 
 
 Tha*- this Act for the support of learning has been in force for 
 more than sixty years — and framed as it was for perpetuity and sanc- 
 tioned as it has been by time — with the public faith and public cha- 
 racter for its guarantee, for an object so honorable and purpose so 
 usci'ul, which have been thus far fulfilled — is now at this day threat- 
 ened with repeal. 
 
 Your Memorialists respectfully pray that you will not assent to a 
 measure so injurious to the cause of learning and to the rights of 
 this College — that this Endowment may be preserved in all its 
 integrity — that this Institution, looking back to the past with pride, 
 and with hope to the future, may continue its useful course < f educa- 
 tion, and, encouraged by success already secured, may train up the 
 youth of distant times in the path of religion, literature and science. 
 
 ♦ The Hon. Sir James Stewart, Chief Justice of Canada; Sir James Cocliraa, 
 Judge at Gibraltar ; Chief Justice Jarvis, P. E. I. ; Judge Parker ; and Hon. 
 Neville Parke, Master Rolls ; Judge Bliss, and Judf^o Haliburton. 
 
 , y.Minmnwjp. i i i iip«Mip 
 
2G 
 
 Rpport of the Committee relative lO a Public School. Windsor, N.S., 
 
 22nd Nov , 1787. 
 
 The Committee appointed by the House for the purpose of consi- 
 dering the Message of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, 
 recommending from His Majesty the establishing and maintaining of 
 Schools within this Province, report, 
 
 That they conceive it indispensably necessary that a public School 
 be established as soon as possible in some commodious central situ- 
 ation in this Province, for the purpose of instructing the rising /gene- 
 ration in the principles of sound Literature and the Christian Religion. 
 And as they conceive it necessary that the master or head of such 
 School should be thoroughly qualified and accomplished for that 
 important trust, they recommend 
 
 That an exemplary Clergyman of the Established Church, well 
 skilled in classical learning, divinity, moral philosiphy, and the belles 
 leltres, be provided and placed at the head of the said School. And 
 as an encouragement for such an one, so quaUfied, to accept of the 
 employment, that a sum not less than £200 sterling per annum be 
 allowed to him. 
 
 They also resoramend that a Professor of Mathematics and Natural 
 Philosophy be likewise provided frr the said School with an allow- 
 ance of £100 sterling per annum. And that the Right Rev. thk 
 Bishop of Nova Scotia bfc requested to endeavour to procure two 
 gentlemen of the above qualifications for those purposes. 
 
 The Committee conceive that the neighbourhood of Windsor will 
 be the pioperest place for this School, and recommend that a commo- 
 dious house should be hired there for that purpose, till, upon experi- 
 ence of the propriety of the situation, the Province shall find it expe- 
 dient to erect a more suitable building, or to enlarge their pLje of 
 educp ion. 
 
 The Committee, in deliberating upon this subject, having duly 
 considered and lamented the wretched state of literature in this 
 Province", and having been unavoidably left to contrast it with the 
 state of literature in the neighbouring Republics, beg leave earnestly 
 to recommind to the consideration '^f the House, whether it would 
 not be proper, as soon as it can be found practicable, to erect a 
 ■allege or University in this Province, to prevent, as early as may be, 
 tiie youth of this country (now panting after knowledge) from runh- 
 ing into the various seminaries already established in the United 
 States of America, by whicn m^is their attachment to their native 
 country may be in danger of being weakened, and principles imbibed 
 unfriendly to the British Constitution. 
 
 These the Committee apprehend are consequences of a very serious 
 nature, and when, added to them, they consider the natural advan- 
 tages of this Province, which, in point of situation, climate, salubrity 
 
or, N.S.. 
 
 of consi- 
 irovernor, 
 aining of 
 
 ic School 
 tral situ- 
 ng /?ene- 
 Religion. 
 d of such 
 for that 
 
 rch, well 
 the belles 
 ol. And 
 !pt of the 
 innum be 
 
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 of air, and fctriiUy of soil, render it inferior to no country, and 
 superior to most. They cannot but be jealous of the honour of it, 
 and wish that in this also we might have something to boast ; and 
 that religion, learning, and virtue may be so publicly encouraged, as 
 to render us worthy of those other blessings which Providence has 
 bestowed upon us, 
 
 The Committee therefore further recommend to the House, that 
 the different members be requested to consult their constituents on 
 the foregoing head, as well as on the resources that may be obtained 
 from the several Counties within the Province, for the purposes of 
 effectually establishing and endowing such an University, and to 
 come prepared at the next Session to give the House the fullest 
 information on that snljject. 
 
 Isaac Wilkins, 
 Thos. Barclay, 
 Wm. Chr. Jesskn, 
 Thomas Millidge, 
 Chas, Hill, 
 RicHD. Jno. Uniacke. 
 
 d Natural 
 an allow- 
 Rev. the 
 ocure two 
 
 ndsor will 
 a commo- 
 )n experi- 
 d it expe- 
 r pLje of 
 
 ving duly 
 re in this 
 ; with the 
 ! earnestly 
 • it would 
 to erect a 
 IS may be, 
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 leir native 
 3S imbibed 
 
 2ry serious 
 ral advan- 
 , salubrity 
 
 Extract from an Appeal made a few years ago in behalf of King's. 
 
 College, N.S. 
 
 It is the eamest hope of its friend? that th'.j appeal, upon the 
 success of which the permanency of the Institution depends, may not 
 be in vain. They cherish this hope on account of its past useful- 
 ness ; still more so. with a view to its increased efficiency in future ; 
 and especially, and above all, ita utility to the Established Church in 
 that Colony.' To extend the benefits of true religion, under the 
 auspices of' that Church, was, as already stated, a primary object of 
 its establishment ; and hitherto it has answered that end. It has 
 been increasingly, of late years, a Missionary College. At the pre- 
 sent moment three-fourths of the Missionaries in that diocese are 
 graduates of it ; and should it fall, there is no other source from 
 whence men, duly qualified for that office, can be obtained. 
 
 There are some in the Colony who wish to see it severed from its 
 prp?ent connection with our Church ; and. in short, divested alto- 
 gether of its religious character. lis ])resent difficulties have been 
 urged as a plea for demanding the surrender of its Charter and the 
 remodelling of its entire system, to render it nidre suitable to popular 
 taste. But this its friends will never consent to, conscious as they 
 Miust be, that its original design and chief usefulness would be sub- 
 verted by such a change. Their fixed determination is, that if it 
 stand, it shall be in its original character ; and aid is, consequently, 
 
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lere literary 
 < sustain the 
 ig so, by its 
 I will more