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marle Academy", had subsisted in Charlottesville since 1803, but
having fallen into a declining condition, an attempt was made
in 1814 to revive it, and the board of trustees being in session
with that view, Mr Jefferson was seen to side past, when same
one proposed to invoke his counsel. It was done accordingly,
and his suggestion to convert the languishing academy into a
college was, after some demur, and many misgivings, acce-
ded to. Agents were dispatched into the adjacent Counties, &
subscriptions obtained to the extent of about $60,000 (of which on-
ly somewhat over $40,000 [?] ultimately available), and at
the Session of the General Assembly in 1815-16, a charter was
obtained by the name of the "Central College" (Acts 1815-16, c 76.),
which seems to have given rise to the Resolution [?] stated,
which was adopted ten day afterwards.

The Resolution elicited a report, (founded upon
a very extended consultation with prominent men of thought
and learning of this and other States), recommending a plan
of education not dissimilar to that proposer by Mr Jefferson
in 1889, and a bill to carry it into effort, was passed, I believe,
by the House of Delegates, but lost in the Senate.

The next year, the Act of February 1818 appropriated
from the revenues of the Literacy Fund, $45,000 [Wannum?], to the
primary education of the poor, and $15,000 to endow and support
an University. (Acts 1817-18, C11 [S?]4, 8 to 11), and the Institution having
been located in the course of that year, by Commissioners, on the
site of the Central College, (which was merged in it), an Act of [?]
25, 1819, organized it substantially upon its present basis. (IRC
(1819), p 90, c 34.)

The Literacy Fund has subsequently been increa-
sed, not only by annual accretions, but also by certain seems
paid to the State by Act of Congress. Act of March 5, 1846 (Acts
1845-6, C 40. [?] 8), and of March 19, 1847, (Acts 1846-'7, c 28. [?] 18). So that
the principal amounted in 1861, to no less a sum the $2,344,714.81,
and the annual income to upwards of $114,000, of which by Acts