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their way to New England.

Relations of the University with the Literacy Fund.

The first movement towards the formation of
a Literacy Fund was made in 1870. It was to be derived from es-
cheats, forfeiters, confiscations, personal property derelict, cer-
tain fines, and the [?] of personal estates of interstates,
where there was no distribute, all of which by that and subsequent
acts were solemnly dedicated to the [?] of learning,
but soley through the medium of schools for the poor. (Acts 1809-10, c
14 [?] 1 & 3; Acts 1810-11, c 9. [d?]2.).

In 1815 a very large addition was made to
the Fund, out of moneys received from the United States, in re-in-
bursement of expenses increased in the war, and to this por-
tion of the fund, constituting immensely the larger part, no con-
dition was ever annexed of undivertible application to the
poor, (Acts 1815-16, c3, [s?]5), and by the Act of February 1818, which ap-
propriated $45,000 to primary schools, and $15,000 to an Univer-
sity, the distinction between the fund, as originally constituted, and
the accession then recently derived from the United States, is very
prominently marked, (Acts 1817-18, C11, [s?]4, 8, 9.); as indeed, it also
is in the Revised Code of 1819, (IR, C, 1819, p 82 [?], C 33. [?]12, 20 [?].).

In February [1876?], a resolution was adopted in-
structing the President & Directors of the Literary Fund to digest and
report to the next General Assembly, a system of Public Education
calculat3ed to give effect to the appropriations mmade to that object,
during that session, and therefore, and to comprehend in such
system, the establishment of an University to be called "the Uni-
versity of Virginia", and such additional Colleges, Academies &
Schools as shall diffuse the benefits of education throughout the
Commonwealth. (Acts 1815-16, p 266.)

This Resolution owned its inspiration, at
least indirectly, to Mr Jefferson. A Seminary called "The Albe-