 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 654 pages
...discharge the duties of a trustee, required of me by an act, intituled, 'An act to amend an act, intituled, an act to vest certain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky in trimeec for a public school,' without favor, affection, or partiality. So help me God." And the same... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1823 - 652 pages
...Kentucky in trustees for a public school. • Preamble. I- WHEREAS by an act of assembly, intituled, "An act to vest certain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky in trustees for the purpose of a public school," eight thousand acres of escheated lands were vested in- certain trustees... | |
 | Virginia, Virginia. General Assembly - 1823 - 660 pages
...Kentucky in trustees for a public school. Preamble. '• WHEREAS by an act of assembly, intituled, '•An act to vest certain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky in trustees for the purpose of a public school," eight thousand acres of escheated lands were vested in certain trustees... | |
 | Virginia - 1828 - 752 pages
...of Assembly. Mr. Wallace reported, from the committee to whom the bill " to amend an act, entitled ' an act, to vest certain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky, in trustees, for a public school," was committed, that the committee had, according to order, had the said bill under their consideration,... | |
 | James Turner Morehead - 1840 - 192 pages
...twelve years before Kentucky became an independent State, a law was passed by the General Assembly " to vest certain escheated lands, in the county of Kentucky, in trustees for a public school." That law is * Butler, 99. 1 1 Marshall, 101. Mr. Marshall furnishes specimens of the forms of the certificates... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 pages
...arts; The founder of encroaching roads And great commercial marts: "The spoiler of the hnnting-gronnd, The plower of the sod, The builder of the common school...academy in every county of the State, and endowed twenty-six academies, each with six thousand acres of land. These academies were to become feeders... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1891 - 548 pages
...Jefferson is by no means entitled to all the credit for promoting the cause of education in the South. In the year 1780, the legislature of Virginia passed...academy in every county of the state, and endowed twenty-six academies, each with six thousand acres of land. These academies were to become feeders... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1891 - 552 pages
...Jefferson is by no means entitled to all the credit for promoting the cause of education in the South. In the year 1780, the legislature of Virginia passed...academy in every county of the state, and endowed twenty-six academies, each with six thousand acres of land. These academies were to become feeders... | |
 | Alfred Fayette Lewis - 1899 - 664 pages
...the Virginia assembly in May, 1783 (Acts of 1783, p. 40), entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to vest certain escheated lands in the county of Kentucky in trustees for a public school," and indirectly on the earlier act here mentioned, which was passed in May, 1780 (Hening, X, 287-288).... | |
 | 1911 - 202 pages
...and his nephew, Colonel John Todd, of Kentucky, set aside for the cause of public education, under an "act to vest certain escheated lands in the County of Kentucky in trustees for a Public School." Under this quasi-charter, thirteen trustees were appointed, constituting the first governing board.... | |
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An Act to vest certain escheated Lands in the County of Kentucky, in Trustees for a Public School." The passage of this bill, which was brought about chiefly by Colonel John Todd, led to the founding of Transylvania University, the first important college... 
