well in the proper season and pay no attention to his fences, but suffer them to rot and his crop to be destroyed because it would take some money to employ some person to make rails enough to make a good fence? Would we say he acted prudently or wisely in saving his money or that he was a good economist? In a national view, the parallel will apply with equal force. est in the plan. Whatever may be your decision on these propositions No personal interthe undersigned is not a cent gainer or loser more than the rest of his fellow citizens; but finding those, whose business it is, neglecting to bring forward anything that will remedy our defects in discipline; and being impressed with the necessity of something being done, and solicitous that our government be preserved to the latest ages in its present happy form; and anxious that if ever his country should be engaged in war, the lives of his fellow citizens and the cause of his country should not fall a sacrifice to the ignorance of those who should command, he has deemed it a duty respectfully to offer his thoughts on this subject. I am, gentlemen, with the highest respect and esteem, your most obedient, humble servant, JOSEPH GRAHAM. Vesuvius Furnace, August 25, 1802. -From Gen. Joseph Graham and his Revolutionary Papers, pp. 127 et seq. 1803 1. GOV. TURNER'S MESSAGE ON EDUCATION. 2. DUDLEY'S BILL TO ENCOURAGE ACADEMIES. 3. O'FARRELL'S BILL TO ESTABLISH ACADEMIES IN EACH COUNTY. 1. GOV. JAMES TURNER'S MESSAGE ON EDUCATION. of tyranny and the liberty. As the most certain way of handing down to our latest Education the foe posterity, our free republican government, is to enlighten surest basis of the minds of the people, and to preserve the purity of their morals, too much attention can not be paid to the education of youth, by promoting the establishment of schools in every part of the State. Education is the mortal enemy to arbitrary governments, and the surest basis of liberty and equal rights. District academies proposed. One-half of escheated property to be paid to certain academies. Future escheats to go to the academies. Each county to have its share. 2. DUDLEY'S BILL TO ENCOURAGE ACADEMIES. A Bill to vest in the different Superior Court Districts of the State such property as may escheat to the State, for the purpose of supporting and encouraging, a seminary or seminaries of learning in each District in this State and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that in future all sum or sums of money that shall be collected from the sale of such property as have heretofore escheated to the State, One moiety of such sums shall be paid to the trustees of the University of the State of North Carolina, for the purpose of finishing and completing the buildings of the aforesaid University. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the moiety of such property as have heretofore escheated shall be paid in equal portions to the trustees of such seminaries of learning as are already or may hereafter be established in each Superior Court District in this State for the purpose of supporting such seminary or seminaries, in such Superior Court Districts. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all property which may hereafter escheat to the State and after the passing of this act shall be vested in the dif ferent Superior Court Districts in which such property may escheat; the monies arising from the sale thereof shall be applied for the sole use and benefit of the seminary or seminaries, within said District by the Trustees thereof. And be it further enacted, that where there is at this time no seminary of learning established in the District in which said property may escheat, the monies arising from the sale thereof shall vest in, and be considered wholly . belonging to the different counties composing said District by an equal distribution, among the respective counties thereof-under such rules and regulations and be applied in the manner which the County Courts may direct. Escheat And be it further enacted, that there shall be appointed chat officer in a proper person in each District in this State a Commissioner of escheated property where the same has not been done by an act of the last General Assembly and the person so appointed shall give bond and security, in the manner which is now required by law; and such appointments shall be made from time to time as may be found necessary, by joint ballot of the General Assembly. And be it further enacted that all Acts and clauses of acts which come within the meaning of this act be and the same is hereby repealed and made void. In Senate Decem. 21st 1803. Read the first time and Clerk's entries on bill; its failure. passed. In House of Commons 21 Decr. 1803 read the first time and rejected. -Unpublished Legislative Documents, 1803. |