Petition of the Convention of Colleges, asking aid from the Literary Fund in behalf of the colleges of the state

Conference Author:: Convention of Colleges (1845 : Richmond, Va.)
Published:: [Richmond, Virginia?] : [publisher not identified], [1845?]
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (8 pages).
Additional Creators:: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates

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1845 petition of the Convention of Colleges to the Virginia General Assembly, requesting aid from the Literary Fund in support of the state colleges.

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Addressed to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
"The trustees and authorities of the university and the several colleges of the state of Virginia, impressed with the importance of these institutions to the educational interests of the country, and convinced of the justness of their claims to the countenance and support of the general assembly, met in convention by their respective delegations, in the City of Richmond, on Monday the 8th day of December 1845, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of making a joint application to your honourable body for the extension to them of such pecuniary aid as in your judgment may be afforded without detriment to the public welfare."--Page 1.

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