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Rh disposed of, exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, or any Salary to be augmented at any Meeting of the Trustees, the same shall be first pro- posed at a preceding Meeting and particularly express' d in the written Notice to be given. In addition to the approval and enactment of the above The President, Mr. Peters and Mr. Inglis are appointed a Committee to consider the Rates to be paid by the Scholars in the General schools and to prepare a Scheme thereof, to be laid before the Trustees at their next Meeting. They are likewise desired to consider what Vacations and Hollidays ought to be allowed. We are without the results or report of this Committee's work, as there is an absence of all Minutes for five months those of 9 December being the next recorded, but mention must not be omitted of their voting at this meeting " a Sum not exceeding one Hundred and Fifty pounds Sterling, be laid out in an Ap- paratus for exhibiting Philosophical Experiments." It was at this July meeting " Mr. Paul Jackson was chosen clerk to the Trustees for the ensuing year, and to be allowed Six pounds per annum for that service." Mr. Jackson had been a tutor for three years, and in less than a twelvemonth from this time we shall find him one of the Faculty. The faithful Trustee, Wil- liam Coleman, was thus relieved from the clerkship ; at the first meeting of the Trustees he was elected Treasurer, but on 17 December, 1750, "Mr. William Coleman being requested to act as Clerk for the ensuing year, agrees to perform that service," but his year lengthened out to almost five years. The new clerk makes no note of explanation of this hiatus in the pro- ceedings of the Trustees. It was however a season of alarm in the Province, for Braddock' s expedition which had raised the highest hopes of a final destruction to the efforts of the French and their Indian allies on our borders had by his defeat in July brought the colonists to the lowest straits of anxiety and alarm. General Braddock had landed at Alexandria, Virginia, with his confident troops and in his own greater confidence, and marched thence to Fredericktown, where he was obliged to halt for transportation. The unfortunate dissensions in the Pennsylvania Assembly, the non-resistants opposed to grants for military defence, and the executive hampered, Braddock had formed the