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{Bm.K men:
Mart thought that your private and pa
tfeii contemplation of the following bill.
„Bd not fail ‘o obtain for it, your a,np;o
-yjßmd, 1 am hopeful that in affording you
K;>oHiinity fur that purpose, I present a
W® ,v excuse for my obtrusion.
Ht should oe pest that one who has been
in the projection (and must there -
|flbe familiar with the natural shape of its
■.{fßres) shoul 1 fill die principal office, mi
jiße paths, of duty can be paved for suc
gßprs, lam a candidate I have no claim
tha’ is nos quiti as humble as the
gßjroing; but,- on tins account, my recolleo-
Ijjmnf your favor would not be the less j
jßavdv to tlie success of the Bill, because, !
fß.re the office, my name will be with-j
,-jßm; for, I would not consent to be die .
*Be of a public misfortune: it should also
fßitlidiawn, if, die persecution I havesuf-
Sl, should be made the ground of my sup
*B, for I would acc.ept of nothing on such
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18-'V ICT, to institute the Athenxan Pal
|H"n: or, to incorporate a grand literary so
md county colleges thereof: to create
‘.ißoffice >f Hetman of the Athenian P.illa
(Hn: an offi er to preside at meetings of the j
IB.] literary society, and over the affairs :
(H - Athenxan Palladium; who, shall also 1
(fft: rve the history of Georgia; compile di-
Bs: revise bdls: keen a register of public
‘B-e’ , s; control the national library; make ,
for, expose and reprehend public
suggest plans for public improvement;
~;B:e annual communtcations to the general
and, together with the grand lite-
B snciei v, consider and deliberate upon
Jlßibjeets under the head*, of art and science,
B upon all that may promote the public
yßsperity: likewise, to found a grand na
-8.,! library • and, fin die, to pro- ide for the
Bun” of the Atlienxui Palladium.
‘■TV'-re.i.?, experience proves, uni noiii-el- :
Bm’ mind will doubt, that the sciences and
B> are tiie great fountains of national hap- I
dß'ss i id grandeur: we, the re present at iv s j
H® I.- peonle if Georg,i, are solicitous to ]
llß'’ ° !n ’ S1 ,!f * among her confederate sis- 1
H,-i hi moi; i •-e.iiuiSv.f-n-. -iic'-n. in’
‘,;.tßsplendor of Her fame, and the Magnitude
JlB • bVssmgs: and. we ate hOjiefd that
pH he present enictm-nt we shall lay the
( Bndation of a great te-nnle—which, our
gßcessors, and all patriotic Georgians, will
bill up an l embellish; and,
Hcli, ere long, will coni at n the most favor-
of every muse.
|B?ei’ enacted by the Senate and
fßuse of Representatives of the State of
: Borgia in general assembly met, and by
SB authority of the same, it is hereby enact
B is follows:
H. I’he whole institntion designed >n these
Btioiis, shall be styled tlie Athenxan Falla-
Bm.
. H All those officers, herein to be named,
’ Base offices nr commissions contribute io
tvH support oft he Athenxan Palladium, to
gfltlier with all other citizens of Georgia,
iHocontribute not less than five dollars per.
SHinm to the same object, shall form a body
iHrporate, under the name of the Grand I.it
|Hary Society.
|B.i lii each county, ihere shall be a branch
gS'lie said Grand Literary Society, to be
Sgßled the Literary College of said count!':
SHch college sh dl be composed of such mem-
of the Grand Lierarv Society as reside
county to which it belongs: and, shall
|H n body corporate of i'self, but in subordi
gßt.on to the Grand Literary Society.
Hi The end or design of tliese incorpora-
IHms is to cherish the arts and sciences, :vj|l
the improvement of the Sta'e.—
jßhey shall attend to every object within the
jßiinpass of this design, but not go beyond.
jjH's. The Grand Literary Society shall meet
IB’ represe itation: and, the representatives
|Ball lie die members of the general assem
|H.v: generals of division and brigade; judges
IHFthe superior court; members of congress;
gHilonels of the line or staff, lieutenant colo
-IHK comptroller, surveyor, adjutant and at
|Bi’;iey, generals,secretary ofstate, treasurer,
|B'lge of oyer and terminer, the governor,
|Hul lie hetman to be herein created.
B 9 6. The meetings of tlie Grand Literary
icty shall occur at the seat of government,
B> tin* evening of every Tuesday and Sauir-
B'v during the session outlie general assem
|B V . after the present session: they shall be
the hall of the liouse of representatives,
meetings of the county colleges shall
|Hcciir on the first Mondays of February,
IBpril, June, August and September, and,
be held wherever the corporation de-
Hjres, though the place shall be permanent.
IHxtra meetings may be held by adjournment
B'ereto, either by the grand society or the
Holleges.
H ?• Os the Grand Literary Society, his ex-
Bellencythe governor shall befirst president,
Hhe president of the senate, 2d, the senators to
Bongress 3d and 4th, according to their na-
Bjiral ages: the major generals according to
Bhr dates of their military commissions. The
Brtinan shall always take the chair except
Bhen his excellency the governor is pre-
B-xi, and then he shall place in it a vice pre-
Bdent or member. When the Hetman is
Bot present, the presidents according to
■heir precedence, and then the vice presi-
B ei >ts may act in the chair. These vice-pre-
B'detits shall he the speaker of the house of
B e prcsentatives, the brigadier generals ac-
DARIEN lliis GAZETTE.
DARIEN, (GEORGIA,) <£qual att& <£jract justice. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1824.
cording to the da'es of their military com
missions, the judges of the superior cmirts
according to natural age, the representatives J
to congress according to natural age.
8. Over the colleges, the senators shall
preside as vice hetman, each in the county he
represents, and the members of the house
of representatives shall be vice presidents of
the said those of each delegation in ;
thebount T trepresents: according to natuf-;
al are shall be'their precedence.
9i As to-dye insignia of office- the hetpnan j
andvicft-hetman, each in his peculiar meet-:
ing, dial! be dhpfinguished by a plain military
hah and a pi ‘n.wnUe baton or staff of two
f* -u >i A :• iff ode mc'i in diameter. The :
or the grand society shall be dis-j
tinguislied by a black baton of the like di-;
mensions. The vice-presidents of the grand ;
society, and those of the colleges, sliirtl be
distinguished by a black baton of the same
diameter . but four feet in length, and with a
white cross piece of four inches long, pas- ,
sing through it, at three inches below the •
head. The presidents and vice-presidents, ■
bolh of the grand society or any college,;
shall wear their hats in their peculiar meet-1
ings l the former shall also wear theirs in col
lege meetings, but novice-president or vice
hetman of a college shall wear the insignia
of these ranks in the meeting of the grand
society, except they are the insignia of a
rank he holds in the grand society.—
Seated together on the right of tlie cha r
shall be tlie presidents, and oil the left
the vice-presidents of the grand society: 1
the vice-presidents of the college wicieties
shall be seated on the right of their chair, un
less there sliou Id be present a president or
vice-president of the grand society, as a vi
siter or member o f the college society, and
then, the former shall to the latter give the
right, and themselves take the left.
10. All decisions of the grand society, or
any college shall he by simple resolution, and
a common majority shall decide: the resolu
tions of a college shall be called desires, atid
those ofthegrrnd society, adoptions: no a
doption or desire shall contain any thing re
pugnant to ihese sections, or to the laws or
constitutions of this state or the U. States.
11. Each officer or member present, shall
have but one vote, and this shall be given
viva voce: the hetman, or vice-hetman shall
vote onlv when there is a tie.
12. The hetman or vice-hetman, or anv
other officer, or any member, may speak
upon a question: the order or speaking shall
lie thus: he who introduces a subject may
speak first: then, each officer in the order of
his precedence, after the hetman or vice
hetman: t lieh, a secretary shall call upon the
members in alphabetical order: no one shall
pres unc to rise hilt in his turn. Those who
, : r; - to speak in their turn shall a-wentl a
rostrum, tvhich tlie hetman and each vice
hetman, shall cause 1o be set tip: it shall be
a moveable stage of six feet diameter, round,
with a railing, and elevated upon feet suffi
ciency high to rrive the audience a full view
of the whole person ofthe speaker. When
the het man, vice-hetman, or other chairman
is to speak he shall call another to the chair
and ascend the rostrum. No person shall
converse or leave the house while another is
speaking without the most urgent necessity.
13. The desires of the colleges shall not be
as final decrees: they shall he sent by the
vice-hetman, to tlie hetman, and bv the lat
ter he laid before the grand society, to be
made adoptions or be rejected: neither shall
any adoption be as a final decree, until it has
received the signature and approval of the
hetman: this signature and approval, howev
er, he shall grant <o every adoption: only re
serving to himself the right to inscribe the
word voluntary upon such as he would have
signed and approved if alio ved a veto.
14. All adoptions shall by the hetman’s
order he delivered hv his secretary, to the
joint standing Athenxan committee of the
general assembly to be reported upon to the
general assembly. There shall be such a
committee appointed at the beginning of
everv session: and, the general assembly will
deliberate nnon its reports, and adopt or re
ject as it may think proper, it will also call
for the adoption or adoptions to be laid before
each house, or not, as it may think proper.
These adoptions shall only stand in the light
of petitions to the general assembly.
15. TbecolJeges, as corporate bodies, hav
ing the righ f to sue. or be sued in their cor
porate names, shall have the right to sue or
be sued by, ihe grand society.
16. Neither the corporation of the grand
society, or the corporations ofthe colleges,
shall have tlie right to hold property except
the funds requisite to their support in the
pursuance of the object es their design.
17. The great seal of the grand society
shall he the profile of Athena: that of eacli
college, tlie owl, sacred to Athena: and, the
official seal of tlie hetman shall be the Basi
lisk, sacred io ine same divinity. These seals
shall be set on rings, noi exceeding ten dol
lars in value: the first shall be kept by his
excellency the governor, the second by the
vice hetman, and the third by *iie hetman:
they shall he worn by these officers on the
third finger of the right hand, they shall be
purchased bv the hetman at the expense of
iiis office, and the respective corporations—
they shall not be wanting when an impres
simv.is required, and those who wear them.’
shall have them delivered over to their suc
cessors in office.
18. The grand society shall adopt the award
of medals -to genius of the first order, in any
department, within the compass of the de
sign of its incorporation, and tke colleges
may. within ihe same Compass, desire medals.
But, no one college shall desire more than
ten medals per annum—neither shall the
grand society adopt the award of more than
five per annum. The said -grand society shall
not withstanding', adopt at its third meeting,
I dtiringhhe 1 year 1825, the award of 20 medals,
i to the 20 persons most worthy, who have dis
| tingnished tlvemselves in times past and be
I fore tlie date of the first of January 1826
those persons ‘ shall have been citizens of
Georgia, and to the nearest relatives or heirs
of those who be not alive, tlie medals shall ‘
be sent to be preserved: the medals of those
\v ithout heirs or relatives shall be the pro-j
perty of the state and be preserved in the ■
executive office. These medals shall not |
exceed the value of three dollars each, and j
be of silver: they shall, under the direction !
: ofthe hetman be stamped with appropriate |
\ impressions. For instance, that forgreat mi- ,
i litarv genius, shall be stamped wiiii the pa- |
implied image of Athena, otherwise called j
Minerva, and the cock sacred to that divinity: i
For great political genius, the panoplied im- J
age of Athena, forgreat political and milita
ry genius combined, the panoplied image
of Athena, with the cock and oasilisk:
for general science, the ponoplied image of
Athena, with the cock, tlm basilisk, and owl:
for great eloquence, the profile and name of j
the muse Calliope: for high distinction asan .
agriculturalist the profile and name of the
Goddess Ceres, &c. When any impression j
has been once adopted for any particular ex-
I cellence, the same shall ever after be adopted j
l for the same excellence- it shall therefore be j
the duty of the hetman to record such origi
nal impressions.
19 Each member shall at the first meet
ing subscribe twenty-five cents, andllie same
annually ever afterwards; to make up a fund
for the purchase of medals, seals, ink, paper,
< &c. To this fund for similar objects shall be
i added all fines; and, these shall be imposed
1 by the meeting, for non-attendance and otb
ler irregularities. Any member who pays
his .twenty-five cents in the grand society,
may not pay the same in a college: this shall
not be vice versa; pavment in a college shall
not exempt therefrom in the grand society.
20. It shall be the duty of every member,
to refrain from every immoral practice what
ever: the meeting may inflict a fine for any
immoral action committed, either in, or out,
of session.
21. No member shall refuse the request of
any person not a member, today his or her
project before a meeting, provided the same
be within the compass of the design of the
corporations, and be. not too absurd.
22. The grand society and each college
shall have such'other rules and regulations
ior their government as may not lie repug
nant to these sections or to tlie laws or con
stitutions of this state or the United States.
These additional rules and regulations shall
be drawn and presented by the Hetman: they
shall be uniform for the colleges, and shall
be completed before the first of January,
1826: they shall be unalterable by the colle
ges: the grand society may alter them or any
article of them for the colleges upon a spe
cial desire of a majority of said colleges: the
hetman shall niter those for nj so.-e
ty upon a special adoption by the said socie
ty: in either case the alteration wished for,
shall be stated.
2.3*. It may be requisite to explain, that
am matter may originate in the grand socie
ty, as well as in any college.
24. The office of hetman alluded to in the
foregoing sections.
25. At a convenient time during the pre
sent session, there shall be elected an officer
to be styled tlie bet man of the Athenxan
Palladium: in this election the same forms
and circumstances shall be observed, that
attend the election of any other officer by tlie
general assembly.
26- He shall be elected to serve during
good behaviour, and be, by the governor,
commissioned accordingly.
27. He shall not have the right to resign,
unless he gives notice to the general assem
bly, of at least one person willing and wor
thy to fill the office.
28. For incapacity or misconduct he shall
he removed from office by rhe general as
sembly: this removal shall be brought about
in no other manner than by trial upon im
j peachment; and, this shall be attended with
the forms and circumstances prescribed in
j the constitution.
29. He shall without delay, after the re
! ceipt of his commission, take and sign the
I following-oath, before a judge of live supe-
I rior, or justice of the inferior court. I
] do solemnly swear in the presence of Al
mighty God, that I am a citizen of the state
of Georgia, not less, as I beiieve, than twen
! ty-five years of age and have resided in the
said state during the two years last elapsed:
. 1 will be just and impartial in all my writings-
I will abhor and scorn all fiction and unwor
thy embellishment or partiality in my histo
ry, and use all diligence and integrity to
make trnth the soul thereof; 1 will shun, con
j demn, all, intemperance, licen
; sciousness, frivolity, avarice, pageantry, os
tentation, and all manner of vice and follow
whatever, as, degrading to nature, ruinous
to the state, disgraceful to my office, and ob
structivaffo the pursuit of science. I will be
faithful to the laws and constitutions r.f Geor
gia, and the United States, finally, I will put
forth the best exertion to perform to the
satisfaction of the general assembly, the
grand literary society, tlie Georgian people,
the world and my conscience, all the duties
of the office of hetman, so help me God.—
This oath, shall be, by the judge or justice,
1 transmitted to the governor, and the hetman
shall without delay enter upon the duties of
i his office, and make public proclamation of
the same.
j 30. The duties of the Hitman shall, as well
his functions and privile sA 5 he as set forth
: in previous sectionsof this enactment, and, as
j follows.
31 He shall compose and publish the his
| torv of Georgia.
j 32. He shall be allowed two and not ex
! ceeding three, years, in which to bi-ing up
; the past history from the earliest time, to a
! present period; after this he shall write and
j publish the history of each year, in the year
1 succeeding. He shall adopt a scale suffi-
I ciently voluminous, to embrace the names of
i all who distinguish themselves in the legis-
I lature, the field, &c. For the sake of unifor
mity the historical plan of tlie first hetman i
shall be precisely followed b! his successors.
33. Tlie hetman whenever required by the
general assemblt, shall compile the laws, or
form a digest, so called. !
34. He shall revise all bills of a general i
bearing, before they come into either house; i
he shall remove their ambiguities, and ren-1
der them candid and perspicuous; so as to !
prevent misinterpretations, and cut off from J
the bar and courts this danger of perverting
the designs and purposes ofthe legislature. 1
The chairman of committees shall lav them
before him, and lie shall have them returned
to tliese chairmen as soon as possible. The ;
hetman shall make research, and be vigilant
to detect all public evil®; he shall proclaim j
and reprove tlie same in tlie gazettes, or re
port them to the general assembly. He shall
likewise make research, and unfold to the
said general assembly, every chance and ]
measure of public improvement. (The first
hetman shall in the outset plan the reforma
! tion of the militlit and other defective sys
tem,) On these subjects the hetman shall
: make at the opening of each session, a com
j muni-cation to the geneial assembly. There
shall be a joint standing committee to be call
ed tlie historical committee, to which may be
referred, and which shall inspect all the pro
ductions of the hetman.
35. He shall compile and publish an annu
al register of the names and rank of all who
contribute to the clionic fund. ! hose of
each county, or who sit in each college, shall
be furnished by the vice hetman ot said col
lege, to the hetman, before the 20th day of
January in each year.
36. The hetman shall cause (o be publish
ed, of said register and of the history, such a
number of copies as will Furnish one of each,
to each person who is a member ofthe grand
literary society, or contributei- to tlie clionic
fund. These copies shall be covered and
printed in a style suited to the amount ofthe
rate or subscription ofthe persons. He shall
likewise publish such an additional number
as may be readily sold. He shall cause the
sale to be made to the best advantage after
having obtained the publication at a reasona
ble cost.
37. To the meetings of the grand literary
society it shall be the duty of tlie hetman to
offer subjects for deliberation, though the
same shall be the right of anv member.
38. The hetman shall annually appoint for
the grand literary society five secretaries
and one treasurer, and for each college v o
secretaries and a treasurer; tliese offic* :•*
shall be taken from among the members;
and no one shall be hound to serve mure than
two years iri succession.
39. The hetman who will he employed in
his studies, will require a person as a clerk
or secretary'of Ids offices air! !; br;.i iaa
and lest blindness or some oilier affliction
should ensue from too constant reading and
writing, he shall be allowed a person as a
reader and Amanuensis. These two persons
shall be of his own appointment.
40. He shall.have free access to all ar
chives, records, documents, memorials, &c.
that may be necessary to prepare his mind
for writing.
41. He shall keep his office and library at
the seat of government, and in a secure fire
proof building; they shall be kept in the
state-house, if there be proper apartments,
not already occupied; otlier” is? as near to
the state-house as such apart meats can be ob
tained.
42. It shall be the duty ofthe first hetman
to adopt a sei of rules .for private govern
ment in his office and library, which none
shall infringe, and his successors shall follow.
43. Concerning the library alluded to in the
foregoing sections.
44 There shall be ?. grand nalionallibra
rv, over which the hetman shall have full
control. He shall also select the books, maps,
globes, &c. which shall be marked Georgia;
the books shall be covered with a uniform
and durable binding.
45. A share in this library shall belong to
each member of the literary society, or con
tributer to the clionic funds, or support of
thefAthenxan Palladium; for the accommoda
tion of all such persons, it shall be kept open
eight hours of the twenty-four.
46. No article shall be loaned out ofthe
library without a deposit of ireble the value;
which; shall be forfeited if the said ar
tide is not returned within a reasonable and
specified time.
47. Chairs and plain sofas shall be kept in
the library for the accommodation of mem
bers of the literary society. No person shall
have a right to enter or remain, except for
study; no noise or disorderly conduct shall
be allowed in the library.
48. Twice per week during the session of
the general assembly, and as much oftener
as to the hetman it may be convenient, for
not less than three hours per night, <he li
brary shall be open to the representing
members of the grand literary society, for
scientific discourse. On these occasions la
dies of intelligence and respectable charac
ter mav be invited to attend; they will afford
a restraint upon the language and manners
of the members, and they will themselves
imbibe useful instruction. The hetman shall
be present, if not too busily engaged in his
studies.
49. To support the .Athenian Palladium.
50. Upon each ofthe following offices and
commissions, there shall be an annual levy
according to the following rates: office or
commission of governor, member of the ge
neral assembly, general of division and bri
gade, member of congress, colonel of the lino
or staff; adjutant, attorney, surveyor and
! comptroller generals, judge of the superior
! court, judge of oyer and termiher, secre’ary
of state, treasurer and hetman, the sum of
; five dollars each: upon the office or commis
sion ol the major of the line or staff, justice
] ofthe inferior court, solicitor general, clerk
of the superior court, sheriff, tax collector,
i director of a bank on the part of the state,
| health officer, 3fod harbor master if elected
by the general assembly, secretary o ; the
senate, clerk of the house of representatives
and principal keeper ofthe penitentiary, the
sum of 50 cents each: upon those ofcv.p
tains of die line or staff", deputy sheriff, re
ceiver of tax returns, clerk of tlie interior’
court, pountv jailor and notary public., ihe
sum of g 2 each; upon those ot lieutenant of
the line or staff, coroner, justice ofthe peace,
clerk of the court of ordinary, commission
er of the roa<ls and rivers, librarian an aman
uensis of the hetman, county surveyor, com
missioner of academy, president and pro
fessor of Franklin “ollege. commission of pi
dotage if appointed by the general assembly,
and count! constable, ‘he sum ot 75 cents
each; upon all such offices or commissions,
as may hereafter be created, the amount
] which the general assembly may impose, and
‘ upon all such persons as may become mem
! bers of the literary society by subscription,
the sum of five doHa'-s until they think pro
per to resign membership. F.ach incurr-nent
for each office or commission he holds -hall
pay its rate, and each other member Ins sub
scription. to the tax-collector ofthe county
in which he resides: except such as have pay
ora salary from the state, and the treasurer
shall stop ’he amounts coming from these.—
’ Against defaulters, the tax-collector shall
‘ proceed as against defaulter foj common tax
] es. The money shall he paid over to die
I treasury, and ‘lie collectors be responsible
for it upon their common bond for ordinary
taxes: they and the return receivers s 1 all
• have Compensation at the same rate as for
collection of common taxes ano taking com
j mon. returns,
i 51. To the whole amount arising from the
foregoing sources, shall be added the soma
1 arising from the sales of books, and the sum
! total, allowing largely for losses sliail ie es
j timated at five thousand dollars per annum,
’ and he called the clionic fund on subsidy. It
: shall he the property of the state, and in con
i sidcration thereof the state shall make the
- following payments anouallv, from the first
jday of January 1825
I 52. To the hetman as his salary §1,200
i per annum payable monthly : :o the same for
j his librarian and amanuensis §3OO each per
‘annum, payable monthly: io ihe same in
; 1826 §2OO, for library furniture, anti each
i succeeding year §2O. to keep The same in
repair: to the said hetman for expense of ink,
quills, paper, postage and transportation of
! books, &<-. §2OO per annum payable month
i ly: to him for liouse rent; if re cannot get
suitable moms in the state, §'.’Uo per annum
; payable monthly.
, 53. The balance of near three thousand,
Sind! first pay the annual expense f pub
lishing ‘he lostory and register. ’ ‘Le bet
trau shall ■ oi.'rac with pi me: > a. a reasona
ble rate: a (.yi-ine*- of fifefu • it’ or
wards may remain; and ’ !iis slid 1 f>< -applied
as follows, viz: one thousand or not exceed
ing'that si■ , , to j4e a.miai ench ase H the
library: (In. o:'.:* hundred or not exceeding
, dial sum to he use of die grand literary so
ciety: the balance to ihe state, as an equiva
-1 lent to the future support t wili.gram to het
| men vvhq retire from office in poverty, after
; becoming decrepid from a discharge ot their
! duties.
j 54. All the above payments shah be made
as-allotted, when applied under ihe usual
j forms and circumstances attending the pay
j ment of money out ofthe treasury.
55 In addition to the duties ofthe helman
j already; prescribed, he shall do as follows:
i allow’ a fair commision to those who sell the
j books, and when he pays ’he pro
’ ceeds of tlie sates into tlie treasury, proper
i vouchers for the accuracy of tlie amount:
j his printers bills, and amount of house rent
j shall also be well attested,
i 56. He shall secure the copy rights of his
works for the use of the state.
57. The foregoing* sections form ah out
line, which may serve for ground work, or
present enactment: touches from year to
year, wil* soon give completion.
The names, Mhencan and Palladium, are
taken, the first from . ithena , a name of the
goddess of science; the. second is added be
cause the state will be safe with the institu
tion, as was Troy with the. image ot .ilhena
or .Minerva, called the Palldium. The name
of Hetman is adopted because 1 could find no
name that would include the signification of
all the various duties of the chief ofthe Athe
nxan Palladium: Hetman, in our language is
tne corruption of Head-Jlan: it is therefore
applicable to the officer at the head if any
department, from constable t. governc”, as
is the term chief be president, or in tlu milita
ry’ that of captain: by corrupting Head into
Het , the outward ostentation js taken away,
and the word rendered incomparably more
modest and suiiable to a republican car than
mam of the titles in use among us. The
term Clionic, is taken from the t ame of Cho t
the historical muse, who is so named from
the excellence of what she records. Enough
on the subject of empty names.
By forming all the officers ofthe state in
to a grand literary incorporation, and those
again of each county info a respectablo col
lege, we provide a habitation for the patro
nizing divinities of ait and *ience, in every
neighborhood.’ A spirit of emulation will
instantly rise, the officers themselves will
vie with -acb other, and the people be ea
ger togfcjLyße. Those who may live to be
hold at, the end of twenty or thir
ty yea will find Ignorance banished from
among all classes,'intelligence and integrity
the most prominent features of the Georgian
and the happiness and glory of
our siatej holding her above ihe rest of the
confederation. AH this would be atchieved
even by that bare spirit of emulation alone,
but how much more certainly when the in
stitution is so framed as to make it a solemn
and imperious duty to pursue the grand at
tainment, not simrdv as a g< al for individual
comped'ion, but as a sacred object of nation
al policy? Uoitcerning ihe- lietinanship in
particular: there must be at the head nf
J\‘o. 40.