nd acres of land;
the revenue of one pence per pound on tobacco exported to the
plantations from Virginia and Maryland; and the surveyor general's
place, then avoid; and appointed them a burgess to represent them in the
assemblies. The land hitherto has yielded little or no profit; the duty
of one pence per pound, brings in about two hundred pounds a year; and
the surveyor general's place, about fifty pounds a year. To which the
assembly had added a duty on skins and furs exported, worth about an
hundred pounds a year.

Sec. 41. By the same charter, likewise, their majesties granted a power to
certain gentlemen, and the survivors of them, as trustees, to build and
establish the college, by the name of William and Mary college; to
consist of a president and six masters, or professors, and an hundred
scholars, more or less, graduates or non-graduates; enabling the said
trustees, as a body corporate, to enjoy annuities, spiritual and
temporal, of the value of two thousand pounds sterling per annum, with
proviso to convert it to the building and adorning the college; and then
to make over the remainder to the president and masters, and their
successors, who are likewise to become a corporation, and be enabled to
purchase and hold to the value of two thousand pounds a year, but no
more.

Sec. 42. The persons named in the charter for trustees, are made governors
and visitors of the college, and to have a perpetual succession, by the
name of governors and visitors, with power to fill up their own
vacancies, happening by the death or removal of any of them. Their
complete number may be eighteen, but not to exceed twenty, of which one
is to be rector, and annually chosen by themselves, on the first Monday
after the 25th of March.

These have the nomination of the president and masters of the college,
and all other officers belonging to it; and the power of making statutes
and ordinances, for the better rule and government thereof.

Sec. 43. The building is to consist of a quadrangle, two sides of which are
not yet carried up. In this part are contained all conveniencies of
cooking, brewing, baking, &c., and convenient rooms for the reception of
the president and masters, with many more scholars than are as yet come
to it. In this part are also the hall and school room.

Sec. 44. The college was intended to be an intire square when finished. Two
sides of this were finished in the latter end of Governor Nicholson's
time, and