fessor, and candidates
shall read and defend a dissertation, etc.

"11. Every person receiving a degree in Medicine shall cause his
thesis to be printed, and sixteen copies thereof to be delivered to
the president, for the use of the college and Trustees.

"12. The fee for attending a full course of lectures shall be fifty
dollars; that is, for Anatomy and Surgery, twenty-five dollars; for
Chemistry and Materia Medica, fifteen dollars, and for Theory and
Practice, ten dollars.

"13. The members of the two senior classes in college may attend the
medical lectures by paying twenty dollars for the full course.

"Besides these statutes, the Trustees voted that Mr. Smith might
employ assistance in any of his departments, at _his own expense_,
and that one half part of the fees for conferring the degree of
Bachelor of Medicine be his perquisite, and the other half a
perquisite to the president of the college.

"The first course of lectures was delivered in the fall of 1797,
although Mr. Smith was not elected to his professorship until after
his return from Europe, the following year. In the year 1798, two
young men were graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Medicine. The
next year the Trustees voted to appropriate a room in the northeast
corner of Dartmouth Hall to the use of Professor Smith, and it was
repaired and furnished for that purpose. The room was a small one,
scarcely as large as a common parlor, but still it served for a
lecture hall, dissecting-room, chemical laboratory and library, for
several years, when another room adjoining was appropriated to the
same purpose.

"In 1801, the degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon Mr.
Smith, and a committee was appointed to confer with him in relation to
a salary. A grant of fifty dollars per annum was voted him, upon which
he was to allow a debt he owed the college for money loaned. I presume
that this latter was furnished him in order to enable him to visit
Europe.

"The Trustees about this time made a change in the term of study
required for a degree. The new statute fixed the period of three years
for academical graduates, and five years for non-graduates."

In 1803 the New Hampshire Legislature granted $600 to Dr. Smith for
the purchase of apparatus, and in 1809 $3,450 for "a building of brick
or stone for a medical school, sixty-five feet in length, thirty-two
feet in width, and two stories in height," Dr. Smith furnishing land
for the purpose. He