Draft of Bill to Ohio Senate and House of Representatives

Draft of Bill to Ohio Senate and House of Representatives

Lane Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Theological Seminaries

A petition to the senate and house of representatives in Ohio to establish a presbyterian theological seminary. It states the institution has the support guaranteed by E. Lane and Company, Merchants of New Orleans.

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Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Unpublished

Possibly 1828

Maddie Smith, Transcriber
Sara Smith, Transcriber

Part of the Lane Theological Seminary Records at the Presbyterian Historical Society

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Lane_008 - Lane_009

19th Century

(Lane_008)

 

Line 1                          To the Hon. The Senate & House of Representatives

Line 2                          of the State of Ohio in General Assembly ~

Line 3                                      The Petition of Joshua S. Wilson, David Root,

Line 4              James Challen, William Schillinger, Robert Boal Jr, Jabes C. Tunis

Line 5              John F. Keyes, Isaac G. Burnet, Ephraim Robins, James Warren

Line 6              John H. Groesbeck, Robert Wallace, William W. Greene, John Thompson

Line 7              Daniel Hayden, David Wurtz, Samuel January, & Abraham A. Halsey

Line 8              Respectfully Herewith _

Line 9                                                  That whereas Your Petitioners

Line 10            impressed with the importance of religious Education and

Line 11            believing that the interests of religion & learning in the

Line 12            west require the establishment of a well regulated

Line 13            literary & theological Seminary in this section of Country

Line 14            have conceived the design of forming such an Establishment_

Line 15            And whereas the peculiar plan of the proposed seminary

Line 16            combines many advantages especially in the facilities which

Line 17            would be afforded to [indigent] young for acquiring a

Line 18            preparation for the godful ministry ~ And whereas the

Line 19            pecuniary means necessary for the support of said institution

Line 20            after its establishment [under] a legal act of incorporation

Line 21            have been guaranteed to your Petitioners by Messrs. E. Lane & Co.

Line 22            Merchants of New Orleans, who have generously offered to

Line 23            appropriate for this purpose one third [part] of the next

Line 24            annual income arising from the profits of their mercantile

Line 25            concern for the term of three years & one fourth part of

Line 26            said income under certain limitations there after; & have

Line 27            moreover bound themselves in a written covenant that the

Line 28            said appropriation shall during the first four years

Line 29            amount at least to the sum of four thousand dollars_

 

(Lane_009)

 

Line 1              Your Petitioners therefore pray your Honorable [unclear] to

Line 2              incorporate them a body politic by Enacting the annexed

Line 3              bill into a law of the State of Ohio_ And Your Petitioners

Line 4              as in duty bound will ever pray_

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