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National Education and Literary Honors.

Let the Literati of the Country form a Literary Institute for a division of of the Kingdom, so that there be four Institutes, one for each division; the Institute to consist of a President, Fellows and Members.

Let there be further a National Associate, to be called the Literary Associate of the Realm, consisting of Members, Fellows, Knights, Council and President. The Fellows of each and all of the four Institutes in virtue of their Fellowship, to be members of the Literary Associate of the Realm.

The Fellows of the Associate to consist of five hundred individuals, chosen from the members of the Associate, the votes to be openly given and recorded and not to be by ballot.--The Members of the Associate are the elective body.

Let there be moreover a hundred Knights, (not Baronets) in the first instance elected by the Sovereign; to wear a coronet and dress peculiar,

and the usual prefix of Sir-for life; the number never to exceed one hundred. One of the Knights, to be President of the Literary Associate. The appointment always with the Crown-and to be for life.

The Sovereign confides the election and instalment of the Knights afterwards, as death may decrease their number, to the President, Council and Knights at that time existing. The candididates for knighthood must be Fellows of the Literary Associate. No Fellow can be proposed but by a Knight with the concurrence of ten other Knights. The Knights, by election return a double number to the Council, and the President and council by majority of votes finally elect to the dignity. The Instalment is by the President in a full assembly or convocation of the

Associate.

The Knights to be called severally Literary Knight of the Kingdom of--and to have a moderate stipend from the Public Treasury; the Literary Knight Counsellors somewhat more; and the Literary Knight President a still higher income from the Nation. The Fellows and members of the Associate have no remuneration; also the

Presidents, Fellows and members of the Institutes have no remuneration.

To one electoral district or more, let there be appointed seven Professors, namely; one of Greek, of Latin, of Mathematics, of Modern Languages of the West, of Oriental Languages and Literature; of History, Mental Philosophy and Belles-Lettres; and one of Natural History.

One set of Professors to be appointed to a hundred scholars; if that number is increased another set, viz. one Professor for each department of science above named, is to be appointed and so continually but the classes of the first appointment are completed always in preference to the classes of the second and subsequent appointment.

The Candidates for the professor-ships must be fellows of one of the literary Institutions, and be on the electoral list,-their appointment to the professor-ship is by vote of the electors of the District or Districts to which they are appointed.

The Professors receive no stipend from the State or District, but depend on the fees paid by the scholars.

The Fees to be uniform throughout the country

that is, the scale of charges by one set of professors, is to be the scale with all others; but parliamentary sanction is required to fix or alter it.

The professors to give the lectures in their own houses, and not in any separate building, or place exclusively appropriated to such purpose, nor in any case elsewhere than in their habitations. Professors are not obliged to give lectures on Sunday or the first day of the week. Some of the professors to give two lectures a week, others one, the particular regulations, the length of the lecture, and the vacations or recess, to be fixed by statute.

Two sets of professors are not to be located together, but are to be so apportioned among the Districts or parts of the District, as to afford the greatest facilities to the public.

The professors are not allowed to keep any day or boarding school in connection with their professorship, nor to board severally more than six of the scholars,

No matriculation or other fees, or deposit, required of scholars upon admission to the lectures but some elector and their relatives or friends, are

to be bound for payment of fees, propriety of conduct, &c.

No scholar is admitted to the classes without a ticket, signed by the Greek, Latin, and Mathematical professors. The ticket must be given if the scholar can translate any Latin and Greek author, including the most difficult both prose and poetic, and give the reason or rule of construction; and can solve the problems in the first six books of Euclid; and if unequal to these, the ticket must not be signed on pain of bringing the professors' conduct before the Fellows and President of the Institution.

An annual examination of the scholars to take place before the President and two Fellows of the Institute for that division, and the scholars who receive continually three annual certificates, from the examiners, or declaration that they have passed the examination creditably, shall thereby be members of the Institute for that Division: they are permitted to wear some emblem; and this membership is a title and literary distinction.

If not passed in the third year, the scholar may remain and attend a fourth examination, or more, but the exercises must not be less easy than those

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