. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. The other officers of the institution are a physician,superintendent and matron, in whose family all the pupils reside and receive theirconstant attention. The terms of admission are $105 per year for board and tui-tion to those who can afford to pay; but ample provision has been made by thestate for tliose who are in indigent circumstances, which fact must be certified toby a magistrate in the county where they reside. Persons in comfortable
. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. The other officers of the institution are a physician,superintendent and matron, in whose family all the pupils reside and receive theirconstant attention. The terms of admission are $105 per year for board and tui-tion to those who can afford to pay; but ample provision has been made by thestate for tliose who are in indigent circumstances, which fact must be certified toby a magistrate in the county where they reside. Persons in comfortable cir-cumstances at home, but unable to educate their children without ruinous sacrifi-ces, receive the public assistance, in part or in whole, as may be necessary. Thebuildings consist of two substantial plain brick houses, which are ample andcomfortable, situated in a retired part of the town, with a superintendent who iseminently qualified to discharge the duties of his station. The number of pupilsin the Mistitution from January 1, 184G, to January 1, 1847, was fifty-three, andprovis -in is made by law for the support of forty indigent CENTRE COLLEGE, DANVILLE, KY. 206 CENTRE COLLEGE. Centrk College is located in Danville, a pleasant town near the centre of thestate, with a very intellectii-Al and intfliiurcnt population. The college was char-tered by the legislature of Kentucky in 1819. Jeremiah Chamberlain, D. D.,the first president, went into office in 18-23. In 1824, the board of trustees, ac-cording to an arrangement with the Presbyterian synod of Iventucky, procuredan act of the legislature modifying its charter so as to secure to the synod, onits payment of twenty thousand dollars to tiie funds of the inslilulion, the riohtof appointing the board of trustees. This condition having, in 1830, been com-pletely fulfilled on the part of the synod, all the members of the board havesince that period been appointed by the synod, as their terms of office, from limeto t
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