under the above restrictions, which Mr. Clay or Mr. Mercer (both of them being of the Society) will bring forward; and I am fully of the opinion, that the Representatives from the Eastern States will agree with me, in this view of the subject."

"Your Agents, in concluding their report, beg leave to remark, that, in their opinion, little dependance can be placed upon any effectual or permanent pecuniary aid from the Northern and Eastern sections of our country; while at the same time, they are persuaded, from what they saw and heard, that if it should please the national Legislature to take this subject into consideration, and aid the cause of the Society, it will meet with almost universal approbation."

In a subsequent letter, Dr. Ayres remarks,

"It is with much pleasure I contemplate the influence likely to be exerted in our favour by the students in the Theological Seminaries of Andover and Princeton. Such a number of young men, returning annually to their homes, with minds stored with correct information, and warmed with zeal for the cause, must in a considerable degree promote the interests of the Society. And with the view of stimulating the young Gentlemen of these Schools to a full examination of the subject in all its bearings, I will here take the liberty to suggest the propriety of offering a premium for the best essay on some question connected with colonization."

PAPERS D.

Extract from the last Will and Testament (dated the 16th April, 1822,) of Miss Elizabeth Lee Jones, formerly of Northumberland, afterwards of Fairfax, in Virginia: who died at the seat of her brother, Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones, in Fairfax, on the day of 1822.

"4. I give and devise to Bushrod Washington, Francis S. Key, Walter Jones, the Rev. Dr. S. B. Balch, the Rev. O. B. Brown, the Rev. Dr. W. Wilmer, the Rev. Dr. James Laurie, the Rev. W. Hawley, the Rev. Henry Foxall, Dr. W. Thornton, Thomas Dougherty, Henry Ashton, Elias B. Caldwell, John Underwood, and Richard Smith, the present President and Board of Managers of the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States; and to the survivors and survivor of them, and to their assigns, all the slaves now belonging to me, or whereof I shall die possessed; and the future issue and increase of the same: in trust for the following purposes and uses, to wit: 1st. to be held at the absolute disposal, and under the control and direction of the said society, or of the acting managers of the same for the time being: so as such disposal, control and direction, be in furtherance and execution of the plan of colonization now adopted and pursued by the said society; or of the same plan under such modifications, as the said society may, in its wisdom, hereafter institute and establish: embracing, within the authority and intent of the said trust, any plan for the preparatory education and discipline of the intended colonists, which the said society, or the said acting managers, under its authority, may institute: -the said slaves, and the future increase and issue of the same, to be held, at all times hereafter, subject to the orders and disposal of the said society, or

of the acting managers of the same, for the purposes, either of colonization and complete emancipation, or of such preparatory education and discipline as aforesaid, And in the case of the death, resignation or removal to an inconvenient distance of any of the said trustees to whom the said slaves are devised as aforesaid, or for any other cause deemed sufficient by the said society, or by the said acting managers of the same, they the said trustees, or such of them as remain or survive, shall or may either assign over the said trust entirely, or admit into a participation of such trust, by special assignment, such person or persons, as may be appointed by said society, or by the said acting managers thereof,

"2d. But as it is uncertain when the said society, or the said acting managers thereof, may be in a condition to assume upon themselves the practical execution of the said trust, it is therefore my will and desire, that, in the mean time, until the said society, or such acting managers, shall see fit to interpose and call for the said slaves, or any of them, in order to be disposed of in furtherance and execution of the said trust; the said slaves, or such of them as may not be called for as aforesaid, shall serve my relations; and shall be appointed among them as follows." [Here follow particular allotments of the several negroes amongst the relatives of the testatrix.] "Such services being given upon the express condition, and with an implicit reliance, upon the honour and good faith of my said relations, that the said slaves respectively allotted to them, shall receive such moral and religious instruction, and be so habituated to the useful arts of domestic life, as to prepare them, as well as circumstances will allow, for their ultimate destination of emancipated colonists; and, in particular, that the children be reared with a view to that destination,"

[Here follow some provisions for certain of the negroes who were thought too old for colonization.]

"And as to the boy Davy, son of Nancy, it is my ear, Best wish and recommendation to the trustees herein before named, and to my executors, that he be immediately put to school, on some public foundation, in order to be educated as a missionary to Africa, or as a minister of the gospel to be settled in the proposed colony in Africa, under the patronage of the said society; and if it be found impracticable to get him admitted into any public school, then that the best and speediest arrange ment be made for placing him in the family of some minister of the gospel, upon condition of his receiving the necessary instruction to fit him for such ministry among the people of his own class."

"3d. If it shall so happen that the said Colonization Society, or the acting managers of the same, shall not And it expedient within ten years after my decease, to execute the trust herein before declared, in regard to the colonization of the said slaves: then I do hereby de clare and desire, that after they shall have respectively served the persons to whom I have devised their services, as herein before declared, for the space of ten years from my decease, they shall be absolutely and unconditionally emancipated and free: reserving, as before, to the said trustees and their assigns, under the direction of the said society, or of the acting managers of the same, full and unlimited discretion and authority, at any time within the said ten years, to withdraw the said slaves, or any of them, from such service, and forthwith to emancipate and colonize them: or subject them to such preparatory course of education and discipline, as is herein before provided,"

Memorial of the Richmond and Manchester Colonization Society, presented January, 1825.

To the Delegates and Senators of the Legislature of Virginia, in General Assembly convened:

The memorial of the Richmond and Manchester Auxiliary Society for colonizing in Africa the free people of colour of the United States, most respectfully represents:

That, pursuing the example of their fellow-citizens in various counties and towns of this Commonwealth, as well as in several other States of this Union, your memorialists have formed themselves into a Society, for the purpose of co-operating in the benevolent and patriotic objects of the parent Institution, established in the city of Washington, in December 1816, under the denomination of "The American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States."

It is with no little pride that your memorialists trace the establishment of this Institution to several resolutions which passed both branches of the General Assembly, with great unanimity, more than twenty years ago; but more especially to that of the 23d December, 1816, which received the sanction of the House of Delegates, with the exception of only seven votes, and of the Senate with that of a single Senator. Your memorialists know not whether this resolution was ever acted upon by the Execu tive of this Commonwealth; nor have they heard the ́result of the correspondence which it must have occasioned between the Governor of Virginia and the President of the United States. Your memorialists are apprised, that the correspondence between the present Chief Magistrate of the Union, when Governor of Virginia, with one of his most distinguished predecessors in the presidential chair, was read in the House of Delegates, during the short debate which preceded the almost unanimous adoption of