ry considerable service to those who projected and established the Princeton Seminary. This Seminary is under the immediate direction and patronage of the Assembly. The Assembly appoints the professors-provides the funds-gives general or special directions as to the expenditure-and appoints a board of superintendents, whose duty it is to visit and examine the Seminary at stated times, and to make an annual report of the state of the institution. From their eleventh Annual Report, dated Philadelphia, May 20th, 1823, we give the following extracts. "The whole number of students connected with the Seminary during the winter session was ninety-six. The number now in connexion with it is eighty-five. "Since the last annual report, the following students have been licensed to preach the gospel, viz. Robert Baird, by the Presbytery of New-Brunswick. "The studies which have been attended to through the year are the same same as have been repeatedly reported to the Assembly. "The semi-annual examinations of the students have, as usual, been satisfactory to the Board. "The number of books presented to the library through the year past has been small, compared with the preceding years. Only twenty volumes have been received. To these, the Board have the pleasure to report, have been added the valuable library of the late Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Synod. Shortly after the last Assembly rose, this library, together with the valuable cases in which it was contained, were delivered by a committee of the late Associate Reformed Synod, to a committee of the Board of Directors. The books and cases were received into the Seminary in the month of June last. On this subject, the librarian, in his report to the Board, remarks, "The number of volumes is between 2400 and 2500. They are, with some exceptions, in very good condition as to binding, &c. generally excellent editions, and making altogether a collection equally rare and valuable, and fully answering, it is believed, any expectations that may have been formed respecting it,' The whole library now consists of about 4,500 volumes, and nearly 600 pamphlets. "On the subject of building, the Board have to report, that through the year past the two upper entries in the principal edifice have been completed, so far as regards the mason's and carpenter's work, and such painting as is needed has been directed. The expense for the work done has been paid from the room rent fund. Some work has also been done on the Professor's house and its premises. "The last Assembly appropriated for the general pur poses of the Institution, including the unexpended bal lance of the former year, the sum of $5430 23. "The expenditures have been as follows, viz. "One quarter's salary due two of the Professors on the last year, "Salaries of the three Professors during the year which has now closed, "Boxing the books of the Library of the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Synod, and removing them and the book cases from New-York to Princeton, "Secretary's account for services, station $950 00 4200 00 85 70 ary, postage, and printing circulars, "Printing the last annual report, "Travelling expenses of one Director, "Treasurer's account for postage, "Treasurer's commissions on the above, at 31 30 17 50 20 00 1 40 53 05 $5358 95 "Leaving of the appropriation of the last Assembly, unexpended, $71 27 "Agreeably to the order of the last Assembly, the Board addressed a circular letter to a number of congregations, requesting a collection to relieve the Contingent Fund from the embarrassment reported in the last annual report of the Board, In consequence of this request, a number of congregations made collections, and transmitted them to the Treasurer of the General Assembly. "At the late sessions of the Legislature of New-Jersey, the application for an act of incorporation was renewed.-An act has passed that body, which act the Board beg leave, herewith, to lay before the Assembly for their consideration. "The Board have the pleasure to inform the Assembly, that a Scholarship in the Theological Seminary has lately been founded by William Scott, a member of the First Presbyterian Congregation, in Elizabethtown, New-Jersey. "The principles on which this generous endowment has been made, the Board beg leave to report to the Assembly, in the words of the written communication of Mr. Scott.-"The terms on which I found a Scholarship are the following:-I retain in my own hands the right of nominating the scholar as long as I live, and if I leave a widow, she is to have the same right during her life; and after her decease, the right is to be vested, forever, in the session of the First Presbyterian Church, Elizabethtown." "The Professors of the Seminary are— "Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D. Professor of Di dactic and Polemic Theology. "Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. Professor of Ecclesiag tical History and Church Government. "Rev. Charles Hodge, Professor of Oriental and Biblical Literature. "Nine Scholarships have been founded, viz. "1. The Le Roy Scholarship, 2. The Banyer Scholarship, Both founded by Mrs. "3. The Lenox Scholarship, founded by Robert Len* bx, Esq. New-York. "4. The Whitehead Scholarship, founded by John Whitehead, Esq. of Burke county, Georgia. "5. The Charleston Female Scholarship, founded by the Congregational and Presbyterian Female Association of Chareston, South Carolina, for assisting in the education of pious youth for the Gospel Ministry. "6. ry, in 1819. founded by the first class in the Semina 7. The Nephew Scholarship, founded by James Ne phew, Esq. of M'Intosh county, Georgia. "3. The Woodhull Scholarship, founded by Mrs. Han nah Woodhull, of Brookhaven, Long Island. "9. The Scott Scholarship, founded by Mr. William Scott, of Elizabethtown, New-Jersey." It appears from another part of the minutes of the Assembly of 1823, that funds to a very considerable amount are already secured for the founding of five oth r Scholarships. And that funds to a considerable at |