withdrawal of the printing, and other circumstances, are taken into the account, the committee are of opinion that a just claim is presented on the equity of the Government for relief.

The Agent of the Treasury reports," that, under all the circumstances of the case, it has certainly been a hard bargain on the part of Mr. Cardozo; and, so far as the deprivation of the public printing was an injury, he is clearly of opinion that he has an equitable claim upon the Legislature for indemnity."

In this opinion the committee fully concur. They therefore report a bill for the relief of J. N. Cardozo, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to re-adjust the contract with him, with the distinct expression of the opinion of the committee that he is entitled to a reduction of the debt, and an extension of the time for payment,

WILLIAM GALLOP.

MARCH 17, 1830.

Mr. HAMMONS, from the Committee on Military Pensions, made the fol

lowing REPORT:

The Committee on Military Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of William Gallop, report:

That the petitioner volunteered as a militiaman in the defence of the town of Bennington, in the State of Vermont, on the sixteenth of August, 1777, under command of Captain Enos Parker, of the town of Adams, in the State of Massachusetts; and, while engaged in the line of his duty, on that day, received a wound in his right shoulder by a musket ball from the ranks of the enemy. The petitioner is unable to labor by reason of said wound; is very poor, and has a wife who is a cripple. A bill was reported for his relief the thirteenth of February, 1827, in which provision was made that he should be placed upon the pension list, under date of the eleventh of December, 1826, the time when his evidence was completed before the Committee on Military Pensions. The committee believe the petitioner is entitled to a pension, and report a bill for his relief..

1st Session.

TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY.

MARCH 17, 1830.

Mr. CLARKE, from the Select Committee to which the subject had been referred, made the following

REPORT:

The Committee to which was referred the petition of the Trustees of Transylvania University, submit the following report:

The petitioners state that the principal college edifice belonging to said institution was recently destroyed by fire; that, at the same time, her valuable law library, containing about six hundred volumes, together with a considerable portion of her miscellaneous library, and a part of her philosophical apparatus, were consumed. That the edifice destroyed had been erected a few years ago, at an expense of about $ 30,000; and the other property destroyed is estimated at about $5,000; and the consequence of this heavy calamity is, that the university is at this time destitute of a building suitable for the purposes of education. Having no means to repair this loss, and feeling in other respects the necessity of aid, she applies for relief to the National Legislature.

The committee have considered the petition, under the conviction, common to themselves and their fellow-citizens of the United States, that the cause of literature and science is closely connected with the permanence of our free institutions, and the elevation of our national character. When these important interests can be aided by the representatives of the people, consistently with other duties, there is, in the opinion of the committee, a manifest propriety that the aid should be afforded; and they are gratified at perceiving, in the past legislation of Congress, a sanction to this opinion.

Among the examples of the views of Congress on this subject, the committee will now barely refer to the act granting additional land, equivalent to a township, to the citizens of the State of Indiana, for the use of schools, and the grant made to the trustees of the Lafayette Academy, in Alabama, for the benefit of said academy, and to the act granting a township of land to Connecticut, to aid in instructing the deaf and dumb, and also the grant heretofore made to Kentucky for the same purpose.

The committee cannot imagine a stronger case for a similar grant than that which is presented by the petition of Transylvania University. This institution, after struggling during infancy, like the region in which it is located, with hardship and difficulty, has grown with the growth of the West. Her beneficent agency has been extended in dispensing knowledge throughout

that extensive and interesting country; and it is believed, that, in every State which has been added to the old thirteen members of the confederacy, some of her alumni are found occupying a distinguished rank on the bench, in the legislative hall, or in the paths of the learned professions. This honorable evidence of her usefulness, though most striking, is, perhaps, less important than the stock of information which has been carried from her walls to the pursuits of ordinary life, meliorating and enriching the general mind, and fitting the citizen for the discharge of his duties as a man, and for justly estimating his political rights.

If the whole Union is interested in the social advancement of every portion of it, an institution, which has, by great and disinterested efforts, diffused the blessings of education through a large region, deserves the favorable notice of Congress. She comes before it at a moment when her prospects of conferring future advantages on the public are clouded by a dire and unforeseen misfortune, and when the past exertions of the wise, the good, and the liberal, to render her the continuing source of national blessings, are menaced with disappointment. Regarding the petition with the consideration due to past services in the great cause of education, to present calamity, and to the faculty of communicating yet higher benefits to their fellow citizens, the committee report the accompanying bill.