McGill University, Montreal,

I. ORIGINAL ENDOWMENT--1811.

THE HONOURABLE JAMES MCGILL, by his last Will and Testament under date 8th January, 1811, bequeathed the Estate of Burnside, situated near the City of Montreal, and containing forty-seven acres of Land, with the Manor House and Buildings thereon erected, and also the sum of ten thousand pounds in money, unto "the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning," constituted by Act of Parliament in the Forty-First Year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, to erect and establish an University or College for the purpose of Education, and the advancement of learning in the Province of Lower Canada, with a competent number of Professors and Teachers to render such Establishment effectual and beneficial for the purposes intended, requiring that one of the Colleges to be comprised in the said University, should be named and perpetually be known and distinguished by the appellation of "McGill College."

The value of the above mentioned property was estimated at the date of the bequest at

II. SUBSCRIPTIONS IN 1856.

£30,000

At a meeting called by a number of the influential citizens of Montreal,
and held at the Merchants' Exchange, 6th December, 1856, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the financial condition of the Uni-
versity of McGill College,--The following Resolution was adopted:
"That an effort ought to be made for increasing the endowment of McGill
College in such a manner as to extend its usefuless, and to place it for
the future upon an independent and permanent footing."
Whereupon, in pursuance of the above Resolution, the following donations
were enrolled for Special or General objects connected with the Univer-
sity,--the Royal Institution granting Scholarships in perpetuity accord-
ing to the value of the donations.

DECEMBER 1868.

Regular Meeting of Corporation. School 25 Fri. Christmas-day.
Examiners appointed. Reports on 26 Sat.
Scholarships. Accounts audited.