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respective officers is a guarantee that the important duty of directing the energies and the efforts of our youth in the more advanced stages of education will be discharged with fidelity to the State as well as to those more immediately interested. The law establishing the Gardiner Lyceum, having constituted the Governor and certain other officers of the Government its Visitors, it has been my official duty in the discharge of that trust to become acquainted with the circumstances of this institution. Its establishment was a novel experiment in the country. In each of the States academics had been established, in which our young men might become qualified as instructors in the lower branches of education or prepared for admission to the higher seminaries. The course of instruction at our Colleges was directed principally with refference [reference] to professional or political pursuits, or to high literary attainments; but there was no institution in which those branches were exclusively taught which are particularly applicable to the agricultural and mechanical employments of the people, and to the ordinary business of life. The institution at Gardiner will supply this instruction in such a manner, that the individual who seeks knowledge in one branch only of the useful arts will not necessarily be diverted form his parimount [paramount] object by attending to other branches with which it has no connexion [connection]. This plan has already excited attention in different parts of our country, and institutions somewhat similar have recently been founded in some of the largest and most enterprising of our sister States. Such establishments, which have for their primary object the dissemination of useful knowledge among the productive classes of the community, are obviously entitled to liberal support. The last Legislature having approprited [appropriated] the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting