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PAPERS OF J\IIR.ABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
gentlemen upon the subject, I submitted the question 38 to the Honor- able Judges of the Supreme Court, not as a Court, but as gentlemen in whose legal opinions the country has reposed the highest confidenre, and I find that I am sustained in the opinion I had formed, by a large majority of those gentlemen. Mirabeau B. Lamar. No. 1696 1840 Jan. 25, C[ORNELIUSJ VAN NESS, AUSTIN, [TEXAS], TO :?if[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAl\IAR, [AUSTIN, TEXAS] Endorsing John D. l\Iorris fg,t reappointment as district attorney of the Fourth Judicial District under the new law. A. N. S. 1 p. No. 1697 1840 ,Jan. 25, C. J. HADERMANN, COVINGTON, GEORGIA, 'l'O [M. B.] LAMAR, [AUS'rIN, TEXASJ 39
Covington, Ga January 25th. 1840
To
his Excellency General Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas. Sir l
The Undersigned has the honour to address Your Excellency on a 9ub- ject which is intimately connected with the high destinies to which the youngest republic is advancing with a rapidity which has excited tJ1e admiration of the civilized world. · As one who has taken so distinguished a Part in the forming & mould- ing of her Institutions and so worthily presides over her executive coun- cils, the Subject of Public Education must doubtless often present itself to your Excellency's mind and it is hence that· the Undersigned hopes to be pardoned for the Liberty he takes in adressing You and submit- ting the following to Your consideration. He has been educated in the Royal Polytechnic School of Paris and afterwards during a Residence of 12 years in the U. S. has occupied the chair of :Mathematics and Nat. Philosophy in several Colleges of the North, and at this moment occupies the same in Emory College, Oxford near Covington Ge The Polytechnic School, it is probably known to Your Excellency was first organized under the name of "Ecole centrale des Travaux publics," during the french Republic and at a Time when France, at- tacker. !iy all Europe, claimed especially the Services of skilful En- ginelrs It was reorganized or modified under every subsequent Gov- ,,,.e.nment, but its object remained invariably the same, viz: efficiently to train Pupils for Military & Civil Engineering the Navy for hydro- graphic Engineering; the Preparatory Studies (pursued in the Institu- tion) embraced a complete course of l\Iathematics & the Physical Sciences, to which were added the most important modern Languages: nor were Latin & Greek always excluded. This institution which produced men
38 No. 1691. Sec also nos. 1600, 1693 and lli95. '"A. L. S.
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