...received from the State appropriation. It directed that " the children of the inhabitants residing in this State shall be instructed in the English language,...and necessary to complete a good English education." It went on and erected the machinery necessary to accomplish this. It provided for school commissioners...

...for the support of those schools in the different counties of the State, in which the children should be " instructed in the English "] language, or be...knowledge as are most useful and necessary to complete aj good English education." Such was the whole extent and aim of the system as it was originally founded....

...urged the same.3 On the 9th of April of that year a law was passed "for the purpose of encouraging and maintaining schools in the several cities and...this State, in which the children of the inhabitants of the State shall be instructed in the English language, or be taught English grammar, arithmetic,...

...legislature obliged, establishing annual appropriations for the encouragement of schools in which children "shall be instructed in the English language, or be...and necessary to complete a good English education." 38 The purpose outlined by the Regents, endorsed by Clinton, and enacted by the legislature was explicitly...

...annual appropriation of 20,000 pounds for a period of five years, . . . for the purpose of encouraging and maintaining schools in the several cities and...which the children of the inhabitants residing in this State shall be instructed in the English language or be taught English grammar, arithmetic, mathematics,...

...J. Adams, 1797, II, 1298. " Hist, and Bta. Rec. of the Univ. of NY, Hough, 66. such other branches as are most useful and necessary to complete a good English education." ia By 1827 the legislature, acting on repeated recommendations of the regents, was ready to pass the...