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ai d before the General Assembly, in each year. They shall have power to appoint one or more Professors, quali- fied to give instruction in military science, and in other branches of knowledge, which the said Board of Visitors may deem essential; to fix the salaries of said Professors, and to remove them for good cause; but in every case of removal, two-thirds of the whole number of the Board of Visitors shall concur. III. That the students, when admitted, shall be formed into Military Corps, and shall constitute the public guard of the Arsenal at Columbia, Cadeu. and of the Citadel and Magazine in and near Charleston, aforesaid; and whenever the said Board of Visitors shall certify to the Governor that the said schools are ready to go into operation, and that a sufficient num- ber of Students or Cadets have been admitted to guard effectually the public arms and other property at the places aforesaid, the present guard Pre««Dt guanL shall be diminished so far and as soon as the Governor shall decide that the said Students or Cadets are able to perform their duties. IV. That all property in any way belonging to the said Arsenal at Columbia, and the said Citadel and Magazine in and near Charleston, Ar a d shall be surrendered to the Governor, to be disposed of accm ' ding ' to the Citadel, regulations to be established by the Board of Visitors hereinbefore men- tioned. V. That all Acts and clauses of Acts heretofore passed, that are in- x. D. 1842. consistent with this Act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. ' ' [ 1° Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and In the sixty-seventh year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the : United States of America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. I W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of RepresentoUves. lENT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA MILITARY ACADEMY Arsenal u Columbia inio a mililary school. This was the Gocernor ' s Hrsl plan, and in view of the restricted features and limited scope of the bill, it is not a subject for regret that it did not pass. Governor Richardson, however. Was not discouraged and never relinquished his plan. When the Legislature was con- vened in 184Z. the Governor, in his message, formally and distinctly proposed that the Arsenal and the Citadel be con- verted into Military Schools. He retired from office shortly afterward before he had the opportunity of ofhcially advancing his enterprise. But. soon after the commencement of the session of the Legislature in IS42. General David F. Jamison of Orangeburg. Chairman of the Military Committee in the House of Representatives, brought forth a hill to convert the Arsenal at Columbia and the Citadel and Maga .me in and near Charles- ton into Military Schools. With little or no opposition, it passed both bodies of the Legislature on the 20th of December. 1842 and became an Act.
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CONVERT- CITADEL AND MAGAZINE IN AND NEAR CHARLESTON, INTO MILITARY SCHOOLS. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That ppropnm the sum of eight thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated tion for » id annually, for the establishment of a Military School at the Arsenal at (c oo . Columbia, and the sum of sixteen thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated annually, for the establishment of a Military School at the Citadel in Charleston, in lieu of the like sums heretofore appropri- ated for the Arsenal £uid Magazine Guard, at Columbia, and the Citadel |; and Magazine Guard, in and near Charleston. II. That the Governor and Commander-in-Chief is hereby authorized organize them, to organize Military Schools at the Arsenal at Columbia, and at the Citadel in Charleston, the students and members of which, shall be employed in performing such services as may be assigned them; and he is also author- ized to appoint a Board of five persons, who, together with the Adjutant and Inspector General, shall constitute a Board of Visitors for the said , Military Schools, any four of whom shall constitute a quorum, and who i at such times as the Governor may designate, shall meet at the said I Arsenal at Columbia, and at the said Citadel in Charleston, and establish » - such regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the organi- tUu ana pow zation and good government of said schools. That the said Board of «r . Visitors shall have power to establish such by-laws for the management of the said schools, and the protection of the public property thereat, as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States; shall inspect the public arms, and other property at the said Arsenal at Columbia, and at the Citadel and Magazine at and near ' K, Charleston, and make a minute and full report of their condition, as Wr well as of the cmidition and management of the said schools, to the Gov- Th THE LEGISLATIVE BILL AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISl- RIOR to the eslablishmenl ol ihv ' aiulh C.uro inu Mihiaiy Academy, the sum of $24,000 was expended annually through legislative appropriation for the support of two companies of enlisted soldiers. These companies were stationed, one at the Citadel in Charleston, and one at the Arsenal in Columbia, to form the Arsenal and Magazine Guard, and to them was entrusted the care of the ordnance and ordnance stores of the Commonwealth. It was CjoOernor Richardson who lirst suuijfstfii ihe General Assembly that the Arsenal and the Citadel be converted into military schools. He proposed that the $24,000 be devoted to the education of a portion of the State ' s indigent young men, who at the same time, could guard the military properly as efficiently as enlisted troops. Colonel John Philips, one of the Governor s Aides-de-Camp. introduced a bill in the Legislature in 1841 to convert the
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