The Citadel - Sphinx Yearbook (Charleston, SC)

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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 consistent with this Act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.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.