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SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

Provincial University in all essential respects as it now exists.
It is entitled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Uni-
versity of Toronto by separating its functions as a University
from those assigned to it as a College, and by making better
provision for the management of the property thereof, and that
of Upper Canada College."

In its preamble it states, "Whereas the enactments, herein-
after repealed, have failed to effect the end proposed by the Legis-
lature in passing them, inasmuch as no College or Educational
Institution hath under them become affiliated to the Univer-
sity to which they relate, and many parents and others are deter-
red by the expense and other causes, from sending the youth under
their charge to be educated in a large city, distant in many cases
from their homes; and whereas from these and other causes, many do,
and will, prosecute and complete their studies in various parts of
this Province, to whom it is just and right to afford facilities for
obtaining those scholastic honors and rewards which their dili-
gence and proficiency may deserve, and thereby to encourage them
and others to persevere in the pursuit of knowledge and sound
learning; and whereas experience hath proved the principles em-
bodied in Her Majesty's Royal Charter to the Univer-
sity of London in England, to be well adopted for the attain-

1859-60