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$50,000 payable in ten annual instalments, and the
Legislatuare was applied to for an Act, giving all
needed powers. The provincial Government put in
the Estimates a vote for the sum of $6000 for the
proposed institution to be givn annually on the understanding
that a like sum should be raised by fees and
subscriptions. The question of raising such an annual
sum was not to be settled at once. It was felt that
unless half of it should be voted by the municipalities
likely to be benefited by the school, the project might yet
fall through. Matters were left in this unsettled condition
at the close of the session 1892-93.

Many Benefactions were announced as
having been received during this winter. A bequest amounting
to $3,460 was received from the executors of the
late Mrs Atcheson of Smiths Falls, the greater part
of which was appropriated for laboratories in the Science
Hall and the Medical building. Four hundred dollars
was also received from Senator Gowan of Ottawa towards
the proposed lectureship or chair of Political Science.

Many generous contributions were also received towards
the apparatus for the biological classroom and laboratories.
Besides the large bequest of the late John
Roberts of Ottawa, a generous share of the estate of the
late Michael Doran of Kingston was
willed to Queen's. These legacies were not

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