h respectful deference they would propose the
following outlines of a plan for that purpose.

"The Councillors and Senators of New Hampshire together with the
Speaker of the House of Representatives for the time being, shall
constitute a Board of Overseers of Dartmouth College, any ten of whom
shall be a quorum for transacting business. The Overseers shall meet
annually at the college, on the day preceding Commencement. They shall
have an independent right to organize their own body, and to form
their own rules; but as soon as they shall have organized themselves
they shall give information thereof to the Trustees. Whenever any vote
shall have been passed by the Trustees it shall be communicated to the
Overseers, and shall not have effect until it shall have the
concurrence of the Overseers. Provided, nevertheless, that if at any
meeting a quorum of the Overseers shall not be formed, the Trustees
shall have full power to confer degrees, in the same manner as though
there were no Overseers; and also to appoint Trustees or other
officers (not a president or professor), and to enact such laws as the
interests of the institution shall indispensably require; but no law
passed by the Trustees shall in such case have force longer than until
the next annual meeting of the Boards, unless it shall then be
approved by the Overseers. Neither of the Boards shall adjourn, except
from day to day, without the consent of the other. It shall be the
duty of the president of the college, whenever in his opinion the
interests of the institution shall require it, or whenever requested
thereto by three Trustees, or three Overseers, to call special
meetings of both Boards, causing notice to be given in writing to each
Trustee and Overseer, of the time and place; but no meeting of one
Board shall ever be called except at the same time and place with the
other. It shall be the duty of the president of the college annually,
in the month of May, to transmit to his Excellency, the Governor, a
full and particular account of the state of the funds, the number of
students and their progress, and generally the state and condition of
the college.

"If the plan above suggested should meet the approbation of the
Honorable Legislature, and good men of all parties give it their
sanction, we may all anticipate, with high satisfaction, the future
prosperity of the college, and its incalculable usefulness to the
State; but if a union of the friends of litera