approval to the petition, and the Legislature granted the appropriation. The trustees immediately assigned $12,000 to the reimbursement of the several funds and to other necessary expenditures, and voted to set aside the balance as an endowment. The payment from the State was delayed until the following November, however, and additional drafts on the funds were necessary to pay expenses. The grant from the State was not unrestricted, for the Legislature seized upon a casual suggestion in Hoar's argument to attach the provision that twenty students, who were residents of the State, might be appointed annually by the Board of Education and receive free tuition. The trustees forthwith established fifty-four as the maximum number to be admitted each year, two-thirds of whom were to be residents of Worcester County. This number was exceeded but twice in the succeeding twenty years.