New York Assembly. Motion for Leave to Bring in a Bill Granting Privileges to Columbia College and Erecting a University, [16 February 1787]
New York Assembly. Motion for Leave to
Bring in a Bill Granting Privileges to
Columbia College and Erecting a University
[New York, February 16, 1787]
Mr. Hamilton moved for leave to bring in a bill, to render more effectual, the act granting privileges to Columbia College, and erecting a University within this State.
Ordered, That leave be given accordingly.
Mr. Hamilton, according to leave, brought in the said bill, entitled, An act to render more effectual an Act, entitled, An Act for granting certain Privileges to the College, heretofore called King’s College, for altering the Name and Charter thereof, and erecting an University within this State; which was read the first time, and ordered a second reading.1
, 1787, 53.
1. On the day following its introduction, the bill proposed by H was read a second time and committed to a committee of the whole house (, 1787, 54). No further action was taken on it, presumably because its provisions were similar to a bill passed by the Senate entitled “An Act to Institute an University within This State and for Other Purposes therein Mentioned,” which was transmitted to the House on March 20. The Senate bill was concurred in by the Assembly and became law on April 13, 1787 (I, 524–31).