1761, "having been prevented by absence and indisposition from giving his Attendance till now." When Dr. Smith took his departure for England in 1762, eleven of the original Trus- tees had died, and also one of those later elected, John Mifflin.
The finances of the institution did not keep pace with its growing influence. Circumstances forbad, it may be presumed, higher charges or fees for tuition than those already prescribed. There were now " near two hundred Students and Scholars, be- sides eighty Boys and forty Girls educated on Charity," as stated in the Address of the Trustees submitted at the meeting of 1 5 December, 1761, for Dr. Smith to submit "to all Charitable Per- sons, Patrons of Literature and Friends of Useful Knowledge." And the Faculty consisted of " a Provost, a Vice Provost, and three professors, assisted by six Tutors or Ushers, besides two Masters and a Mistress for the Charity Schools." These were Dr. Smith, Dr. Alison, Professors Kinnersley, Williamson and Beveridge, William Ayres, Thomas Pratt, Samuel Campbell, Richard Harrison, Patrick Alison, and Thomas Polock, Tutors; John Davis and John Porter, Masters, and Mrs. Middleton, Mistress of the Charity School. The sum of the salaries of these amounted annually to ,1321, to which were now to be added Dr. Ewing's compensation for supplying the Provost's place in his absence, amounting to 175. The collections from the tuition fees in 1761 amounted to .763.15.11. In 1760 they amounted to 629.7.6; in 1759 to 414.4.7 ; in 1758 to 746.10.1 ; in 1757 to 543.10; the greatest return was in 1753, when the sum amounted to 1102.12.6. The total from the beginning to the end of 1761, amounted to 6393.19.3^. The subscriptions from friends and the kindly disposed, for the same period,
