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and the Donors of Kentucky University:

The petitions sent up by one hundred and eighty-one Churches, representing an estimated membership of 35,000 to
40,000; and of three hundred and thirty donors to Kentucky University, representing about $150,000 of subscriptions,
were duly presented to the Board of Curators at its, extra Session on the 17th of September last. We regret to inform
you that not a single one of the requests or demands contained in your petitions were acceded to by the Board. On the
contrary, no sooner were they presented, than they were taken from before the Board by the adoption of a resolution,
introduced by Curator John Aug. Williams, to refer them to a Committee to prepare an address by waY
of answer to them. Your petitions demanded action on the part of the Board, and the reference to a Com-
mittee to prepare an answer to them was evidence of the fixed determination of the Board to disregard your
requests. The manner in which your petitions were treated by the Board, and the subsequent action taken, we think,
will satisfy you that the majority of the Board are in direct antagonism to your will and wishes, and that you have
nothing whatever to expect from them, in carrying out the reforms you demand in the control and management of the
UniVersity. _

The Board being a 1elf-perpetuating body, and declining to pay attention to the wishes of the owners and founders
of the University, leaves no alternative but to zpply to the Legislature for such amendments of the Charter, as will ena-
ble you to control the University as was originally designed by the Charter.

We send herewith a form of petition to the Legislature, suggesting the amendments that in our opinion are required
and trust that you will promptly present the petition to the respective congregations for adoption. Should any congre-
gation deem it best not to take formal action by a vote, the same Petition can be used for the signature of the individual
members, by filling the first blank with the words, “Members of the”; and it will then read: “Your Petitioners,
members of the congregation, Ste” We, however, suggest that the speediest and most effectual way, is to adopt the
Petition by a ionnal vote of the congmgation.

We t1ust that you will 1ealize the importance of immediate action in the one f01m or the other, as the Legislature
will soon assemble When the Petition is adopted, the officers of the chutch can certify at the bottom that it was
adopted by a formal vote of the church. The Petitions, as soon as adopted or signed, should be at once handed or sent
to your immediate Representative with the request that he present it to the House of Representatives, and urge the
adoption of the amendments suggested. It p1ompt and geneial action is taken by the Ch1istian Chuiches in Kentucky;
the amendments can doubtless be secur,ed and the Unive1sity be saved. But no time is to be lost Please advise us by
mail as s00n as action is taken by your congregation, into1ming us of the numbe1 of membeis 1n the cong1egati0n, and
also the name of y0u1 Repiesentative, who will be requested to present the Petition to the Legislatme. We will thus
be fully inf01med and know what cou1se to peisue.

This mattei has been delayed until now in the hope that the majority and minority addresses of the Committee
would have been issued. They are now in the hands of the printer, but have been greatly delayed, and we cannot say
with any certainty when they Will be given to the public. As the Legislature is on the eve of assembling, further
delay on the part of the churches would jeopardise the adoption of the amendments, which are indispensable to enable
you to control and manage your own property. We trust, therefore, that you will act promptly and decisively in this
matter, which is of such vast importance to the Christian Church of Kentucky and the cause of Education.

DR. J. G. CHINN, Mainb Street Chur,ch Lexington, Ky.
DR. R. A. GIBNEY, B10adway Church, Lexington, Ky.
OLIVER FARRA, Providence Church. Fayette County, Ky.
SAMUEL COLEMAN, Macedonia Church, Fayette, County, Ky.
COL. W. R. ESTILL, Macedonia Church, Fayette County, Ky.
DR. W. H. BARLOW, Georgetown, Scott County. Ky.
A. S. HIBLER, Midway Church, Woodford County, Ky.
J. M. STARKS, Midway Church, Woodford County, Ky.
1 :" Committee.

P. S. Please address all communications on the subject to D. W. Standeford Lexington, Ky. /97L3