Excerpt from General Alumni Catalogue of George Washington University The legislative acts concerned with the establishment of the seat of govern ment of the District of Columbia consisted of the Act of the General Assembly sf Maryland of December 22, 1788, and the Act of the General Assembly of Virginia of December 3, 1789, and the Act of the Congress Of the United States of July 16, 1791, accepting grants of territory conveyed in the two acts of the General Assemblies of Maryland and Virginia just referred-to. Before the final acceptance by Congress of the grants of the two states of Maryland and Virginia and the final determination as to the seat of the general government, President Washington addressed Congress in 1790 in a message treating of the subject of a system of national education. Washington was impressed especially with the. Fact that the resort for higher education as collegiate education-was then called, to the English universities no longer met the needs of the new nation, and its democratic principles and society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.