Note 172 — Chapter IV · EDUCATION IN PHILADELPHIA[124]
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In 1757 more extended privileges were desired and the following petition was sent to the Representative Assembly:
To the Rep. Assembly.
That some doubts having arisen whether from the terms of our charter we are authorized to apply any part of the estate under our care to these purposes, out of the limits of the city and county of Philadelphia.
We therefore are inclined to apply for your assistance in furthering a design of such public utility and request you to permit us to bring in a Bill for the confirmation of our present charter and enlarging the powers thereby given us, by extending them as far as to authorize our applying a part of the estate under our care towards erecting and maintaining schools on the same foundation in other parts of this province.
(P. C. S. M., I, 185)