Commencement.

First Wednesday in Sept.
Last Wednesday in July.
Last Wed. but one in August.
First Wednesday in August.
Third Wednesday in August.
Last Wednesday in August.
First Wednesday in Sept.
Fourth Wednesday in August.
First Wednesday in Sept.
Third Wednesday in Aug.
First Wednesday in August.

First Tuesday in August.
Fourth Wednesday in July.
Fourth Wednesday in August.
First Wednesday in August.
Last Wednesday in Sept.
Third Wednesday in August.
Last day, not Sunday, in July.
Fourth Wednesday in Sept.
Last Thursday in September.
Last Friday in June.

Last Thursday in September.
First Wednesday in July.
July 15th.

Third Tuesday in July.
Third Wednesday in July.
Second Wednesday in Feb.
Last week in June.

Fourth Wednesday in Dec.
Near the last of July.
July 4th.

Fourth Wednesday in Sept.
Third Wednesday in April.

Fourth Thursday in June.
Last Tuesday in October.

3d Mon. after 4th Mon. in Nov,
First Wednesday in August.

Third Wednesday in Dec.

Third Wednesday in Sept.
First Wednesday in October.
First Wednesday in October.
Last Wednesday in Sept.
July 4th.

Thursday after 1st Wed. Aug.
Second Thursday in Sept.
1st of August.

Wed. after 3d Tuesday in Sept.
Last Wednesday in Sept.
Fourth Wednesday in August.

182

50

Fourth Wednesday in Sept.
Last Wednesday in September.

600

† Undergraduates, not including medical, theological, and law students.

1,200

Columbia.
Union.
Hamilton.

VACATIONS IN COLLEGES.

1. Com., 3 weeks;-2. Friday after 3d Wed. Dec., 8 weeks;— 3. Friday after 3d Wed. May, 2 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. Last Wed. Nov., 9 weeks.

1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. last Mon. Dec., 63 weeks;-3. Thursday preceding the last Wed. May, 2 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. 1st Wed. Jan., 8 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. 1st Wed. Jan., 7 weeks;-3. 3d Wed. May, 2 weeks.

1. Wed. preceding 25th Dec., 2 weeks;-2. 1st Wed. April, 2
weeks-3. preceding Commencement, 6 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. Wed. after 4th Wed. Dec. 6 weeks;—
3. 3d Wed. May, 8 weeks.
[May, 3 weeks.
1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. 4th Wed. Dec., 6 weeks;-3. 2d Wed.
1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. last Friday in Dec., 6 weeks ;-3. 2d
Friday in May, 3 weeks.
[May, 4 weeks.
1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. 2d Wed. Jan., 2 weeks;-3. 1st Wed.
1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. Thurs. before Christmas, 2 weeks ;-3.
Thursday before 20 April, 3 weeks.

1. Com. to the 1st Monday in October.

1. Com., 7 wks. ;-2. in Dec. 3 or 4 wks. ;-3. in April, 3 wks. 1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. 2d Wed. Jan., 3 weeks ;-3. 2d Wed. May, 4 weeks. [3. in April, 3 weeks. Geneva. 1. Com., 5 weeks;-2. at Christmas and New Year, 2 weeks ;College of N. J. 1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. 1st Thurs. after 2d Tues. April, 6 weeks. Rutgers. 1. Com. to Sept. 15;-2. Dec. 21 to Jan. 7;-3. Ap. 7 to May 1. Penn. University. 1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. 2 weeks; 3. 2 weeks.

Dickinson.

Jefferson.
Madison.

Washington.
Western Univ.
Univ. Maryland.

Mt. St. Mary's.
Columbian.

1. In Sept. and Oct., 5 weeks;-2. in April and May, 5 weeks. 1. Month of October;-2. Month of May.

1. Com., 6 weeks ;-2. Dec. 25th to Jan. 15.

1. Month of October;-2. Month of May.
1. July and August.

1. Com. to 2d Mon. Sept.;-2. Dec. 24 to Jan. 2.;-3. Wed.
before Easter to 1st Wed. after.

1. Com. to the 15th August.

1. Com. to 2d Wed. Jan.;-2. 2d Wed. June to 2d July.

William & Mary. 1. Com. to the last Monday in October.

Hamp. Sydney.
Washington.
Univ. Virginia.
Univ. N. Č.
Charleston.
Coll. S. C.

Univ. of Ga.

Uni. Alabama.
Greenville.
Nashville.

1. Month of October;-2. Month of May.

1. Com. to 3d Wed. May;-2. 3d Wed. Oct. to 3d Wed. Nov. 1. July 20 to September 1.

1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. Dec. 15, 4 weeks.

1. Month of December;-2. in April, 3 weeks.

1. July 1 to the 1st Monday in October.

1. Com., 1 week ;-2. Wed. before 2d Mond. Nov. to Jan. 1 ;— 3. April 1 to April 15.

1. 4th Wednesday in July to 1st Wednesday in October,

1. Com., 5 weeks;-2. 3d Wed. March, 5 weeks.

1. Com., 5 weeks;-2. 1st Wed. April, 5 weeks.

E. Tennessee.
Transylvania.
Centre.
Augusta.
Cumberland.
St. Joseph's.
Univ. Ohio.
Miami.
1. Com. to 1st Mo. Nov. ;-2. last Wed. Mar. to 1st Mo. May.
Western Reserve. 1. Com., 5 weeks ;-2. 2d Wed. Jan., 2 weeks.
Indiana.

1. Com., 4 weeks-2. 1st Thursday April, 4 weeks.

1. Com. to 1st Mond. Nov. ;-2. 2d Mond. March, 6 weeks.

1. Com. to 1st Mond. Sept.;-2. a recess in March.

1. Com. 6 wks. ;-2. in Feb. 21 wks. from 1st vacation, 4 wks. 1. Com. to the last day of October.

1. 1st August till 15th September.

1. Com., 6 weeks ;-2. 2d Tues. April, 4 weeks.

1. Month of May;-2. Month of October.

3d,

EXPLANATION. Vacations of Bowdoin College; 1st from Commencement, 3 weeks;-2d, from the Friday after the 3d Wednesday in Dec., 8 weeks ; from the Friday after the 3d Wednesday in May, 2 weeks.

Hartwick Seminary, Hartwick,

1825 25 22 1,020

1822

70 48

134

28 3,600 4

1821

157

51 4,000 3

do. Baptist,

1820 100

80 1,600 4

do. Lutheran,

1816

24

do. Presbyt.

1812 537

Evang. L. 1826

do.

G.Ref. Ch. 1825

11

22 3,964 2

Prot. Epis.

19 1,500

Presbyt.

42 3,000 3

9

2

Th. Sem. Du. Ref. Ch. N. Bru'wick, N. J. Dutch Ref.
Th. Sem. Pr. Ch. U.S. Princeton,
Sem. Luth. Ch. U. S. Gettysburg, Pa.
German Reformed,
West. Th. Seminary,
Epis. Th. School Va.
Union Th. Seminary,
South Th. Seminary,
South West. Th. Sem.
Lane Seminary,

York,
Allegheny T. do.
Fairfax Co. Va.
Pr. Ed. Co. do
Columbia, S. C.
Maryville, Ten.
Cincinnati, Ohio, do.

Rock Spring Sem. Rock Spring, Il. Baptist,

5 1,200 1

There are Roman Catholic Theological Seminaries at Baltimore and near Emmittsburg, Md., at Charleston, S. C., at Bardstown and in Washington County, Ken., and in Perry County, Mo.

Medical Col., Charleston, S. C. Charleston 2d Mond., Nov.

Brunswick

99

Waterville

1st Thurs., March

28

Hanover

98

Burlington

2d Wed., Sept.

40

1st Tues., Sept.

5

95

1st Thurs., Sept.

6

85

last week in Oct.

5

69

1st Mond., Nov.

7180

5 170

At Cambridge, Mass., 2 professors and 41 students; at New Haven, Ct., 2 professors and 33 students; at Litchfield, Ct.; at Philadelphia, Pa.; at Baltimore, Md., 22 students; at Williamsburg and Staunton, Va.; at Charleston, S. C., and Lexington, Ken.

BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. William McKendree, R. H. Roberts, Joshua Soule, and Elijah Hedding.

INDIVIDUAL STATES.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

THE subdivisions into which the several states of the Union are formed, are styled counties, with the exception of the states of South Carolina and Louisiana. In South Carolina the subdivisions are termed districts, and in Louisiana, parishes.

In the six New England states, and also in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, the counties are subdivided into townships, and in Delaware, into hundreds; but in the rest of the states no such subdivision as that of township is known.

In the New England states these townships are commonly styled towns. They differ considerably in size; generally varying from about 5 to 6 miles square. They are incorporated by the legislatures of the respective states with certain rights and privileges, and have a distinct police, which is conducted by officers elected annually by the citizens. Some of the principal of these officers are a town-clerk, selectmen, assessors, school committee, overseers of the poor, surveyors of highways, &c. The townships in the New England states, and in the state of New York, are subdivided into school districts of convenient size; and in these districts common schools are maintained, at least a part of the year, to which all the inhabitants, both poor and rich, have an equal right to send their children for instruction. The money necessary for the support of the schools and of the poor, for the repair of roads, &c., in the several towns, is derived from a tax upon the inhabitants or from funds appropriated to the object. In those states in which the subdivision of township is unknown, the word town is used in a more restricted and appropriate sense for a compact collection of houses. With respect to religion, no legislative provision is made in any of the states for its support; but it is left entirely to the voluntary choice and good will of the people, except that in the state of Massachusetts, the Constitution compels all the citizens to belong to some religious society, or to pay for the support of some religious teacher, though it allows them to support whatever society or denomination they may choose.

In the following notices of the Individual States, the counties comprised in each are given, together with the population, according to the census of 1830; also the chief towns, or the towns in which the county courts are held, with the population of these towns, so far as it is given by the census. The population of the several states, of the counties, and the county towns here given, has been copied from the official returns of the census for 1830, in the office of the Secretary of State at Washington.