No attainder to caufe a corruption of blood, or forfeiture of dower. Slaves guilty of offences punifhable in others by labour, to be tranfported to Africa, or elfewhere, as the circumftances of the time admit, there to be continued in llavery. A rigorous regimen propofed for thofe condemned to labour.
Another objeft of the revifal is, to difFufe knowledge more generally through the mafs of the people. This bill pro- pofes to lay off every county into fmall diftrifts of five or fix miles fquare, called hundreds, and in each of them to eflabhfh a fchool for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. The tutor to be fupported by the hundred, and every perfon in it entitled to fend their children three years gratis, and as much longer as they pleafe, paying for it. Thefe fchools to be under a vifitor who is annually to choofe the boy, of beft genius in the fchool, of thofe whofe parents are too poor to give them further education, and to fend him forward to one of the grammar fchools, of which twenty are propofed to be erefted in different parts of the country, for teaching Greek, Latin, Geography, and the higher branches of numerical arithme- tic. Of the boys thus fent in one year, trial is to be made at the grammer fchools one or two years, and the beft genius of the whole felefted, and continued fix years, and the refidue difmifled. By this means twenty of the beft geniuffes will be raked from the rubbifti annually, and be inftrudled, at the public expence, fo far as the grammer fchools go. At the end of fix years inftruftion, one half are to be difcontinued (from among whom the grammar fchools will probably be fup- plied with future mafters;) and the other half, who are to be chofen for the fupe- riority of their parts and difpofition, are to be fent and continued three years in the ftudy of fuch fciences as they fhall choofe, at William and Mary college, the plan of which is propofed to be enlarged, as will be hereafter explained, and ex- tended to all the ufeful fciences. The ultimate refult of the whole fcheme of education would be the teaching all the children of the Hate reading, writing, and common arithmetic: turning out ten annually, of fuperior genius, well taught in Greek, Latin, Geography, and