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HONORABLE SIRS,

A work professedly undertaken withthe view to promote the welfare, and to facilitatethe progress, of those young gentlemen who may,from time to time, be appointed to situations underyour several Presidencies, will, I flatter myself,receive from your Honorable Court that encouragementthe importance of the subject solicits,and to which my own good intentions may justlyoffer a claim. Under your auspices, my laborscannot fail to prove of public utility, as well asto reward that zeal, and that a