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A bill has been presented to both
branches of the General Assembly, by Mr [Ber-]
[ry] in the Senate, and Mr Evans in the Lower
House, to give the "Medical College of Virginia"
at Richmond, an annuity of [$?] 7000 or
[$?] 8000 on conditions of [the?] tuition to as
many medical students as there are [mem-]
[bers] of the Gen. Assembly, namely 136.

This condition is the most [objec-]
[tionable] feature of this extraordinary
Scheme. For the last thirty years or more,
the leading members of the profession through-
out the U. States have been engaged in ear-
nest efforts looking to a reform of medi-
cal education, and have considered it
indispensable to any [favorable?] [useless?]
to discountenance all attempts to [stim-]
[ulate] large accesions to the members of the
profession already [more?] over-crowded
in this country than in any other civiliz-
ed nation of the globe. The proportions of
doctors to the population is one in