First.--An extensive library to be well furnished in every department of knowledge, and of the most approved literature; which is to be maintained for the free use of all persons who may desire to consult it, and be supplied with every proper convenience for daily reference and study, within appropriate hours for the week days of every year.  It should consist of the best works on every subject embraced within the scope of its plan, and as completely adapted, as the means at your command may allow, to satisfy the researches of students who may be engaged in the pursuit of knowledge not ordinarily attainable in the private libraries of the country.  It should be guarded and preserved from abuse, and rendered efficient for the purposes I contemplate in its establishment, by such regulations as the judgment and experience of the Trustees may adopt or approve.  I recommend, in reference to such regulations, that it shall not be constructed upon a plan of a circulating library; and that the books shall not be allowed to be taken out of the building, except in very  special cases, and in accordance with rules adapted to them as exceptional privileges.

Second.--I desire that ample provision and accommodation be made for the regular periodical delivery, at the proper season in each year, of lectures by the most capable and accomplished scholars and men of science, within the power of the Trustees to procure, These lectures should be directed to instruction in science, art and literature.  They should be established with such regulations as, in the judgment of the Trustees, shall be most effectual to secure the benefits expected from them; and should, under proper and necessary restrictions adapted to preserve good order and guard against abuse, be open to the resort of the respectable inhabitants, of both sexes, of the city and  State:  such prices of admission being required as may serve to defray a portion of the necessary expenses of maintaining the lectures, without impairing their usefulness to the community.  

In connection with this provision, I desire that the Trustees, in order to encourage and reward merit, should adopt a regulation by which a number of the graduates of the public High Schools of the city, not exceeding fifty of each sex, in each year, who shall have obtained, by their proficiency in their studies and their good behavior, certificates of merit from the Commissioners or superintending authorities of the Schools to which they may be attached, may, by virtue of such certificates, be entitled, as an honorary mark of distinction, to free admission to the lectures for one term or season after obtaining the certificates.  

I also desire that, for the same purpose of encouraging merit, the Trustees shall make suitable provision for an annual grant of twelve hundred dollars; of which five hundred shall be distributed every year, in money prizes, graduated according to merit, of sums of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred for each prize, to be given to such graduates of the public Male High Schools now existing or which may hereafter be established, as shall, in each year, upon examination and certificate of the School Commissioners, or other persons having the chief superintendence of the same, be adjudged most worthy, from their fidelity to their studies, their attainments, their moral deportment, their personal habits of cleanliness and propriety of manners: the sum of two hundred dollars to be appropriated to the purchase in every year , of gold medals of two degrees, of which ten shall be of the value of ten dollars each and twenty of the value of five dollars each, to be annually distributed to the most meritorious of the graduating classes of the public Female high Schools; these prizes to be adjudged for the same merit, and under the like regulations, as the prizes to be given to the graduates of the Male High Schools.  The remaining five hundred dollars to be, in like manner, distributed in money prizes, as provided above for the graduates of the Male High School, in the same amounts respectively, to the yearly graduates of the School of Design attached to the Mechanics' Institute of this city.  To render this annual distribution of prizes effective to the end I have in view, I desire that the Trustees shall digest, propose and adopt all such rules and provisions, and procure the correspondent regulations on the part of the public institutions referred to as they may deem necessary to accomplish the object.  

Third.--I wish, also, that the Institute shall embrace within its plan an Academy of Music, adapted, in the most effective manner, to diffuse and cultivate a taste for that, the most refining of all the arts.  By providing a capacious and suitable furnished saloon, the facilities necessary to the best exhibitions of the art, the means of studying its principles and practicing its compositions, and periodical concerts, aided by the best talent and most eminent skill within their means to procure, the Trustees may promote the purpose to which I propose to devote this department of the Institute.  They will make all regulations as, in their judgment, are most likely to render the Academy of Music the instrument of permanent good to the society of this city.  As it will necessarily incur considerable expense for its support, I desire that it may be, in part, sustained by such charges for admission to its privileges, as the Trustees may consider proper, and, at the same time, compatible with my design to render it useful to the community.  And I suggest for their consideration the propriety of regulating the conditions of an annual membership of the Academy, as well as the terms of occasional admission to the saloonÑif they should consider it expedient at any time to extend the privilege of admission beyond the number of those who may be enrolled as members. 

Fourth.--I contemplate with great satisfaction, as an auxiliary to the improvement of the taste, and, through it, the moral elevation of the character of the society of Baltimore, the establishment of a Gallery of Art in the department of Painting and Statuary.  It is, therefore, my wish that such a gallery should be included in the plan of the Institute, and that spacious and appropriate provision be made for it.  It should be supplied, to such an extent as may be practicable, with the works of the best masters, and be placed under such regulations as shall secure free access to it, during stated periods of every year, by all orderly and respectable persons who may take an interest in works of this kind; and particularly that, under wholesome restraints to preserve good order ad decorous deportment, it may be rendered instructive to artists in the pursuit of their peculiar studies and in affording them opportunity to make drawings and copies from the works it may contain.

As annual or periodical Exhibitions of Paintings and statuary are calculated, in my opinion, to afford equal gratification and instruction to the community, and may serve to supply a valuable fund for the enrichment of the gallery, I suggest to the Trustees the establishment of such Exhibitions, as far as they may find it practicable from the resources within their reach.

Lastly.--I desire that ample and convenient accommodations may be made in the building of the Institute for the use of the Maryland Historical Society, of which I am and have long been a member.  It is my with that that Society should permanently occupy its appropriate rooms as soon as they are provided, and should, at the proper time when this can be done, be appointed by the Trustees to be the guardian and protector of the property of the Institute; and that, if it accept this duty and, in conformity with my wish, shall remove into and take possession of the apartments designed for its use, it shall also be requested and empowered to assume the management and administration of the operations of the several departments as the same shall be established and organized by the Trustees; that it shall, at a proper time in every year, appoint from its own members appropriate and efficient committees, to be charged respectively with the arrangement and direction of the of the operations and conduct of each department in the functions assigned to each by the Trustees; that, in the performance of these duties, it shall keep in view the purposes which it is my aim to promote; give due attention to the details necessary to accomplish them; and adopt suitable measures to execute the plan of organization made by the Trustees and carry into full and useful effect my intentions as disclosed in this letter.