as we have a sum of money in Boston which it would be more convenient to place in his hands at once than to draw it here and have to remit it again to Boston. If it would be out of his line to engage for the bell also, be so good as to put it into any hands you please, and to say what we should advance for that also.

The art of boring for water to immense depths we know is practised very much in the salt springs of the Western country, and I have understood that it is habitually practised in the Northern States generally for ordinary water. We have occasion for such an artist at our University, and myself and many individuals round about us would gladly employ one. If they abound with you I presume we could get one to come on and engage in the same line here. I believe he would find abundant employment; but should it be otherwise, or not to his mind, we could, by paying his expenses coming and returning, and placing him at home as we found him, save him from any loss by the experiment. Will Will you be so good as to make enquiry for such a person, to know the terms of his work, and communicate them to me, so that we may form a general idea of the cost of this method of supply. I could then give him immediate information of the probabilities and prospects here. I am anxious myself on behalf of the University, as well as the convenience it will afford to myself.

Our University is going on well. The students have sensibly improved since the last year in habits of order and industry. Occasional instances of insubordination have obliged us from time to time to strengthen our regulations to meet new cases. But the most effectual instrument we have found to be the civil authority. The terrors of indictment, fine, imprisonment, binding to the good behavior, etc., have the most powerful effect. None have yet incurred them, but they have been sternly held up to their view. These civil coercions want a little accommodation to our organization, which we shall probably obtain, and I suppose the more easily as at the age of sixteen it is high time for youth to begin to learn and to practise the duties of obedience to the laws of their country. It will make an important item in the Syllabus of the Moral Professor, and be considered as forming a standing branch in the system of education established here. The competition among our hotel keepers has made them too obsequious to the will of the students. We must force them to become auxiliaries towards the preservation of order, rather than subservients to their irregularities. We shall continue under this evil until the renewal of their leases shall place them in our power, which takes place but annually. Our present number are over 170, and growing weekly; and on the opening of the Law School, which is fixed to the first of July, the dormitories now vacant will

be all filled. These will accommodate 216, and several large houses are building in Charlottesville for private boarding, to meet the demand expected at the next commencement. Ever and affectionately yours.

Vice-Presidents of Jefferson's Two Administrations

Aaron Burr (1756-1836) was born in Newark, N. J. He was the son of a New England clergyman and grandson of Jonathan Edwards. As early as 1775 he joined the army, his first enterprise being with Arnold in his expedition against Quebec. In 1776 he joined Washington's forces in the capacity of Major, but withdrew shortly to become an aide to General Putnam, then engaged in the defense of New York. He was a member of the New York Legislature in 1784 and 1798, and became Attorney-General of that State in 1789. From 1791 to 1797 he was one of the most prominent Anti-Federalist leaders in the Senate. In May, 1800, he was nominated with Jefferson for President. Each candidate received seventy-three votes and the choice was decided by Congress, which resulted in giving to Aaron Burr the office of Vice-President. He mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 12, 1804, and the following year was supposed to have started the project of establishing a dynasty through a conjunction of Western territory of the United States with Mexico. For this alleged scission he was tried in 1807 at Richmond, but was acquitted after a long legal fight in which Jefferson was much concerned. For several years after this trial he lived in Europe. In 1812 he returned to New York to resume his law practice. By his first wife, the widow of General Augustine Prevost, he had a beautiful and accomplished daughter, Theodosia, who married General Joseph Allston, and perished at sea in 1812. At the age of seventy-eight, Aaron Burr married his second wife, Mme. Jumel. (Reproduced from the Original Painting by James Sharpless, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.)

George Clinton (1739-1812) was born in Ulster County, New York. He practiced law with great success and became head of the Whig party in the Colonial Assembly of his native State. In 1775 he was elected to the Continental Congress, and voted for the Declaration of Independence, though his name does not appear signed to that instrument on account of his having been called away to take command of a brigade of New York militia. Chosen Governor of New York in 1777, he held the office by successive re-elections for eighteen years. In 1788 he was made President of the Convention called to consider the Federal Constitution, which he opposed, as he considered it gave too much power to the Central Government. Afterwards he became leader of the Republican faction in New York, and at the close of Washington's first term, in 1792, received fifty electoral votes for Vice-President. But it was not until 1804 that he was actually elected to that office, when Jefferson was re-elected to the Presidency. In 1808 he was again chosen for Vice-President under the first administration of James Madison. While officiating as President of the Senate (by virtue of his office as Vice-President) he gave the deciding vote against the recharter of the United States Bank in 1811. (Reproduced from the Original Painting.)