FRANKLIN ACADEMY EXAMINATION, DECEMBER, 1805.
FRANKLIN ACADEMY.

The Semi-annual Examination of the Students of this Academy will be holden on Tuesday the 3d of December next. On Wednesday the succeeding day, there will be an Exhibition of select Orations, Dissertations and Dialogues. These Exercises are to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M. In the evening of the same day will be exhibited by the Students, a Comedy and Farce for the Benefit of the Academy.

G. Hill, Jun. Sec.

(Hand)It is expected that all Persons haying Sons or Wards at this Academy, and being yet in Arrears, will pay the sums due for their Tuition, at or before the Exhibition.
Lewisburg, Nov. 16, 1805.

—From Raleigh Register, November 25, 1805
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)