FRANKLIN ACADEMY EXAMINATION IN JUNE, 1808.
FRANKLIN ACADEMY.

The annual Examination of the Students of this Seminary, commenced on Monday the 6th instant, and continued three days. It was attended by the Trustees and a numerous and respectable assemblage of ladies and gentlemen from various parts.   The Trustees are happy in announcing to parents and guardians, and to the public in general, that in the course of the Examination, the Students acquitted themselves in a manner highly respectable to the board, manifesting great assiduity in their literary pursuits, while at the same time, during the session, they have evinced a strict conformity to the laws of the institution, and a moral deportment irreprehensible. At the close of the exhibition an appropriate Address in behalf of the Trustees, was delivered by the Rev. William Lancaster.

The exercises of the ensuing session will commence on Monday the 27 instant. The price of tuition, board &c. as usual.

By order,
Louisburg, June 20, 1808.                                G. Hill, jun. Sec'ry.

—The Minerva, Raleigh, June 28, 1808.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)