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                <author>University of North Carolina (1793-1962). President</author>
                <author>Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868</author>
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                <head> Letter from <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">David L. Swain</name> to Parent, April 3, 1856 [Containing Rules Concerning the Abuse
                    of Liquor and Rules to Control Students' Debts] </head>
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                    <dateline><name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">UNIVERSITY OF NORTH-CAROLINA</name>.<lb/><name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">CHAPEL
                                HILL</name>,<date><hi rend="italics">April</hi> 3<hi rend="italics">d</hi>, I856.</date></dateline>
                    <salute>DEAR SIR:</salute>
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                <p>Permit me to request your immediate and earnest attention to the provisions of
                    the Revised Statute in relation to the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of                         North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>. </p>
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                                    <head>AN ACT CONCERNING THE <name key="name0001146" reg="University                                             of North Carolina" type="organization">UNIVERSITY</name>.</head>
                                    <head>CHAPTER 114.</head>
                                    <p>l. Any license, granted to retail spirituous liquor, wine or
                                        cordials at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, or within two miles
                                        thereof, shall be void.</p>
                                    <p>2. No person shall erect, keep, maintain or have at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel
                                            Hill</name>, or within two miles thereof, any tippling
                                        house, establishment or place, for the sale of wine,
                                        cordials, spirituous or malt liquor.</p>
                                    <p>3 No person in the State, without permission in writing from
                                        the President of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of                                             North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>,
                                        or some member of the Faculty, shall sell, or offer to sell
                                        or deliver to any Student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or to any other person, any,
                                        cordial, wine, spirituous or malt liquor for the purpose of
                                        being used, or with knowledge that the same will be used, at
                                            <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, or within two miles thereof, by any
                                        such Student.</p>
                                    <p>4. No person, at or within two miles of <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>,
                                        shall give or furnish any electioneering treat or
                                        entertainment.</p>
                                    <p>5. No person shall set up, keep or maintain at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel
                                            Hill</name>, or within five miles thereof, any public
                                        billiard table, or other public table of any kind, at which
                                        games of chance or skill, by whatever name called, may be
                                        played.</p>
                                    <p>6. No person, without permission in writing obtained therefor
                                        from the President of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or some member of its Faculty, seven
                                        days beforehand, shall exhibit at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>,
                                        or within five miles thereof, any theatricals, sleight of
                                        hand or equestrian performances, or any dramatic recitations
                                        or representations, or any rope or wire dancing, natural or
                                        artificial curiosities, or any concert, serenade or
                                        performance in music, singing or dancing.</p>
                                    <p>7. Any person who shall offend against, any of the provisions
                                        of this chapter, hereinbefore recited, shall be deemed
                                        guilty of a misdemeanor.</p>
                                    <p>8. Any contract or agreement by any Student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, being then a
                                        minor, with any shopkeeper, merchant, trader or other
                                        person, upon the sale of any wine, cordial, spirituous or
                                        malt liquor, or of any goods, wares or merchandize, or any
                                        article of trade, or with the keeper of any livery stable,
                                        shall be void, unless the same, if made at or within two
                                        miles of <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill</name>, be made under the
                                        written permission of the President of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, or some member of
                                        its Faculty; or if made at a greater distance from <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel
                                            Hill</name>, under the written consent of the person who
                                        may have the control and authority over such Student.</p>
                                    <p>9. Every contract made with a Student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, contrary to the
                                        provisions of the preceding section, shall be void, and may
                                        be avoided on account of any of the matters therein
                                        contained, on the plea of the general issue; on the trial
                                        whereof, if it appear that the defendant was, at the time of
                                        the alleged contract; a Student of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, it shall be presumed that he was, at
                                        the making thereof, a minor.</p>
                                    <p>10. Every such contract shall be incapable of being confirmed
                                        and any promise or obligation given by such Student, after
                                        his arrival at full age, shall be void.</p>
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                <p>To give full sanction and efficacy to the provisions of the criminal law, the
                        <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Trustees</name> have ordained, <hi rend="italics">that any Student who may be
                        seen publicly intoxicated, or in whose room ardent spirits may be found,
                        shall be forthwith suspended or dismissed, as the circumstances of the case
                        may seem to require.</hi> This ordinance has been and will be faithfully
                    carried into execution in every instance of ascertained violation.</p>
                <p>Extravagant habits ordinarily tend to the hindrance of all improvement,
                    intellectual and moral; and the deleterious effect is by no means confined to
                    the individual who is the subject of them. It is impossible to preserve young
                    men in all cases from indiscretions of this character. So carefully have these
                    evils been guarded against, however, that no parent can suffer from them, who is
                    faithful to the college, the community, his son, or himself. The Rev.<name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person"> ELISHA MITCHELL</name>, D.
                    D., is Bursar of the Institution. It is his duty to receive all sums
                    of money that young men bring with them, to disburse the same in paying their
                    board, tuition fees, college dues, and other necessary expenses--to keep an
                    account of the money thus received and disbursed, and at the close of each
                    session to transmit a copy of such account to the parent or guardian of each
                    Student.</p>
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                    <hi rend="italics">To ensure the due observance of these regulations, I have to
                        request that you will immediately advise the Bursar whether you are willing
                        that any account shall be opened here in your name, and if so, the amount
                        indebtedness you are willing to authorise.</hi>
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                <p>Each Student is required to attend Prayers thirteen times, Recitations fifteen
                    times, (except the Seniors who have only fourteen,) and Divine Worship once each
                    week. All absences, whether unavoidable or not, are recorded. A very simple
                    calculation, therefore, will enable you to ascertain the precise portion of
                    duties performed and omitted.</p>
                <p>During the half session, which closed on Friday evening last, (a period of ten
                    weeks,) Mr.<name key="x" reg="Westray, Samuel Elward" type="person"> S. E. Westray </name> has been absent from Prayers 10 times, from
                    Recitations 3 times, and from attendance on Divine Worship [zero] times—
                    [zero] of these absences, 7 from Prayers, 2 from Recitations, and [zero] from Divine
                    Worship, were unavoidable or recorded before his return at the beginning of the
                    session.</p>
                <p>His relative grade of scholarship in his class is pretty much the same as
                    heretofore. His deportment is pretty good.</p>
                <p>With respect to the necessary expenses of a Student, the Faculty concur entirely
                    in the opinion expressed by the <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee,                         Board of Trustees" type="organization">Executive Committee</name>, in the
                    Circular addressed to Parents and Guardians on the 15th of April, 1837, that
                    exclusive of the supplies of clothing ordinarily obtained from home, more than
                    two hundred and fifty dollars a year is not necessary either to the comfort or
                    reputation of any one.</p>
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                    <salute rend="center">Yours, very respectfully,</salute>
                    <signed><name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">DAVID L.
                        SWAIN</name>, <hi rend="italics">President</hi>.</signed>
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