Support of the School
In order to organize, provide for and sustain the Academy, the Trustees solicited aid in the form of loans, State donations, and subscriptions. In 1834 when the Board decided that it was "expedient to enlarge the Academy by the addition of another story,"(15) they secured a $265 loan from Mrs. Rachel Robertson. Likewise when the boarding house needed to be enlarged and a kitchen added due to the increased number of students, they obtained an $800 loan from Miss Sarah Holland (1858).

After incorporating in 1815, the Trustees petitioned the State for donations. These petitions went unheeded until 1834 when the Legislature appropriated $200 annually to the Academy in exchange for the Academy providing gratuitous education to one pupil for every $100 received.(16) The funds were used toward the purchase of a boarding house from Nathan C. Brooks (1836), the maintenance of the Academy, the Principal's salary (1835), and the purchase of philosophical and chemical apparatus (1850). In 1858, a $400 increase in the State's donation was secured by Washington Duvall and Nicholas Worthington, Esq., members of the Montgomery County delegation to the Legislature. (17)

The Trustees used the additional aid for improving the Academy building, enlarging the boarding house (1858), liquidating debts (1860) and purchasing insurance on the boarding house (1861). Additionally in 1867, the Trustees petitioned the Legislature for money arising from the State's sale of Land Scrip. (18) Allen Bowie Davis was authorized to draw on these funds in 1868, but no further records have been found as to when the money was drawn and in what amounts.

15 "Board Meeting dated September 9, 1834," Brookeville Academy Minute Books, 2 Vols., 1822-1934, MS.149, Manuscripts Division, Maryland Historical Society Library." "Resolut

16 Resolution in Favor of Brookeville Academy," Maryland General Assembly, 1834, Resolution No. 84.

17 "An Act to Grant a Donation to Brookeville Academy in Montgomery County," Maryland General Assembly, 1858, Chapter 310.