allowed to use the building without the Trustees' permission (1810). However, as early as 1822, religious meetings were permitted by the Principal subject to a majority of Trustee disapproval. Religious meetings approved by the principal were required to pay 25 cents monthly for the use of the building (1831). In 1853 the upper Academy room was used by Reverend Hutton for holding divine services.

Educationally, an 1831 advertisement stated that there "was a well selected library of 500 to 600 volumes on science, history, biography, voyages, travels and belle-lettres" (46) in the Academy. Students were taxed one dollar to use the library of 600 volumes (1854) and by 1858 the library had grown to 800 to 900 volumes (1858). A Library Committee was given the privilege of using a portion of the upper room required for keeping books in 1853.

With the renovation of the second story into a meeting hail, the Trustees mandated that "all applications for the use of the Academy Hall for any purpose of lectures or public meetings be made to the President of the Board and the Principal of the Academy-who, upon being satisfied of the propriety of the purposes for which the Hall is wanted, shall in their discretion, allow it to be so used."(47) The only recorded time that the Trustees turned down a proposal to use the Hall was in 1852 when they rejected a request for a dancing school (1852).

46 "Advertisement for the Brookeville Academy," Maryland Journal, 19 October 1831.

47 "Board Meeting dated March 18, 1858," Brookeville Academy Minute Books, 2 Vols., 1822-1934, MS.149, Manuscripts Division, Maryland Historical Society Library.