☞ At the General Assembly of the governor and company of the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America; begun and holden by adjournment, at East-Greenwich, within and for the colony aforesaid, on the last Monday in February, in th year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and fourth of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth : an act for the establishment of a college, or university, within this colony.