David F.Boyd, Professor of Languages, English and Ancient; 5.

E.Berti St.Ange, Professor of French and Modern Languages.
These constituted the Academic Board, while the general supervision remained in the Board of Supervisors, composed of the Governor of the State, the Superintendent of Public Education, and twelve members, nominated by the Governor, and confirmed by the Senate.
The institution was bound to educate sixteen beneficiary students, free of any charge for tuition.

These had only to pay for their clothing and books, while all others had to pay their entire expenses, including tuition.
Early in November, Profs.

Smith, Yallas, St.Ange, and I, met a committee of the Board of Supervisors, composed of T.C.Manning, G.Mason Graham, and W.W.Whittington, at General Graham's house, and resolved to open the institution to pupils on the 1st day of January, 1860.

We adopted a series of bylaws for the government of the institution, which was styled the "Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy." This title grew out of the original grant, by the Congress of the United States, of a certain township of public land, to be sold by the State, and dedicated to the use of a "seminary of learning." I do not suppose that Congress designed thereby to fix the name or title; but the subject had so long been debated in Louisiana that the name, though awkward, had become familiar.