“Laws of the State of Maine: passed by the Legislature, at its session, which commenced on Wednesday, the thirty-first day of May, and ended on the twenty-eighth day of June, A.D. 1820.” Portland [ME]: Francis Douglas, printer to the State, 1820.
![“Laws of the State of Maine: passed by the Legislature, at its session, which commenced on Wednesday, the thirty-first day of May, and ended on the twenty-eighth day of June, A.D. 1820.” Portland [ME]: Francis Douglas, printer to the State, 1820.](https://sca.bowdoin.edu/medical-school-of-maine/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/nggallery/establishment/File_008.jpeg "“Laws of the State of Maine: passed by the Legislature, at its session, which commenced on Wednesday, the thirty-first day of May, and ended on the twenty-eighth day of June, A.D. 1820.” Portland [ME]: Francis Douglas, printer to the State, 1820.")
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On June 27, 1820, the first legislature of Maine voted to establish the Medical School of Maine to be under the control of the Trustees and Overseers of Bowdoin College. The legislature granted $1,500 for initial expenses and authorized annual payment of $1,000 for general expenses. The first series of lectures were given in the spring of 1821 by Dr. John Doane Wells, Dr. Nathan Smith, founder of the Dartmouth Medical School and later professor of medicine at Yale University, and Professor Parker Cleaveland, who taught at Bowdoin for over fifty years.
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