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Primary document
Title:
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees Minutes,
January 3, 1850 [Containing Resolutions on the Repair and Use of University Grounds and Buildings]: Electronic Edition.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees. Executive
Committee
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 11K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
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The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2005-07-15, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Records of the Board of Trustees of the University
of North Carolina (#40001), University Archives, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees Minutes, January 3, 1850 [Containing Resolutions on the Repair and Use of University Grounds and Buildings]
Author: [Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees]
Description: 3 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
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Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
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Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
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Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees Minutes, January 3, 1850 [Containing Resolutions on the Repair and Use of University Grounds and Buildings]
Page 152
Executive Office
January 3rd 1850
January 3rd 1850
Executive Committee met
Present
-
His Excellency Gov
Manly
Jas Iredell
J H Bryan
C L Hinton
The Governor laid before the committee letters from Professor Mitchell
&
Judge
Battle
on sundry subjects relating to the property & affairs of
the University, when the committee after due consideration adopted the
following resolutions.
&
Judge
Battle
on sundry subjects relating to the property & affairs of
the University, when the committee after due consideration adopted the
following resolutions.1st Resolved that the sum of Five Hundred dollars be and the
same is hereby appropriated for the improvement of the grounds around the
college buildings to be drawn from the Treasurer and expendid under the order
and direction of the committee hereafter appointed
2nd Resolved that the said committee be authorised and
directed to have the covering of the South Building
repaired
repaired3rd Resolved that the Caldwell House
, heretofore purchased by the Trustees
for the Presidents residence ought to
Page 153
occupied by
the President of the College for the time being; and that Gov Swain
be authorised
& requested to take possession of the same.
, heretofore purchased by the Trustees
for the Presidents residence ought toPage 153
be authorised
& requested to take possession of the same.4th Resolved that the House and appurtenances now in the
occupancy of Gov
Swain
be appropriated to the use and occupation of the Professor of
Rhetoric & Logic
be appropriated to the use and occupation of the Professor of
Rhetoric & Logic5th That the said committee be and
they are hereby authorised & directed to cause both of these places, the
dwelling outhouses, & fences to be properly repaired; that they make
sale on the best terms they can, of such superfluous or unnecessary Out-Houses
as can be spared from either of these places; & that the requisite
repairs of inclosures & fences be made of stone.
6th That said committee be directed to cause
the old society Halls in the South Building
to be fitted up for Dormitories or such
other uses as the Institution may require.
to be fitted up for Dormitories or such
other uses as the Institution may require.7th Resolved that Gov Swain
Judge Battle
& Professor
Mitchell
be and they, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed a
committee to carry out the foregoing resolutions, to cause
Page 154
all repairs & work therein contemplated to be done in the
most faithfull and workmanlike manner and that they draw on the Treasurer from
time to time for such sums of money as may be necessary.
Judge Battle
& Professor
Mitchell
be and they, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed a
committee to carry out the foregoing resolutions, to causePage 154
Resolved, that John W Norwood
Esqr the University atto. for the Hillsboro district be requested
to make inquiry into certain alleged trespasses on the University
lands near Chapel
Hill & to take such steps as may be necessary to dispossess
& punish intruders.
Committee adjourned
C. L. Hinton, Sec.