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                <head><name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">Board of Trustees</name> Minutes, December 7, 1795 [Containing Resolutions for the Procurement of Books and Apparatus for the University]</head>
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                        <date>Monday 7<hi rend="sup">th</hi> December 1795.</date>
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                <p>The <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name>
                    met according to Adjournment</p>
                <p>Present— 
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                        <item>
                            <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">The President</name>
                        </item>
                        <item>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi>
                            <name key="pn0003112" reg="Jones, William Watts" type="person" rend="yes">Jones</name>.</item>
                        <item><name key="pn0000399" reg="Davie, William Richardson" type="person" rend="yes">M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> Davie</name>.</item>
                        <item>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi>
                            <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Wynns</name>.</item>
                        <item>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi><name key="pn0001307" reg="Osborne, Adlai" type="person" rend="yes"> Osborne</name>.</item>
                        <pb id="unc04-04-p02" n="211"/>
                        <item>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi><name key="pn0000754" reg="Hogg, James (of                                 Hillsborough, NC)" type="person" rend="yes"> Hogg</name>.</item>
                    <item>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Stone</name>.</item>
                    <item>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Hinton</name>.</item>
                    <item>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Willis</name> &amp;</item>
                    <item>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Alves</name> who is also Treasurer.</item>
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                <p>The Committee for considering the business of Confiscated Lands, &amp; for
                    settling accounts &amp;c. and for making a statement to be laid before the
                        <name key="name0000756" reg="North Carolina General Assembly" type="organization" rend="yes">General Assembly</name> made Report which was
                    read &amp; concurred with.</p>
                <p>The Committee for considering of an Ordinance appointing Commissioners to dispose
                    of the Escheated Lands in the County of <name key="name0000804" reg="Orange County,                         NC" type="place" rend="yes">Orange</name> Reported an Ordinance for that
                    purpose which was read and passed.</p>
                <p>Received the Resignation of M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Stone</name>, as Attorney
                    for the District of <name key="name0000313" reg="Edenton, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Edenton</name> which was accepted by the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name>.</p>
                <p>M<hi rend="hi">r</hi>
                    <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Alexander Miller</name> was then nominated and unanimously chosen Attorney
                    for the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> for the District of <name key="name0000313" reg="Edenton, NC" type="place">Edenton</name>, in the place of M<hi rend="hi">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Stone</name> resigned.</p>
                <p>An Ordinance Appointing Commissioners to dispose of the Lands belonging to the
                        <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board of
                        Trustees</name>, in the Territory South West of the <name key="name000" reg="Ohio River" type="place" rend="yes">Ohio</name>, was read &amp;
                    passed.</p>
                <p>Resolved that the following Sets of Books be procured for the use of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, To Wit. <table rows="8" cols="2">
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                            <cell role="label">Sets.</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="pn000" reg="Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques" type="person" rend="yes">Burlamaqui's</name> Natural &amp; political Law .
                                . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>6</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="pn0001315" reg="Paley, William" type="person" rend="yes">Paley's</name> Moral &amp; political Philosophy . . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>3</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="pn0003518" reg="Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de" type="person" rend="yes">Montesqueu's</name> Spirit of Laws . .
                                . . .</cell>
                            <cell>6.</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="pn0001188" reg="Millot, Claude François Xavier" type="person">Millot's</name> Ancient &amp; Modern History . . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>6.</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="pn0000803" reg="Hume, David" type="person" rend="yes">Humes</name> History of <name key="name0000336" reg="England" type="place">England</name> with <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Smollet's</name>
                                Continuation . . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>1.</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Adam's</name> Defence—the first Volume . . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>6.</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="pn0003515" reg="Lolme, Jean Louis de" type="person" rend="yes">De Lolme</name> . . . . . </cell>
                            <cell>6.</cell>
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                            <cell role="label">[Sets.]</cell>
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                            <cell>Constitution of the <name key="name0001144" reg="United States" type="place">United States</name> and of the several States
                                collected . . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>6.</cell>
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                            <cell><name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Priestly's</name> Lectures on History &amp; General
                                policy . . . . .</cell>
                            <cell>6.</cell>
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                <p>That the Library Committee be required to take Measures for the purchase of the
                    said Books; and that present appropriation of Fifty Dollars be considered a part
                    of the fund for that purpose, and that they be Authorized to draw on the
                    Treasurer for the remainder of the sum necessary to complete this purchase. That
                    these books together with such copies of either of them now on hand be put under
                    the care of the Faculty, who are directed to let them to such Students, whose
                    Studies may require the use of them;,at a moderate hire, to be set from time to
                    time by the Faculty; and by them to be accounted for Annually to the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board of
                    Trustees</name>.</p>
                <p>Resolved that M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person" rend="yes">Ker</name> be directed to forward to  M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003078" reg="Grove, William Barry" type="person" rend="yes">
                       Grove</name> the following list of an Apparatus, to
                    wit. An Air-pump, A Condenser, Microscope, Lenses, Concave &amp; Convex
                    Mirrors, Loadstones and Magnets, Phials for an Electrical Machine, Surveying
                    Instruments, with a request to purchase the same agreeably to the directions of
                    the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> in July last.</p>
                <p>An Ordinance to establish and carry into effect the plan of Education to be
                    persued &amp; observed in the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North                         Carolina" type="organization">University of North Carolina</name> as entered
                    on the Journal of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Trustees</name> and agreed to [by the Board on the 4<hi rend="sup">th</hi> day of the present Month, was Reported, read and passed.</p>
                <p>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi><name key="pn0000425" reg="Delveaux, Nicholas" type="person" rend="yes">
                        Nicholas Delveaux</name> having been notified of his appointment as Tutor of
                    the Preparatory School<pb id="unc04-04-p04" n="213"/>in the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, by
                    a Resolution of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> pass'd to day, appeared &amp; signified
                    to the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> his willingness to accept the appointment.</p>
                <p>On Motion of M<hi rend="sup">r</hi><name key="pn0000399" reg="Davie, William Richardson" type="person"> Davie</name> seconded by M<hi rend="sup">r</hi><name key="pn0003112" reg="Jones, William Watts" type="person">
                    Jones</name>, Resolved that the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> proceed to ballot for the Professors of the
                        <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, upon which the following persons were nominated
                    &amp; unanimously chosen, to Wit, <name key="pn0001127" reg="McCorkle, Samuel                         Eusebius" type="person" rend="yes">Samuel E M<hi rend="sup">c</hi>Korkle</name> as Professor of Moral political philosophy &amp;
                    History, M<hi rend="sup">r</hi>
                    <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person" rend="yes">Samuel
                        Harris</name> as Professor of Mathematics, and the Reverend <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person">David Ker</name> as Professor of
                    Languages.</p>
                <p>Resolved that further consideration on the subject of erecting the principal
                    building of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> be for the present postponed, and the
                    Committee appointed for that purpose be discharged.</p>
                <p>Resolved that the President, M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000399" reg="Davie, William Richardson" type="person">Davie</name>
                    M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003112" reg="Jones, William Watts" type="person">Jones</name>
                    M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000754" reg="Hogg, James (of Hillsborough, NC)" type="person">Hogg</name>
                    <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Stone</name> be appointed a Committee, respectively
                    to correspond and make enquiry for some proper person to fill the place of
                    President of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, and to get information upon what
                    terms some such person may be procured for that purpose.</p>
                <p>On Motion, Resolved that the next annual meeting of this <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> shall be on the
                    first Monday of December next.</p>
                <p>Resolved that a Commission of three per Cent be allowed on the Bonds taken up
                    hereafter to be taken for the Security of the Monies arising<pb id="unc04-04-p05" n="214"/>from the Sales of Escheated Lands to be paid in
                    the same manner as Commissions allowed on Bonds for Sales of Confiscated lands,
                    and also a Commission of two and an half per Cent. on monies arising out of
                    Sales of Escheated Lands collected by the Attorney.</p>
                <p>Resolved that M<hi rend="sup">r</hi><name key="pn0003112" reg="Jones, William Watts" type="person"> Jones</name>
                    M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0000399" reg="Davie, William Richardson" type="person">Davie</name> and M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Blount</name> be
                    appointed a Library Committee for the Year 1796.</p>
                <p>Then the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board</name> Adjourned till tomorrow.</p>
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