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Primary document
Title:
Board of Trustees Minutes, August 28, 1868 [Containing a Report of the Death of David L. Swain]:
Electronic Edition.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
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
Sarah Ficke
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 9K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
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:
2005-07-19, Sarah Ficke 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: Board of Trustees Minutes, August 28, 1868 [Containing a Report of the Death of David L. Swain]
Author: Board of Trustees
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Page 1
Raleigh
August 28th 1868
At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees
of the University of North Carolina held in the
Executive Office this day, Gov. Holden
presiding, the following resolutions,
offered by W. M. Coleman, Esq., were
unanimously adopted.
presiding, the following resolutions,
offered by W. M. Coleman, Esq., were
unanimously adopted. Resolved, that in the death of Gov. Swain
the people of North Carolina have been deprived
of the services of one who, for more than forty years of public life, has
labored faithfully for their material, intellectual, and moral welfare.
the people of North Carolina have been deprived
of the services of one who, for more than forty years of public life, has
labored faithfully for their material, intellectual, and moral welfare. Resolved, that the University of North Carolina, and the cause of
education generally, and historical literature especially, have sustained in his
death an irreparable loss.
Resolved, that these proceedings be published in the newspapers of this city, and
that James F. Taylor, Esq., one of
the members of this Board, be requested to deliver a copy there of to
the family of the deceased.
Resolved, that James F. Taylor Esq. be
instructed to communicate to the family of the deceased that the Board
would desire the remains to be buried in the College Campus, near the monument
of President
Caldwell
if agreeable to their wishes.
if agreeable to their wishes.