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Primary document
Title: Bill of Fare at Commons at the University of
North Carolina for the Year 1808, December 10, 1807: 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
Amanda Page
First Edition,
2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 8K
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:
2005-03-15, Amanda Page finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers
(#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Bill of Fare at Commons at the University
of North Carolina for the Year 1808, December 10, 1807
Author: B. Williams
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
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Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
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All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
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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 University Archives, 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.
Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
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.
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Bill of Fare
At Commons at the University of
North Carolina for the year 1808
At Commons at the University of
North Carolina for the year 1808
For Breakfast.
A sufficient quantity of good milk, or a pint of good Coffee or
Tea, or Chocolate or Tea, together with a warm roll or loaf of wheat or corn
flour bread, at the option of each student, during each session in the year,
except during the months of Jany., Feby., and March, and for those months the
wheat bread may be cold, but will risen; also a sufficient quantity, not
exceeding an ounce of Butter, in place of which meats may at any time be
substituted with the permission of the Faculty.
For Dinner.
A dish of Bacon and greens, or Beef and turnips, together with a
sufficient quantity of fresh meats or fowls, or puddings or tarts, and warm
wheat or corn bread; and during the months of Jany., Feby., and March, it shall
be the duty of the Steward to furnish on every Sunday a sufficient number of
Turkies —also potatoes and all other kinds of vegetable food usually
served up in
Carolina.
In the Board of Trustees of the University of N. Carolina
December 10 1807
Resolved that the bill of fare at Commons in
the Univ. of N. Carolina for the year 1808 be fairly
transcribed by the Sec. of
the Board and transmitted to the Faculty of the said
University; and that the Faculty cause such
transcript to be stuck up in the public dining room, and see that the same is
kept up throughout the two next sessions.
B. Williams Prest