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Title: Excerpts from Board of Trustees Minutes, December 1, 1870 [Containing Solomon Pool's Plan for Continuing the University]: 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. 11K
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:
2005-07-07, Amanda Page 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: Excerpts from Board of Trustees Minutes, December 1,
1870 [Containing Solomon Pool's Plan for Continuing the University]
Author: S.S. Ashley, James B. Mason, and W.D. Mason
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.
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.
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All double 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.
Excerpts from
Board of Trustees Minutes, December 1, 1870 [Containing
Solomon Pool's
Plan for Continuing the
University]
Plan for Continuing the
University]Page 127
On motion of
Mr. McDonald
the reports were received.
the reports were received.On motion, the report of the Bursar was referred to the committee on
the Secretary's & Treasurer's Report.
The President submitted the following plan for continuing the
University for the consideration
Page 128
of
the
Board of Trustees.
Page 128
University Plan, Dec. 1, 1870
I. That a committee of the Trustees confer with the authorities of other colleges with the view of bringing them under the head of the State University.1. The corporations of the several colleges to still retain their present chartered rights.2. To receive such aid, as colleges of the University, as may be agreed upon.II. To effect the lease of the property at Chapel Hill upon some such fair and equitable terms as the following.1. Lessee to give bond for the Security of the property and its safe return at the expiration of the time of the lean, natural decay, and accident by fire &c excepted.2. Free tuition to be offered constantly to fifty youth of the State.3. The leading religious sects of the State to be offered a representation in the college, and the discussion of party politics to be constantly forbidden.4. To be one of the University Colleges, submitting reports of the operations of the college &c, to the Trustees of the University at such times as the said Trustees may require.
The following resolution was then adopted.
Resolved, 1st. That a committee of three Trustees be appointed by
the Chair who shall carry out the provisions of the plan, by securing and
completing the lease upon the terms set forth; and five be appointed to confer
with the authorities of other colleges with the view set forth in the plan, and
report the result of that conference to an adjourned meeting of this Board.
2nd. That when this Board adjourn, it do so to meet again on the
1st Wednesday in Feby. 1871.
Page 129
To effect the lease under the plan, the Chairman appointed the
following named gentlemen a committee.
The following Trustees were appointed to confer with other
colleges, as named in the plan:
-
President Pool
Hon. Robt. P. Dick
Hon. S. F. Phillips
Hon. John Pool
& Hon. S. S. Ashley
On motion of
Hon.
S. S. Ashley, an account in favor of
Jordan Swain
, was referred to Messrs.
Mason
&
Lassiter for compromise and adjustment.
, was referred to Messrs.
Mason
&
Lassiter for compromise and adjustment. On motion of
Mr. Reid
,
the payment of the present faculty was referred to the Executive Committee.
,
the payment of the present faculty was referred to the Executive Committee.On motion of
Mr.
Ashley, the President of the
Board was requested to transmit the annual reports
now presented and accepted to the General Assembly.
The committee on the Secretary & Treas. accounts made the
following report.
Raleigh Dec. 2nd 1870The committee appointed by the Trustees of the University of North Carolina at an adjourned Annual Meeting held on the first of December A. D. 1870, to Audit the Accounts of the Treasurer of the University for the last fiscal year, have examined and compared the accounts and vouchers for the past year, and have found proper vouchers for the disbursements by him during the time.
On motion the
Board adjourned to meet the 1st Wednesday in
February next.