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Title: An Ordinance to Supply the Place of Trustees Who Shall Fail to Discharge the Duties as Such for a Certain Time, December 20, 1799: 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 scanned (OCR) by
Brian Dietz
Images scanned by
Brian Dietz
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
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:
2006-02-06, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of document: An Ordinance to Supply the Place of Trustees Who Shall Fail to Discharge the Duties as Such for a Certain Time, December 20, 1799
Author: Trustees of the University of North-Carolina
Description: 1 page, 2 page image
Note:
Call number VCp378 UA10 copy 2 (North Carolina Collection, 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 North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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.
An Ordinance to Supply the Place of Trustees Who Shall Fail to Discharge the Duties as Such for a Certain Time, December 20, 1799
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Board of Trustees of the University of North-Carolina.
December 20, 1799.
AN ORDINANCE
To supply the place of Trustees who shall fail to discharge the duties as such for a certain time.
To supply the place of Trustees who shall fail to discharge the duties as such for a certain time.
WHEREAS it is essential to the interest of the Institution, that each Member of the Board should contribute to its welfare by his personal services;
Be it ordained by the Trustees of the University of North-Carolina
, That whenever a Trustee shall fail to attend the Board for the space of two years, his place shall be vacated, and it shall and may be lawful for the Board at the next annual meeting thereafter, to ballot for and appoint one other Trustee in his place: Provided always, that the Trustee so failing to attend, shall be permitted to render an excuse to the Board, for his non-attendance at any time previous to the appointment of his successor, which excuse shall be heard, and adjudged by the Board: Provided also, that if any Trustee shall be necessarily absent from the State for the term aforesaid, and his common residence still be considered in the State, his place shall not be vacated thereby.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Board have the above Ordinance printed, and that he furnish each Member of the Board with a copy.
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, President
W. E. WEBB
, Secretary
, Raleigh.
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