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Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1897) June 14, 1897  | | | | Published: | 1897 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At the regular meeting of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia held on the 14th day of June 1897. The Board of Visitors met pursuant to adjournment on yesterday.
Present: The papers accompanying the foregoing report as a part
of it read as follows: I have the honor to submit to you a report of the financial
transactions of the University, for the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1897. As preface, permit me to say, that my
lamented predecessor and myself were close friends and comrades
in arms during the war. Both on the field and in Camp
Green Peyton was always, and everywhere a brave and efficient
soldier. Wherever placed in life, he proved himself a man of
intellect, attainments, energy and force of character. His
ill health for many months before his death, together with the
increased work incident to the receipt and disbursement of a
large restoration fund, caused his accounts to be left in an
unfinished condition. Thoroughly conversant with the peculiar
character of the University accounts, by a service as Proctor
for twenty seven years, he found no need to record many facts
which were safely stored in his own mind, but not immediately
accessible to a new incumbent. So, too with a memory singularly
tenacious, he left no correspondence for he felt the
need of none His cash-book and ledger were his letter-press
and letter-file. Resolved: That in view of the unusually onerous duties
imposed upon the Secretary of the Board since the destruction
of the University Buildings by fire in the fall of 1895, the
said Secretary be paid the sum of $150. in addition to his
regular salary. The Board of Visitors met in pursuance of adjournment
on yesterday. The Special Committee on investigation of the Proctor's
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