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 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1879) June 27, 1879  
 Published:  1879 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Upon the unanimous recommendation of the Executive Committee which was concurred in by a majority of the other members of the Board, viz. Messrs Goode, Gilmore & Hart, and communicated to the Secretary in writing some days prior to this date, the meeting to be held on this day in pursuance of the adjournment on the 12th of September last was by consent, postponed to the 27th day of June next, and notice thereof forwarded by the Secretary to each member of the Board prior to this date. The Board of Visitors this day met in pursuance of the postponement from the 4th of February last. University of Va., June 28th 1879 Your Committee have the honor to make the following report of their transactions for the past year: Your Committee authorized Dr. J. F. Harrison to expend sixty dollars in the purchase of instruments necessary for the instruction of his class. A petition largely signed by students requesting that the ordinance in reference to board should be so amended as to permit them to change their boarding houses without requiring them to give up their rooms. We referred their application to the Faculty who advised that no change should be made in the ordinance; we therefore declined to accede to their request. At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University- The Committee on the Library respectfully report that upon a personal inspection of the Library, they find the Books well preserved, and the cases and other furniture in good condition. The judicious plan persued both as to the classification and cataloguing of the books, maps, engravings &c renders the access to and use of the Library convenient and agreeable.
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