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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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Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes (1897) December 10, 1897 | | | | Published: | 1897 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Wishing to comply with the resolution adopted at the
meeting of the Board on the 15th of June last (p. 169 [156]
of the record), providing for a meeting during the month of
November 1897, to further consider the question of a president
for the University, I caused the secretary to sound the
members as to whether the 26th of Nov. would suit them to attend.
On hearing from them in reply, I became satisfied that
the 10th of December was the earliest day on which a quorum
of the Board could be gotten together, and I requested the
Secretary to summon the Visitors to a meeting on that day,
which was done. University of
Virginia, Decr 10th After a careful inspection of the grounds and buildings,
after an absence of two months, we were strongly impressed
with the desirability of filing with the Building
Committee a report and plan covering all further matters
which we considered as necessary to the completed scheme
of the University Buildings and the treatment of the surrounding
grounds in order that all work from time to time
ordered might be carried out on these consistent lines. Will you kindly give me the following information: Answering your favor of the 15th inst. I beg to submit
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