| | Description: | On this the day, appointed by the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia for their stated annual meeting,
Thomas J. Randolph and Andrew Stevenson only appeared; and
the Board was not organized till Wednesday July 2d, when John
H. Cocke, James M. Mason, Wm. C. Rives, & R. M. T. Hunter who
was appointed to supply the vacancy in the Visitation occasioned
by the resignation of Chapman Johnson, by the appointment of
John H. Cocke to the vacant Rectorship, who, having declined
the appointment, was made rector, pro temp:, and Joseph C. Cabell
was elected Rector in his place. |
