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SALE OF HUMPHREYS REAL ESTATE

Mr. Gray, on behalf of the special committee on outlying real estate, read to the Board a
letter from Mr. Jackson N. Huddleston, of Huntington, West Virginia, forwarding advice from two
appraisers on the value of Parcel No. 20, a 90-acre tract, the last real property remaining in the
William J. Humphreys Estate, and recommending that an offer of $2,650 be accepted. The Board
resolved that the University's Attorney be directed to proceed with negotiations for the sale of
this tract for the sum of $2,650, and to prepare the necessary papers for execution by the
President