University of Virginia Library

REPORT FROM COMMITTEE OF LAW ALUMNI IN RE: LAW SCHOOL APPROPRIATION:

A committee from the Alumni of the Law School appeared before the Board to urge larger appropriations
for the salaries of the faculty, increase of the book funds and facilities for book space, whereupon the
following resolution, offered by R. Gray Williams, was adopted:

WHEREAS, a committee of distinguished lawyers prepared a memorandum designed to show the minimum
needs of the law school and a copy of this memorandum was sent to each member of this Board, and

WHEREAS, this committee was composed of the following; Havthone D. Battle, Christie Benet,
Col. Joseph M. Fartfield, Forrest Hyde, T. Catesby Jones, Paul Barringer, Murray McGuire, and Robert
Tunstall, and

WHEREAS, on this day Murray M. McGuire introduced personally to this Board Col. Joseph M.
Fartfield, T. Catesby Jones, Paul Berringer and Robert B. Tunstall, be emphasized the minimum capital
outlay required to bring the law library up to date and the minimum annual appropriations necessary for
roequate maintenance of the library and for professors' salaries.

In Summary, the amount required for the purpose of books is $26,067.15 and the amount required
for physical equipment including steel stacks in the stock room, additional stocks in the reading room and
system, is $27,500.

For current operating expenses of the library the amount required is $8,935, while the increase
in appropriations for salaries to provide a successor to Judge Doe at $9,000 per year, a law librarian
at $3600 per year, and certain adjustment in other salaries, is the sum of $16,750, and

WHEREAS these recommendations are in substance the same as those made by the President of this
University and are regarded by this Board as reasonable, and,

WHEREAS, the committee of lawyers, who appeared before this Board, have offered to provide a
donation of $26,067.15 to be applied to the purchase of books and legal periodicals, provided the State
makes appropriations to cover the minimum requirements as above cited, for physical equipment, current
requirements of the library and increased in salaries of the law professors,

NOW, THEREFORE, Be it Resolved that this Board expresses its deep to the lawyers
who have manifested their devotion to their alma mater by this generous offer and that this Board
respectfully recommends to His Excellency, the Governor of this Commonwealth, the inclusion in the State
budget of the sums required to carry out the recommendations made by the said committee of distinguished
lawyers and by the President of this University.

Following the adoption of the foregoing resolution, on motion a Committee, consisting of Messrs.
C. B. Garnett, R. Gray Williams, Lewis C. Williams, and James H. Corbitt, was appointed to appear before
the Governor and the Budget Committee on November 9th, to urge the inclusion of the recommendations in
the biennial budget of 1940-42.