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We The subscribers, Visitors of the Central College, having been
specially called to meet on the 26th. day of Feb. 1819, and authorised
by the act of the legislature, now in session, for establishing the
University of Virginia, to continue the exercise of our former functions,
and to fulfill the duties of our successors, Visitors of the
sd University, until their first actual meeting, have unanimously
agreed on the following opinions & proceedings.

That it is expedient that all the funds of the University, applicable
to the services of the present year, which shall remain after
meeting all the other current & necessary purposes, shall be applied
to the providing additional buildings for the accomodation of the Professors,
& for dieting & lodging the students of the University.

That the urgency of the advancing season, & the importance of
procuring workmen before they become generally otherwise engaged for
the season, render it necessary for expediting the objects of the
University, that certain measures be forthwith taken, which, if delayed
until the first actual meeting of our successors, would materially
retard those objects.

That taking into view the balance remaining of the funds of the
last year, to wit, of the proceeds of the glebes, & of the 1st. & 2d.
instalments of subscriptions, after payment shall have been made of
the expenditures of the same year, as also the 3d. instalment of subscriptions
payable in April 1820 and the public endowment of 15,000.D.
for the present year, engagements may be entered into for building in
the approaching season two more pavilions for the Professors one Hotel
for dieting the students, and as many additional Dormitories for their
lodging, with the necessary appendages as the said funds shall be competent
to accomplish: that we

approve of the propositions for covering
with tin sheets the pavilions and hotels hereafter to be covered,
and for bringing water to them by wooden pipes from the neighboring
highlands.

That Alexander Garrett, treasurer of the Central college, be
continued as the depository of the funds of the institutions, with
authority to exercise the powers and perform the duties of Bursar of
the University until otherwise provided.

That to meet the immediate and pressing calls for money he be
authorised to recieve from the treasury of the state the sum of fifteen
hundred Dollars, in part of the public endowment of 15,000. Dollars
for the present year.

That a copy of these proceedings be laid before the Governor
and council for the exercise of the power of controul committed to
them by the same act of the legislature, should they think proper
to exercise that power on any part of these proceedings