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At a meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia called and held at the University September the
19th 1842 for the purpose of supplying the vacancy in the
Chair of Chemistry and Materia Medica occasioned by the Death
of Dr. John P. Emmet; Present Chapman Johnson (Rector) Joseph
C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, Wm. C. Rives, Thos. J. Randolph, &
Saml. Taylor.

The following resolutions were adopted.

1. Resolved that Doct: Robert E. Rogers be and he is hereby
appointed Professor of Chemistry & Materia Medica in the University
of Virginia for one year from and after the commencement
of the ensuing session.

2. Resolved, that the first resolution passed on the 5th
day of July of the present year be repealed and that hence forward
each professor except the professor of Moral Philosophy

shall be entitled to receive a fixed salary of one thousand
dollars per annum payable quarterly during his continuance
in office, and that the present professor of Moral Philosophy
shall as heretofore be entitled to receive a fixed salary of
fifteen hundred dollars per annum during his continuance
in office payable in like manner.

Mr. Randolph retired from the Board.

3. Resolved that instead of the sum of one thousand dollars,
which, by the 2d resolution passed on the same 5th day
of July of the present year, was set apart as a sinking fund,
the whole surplus revenue of the University, after satisfying
the other appropriations of each year, shall be set apart
as a sinking fund for the purpose in the same resolution mentioned
and vested in state stock and annually reported to the
Board by the Bursar in the manner therein directed.

4. Resolved that the application of Doct: G. A. Meucci
on the subject of teaching Eloquence and Elocution at the University
of Virginia, be referred to the Faculty, with discretionary
power to grant to him the privilege of delivering
lecturesat the University on those subjects, and to reside
within the precints on such terms and in such manner as they
may deem expedient; subject always however to the control of
the Board of Visitors.

Mr. Rives retired from the Board.

5. Resolved that Pavilion No.8 be assigned to the professor
of Chemistry.

6. Resolved that the petition of the Student, A. P. Whitehead
dated the 17th of September 1842 be referred to the Faculty,
with authority to grant it if to them it may seem expedient.

The Board then adjourned sine die.