University of Virginia Library

CALLED MEETING

The Rector having called a special meeting of the Board
for this day the following members appeared viz

Col T. L. Preston Rector, and Messrs Randolph, Brannon,
Frazier, and Cunningham, Visitors.

The Board was called to order by the Rector and the Chairman
of the Faculty submitted his report with the accompanying
documents which were read and on motion it was resolved that
the subjects of the reports be considered seriatim. After
considering the same the following resolutions were adopted.

1. Resolved that application be made by the Rector to
the Secretary of War for the exemption from conscription of

all students who enter the University under the age of seventeen
years until the close of the collegiate year in which
they become eighteen years of age; and also for a similar
exemption for all students who enter over seventeen years of
age who shall not reach the age of eighteen before the close
of the said collegiate year.

2. Resolved That the Act of Assembly requires the increased
salaries of the Professors to begin on the first day of Oct.
1863 and limits the salary to $3000 per annum, and it was the
intention of the board of Visitors to carry out the said Act
by an allowance of $2750 in addition to the $250 actually received
for the quarter ending on the first day of January 1864.

3. Resolved that the recommendation contained in the reports
of the Chairman and Faculty and Proctor relating to the
furnishing of wood be referred to the Executive Committee with
authority to adopt the same.

4. Resolved that Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds
be continued in office until further orders, provided he will
discharge the duties of the office without other compensation
than the use of the house and grounds at present occupied by
him.

5. Resolved That the Executive Committee may authorize
the Proctor to provide a Mess Hall if they deem it advisable.

6. Resolved That the Faculty are authorized in case of
invasion to remove the property of the University to a place
of safety if they deem it expedient.

7. Resolved That students of the University may pay their

tuition fees in such agricultural products as the Professor
entitled to the same may be willing to receive and at such
price as may be mutually agreed on, but no student declining
to pay his fees in agricultural products shall be excluded
from the University.

The Board then adjourned sine die.