University of Virginia Library

Present: William Lamb, Rector pro tem; and Messrs Ruggles,
Bell, Barbee, Burks and Ruffin.

The minutes of the Board the current year were read and
approved.

Resolved that the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia take pleasure in giving assurance to Leander J.
McCormick, Esqr., the munificent benefactor of the University
that the liberal fund he has donated to the University has
been, and will continue to be, regarded as a sacred fund,
never to be diverted in any manner from the original purposes
contemplated by the generous donor.

Chairman's Report.

"University of Va

June 26, 1884

To the Rector and Board of Visitors University of
Virginia. Gentlemen:

Herewith I respectfully transmit the
following:

• 1. Report of the Faculty

• 2. Report of the Proctor

• 3. Report of the Librarian

• 4. Report of Prof Fontaine

• 5. Application of the Librarian

• 6. Letter of Prof Schele

• 7. Report of the Infirmary Board.

• 8. Report of Prof J.R. Page with Inventory

• 9. Report of Prof F.H. Smith

• 10. Report of Prof O. Stone.

I have pleasure in saying that good discipline has been
maintained during the session.

It is with regret that I state that two deaths have
occurred among the students since October last, namely: Mr
A.S. Doswell, of Virginia, a medical student, who died of
peritonitis, and Mr. L.A. Antrim, of Virginia, an academic
student, who died of fever. No death among the students here
has taken place prior to these cases for a period of three
years. This indicates a most healthy condition prevailing
in and around the University.

I am, with great respect,
James F. Harrison,
Chairman of the Faculty."

The Reports etc. referred to in the above communication
were respectively referred to their appropriate committees.

Resolved that the Committee on Finance be requested to
ascertain the exact condition of the McCormick fund, showing
the amount of money received and the whole amount expended,
and for what purposes, and the Committee aforesaid is
requested to report to this Board at the earliest practicable
moment during its present session; and that the Rector of the
University be requested to send a copy of the report of said
Committee to L.J. McCormick, Esqr.

Adjourned till tomorrow.

Wm A. Winston
Secretary.

William Lamb
Rector pro tem

Friday, June 27, 1884

Present: Colo Lamb, Rector, pro tem; and Messrs Ruggles,
Burks, Bell, Barbee, Ruffin and Taylor.

The Report of Capt Blair, Chairman of the Committee
appointed to receive the Douglas Gordon bequest, having
been filed with the secretary, was received and approved,
and the proctor's receipt endorsed thereon is in these words
and figures: "I hereby certify that the $4700 and the $300,
named in the within report, were paid to me as proctor by
F.S. Blair, for which he holds my receipt, and were by me,
under authority of the Board of Visitors, invested in the
University of Virginia $500 bonds, bearing interest at six
per centum, and redeemable at the option of said Board of
Visitors.

J. K. Campbell
Proctor."

May 9, 1884

Present: Hon F.S. Blair. 8 O.C. P.M.

The following is a copy from "Miller Board Minutes."

                     

"Appropriation for Miller Fund, 1884-85 Farm, including Wearmonths salary	$1000.00
Four Scholarships	1000.00
New Roof on Manager's house	45.00
Enclosure around yard of manager's house	18.00
Seed testing and sprouting apparatus	50.00
Publishing reports	50.00
New body for wagon	6.00
Signal service thermometer etc.	50.00
Purchase of mule	115.00
Professors' salaries	3666.00
	$6000.00

Resolved that the Miller Board recommends that the present
system of scholarships be abolished, and that there be
established four scholarships of $250 each, two to be awarded
to the Miller Manuel Labor School, and two on competitive
examination as at present.

The above appropriation is respectfully recommended to
the Board of Visitors by this Board

R.T.W. Duke Jr.

Asst Secy"

"Accepted and recommendation adopted.
William Lamb, Rector pro tem."

On motion of Mr Barbour it was Resolved that his Board
appropriate the sum of six thousand dollars for the fiscal
year of 1884 - 85 to the School of Agriculture of the University

of Va.

A copy from the minutes of the Miller Board
of June 27th and 28th

Teste

R.T.W. Duke Jr
Asst Secy

Adjourned till tomorrow.

Wm A. Winston, Secy:

William Lamb
Rector pro tem.

Saturday, June 28, 1884

Present: Colo Lamb, Rector pro tem, and Messrs Ruggles,
Bell, Ruffin, Barbee and Taylor

Resolved that the recommendation of the Faculty in
regard to the removal of the limitations upon the Corcoran
and McCormick Scholarships be adopted; and that the nominees
to these scholarships be allowed to enter any school of the
University without payment of fees.

Resolved, further, that the fees already paid by the
two students referred to in the Faculty's report be refunded
to them, and that Messrs Corcoran and Mc Cormick be informed
of this action of the Board.

In view of the fact that attention is called by the
Faculty to the bad sanitary condition of the University
residences,

Resolved that it is expedient to request E. W. Bowditch,
Esqr, Civil Engineer, to look into the subject and report to
the Visitors what should be done to better the sanitary
condition of said houses.

Adjourned till Monday next.

Wm A. Winston, Secy.

William Lamb
Rector pro tem.

Monday, June 30, 1884

Present: Colo Lamb, Rector pro tem; and Messrs Ruggles, Bell,
Ruffin and Barbee.

The Committee, to which was referred that part of the
Faculty Report to this Board of 27th inst recommending that
candidates now or hereafter for the degree of B.A. be allowed
to omit the essay heretofore required to be written by them,
have had the same under consideration; and beg to report that
they are opposed to granting to any candidate for the degree
of B.A., now or hereafter, any such privilege, and recommend
to this Board that it be denied.

John W. Bell

F. S. Blair

Hugh M. Taylor

Which said Report is hereby approved and adopted.

Resolved, That John W. Mallet, Professor of Chemistry, and
Francis H. Smith, Professor of Natural Philosophy, in the
University of Virginia, be and they are hereby authorized,
separately or jointly, to sign and affirm to affidavits required
by law for the importation, free of duty, of apparatus
intended and ordered for the use of the University of Virginia.

Resolved that the Committee on Apparatus be requested to
confer with the Chairman of the Faculty and Francis H. Smith,
Professor of Natural Philosophy, as to the expediency of the
employment of the Electric Lights in the University of Virginia.

Resolved that the Proctor be directed to have repairs
to pavilion, No 9, recommended in Faculty Report, done by
hiring workmen by the day and furnishing material for same.

Wm A. Winston, Secretary, is allowed to occupy Parker's
Old house.

The following report is adopted;

The committee on Grounds and Buildings, to which was
referred the selection of a site for the building of a
Chapel on the University Grounds, beg leave to submit this
as a supplemental report on the same subject. When the
Committee was enlarged by the appointment of Colo Barbee,
they again viewed the said grounds in company with Revd Mr.
Glazebrook, Chaplain, and they have fixed on the site north
of the Garth boarding-house, and near the pond in the lawn,
as the most suitable and acceptable location on which to
erect said Chapel. They are advised that this site is
preferred by a large majority of those most deeply interested
as the one most agreeable to the citizens, students and
Faculty. It is of easy access to all, and with ordinary
care can be built without injury to any of the University
property. Your Committee, however, earnestly recommend that
a watchful supervision to this end should be observed by the
Chairman of the Faculty, the Proctor and the authorities
of the University generally.

John W. Bell, for the

Chairman, himself etc

Adjourned till tomorrow.

Wm A. Winston
Secretary

William Lamb
Rector pro tem.

Tuesday, July 1, 1884.

Present: Colo Lamb, Rector pro tem, and Messrs Ruggles,
Bell, Ruffin and Barbee.

Resolved that the recommendation of the Committee to
abolish the office of Bursar be hereby adopted, and the vote
being ordered, Messrs Ruggles, Bell, Ruffin and Lamb voted
aye, and Colo Barbee voted no.

Resolved that the Executive Committee require the Proctor
to give a new bond, to be in the penalty of $40,000 - the
additional amount over the old bond being required on
account of the increased appropriation be the State.

Resolved that Jeff Randolph Taylor be declared the
Commissioner of Accounts for the University of Va at a salary
of $100, per annum, from July 1, 1884.

Resolved that the action of the Executive Committee of
April 4, 1884, in suspending the order of the Board of Visitors
of September 6, 1882, authorizing the Proctor and the Bursar
to make deposits in the banks of Charlottesville with the
written assent of their sureties is approved, and that said
enactment of September 6, 1882, be hereby repealed.

Resolved that the action of the Executive Committee in
putting the survey for an additional water supply in charge
of E.W. Bowditch, Esqur, is hereby ratified.

Resolved that Prof Stone, and the Proctor, J.K. Campbell,
are hereby appointed to examine Mount Jefferson, and determine
and designate the land embracing the Leander McCormick
Observatory, which it may be expedient to set aside for the
perpetual and exclusive jurisdiction of the aforesaid Observatory.

Resolved that the Board of Health, with the concurrence of
the Executive Committee, be authorized to have the proper gutters
and spouts put on the University buildings.

Resolved that the estimated receipts having been made on the
basis of 300 students, and the appropriations made on these estimates,
it is hereby enacted that in case there be a deficit
resulting from a less number of students, that this deficit
shall be divided equally among the 17 professors receiving
each $3000 salary.

The following report was adopted:

"The Committee on Grounds and Buildings, to which was
referred that part of the Faculty Report, releting to the
condition of the walls and roofs of the Chapel and the reading-room,
beg leave to report that on examination of said structures,
they find the same in very bad condition especially as to the
roofs and walls. But in consequence of the low condition of
our funds at this time, Your Committee feel constrained to be
satisfied with the simple recommendation that the roof of both
buildings be repaired with new shingles, that rops and
braces be placed against the walls of both if required; and that
such other cheap repairs, as are necessary, be promptly done
under the superintendence of the proctor. Your Committee
further recommends that the cost of these repairs be defrayed
out of the appropriations for repairs and improvements the
current year.

Respy Submitted,

John W. Bell

W. R. Ruffin Commee".

G. T. Barbee

Your Committee, to whom was referred that part of the
Faculty Peport relating to the boarding of students, have
had said matter under Consideration, and beg leave to recommend
that the boarding of students be hereafter thrown open
to general competition amongst all persons residing on the
University grounds, or in its immelate vicinity, who may
be able and willing to take boarders. But in no case shall
students be permitted to board in any hotel in Charlottesville,
o in any house unlicensed by the Faculty: That the
present at the University be rented but by the Executive
Committee, That each student may provide his own
furniture and employ his own servant, and may board where he
prefers, and at what price he may agree upon: That the
business of the University shall extend only to the assignment
to the Student of his room, and to such general supervision
of the boarding-houses as is implied in licensing them.
We further recommend that all persons who shall board any
student or students occupying the dormitories of the University
shall pay the following sum to wit: fifty-five and a
half cents, per student, per month, and that the dormitories
heretofore assigned to students in the mess and hotels be left
to stand as they are, but the students may at the end of any
month change their place of boarding without changing their rooms.

John W. Bell

W. Roane Ruffin

G. T. Barbee.

The aforegoing report was received, approved and adopted.

A Statement of Appropriations made to cover the expenditures
of the University for the current fiscal year.

                                                                                                     

Salaries of 17 professors at $3000		$51,000
Salaries of Prof Thornton and Adj. Prof Dunnington (each $2000)		4,000
Salaries of Asst Instructors in Latin Greek, Math and Mod: Languages ($600)		2,400
Salary of Demonstrator of Anatomy		800
Salary of Chairman of the Faculty		500
Salary of Proctor and Supt		1,600
Salary of Librarian and Secretary		1,000
Salary of Janitor $600, Comr of Accts $100		,700
Commutation of rent to 5 professors		1,500
Repairs & Improvements		8,000
Nat Phil $900. Chemistry $200		1,100
Library, General Appropriation	$622
Library, Income from Madison bequest	$78
Library, Income from Gordon do	300	1,000
Nat Hist $100. App Math $50		,150
General labor $1500, Diplomas	$320	1,820
Chairman's Messenger $180. Janitor of Museum $180		,360
Int on $74,500 at 8%	$5,960
Int on $5,000 at 6%	300
Sinking fund $1000.Contg fund $1200	2,200	8,460
Gas $500. Insurance $500		1,000
Catalogues $250. Printing blanks etc $150 $400
Newspaper advertising	600	1,000
Observatory (current expenses)		1,780
Infirmary ( current expenses)		$2,100
Safe for proctor		,375
Miller Fund
Farm including Wearmonth's salary	$1000
Four Scholarships	$1000	2,000
Roof on Managers house	$ 45
Enclosure around yard	$ 18
See testing & sprouting apparatus	50
Publishing reports $50. Signal service $50	100
Mule $115. body for wagon $6	121	,334
		$92,979
Estimated Receipts
Surplus, May 31, 1884	$ 4,219
State annuity	40,000
Matriculation and library fees (300 students at $20)	6,000
Tuition fees, 300 students at $55.50	16,650
Diploma fees	1,600
Rent of 2 hotels	,500
Rent of dormitories	4,702
State bonds amounting to $102,600 at 6%	6,156
Observatory bonds	4,780
Miller Fund	6,000
Douglas Gordon fund	,300
	$93,007	$92,979
	$93,007	$92,979
	92,979
Balance		$ ,028

Adjourned to the regular annual meeting

Wm A. Winston
Secretary

William Lamb
Rector pro tem.

University of Virginia:

At called meeting of the Board of
Visitors, September 11, 1884

Present: Wm Roane Ruffin, D. Ruggles, F.S. Blair, G. W.
Hansbrough and G.T. Barbee.

The Board was organized for business by the election
of Colo Hansbrough as temporary Chairman - Colo Lamb,
Rector pro-tem, having resigned from the Board.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

Adjourned till tomorrow morning.

G. W. Hansbrough. Tem: Chr: