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At the meeting of the Board of Visitors called for this
date, there being present only the Rector, and Visitors Craddock
and Harmon, an informal conference was held with the
President, and adjournment made subject to call of the Rector.

I. K. Moran, Sec'y

University of Virginia,
April 10th, 1908.

At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors, University
of Virginia, in the President's Office, East Lawn,

Present. The Rector, and Visitors Harmon, Flood, Craddock
and White and President Alderman,

The Rector having called the Board to order at 2:00 o'clock,
P. M., the newly appointed members. Dr. W. F. Drewry,
and Mr. Geo. S. Shackelford, appeared, and being duly qualified,
were accordingly recognized as members of the Board.

The first business in order, being the election of a Rector,
on motion of Visitor Flood, Hon. Armistead C. Gordon was
nominated and unanimously elected.

The President then presented the resignation of Dr. John
W. Mallet, Professor of Chemistry, in the following correspondence,-

Dr. Edwin A. Alderman,
President of the University of Virginia.

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Dear Dr. Alderman,-

As you know from my reports to you of earlier date,
I have for some time felt the coming on of age, and the inevitable
necessity for laying down the responsibility of my
pleasant duties in the service of the University.

I am sorry to have now to put into your hands, my formal
resignation, and to request that you transmit it to the
Board of Visitors.

This step seems to make it unnecessary, and in some
measure improper, that I should report in detail as to the
needs of my Chair, as called for by your circular letter of
the 9th inst.

Very faithfully yours,
(signed) J. W. Mallet.
Dr. John W. Mallet,
Professor of Chemistry,
University of Virginia.
My dear Dr. Mallet

I beg to acknowledge with sincere regret your communication
of March 16th, putting into my hands, for transmission
to the Visitors, your resignation of the Professorship of
Chemistry in the University of Virginia. I shall present to
the Visitors, at their approaching meeting, your formal letter
of resignation, with the request that they take such action
as they may deem fit and proper.

To have served an institution of learning for thirty-eight
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gratitude and honor. To have served it with such distinction
as to give to your department fame and prestige throughout the
country, is an added claim to respect and appreciation. To
have won, through the unfailing exercise of unbending integrity,
high thinking, and sincere acting, the affection and reverence
of those who know the institution, is the largest achievement
possible to a teacher of youth. You have rendered all of these
high services to the University of Virginia, as thousands of
men in and out of its walls will attest. Your retirement will
bring to your colleagues, and to the friends of the University
everywhere, profound regret, mingled with the hope that many
years remain to you of notable, scientific service. I shall
deem it a privilege to seek your counsel in the reorganization
of the work in Chemistry, made necessary by your resignation.

I beg you will accept assurances of my respect and esteem.

Very sincerely yours,
(signed) Edwin A. Alderman,
President.
To the
Rector and Visitors of the
University of Virginia.
Gentlemen:

It is with great regret that I feel compelled, by the
pressure of age, and resulting loss of health and strength,
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This service has been one of happiness on my part for
many years, but the time has come when it must end.

I therefore respectfully ask you to accept my resignation
as Professor of Chemistry, to take effect at the close
of the present session on the 17th of June.

I preserve a most grateful remembrance of the uniform
kindness and consideration which I have always received from
the governing body of the University.

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(signed) J. W. Mallet.

The resignation of John W. Mallet, Ph.D., M.D., LL. D.,
F.R.S., as Professor of Chemistry in the University having been
tendered and accepted to take effect at the close of this session,
a Committee was appointed to draft a resolution expressive
of the regret of the Visitors at Dr. Mallet's retirement
from the Faculty, who reported the following minute, which was
adopted:

The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have
learned with sincere regret that Dr. John W. Mallet, who for a
long period of years has adorned with his accomplishments and
talents the Chair of Chemistry in this University, will sever
his connection with its teaching Faculty at the close of the
current session.

The Rector and Visitors desire to record on their minutes,
for a memorial to those who shall succeed them, their profound
and lasting appreciation of the value and worth of such lofty


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character, notable and catholic scholarship, disinterested
and unselfish devotion to duty, noble integrity of life,
and beneficent and far-reaching achievement, as are exemplified
and illustrated in the association of Dr. Mallet
with the University.

They tender to him, with sentiments of personal admiration
and esteem, and with the verdict of contemporary science
"Well done, good and faithful servant," their heartfelt wishes
for a long continued and happy life of yet uninterrupted work
and still larger achievement in his honorable retirement from
the arduous and wearing cares of a teacher of youth.

The resignation of Dr. Charles H. Bunting as Professor
of Pathology in the University of Virginia, was presented to
the Board through the following letter to President Alderman,-

Pres't. E. A. Alderman,
University of Virginia.
Dear Sir:

May I ask you to tender to the Rector and Board of Visitors
of the University, my resignation as Professor of Pathology,
to take effect September 15th, 1908, and also convey
to them my regret at being "compelled" by the insistence of
the call to a similar chair in my alma mater, the University
of Wisconsin, to leave the Medical school at this period in
its development.

Yours sincerely,
(signed) C. H. Bunting.

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On motion it was resolved that the resignation of Dr.
Bunting be accepted by the Board, and that the President be
authorized to convey their regrets to Dr. Bunting.

It appearing that notice having been given as required
by Statute to the members of the Board to elect a Professor
of Pharmacology and Materia Medica, Dr. J. A. English Eyster,
having received the votes of the members of the Board present,
is declared elected to the Chair of Pharmacology and Materia
Medica, at a salary of $2,500 per annum, to enter upon his
duties September 15th, 1908.

Resolved: That Dr. Carl Meloy is hereby elected Adjunct
Professor of Pathology, at a salary of $1,500 per annum, to
enter upon his duties September 15th, 1908.

Resolved That the law course leading to the Bachelor's
Degree, now embracing two years, be extended from and after
September 1909, so as to require a course of legal study covering
three years.

Resolved That the main features of the course, thus extended,
should follow in general outline the scheme set forth
by the Faculty and Dean of the Law Department in the report
to the President recently made by the Dean of that Department,
the details, however, and especially those upon which the members
of the faculty are not agreed, to await the return of
Professor Lile and the judgment of the Committee appointed by
the Visitors, for final settlement, provided that the plan,
completed in detail, be ready for publication in the next issue
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The following correspondence, together with copyright
and deed, was presented by the President, and on motion, it
was accepted, and the Rector authorized to write to Mrs.
Rogers.

President Alderman,
My dear President Alderman,-

I send herewith the copyright
of the "Geology of Virginia" for the department of Geology
of the University of Virginia, for its use without limitation
as to time or other considerations.

I enclose also the letter from the Rector of the University
to which I have replied this morning and have informed
him of the document I have received releasing me from any
claims of the Hotchkiss family.

I congratulate the University on the passage of the
Bill for the Survey.

Believe me, with best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
(signed) Emma Rogers.
Mrs. Emma Rogers,
117 Marlborough St.,
Boston, Mass.
My dear Mrs. Rogers

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the copyright to
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the University of Virginia. I beg to renew our very sincere
appreciation of your great kindness and generosity. I believe
that the William Barton Rogers Chair of Geology here, since
the establishment of the State Survey at the University, is
destined to carry out in a noble way the original plans so
splendidly laid out by your husband.

Sincerely yours,
(signed) Edwin A. Alderman,
President.

Library of Congress,
Copyright Office, Washington.

No. 2658 0.

To wit: Be it remembered,
That on the 9th day of February, anno domini 1883,
                     Emma Rogers            of
the United States, has deposited in this Office the title of a
           Book,              the title or description of
which is in the following words, to wit:

Reprint of Annual Reports
with other papers
on the
Geology of Virginia
by the late
William Barton Rogers, LLD &c
New York
D. Appleton & Company
1883

the right whereof she claims as Proprietor


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in conformity with the laws of the United States respecting
Copyrights.

(signed) A. R. Spofford,
Librarian of Congress.

Know all men by these presents, that I, Emma Rogers, of
Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, widow of Professor
William Barton Rogers, formerly of the University of
Virginia, in consideration of One dollar and other good and
valuable considerations to me paid by the Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowleged, do hereby assign, transfer, and set over unto the
said Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, the
copyright for the United States of the book called "Reprint of
the Annual Reports with other papers of the Geology of Virginia,
by the late William Barton Rogers, LL. D.", which said book was
entered for copyright by me in the office of the Librarian of
Congress at Washington on the 9th day of February A. D. 1883,

To have and to hold the same to the said Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia so long as said copyright
shall continue in force whether by renewal or otherwise, hereby
appointing the said Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia my attorney with power of substitution to take out in
my name or otherwise, but to its own use, any renewal of said
copyright to which I may hereafter be entitled.

In Witness Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal this
twenty-fourth day of March, A. D., 1908.

Signed, sealed and delivered
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Robert H. Gardiner

Emma Rogers.

Mary Otis Porter.

Resolved. That the letter of Mr. Harold J. Coolidge to
the Rector, of date Jan. 22, 1908, in regard to the Austin
legacy litigation, be referred to Mr. John B. Moon, counsel
for the University, to correspond with Mr. Coolidge, and ascertain
the amount of his fee for services.

Resolved. That the application of Messrs. George L. Forsyth,
F. C. Dillon, and W. S. Barrett, Committee of the Sigma
Chi Fraternity, be referred to the Finance Committee to report
on the investment of $8,000.00 as requested by that Fraternity.

The Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County having proposed
to improve the Lynchburg Road on the south side of the
University grounds, by grading and widening the same in such
manner as may perhaps encroach at points on the lands of the
University,

Resolved That it be referred to the Executive Committee
together with the President and Sup't. of Buildings and Grounds,
to give their consent to such encroachments, if in their judgment
they deem proper.

Resolved That the petition of the "C. & A. Railway Company",
for a change location of line, be referred to the Executive
Committee, with authority to act; and that the President
and Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings act with said Exe-
cutive Committee.

In accordance with a request from the President of St
John's College, Shanghai, China, endorsed and approved by Dean
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Resolved: That St. John's College be placed upon the
list of accredited schools, and granted a scholarship in this
University, entitling the holder to remission of fees, under
the regulations governing the awarding of general scholarships.

Resolved: That the sum of $150.00 be appropriated to be
paid to the "Debating Union" of the Washington and Jefferson
Literary Societies.

Resolved That the Bursar be authorized to destroy the
old cancelled bonds, representing the debt of $69,500.00, paid
off on October 15th, 1905, and also, the cancelled 5% bonds
representing the New Debt of $200,000.00, refunded into 4%
bonds, November 1st, 1906, and that he will secure Messrs.
Harmon and Moon to witness such destruction of said bonds and
give their certificate of such destruction, to be returned to
the Board, and recorded in its minute book.

The Rector appointed the following standing committees,-

Executive:

Messrs. Harmon, Flood, Shackelford, Craddock, and the Rector

Finance:

Messrs. Craddock, White, and Harmon.

Library:

Messrs. Irvine, Drewry, White, and Eggleston.

Conduct of Schools:

Messrs. Norton, Flood, Drewry, and Eggleston.

Buildings and Grounds:

Messrs. Flood, White and Craddock.

Health and Hospital:

Messrs. Drewry, Norton, and Irvine.


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Miller Board:

Messrs. Shackelford, Norton, and Irvine.

Laws and Legislation:

Messrs. White, Harmon, Eggleston, and the Rector.

Alumni Trustees:

Messrs. White, Irvine, and Shackelford.

Resolved: That a stone suitably inscribed, be placed by
the Visitors of the University, over the grave of Mr. E. W.
James, at a cost not exceeding $250.00.

Resolved That the Bank for Savings & Trusts, Norfolk,
Virginia, be requested to pack and ship "James Library" to
the University of Virginia.

Resolved: That the Bursar be directed to pay to Mrs.
Fannie Rogers Curd and to Helen Wood Rogers, the sum of Twenty-Five
Dollars per month for four months, from and including the
month of January 1908; the same being the amount agreed to be
paid to each of them during her respective life under the terms
of settlement of the Edward W. James Estate.

Resolved: That the Finance Committee be authorized to
receive from the Norfolk Bank for Savings & Trusts, and turn
over to the Virginia Trust Company, the securities of the Estate
of Edward W. James, and to make arrangements with the
said Company for the safe keeping of the securities, the collection
of the interests and dividends thereon, and the payment
to Fannie Rogers Curd, and Helen Wood Rogers, the annuity
of $25.00 per month to each of them, and the payment of the net
residue of the income one-half to R. E. Lee Camp C. V. No.1Soldiers'
Home, for 15 years and the balance of the income to
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On motion, resolved: That the Finance Committee be and
is hereby authorized to sell the farm in Princess Anne Co.,
Va., lately belonging to E. W. James, and which became the
property of the University of Virginia, under the will of
Mr. James, for such price, and on such terms, as they may
deem proper, not however, for a less sum than Fifty Thousand
Dollars, without further action of the Board, and in case of
a sale under this resolution, the Rector is hereby authorized
to execute and deliver such deed or deeds for said farm as
may be proper.

On motion it was directed that the Secretary place on
record at as early a date as practicable, the following papers
relating to the James estate:

Received of the Norfolk Bank for Savings & Trusts, Administrator
c.t.a. of Edward W. James, deceased, all the goods
and chattels of Edward W. James, deceased, set forth in the
annexed Inventory and Appraisement of the goods of Edward
Wilson James, deceased, dated December 14, 1906, made by Merritt
T. Cooke, F. J. Robinson, A. B. Schwartzkopf, James N.
Goode and W. H. Taylor, aggregating at such appraisement
$235,020.22, except the following, which have been disposed
of as shown by the account of the Administrator c.t.a.

5 Shares Merchants' & Farmers' Bank, Portsmouth, stockpar
$100. per share.

11 City of Norfolk 6% coupon bonds for $500. each due October
1914.

1 City of Norfolk 6% coupon bond for $500. due October
1914.


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7 City of Norfolk 4% coupon bonds for $1000. each due November
1929.

4 City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds for $500. each, due
June 1922.

2 Laurel, Md. 5% coupon bonds $1000. each due August 1908.

1 Nashville, Tenn. coupon bond, 5%, for $1000. due December
1911.

1 Seattle, Washington, 5% coupon bond $1000. due April 1912.

2 City of Mobile, Alabama 5% coupon bonds $500. each due
Jan. 1906.

15 shares The Citizens Bank of Norfolk, Va. stock, par $100.
each.

6 shares The Norfolk Bank for Savings & Trusts stock, par
$100. each.

1 share Richmond Club stock par $100.

Clipped coupons due in November and December 1906, $760.

5 Richmond Club 5% coupon bonds $100. each, due July 1907.

4 City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds $500. each, due August
1927.

2 City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds $500. each, due June
1922.

4 shares Virginia Savings Bank & Trust Co. stock, par $100.
each.

1 Virginia Funded Debt 3% coupon bond $500. due July 1991.

1 Charlotte, N. C. 5% coupon bond $1000. due July 1920.

2 Durham, N. C. 5% coupon bonds $1000. each, due January
1919.


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3 Greensboro, N. C. 6% coupon bonds, $500. each, due July
1917.

1 Laurel, Md bond (coupon) 5% for $1000., due August 1908.

1 Danville, Va. 6% coupon bond, $500. due August 1912.

Clipped coupons due December 1, 1906, $136.50

Wilson, Colston & Co. check $700 47

Amount on deposit in The Norfolk National Bank $1,509.75

Amount on deposit in The Bank for Savings, New York, $829.15

Amount on deposit in Excelsior Savings Bank, New York
$203.74

Cash found on person, turned over by Coroner $4.47

Furniture, etc., appraised at $50. (Sold for $517.14)

2 Charlottesville, Va., 5% coupon bonds $1,000. each, due
September 1914.

Received also a stock dividend of the National Bank of
Commerce, Norfolk, of 53 shares and a stock dividend of Virginia
Bank & Trust Co. (Virginia Savings Bank & Trust Co.)
Norfolk, of 2 shares.

The several coupon bonds, not yet matured, hereby receipted
for by us have attached thereto all coupons for interest
to become due; and the $61.50 of Anniston, Ala., coupons
for interest due December 1st, 1907, on $4100. of Anniston,
Ala. bonds, and which coupons have been returned unpaid,
have also been turned over to us.

(signed) The Rector & Visitors of the University
January 29th, 1908.     of Va. by Wm. H. White,

Loyall, Taylor & White, Att'ys.

Received from W. H. White and Loyall, Taylor & White, Attorneys
for the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia


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the same securities above receipted for by said attorneys,
the said securities to be held by the undersigned subject
to the order of the said University or its said attorneys.

(signed) The Norfolk Bank for Savings & Trusts,

By W. W. Vicar,
Cashier.

January 29th, 1908.

Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of
Edward Wilson James, Deceased.

City of Norfolk, December 14, 1906.

We, the undersigned, Merritt T. Cooke, Frederick J. Robinson,
Walter H. Taylor, James U. Goode, and Albert B. Schwarzkopf,
who were appointed by the Corporation Court of the City
of Norfolk, on the 24th day of October, A. D. 1906, to appraise
the goods and chattels of Edward Wilson James, deceased, being
first duly sworn, have appraised such of said goods and chattels
as were produced to us as follows:

           

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Inventory of Estate.  Values. 
From Safes in Vault of The Norfolk Bank for Savings & Trusts. 
11  City of Norfolk 6% coupon bonds for $500. each,
due October, 1914, with April 1907, coupons attached 
5,940 00 
City of Norfolk 5% coupon bond for $500. due
June, 1913, with June 1907, coupons attached, 
525 00 
City of Norfolk Water 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due May, 1914, with May 1907, coupons attached, 
1,050 00 
City of Norfolk 6% coupon bond for $500. due
October 1914, with April, 1907, coupon attached, 
540 00 
City of Norfolk 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due June, 1916, with June, 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,050 00 
City of Norfolk 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due November, 1920, with May, 1907,
coupons attached, 
3,150 00 
City of Norfolk 5% coupon bond for $500. due
April, 1923, with April, 1907, coupon attached, 
525 00 
City of Norfolk 5% coupon bond for $500. due
June, 1923, with June 1907, coupon attached, 
525 00 
City of Norfolk 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due September 1919, with March 1907,
coupons attached, 
1,050 00 
City of Norfolk 4% coupon bond for $1,000.
due December 1928, with June 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
City of Norfolk 4% coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due November 1928, with May 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
City of Norfolk 4% coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due November 1929, with May 1907, coupons
attached, 
7,000 00 
City of Norfolk 4% coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due May 1931, with May 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each due June 1922, with June 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
10  City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds for $100.
each, due September 1924, with March 1907,
coupons attached, 
1,000 00 
Charlottesville, Va. 5% coupon bond for $1,000.,
due September 1914, with March 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Forward,  $30,355 00 
Brought forward,  $30,355 00 
Laurel, Md., 5% coupon bonds for $1,000. each,
due August 1908, with April 1907, coupons attached, 
2,000 00 
Nashville, Tenn., 5% coupon bond for $1,000.
due December 1911, with June 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Norfolk Silk Company, 7% coupon bond for $500.
due March 1915, with March 1907, coupon attached, 
500 00 
Clarksville, Va., 6% coupon bond for $500. due
April 1934, with April 1907, coupon attached, 
500 00 
Seattle, Washington, 5% coupon bond for $1,000.
due April 1912, with April 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Virginia Club (Norfolk) 5% 2nd. Mortgage Coupon
Bonds for $100. each, due Aug. 1913, with Feb.
1907 coupons attached, 
300 00 
City of Mobile, Ala., 5% coupon bonds for
$500. each, due January 1906, (No coupons
attached) 
1,500 00 
10  Second Presbyterian Church (Norfolk) 5% coupon
bonds for $500. each, due Nov. 1912, with
May 1907, coupons attached, 
5,000 00 
60  shares The Norfolk National Bank stock, par
$100. ea. 
10,500 00 
45  shares The Norfolk National Bank stock (new
issue) due by that Bank, 
7,875 00 
138  shares The Bank of Commerce of Norfolk, Va.,
stock par $100. each, 
24,150 00 
40  shares The National Bank of Commerce, Norfolk,
Va., stock, par $100. each, 
7,000 00 
15  shares The Citizen's Bank of Norfolk, Va.,
stock par $100. each, 
3,000 00 
53  shares The Marine Bank of Norfolk, Va., stock
par $100. each, 
14,310 00 
26  shares Bank of Portsmouth stock, par $100.
each, 
4,550 00 
shares Merchant's & Farmer's Bank, Portsmouth
Va., stock, par $100. each, 
2,250 00 
shares The Peoples Bank, Portsmouth, Va.
stock, par $100. each, 
1,250 00 
shares The Norfolk Bank for Savings & Trusts
stock, par $100. each, 
1,500 00 
share Richmond Club stock, par $100.  40 00 

Coupons as follows:


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City of Norfolk,  due November 1, 1906,  $400.00 
City of Portsmouth,  due December 1, 1906,  75.00 
City of Norfolk,  due December 1, 1906,  70.00 
City of Nashville,  due November 1, 1906,  25.00 
City of Anniston,  due November 1, 1906,  52.50 
Country Club,  due November 1, 1906,  12.50 
2nd Presbyterian Ch.  due November 1, 1906,  125.00  760 00 
Forward,  $119,340 00 
Brought forward,  $119,340 00 
               

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From safe in Vault of the Citizens' Bank of Norfolk, Va. 
Country Club second mortgage 5% coupon bonds,
$100. each, due November 1911, with May 1907,
coupons attached, 
500 00 
Richmond Club 5% coupon bonds for $100. each,
due July, 1907, with January 1907, coupons attached, 
500 00 
The Virginia Club second mortgage 5% coupon
bonds $500. each, due August 1913, with February
1907, coupons attached, 
1,000 00 
City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due August 1927, with February 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
City of Portsmouth 5% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due June 1922, with June 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,000 00 
City of Norfolk 4% coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due May 1931, with May 1907, coupons attached, 
3,000 00 
City of Norfolk 4% coupon bond for $1,000. due
November 1928, with May 1907, coupon attached 
1,000 00 
shares Virginia Savings Bank & Trust Company
stock, par $100.00 each, 
500 00 
From Safe in Vault of the Planters National Bank
of Richmond,
 
30  shares Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. preferred
stock (Certificates B624 for 10 shares and A2467
for 20 shares) par $100. each, 
3,000 00 
City of Richmond registered 4% bonds, $100.
each, due January 1938, 
300 00 
City of Richmond registered 4% bond, $100. due
January 1929, 
100 00 
City of Richmond 4% coupon bond for $1,000. due
July 31st, 1938, with January 1907 coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
1.  The Commonwealth Club of Richmond 6% coupon
bond for $500., due June 1900, extended 20
years, with December 1906, coupon attached, 
500 00 
Virginia Funded Debt 3% coupon bonds, 1 for
$1,000. and 1 for $500., due July 1932, with
January 1907 coupons attached, 
1,425 00 
Virginia Funded Debt 3% coupon bonds for $500.
each, due July 1991, with January 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,425 00 
Virginia Funded Debt 3% coupon bonds, for
$1,000. each, due July 1991, with January
1907 coupons attached, 
1,900 00 
Forward  $138,490 00 
Brought forward,  $138,490 00 
From Safe in Vault of the Washington Loan &
Trust Company, of Washington, D C..
 
Charlotte, N. C., 5% coupon bond for $1,000.
due July 1920, with January 1907, coupons attached, 
1,000 00 
Durham, N. C., 6% coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due January 1919, with January 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
Staunton, Va., 4 1/2 % coupon bonds for $500.
each, due July 1926, with January 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,000 00 
Greensboro, N. C., 6% coupon bonds for $500. each,
due July 1917, with January 1907, coupons attached, 
1,500 00 
Tarboro Cotton Factory 6% coupon bonds for
$1,000. each, due July 1919, with January 1907,
coupons attached, 
2,000 00 
Charlottesville, Va. 5% coupon bond for $1,000
due September 1914, with March 1907, coupons attached 
1,000 00 
Augusta, Ga., 4 1/2 % coupon bond for $1,000.
due October 1916, with April 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Laurel, Prince George Co., Md., 5% coupon bond
$1,000. due August 1908, with April 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,000 00 

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From Safe in Vault of the Philadelphia Trust
Safe Deposit & Insurance Company, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,

                 

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City of Charlotte, N. C. 4% coupon bonds for
$1,000. each, due March 1931, January 1907,
coupons attached, 
2,000 00 
City of Charlotte, N. C. 4 1/2 % coupon bond
for $1,000. due March 1935, January 1907, coupon
attached, 
1,000 00 
Columbia, S. C. 4 1/2 % coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due July 1945, January 1907, coupons attached, 
5,000 00 
State of Virginia 3% coupon bonds for $1,000.
each, due July 1991, January 1907, coupons attached, 
1,900 00 
Corporate Stock of the City of New York, $1,000
each, interest at 3 1/2 %, due May 1954, coupon
May 1907 attached, 
5,000 00 
Pawtucket, R. I. 4% coupon bonds for $1,000
each, due May 1944, coupon May 1907 attached 
2,000 00 
City of Lynchburg, Va. 4% coupon bonds for
$1,000. each, due August 1938, coupons February
1907, attached, 
5,000 00 
City of Portsmouth 4% coupon bonds $1,000 each,
due May 1933, with May 1907 coupons attached, 
2,000 00 
City of Louisville, Ky, 3 1/2 % coupon bonds,
$1,000 each, due June 1941, with June 1907,
coupons attached, 
5,000 00 
Allegheny County, Pa. 4% coupon bonds, $1,000.
each, due April, 1935, with May 1907, coupon
attached, 
2,000 00 
Jacksonville, Fla., 5% coupon bonds $1,000
each, due May 1924, with May 1907, coupons
attached 
3,000 00 
Atlanta, Ga., 4% coupon bonds $1,000. each,
due January 1921, with January 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
Forward,  $184,890 
Brought forward,  $184,890 
Anniston, Ala. 2% to 6% coupon bond for $500.,
due December 1919, with coupon June 1907, attached, 
500 00 
Anniston, Ala. 2% to 6% coupon bond for $100.
due December 1919, with June 1907 coupon attached, 
100 00 
Raleigh, N. C., 6% coupon bonds, $1,000. each,
due August 1931, with February 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
Mobile, Ala. 4 1/2% coupon bonds, $1,000.
each, due January 1939, with January 1907, coupons
attached, 
2,000 00 
Montgomery, Ala., 4 1/2% coupon bond for
$1,000., due April 1929, with April 1907, coupon
attached, 
1,000 00 
Montgomery, Ala., 4 1/2% coupon bond for $500.
due January 1929, with January 1907, coupon
attached, 
500 00 
City of York, Pa., 4% coupon bonds, $1,000 each,
due December 1933, with June 1907, coupons attached, 
2,000 00 
Crisfield, Md., 5% coupon bonds, $500. each,
due September 1919, with January 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,000 00 
Seattle, Washington, 5% coupon bond, for $1,000.,
due April 1912, with April 1907, coupon attached 
1,000 00 
Memphis, Tenn., 4% coupon bonds, $1,000. each,
due May 1933, with May 1907, coupons attached 
2,000 00 
Manchester, Va., 4% bond for $1,000. due May
1935, with May, 1907 coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Duluth, Minn., 4% coupon bond for $1,000., due
March 1935, with March 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
New Castle County, Delaware, 4% coupon bond for
$1,000, due July 1925, with January 1907 coupon
attached, 
1,000 00 
Frederick County, Md., 3 1/2 % coupon bond for
$500. due July 1940, with January 1907, coupon
attached, 
500 00 
Danbury, Conn., 3 1/2 % coupon bond for $1,000,
due April 1932, with April 1907 coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Danville, Va., 6% coupon bond for $500. due
August 1912, with February 1907 coupon attached, 
500 00 
Hennepin & Minneapolis C. H. & City Hall 3 1/2 %
coupon bond for $1,000. due January 1935; January
1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Clipped Coupons as follows: 
Louisville, due Dec. 1, 1906, at
$17.50 each, $87.50 
Anniston, Ala., due Dec. 1, 1906, at
7.50 each 7.50 
Anniston, Ala., due Dec. 1, 1906,
1.50 
City of York, Pa. due Dec. 1, 1906, at
$20.00 each, 40.00 
136 50 
From Safe in Vault of Mercantile Trust &
Deposit Company, Baltimore, Maryland.
 
Anniston, Ala., 2% to 6% coupon bonds, $500.
each, due December 1919, with June 1907, coupons
attached, 
3,000 00 
Forward,  $206,126 50 
Brought forward,  $206,126 50 
Anniston, Ala. 2% to 6% coupon bonds $100.
each, due December 1919, with June 1907, coupons
attached, 
500 00 
Hudson County, N. J., refunding 4% coupon
bond, for $1,000. due September 1925, March
1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
New Brunswick, Canada, 3% coupon bond, 200
Pounds Sterling, due January 1938, July 1906,
coupon attached, 
778 64 
Seattle School District No. 1, 4% coupon bond,
$1,000., due January 1926, coupon January 1907
attached, 
1,000 00 
Cleveland, Ohio, 4% bond, $1,000., due March
1919, with March 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Boston, Mass., 4% coupon bond $1,000. due
October 1923, April 1907 coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Portsmouth, N. H., 4% coupon bond, due December
1923, $1,000, June 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Newport, Vt., 4% coupon bond, $1,000. due June
1920, with June 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Kennebec Water District, Maine, 3 ½ % coupon
bond, $1,000 due May 1925, May 1907 coupon
attached, 
1,000 00 
Greensboro, N. C., 4% coupon bonds, $1,000.
each, due January 1954; January 1907 coupons
attached, 
4,000 00 
Los Angeles, Cal., 4% coupon bonds, $500.,
each, due November 1944, May 1907, coupons
attached, 
1,000 00 
Burlington, Vt., 4% coupon bond, $1,000. due
July 1919, January 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Brunswick, Ga., 5% coupon bond, $1,000. due
January 1921; January 1907 coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Harrisonburg, Va., 4% coupon bond, $1,000.
due August 1934, February 1907, coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Georgetown, S. C., 5% coupon bonds $500. each,
due December 1943 (option Dec. 1923) coupon
June 1907 attached, 
1,000 00 
Charlottesville, Va., 4 ½ % coupon bonds
$1,000. each due January 1936; January 1907
coupons attached, 
4,000 00 
Toronto, Canada, 3 1/2 % coupon bond, $1,000.
due July 1925; January 1907 coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Somerset County, Md., C. H., 4 1/2 % bonds,
$500. each, due October 1983-1984; April 1907
coupons attached, 
1,000 00 
Fresno, Cal., 4 1/2 % coupon bonds $500. each,
due January 1941, January 1907 coupons attached, 
1,000 00 
From Wilson, Colston & Company, Baltimore, Md.
Check to balance Edward W. James' account, 
700 47 
City of Roanoke, Va., 4 1/2 % coupon bond for
$1,000. due July 1, 1936; with January 1907
coupon attached, 
1,000 00 
Amount on deposit in The Norfolk National Bank,  1,509 75 
Amount on deposit in The Bank for Savings, New
York, 
829 15 
Amount on deposit in Excelsior Savings Bank,
New York, 
203 74 
Forward, 
Brought forward, 
Cash found on person, turned over by Coroner,  4 47 
Lot of old coins, 1 Columbian Half Dollar,  1 00 
11 Copper Cents, 
2 Pieces Foreign Silver Coin 
Hunting Case Gold Watch, marked "E'. W. J.",
chain, and Fraternity Charm, 
30 00 
Open Face Gold watch,  10 00 
Pair Gold Spectacles,  1 00 
Scarf Pin,  50 
Silver Bag Tag, Marked "E. W. James, Norfolk, Va."  0 00 
lot forks and spoons 12 forks,  20 00 
6 tea-spoons, marked "J.J." 
5 other small spoons, 
4 table spoons, 
1 pair sugar tongs 
lot plated ware,  5 00 
note E. W. Edwards, dated Aug. 25, 1891, at 90
days, $28.57 and interest, 
0 00 
Books and papers,  250 00 
Furniture, bric-a-brac, pictures, etc.  50 00 
A schedule containing a list of the books and papers,
and the furniture, bricabrac, pictures, etc., signed
by the appraisers is hereto attached, 
$235,020 22 

(signed) Merritt T. Cooke, Appraisers.

F. J. Robinson, Appraisers.

A. B. Schwarzkopf, Appraisers.

James N. Goode, Appraisers.

W. H. Taylor, Appraisers.

The Norfolk Bank for Savings and Trusts, Administrator
with the Will annexed of Edward W. James, deceased, hereby
certifies that the foregoing inventory embraces all the estate
of the said Edward W. James, deceased which has come to
its possession or knowledge, or which is under its management
or subject to its authority in its fiduciary character.

(signed) The Norfolk Bank for Savings and Trusts,
By W. W. Vicar, Secretary.

Administrator with the will annexed of
Edward W. James, deceased.


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City of Norfolk, to-wit:

This 14th day of December, 1906, personally appeared
before me, W. A. Godwin, a Notary Public in and for the City
aforesaid, Walter H. Taylor, Merritt T. Cooke, Frederick J.
Robinson, James N. Goode, and A. B. Schwarzkopf, who made
oath that they would appraise such goods and chattels of Edward
W. James, deceased, as may be produced to them, and a
true Inventory of the same, and the value, thereof, make and
return according to law.

Given under my hand the day and year above written.

(signed) W. A. Godwin,
Notary Public.

My commission expires, January 7th, 1908.

Inspected and found to be in proper form, and approved
this 15th day of December, 1906.

(signed) Tazewell T. Hubard,
Commissioner of Accounts of the
Corporation Court of the City of
Norfolk.

In the Clerk's Office of the Corporation Court of Norfolk:

On the 17th day of December, 1906, the foregoing Inventory
and appraisement of Edward W. James, deceased, was this day
received at this office and admitted to record

(signed) James V. Trehy, C. C.

By Cora V. Griffin, D. C.

Report of Commissioner in Chancery.

In the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk.


297

Norfolk Bank for Savings
and Trusts, Adm'r.,
Plaintiff.
vs.
Mary A. Hooper, &c.
Defendants. In Chancery,

To the Honorable James L. McLemore,
Judge of said court.

I now make my third and final report, acting under decree
in this cause of January 4th, 1908. This report embraces a
full and detailed account of the Receipts, Disbursements, and
Transactions of the Norfolk Bank for Savings and Trusts, Adm.
c. t. a., of Edward W. James, deceased.

[1] [See Pages 298-335 for the report referred to above.]

The President's Financial Budget for 1908-'09 was then
presented, and after consideration, was adopted as follows:

[2] [See Pages 336-348 for the President's Financial Budget.]

On motion, the Board adjourned to meet at the call of the
Rector.

I. K. Moran
Secretary.
Armistead C. Gordon
Rector.
 
[1]

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[2]

Page 207 ends on this page, although pages 186-206
follow in this book.