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At the regular annual meeting of the Board of
Visitors on above date.

Present: The Rector and Visitors Chinn, Craddock,
Drewry, Hatton, Michie, Oliver, White and Stearnes.

The Rector having called the Board to order at
10:30 A.M., the reading of the minutes was passed
by, and the following adopted:-

Resolved: That the sum of Fifty Dollars be
appropriated to the purchase by Professor Fitz-Hugh of
lantern slides to be used in connection with his lectures.

Resolved: That in view of the fact that the duties
of the Professor of Economics, as a member of the State
Tax Commission, will necessitate for some months, absence
of said professor from his duties in the University of Virginia
resolved that the sum of Five Hundred Dollars be appropriated
to procuring the services of a temporary assistant
to said professor during his           


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necessary absence.

Resolved: That the Executive Committee of this
Board be and they are hereby authorized to confer with a
committee from the Miller Board with reference to the
Miller Board appropriation and the appointment of a
Professor under that appropriation; and that a copy
of this resolution be communicated to Hon. R. T. W. Duke,
Jr., Secretary of the Miller Board.

Resolved: That the matter of financing the Office
of State Forester out of balances accumulated by the
University during 1912-13 and 1913-14 be referred to the
Executive Committee of this Board, with power to act.

Resolved: That the Budget for 1914-15 be adopted, and
that the appropriations set out therein shall in no
instance be exceeded without the approval of the Board
first obtained.

(Financial Report for 1914-15 follows on page 447)