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REPORT OF MANUAL COMMITTEE

Mr. Gay, Chairman of the Special Committee to prepare the Manual, reported that copies of the
Manual submitted by him in behalf of the Special Committee to the meeting of the Board of Visitors held
July 11, 1947, had been distributed to all members of the Board at that meeting, or immediately thereafter
by correspondence with those members not in attendance, with the request that they let him have the benefit
of their comments or suggestions, that he had received no criticisms but letters from several members of
the Board approving the Manual in the form submitted. As the members of the Board of Visitors had had two
months within which to consider the form of the Manual, Mr. Gay suggested that consideration now be given
to the adoption of a resolution formally approving it.

Upon consideration whereof, upon motion duly made and seconded, it was unanimously -

RESOLVED, that the form of Manual defining the duties of the Board of Visitors, the Rector, the
President, the Secretary, the Bursar, the Executive Committee and certain Standing Committees of the
Board, prepared and submitted to the Board by the Special Committee appointed for that purpose, as supplemented
by definition of the duties of the Standing Committee on Buildings and Grounds, and the Standing
Committee on the Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, this day submitted and read to the
Board, be and the same hereby is approved as and for a Manual of the University of Virginia Defining the
Powers and Governing the Duties of the Board of Visitors, the Rector, the President, the Secretary, the
Bursar, the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee and certain other Standing and Special Committees
of the Board; provided, however, that the said Manual or any part or parts thereof may from time to time
be amended, revised or rescinded, at any duly or especially called meeting, in a manner not inconsistent
with law, upon a vote of a majority of the Board of Visitors; and

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the President be and he hereby is authorized and requested to have a
suitable number of copies of the said Manual printed for distribution to Members of the Board of Visitors,
the Administrative Officers of the University and other persons interested therein, in such manner as he
may deem appropriate.