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GARRETT HALL

The President noted that the Comptroller in his report earlier in the meeting had announced
that the Bursar and the Registrar would shortly move into the building now known as the Commons
and that it was therefore necessary to select a new name for the building. He proposed that the
building should be called Garrett Hall as a tribute to Alexander Garrett, the first person to
hold the office of Bursar of the University, an office which he occupied from 1825 to 1850.

The following resolution was adopted

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the building heretofore referred to as the Commons is hereby named Garrett Hall in honor of
the first Bursar of the University, Mr. Alexander Garrett.