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The Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies

President Newcomb read a report on the incorporation of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, and
presented the following resolution which was adopted:

RESOLVED, by the Board of Visitors of the Rector and Visitors of the University that the President
of the University of Virginia be and he is hereby authorized to join with the thirteen southern institutions
in incorporation of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the sum of $5,000 be hereby appropriated for the work of the Institute for
the coming year.

The following motion from President Newcomb was adopted:

WHEREAS: at the 1946 session of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, an act was passed
entitled "An Act to provide for the hospitalization and treatment of indigent persons through joint
action of the State and the counties and cities thereof" and under this Act the State Board of Health
was authorized and empowered to initiate and administer a program of hospital and outpatient treatment
and care for indigent and medically indigent persons residing in the several counties and cities of the
Commonwealth, and,

WHEREAS: the State Board of Health under the powers delegated to it by this Act has initiated a
program which provides that the University of Virginia Hospital enter into separate contracts with each
county and city of the Commonwealth,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: that Dr. Carlisle S. Lentz, Administrator of the University of Virginia
Hospital, is hereby authorized to sign such contracts with each county and city of the Commonwealth on
behalf of the University of Virginia Hospital.

Mr. Perkins, Attorney for the University, presented to the Board a deed dated November 8, 1946, by which
the University conveys to the City of Charlottesville an easement or right of way for construction and
maintenance of a 10-inch gas pipe line along and through the grounds of the University on the southwest
side of West Main Street from a point just opposite Elliewood Avenue through said grounds of the University
to Route 29, as shown upon a plat attached to said deed as a part thereof, the construction of
said pipe line being necessary in order to furnish gas for domestic purposes to the University's emergency
housing project at "Copeley", just west of the University.

Mr. Perkins stated that the matter had been considered by the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and location
of said pipe, as shown upon the plat attached to said deed, has been approved by said Committee.

It was, thereupon,

RESOLVED, that the President be and is hereby instructed to execute said deed in the name and on
behalf of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, and the Secretary is instructed to
affix the seal of the University thereto, attest the same and deliver said deed to the City of Charlottesville.
Adopted.