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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Report of the Bursar (Elisha Mitchell), May 27, 1840 Elisha Mitchell 4 pages, 4 page images 1840 Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-07-21,</date> <respStmt> <name>Sarah Ficke</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc04-29"> <body> <div1 type="report"> <pb id="unc04-29-p01" n="1"/> <head> Report of the Bursar (<name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">Elisha Mitchell</name>), May 27, 1840</head> <head type="original" rend="center">To <name key="pn0001074" reg="Manly, Charles" type="person">Charles Manly Esq.</name> Treasurer of the University</head> <p> <table rows="6" cols="3"> <head>Tuition Moneys</head> <row> <cell>128</cell> <cell>Tuition and Room-rent of 128 students at $26.00 =</cell> <cell>$3328.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>16</cell> <cell>Tuition only from 16 living out of College at $25 = </cell> <cell>$400.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>1</cell> <cell>Tuition only from 1 out of college half the session =</cell> <cell>12.50</cell> </row> <row> <cell>10</cell> <cell>Receive their education free </cell> <cell> 00.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">1</hi> </cell> <cell>The case of one <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">James E. May</name> to be considered hereafter</cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">00.00</hi> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>156 </cell> <cell>Whole Amount of Receipts</cell> <cell>$3740.50</cell> </row> </table> </p> <p> <table rows="10" cols="2"> <head>May 27th 1840. Disbursements</head> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">David L. Swain</name> President</cell> <cell>500.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">E. Mitchell </name>Professor</cell> <cell>625.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0001360" reg="Phillips, James" type="person">Jas. Phillips</name> Professor</cell> <cell>400.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0000779" reg="Hooper, John De Berniere" type="person">J. D. B. Hooper</name> Professor </cell> <cell>400.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0000510" reg="Fetter, Manuel" type="person">Man. Fetter</name> Professor</cell> <cell>400.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0000622" reg="Green, William Mercer" type="person">Wm. Green</name> Professor</cell> <cell>400.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0001314" reg="Owen, William Hayes" type="person">Will. H. Owen</name> Tutor</cell> <cell>200.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid <name key="pn0000611" reg="Graves, Ralph H." type="person">Ralph Graves</name> Tutor </cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">200.00</hi> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Amount paid Bursars Fees </cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">387.50</hi> </cell> </row> <row> <cell> Amount </cell> <cell>3512.50</cell> </row> </table> </p> <p> <table cols="2" rows="4"> <row> <cell>Balance of this session to be accounted for </cell> <cell>$228.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Balance in U.S. Bills, close of last Sep. </cell> <cell>195.00</cell> </row> <row> <cell>Balance remaining with Bursar besides</cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">29.97</hi> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Whole Amount accounted for on following pages </cell> <cell>$452.97</cell> </row> </table> </p> <p>Account of this money with explanations on the following pages. </p> <pb id="unc04-29-p02" n="2"/> <p>1. I have in <name key="name0000731" reg="New York, NY" type="place">New York</name> at this time $500.00 dollars ready to be sent to <name key="x" reg="x" type="place">Vienna</name> for the purchase of the minerals and should have had the same on the way thither <hi rend="underscore">before</hi> this time but that I have been expecting to go north immediately after the commencement and proposed to make the arrangements for the transmission of the money in person. I shall have it forwarded immediately after commencement. I have received $400.00 from you and shall want another hundred for completing the sum. I suppose there will be no objection to my applying one hundred of the sum stated on the foregoing page in that way.</p> <p>2. The annual appropriation for the Laboratory for the year 1840 may without impropriety be made at this time and with reference thereto I have already located other funds in <name key="name0000731" reg="New York, NY" type="place">New York</name> and <name key="name0000867" reg="Philadelphia, PA" type="place">Philadelphia</name>. I can attend to the necessary purchases better in the summer vacation than at any other time. </p> <p>3. For the tinning of the roof of the <name key="name0001062" reg="South Building" type="place">South Building</name> you have already paid <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Reeder</name> and the cost of the tin and probably suppose that the thing was finished. But before the tin was applied there was a necessity for new sheeting to the roof, the erection of scaffolds and other work of the kind for which the lumber seller and the carpenter were to be paid. Bills were created with reference to these objects. It makes no difference to me whether I present them to the Faculty or to the committee of the Faculty to whom is entrusted the expenditure of a certain sum upon the buildings or to yourself but to prevent the mixing of accounts I have thought it better to present them to you. You are therefore charged with the bills created with reference to this object as also<pb id="unc04-29-p03" n="3"/> with the carpenters bill for work down to the 1<hi rend="sup">st</hi> of November 1839 when he entered the employ of the committee above named for the whole of his time and at regular wages.</p> <p>4. Beyond all this there will I find remain the sum of ninety one dollars 7/100 which shall be put into your hands at commencement. The account submitted to your consideration is therefore as follows.</p> <p>Whole sum exhibited on the first page —$452.97</p> <p> <table cols="3" rows="9"> <head>Contra.</head> <row> <cell><name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Waitts</name> bill for work connected with tinning </cell> <cell>$46.00</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Benches in the Recitation Rooms</cell> <cell> 15.00</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Other charges by the Carpenter</cell> <cell>11.10</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell><name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Merritt's</name> bill for lumber</cell> <cell> 52.51</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell><name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Purefoy's</name> bill for do.</cell> <cell>15.91</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell><name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Waitts</name> bill for do. </cell> <cell>3.58</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Blacksmith's bills connected with the roof or elsewhere</cell> <cell>17.80</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Balance in hand to be paid as above </cell> <cell>91.07</cell> <cell> <?xm-replace_text {cell}?> </cell> </row> <row> <cell>Appriations for minerals and Laboratory </cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">200.00</hi> </cell> <cell> <hi rend="underscore">$452.97</hi> </cell> </row> </table> </p> <p>5. The case of <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">James E. May</name> of <name key="x" reg="x" type="place">Greensboro, Alabama</name>. He occupied a room in college during the last vacation and at the opening of the present session recited a few times during the first week — then concluded that his health would not admit of his proceeding with his studies and recited no more. He had no money in hand to pay tuition or anything else and abandoned the idea of being a member of college before I had time to make any arrangement with him. He continued to live in college saying constantly that he should leave shortly — down to the beginning of <pb id="unc04-29-p04" n="4"/>the present month (May), when he went home. In the intermediate time he recited a few lessons to the President on Law.<ref id="ref1" target="note1" rend="sup">*</ref> For the instruction given the President would receive no remuneration but desired him to pay the usual fees of the Students into the treasury of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>. Against this sum <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">May</name> reluctated.</p> <p>The students, especially those from a distance are sometimes without funds or the means of raising them at the opening of the session. It does not answer well to interrupt the course of their recitations. I am accustomed therefore to assume the responsibility for them and collect the money if I can and lose it if I cannot. I have some 300 or more dollars in this category now, but hope to keep the amount lower hereafter. I am not certain that in the case of <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Mr. May</name> it will be of any use to try to get the money from him or that I can with propriety be called on for it. I have not included it in the account residence but shall of course submit to the higher powers in relation to it. </p> <closer> <salute>Yours,</salute> <signed><name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">E. Mitchell</name> — Bursar </signed> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="notes"> <note id="note1" target="ref1"> <p>* More — he recited regularly to the President missing but one lesson so that he has no excuse for declining to pay.</p> </note> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>