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Primary document
Title:
Excerpts from Board of Trustees Minutes, January 2, 1835 [Containing the Establishment and Appointment of the Executive Committee]: Electronic Edition.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Jesse Brown
Images scanned by
Jesse Brown
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 14K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2006-02-23, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina Records (#40001), University Archives,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Excerpts from Board of Trustees Minutes, January 2, 1835 [Containing the Establishment and Appointment of the Executive Committee]
Author:
Description: 3 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Excerpts from Board of Trustees Minutes, January 2, 1835 [Containing the Establishment and Appointment of the Executive Committee]
Page 275
Executive office
2nd January 1835.
2nd January 1835.
Board met
present
- His Excy Govr Swain
Prest
Daniel M. Barringer
William H. Battle
John Bragg
John H. Bryan
Duncan Cameron
William A. Graham
John D. Hawkins
Owen Holmes
James Iredell
Pleasant W. Kittrell
Charles Manly
William D. Moseley
William McPheeters
Hugh McQueen
Rom. M. Saunders
Richard D. Spaight
Judge Cameron presented the following Ordniances, which was read & unanimously adopted.
"Be it Ordained by the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina
That a Committee of Seven Members of this Board (of whom the President shall ex officio be one) shall be appointed at every regular Annual Meeting of the Board to be called "the Executive Committee," of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, a majority of whom shall form
Page 276
"a Quorum for transacting business. That all the duties theretofore assigned to and powers vested in the Land Committee, the Committee of Appointments and the Building Committee be & they are hereby assigned to & vested in the Executive Committee hereby provided for.
Page 276
"The Secretary of the Board of Trustees shall be Secretary of the Executive Committee; he shall attend their meetings and enter their proceedings in a regular journal to be kept for that purpose
"The Executive Committee shall have power to make such contracts for the sale of the property & effects both real & personal of the University as they may deem best for the interests of the same.
"The Executive Committee shall have power to atler, change & regulate the Course of Studies & discipline prescribed at the University and to dismiss any Professor or Tutor for such cause as they may deem sufficient.
"All the Acts of the Executive Committee under the Authority of this Ordinance shall be fully stated in the Journal of this Committee & shall be laid before the Trustees at the next regular Annual Meeting of the Board.
All former Ordinances and Resolutions of the Board of Trustees Appointing a Committee of Appointments, a Land Committee and a Building Committee are hereby repealed.
Page 277
"The Executive Committee to be Appointed under this Ordinance shall have power to fill all vacancies happening in their own Body."
The Board proceeded to the Appointment of the Executive Committee under the foregoing Ordinance when the following persons were duly appointed. viz.—
- Governor Swain
ex off.D. Cameron
G. E. Badger
Dr McPheeters
Charles Manly
Fred. Nash
W. A. Graham
.. . .