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Title: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 7, 1795 [Containing Resolutions for the Procurement of Books and Apparatus for the University]: 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 scanned (OCR) by
Brian Dietz
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 22K
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:
2005-12-13, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
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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: Board of Trustees Minutes, December 7, 1795 [Containing Resolutions for Procurement of Books and Apparatus for the University]
Author: [Board of Trustees]
Description: 5 pages, 5 page images
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
Text transcription of this document was produced by OCR (optical character recognition) from R. D. W. Connor's A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina 1776-1799 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), vol. 1: 456-459. Used by permission of the publisher (www.uncpress.unc.edu).
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Text transcription of this document was produced by OCR (optical character recognition) from R. D. W. Connor's A Documentary History of the University of North Carolina 1776-1799 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1953), vol. 1: 456-459. Used by permission of the publisher (www.uncpress.unc.edu).
Page images were made from the original manuscript held in University Archives/Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Connor's transcription was compared against the original document and in the case of any discrepancy we have been faithful to the original.
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.
Board of Trustees Minutes, December 7, 1795 [Containing Resolutions for the Procurement of Books and Apparatus for the University]
Page 210
Monday 7th December 1795.
The Board
met according to Adjournment
Present—
The Committee for considering the business of Confiscated Lands, & for
settling accounts &c. and for making a statement to be laid before the
General Assembly made Report which was
read & concurred with.
The Committee for considering of an Ordinance appointing Commissioners to dispose
of the Escheated Lands in the County of Orange Reported an Ordinance for that
purpose which was read and passed.
Received the Resignation of Mr Stone, as Attorney
for the District of Edenton which was accepted by the Board.
Mr
Alexander Miller was then nominated and unanimously chosen Attorney
for the Board for the District of Edenton, in the place of Mr Stone resigned.
An Ordinance Appointing Commissioners to dispose of the Lands belonging to the
Board of
Trustees, in the Territory South West of the Ohio, was read &
passed.
Resolved that the following Sets of Books be procured for the use of the University, To Wit.
| Sets. | |
| Burlamaqui's Natural & political Law . . . . . | 6 |
| Paley's Moral & political Philosophy . . . . . | 3 |
| Montesqueu's Spirit of Laws . . . . . | 6. |
| Millot's Ancient & Modern History . . . . . | 6. |
| Humes History of England with Smollet's Continuation . . . . . | 1. |
| Adam's Defence—the first Volume . . . . . | 6. |
| De Lolme . . . . . | 6. |
Page 212
| [Sets.] | |
| Constitution of the United States and of the several States collected . . . . . | 6. |
| Priestly's Lectures on History & General policy . . . . . | 6. |
That the Library Committee be required to take Measures for the purchase of the
said Books; and that present appropriation of Fifty Dollars be considered a part
of the fund for that purpose, and that they be Authorized to draw on the
Treasurer for the remainder of the sum necessary to complete this purchase. That
these books together with such copies of either of them now on hand be put under
the care of the Faculty, who are directed to let them to such Students, whose
Studies may require the use of them;,at a moderate hire, to be set from time to
time by the Faculty; and by them to be accounted for Annually to the Board of
Trustees.
Resolved that Mr Ker
be directed to forward to Mr
Grove the following list of an Apparatus, to
wit. An Air-pump, A Condenser, Microscope, Lenses, Concave & Convex
Mirrors, Loadstones and Magnets, Phials for an Electrical Machine, Surveying
Instruments, with a request to purchase the same agreeably to the directions of
the Board in July last.
be directed to forward to Mr
Grove the following list of an Apparatus, to
wit. An Air-pump, A Condenser, Microscope, Lenses, Concave & Convex
Mirrors, Loadstones and Magnets, Phials for an Electrical Machine, Surveying
Instruments, with a request to purchase the same agreeably to the directions of
the Board in July last.An Ordinance to establish and carry into effect the plan of Education to be
persued & observed in the University of North Carolina as entered
on the Journal of the Trustees and agreed to [by the Board on the 4th day of the present Month, was Reported, read and passed.
Mr
Nicholas Delveaux having been notified of his appointment as Tutor of
the Preparatory School
Page 213
in the University, by
a Resolution of the Board pass'd to day, appeared & signified
to the Board his willingness to accept the appointment.
Page 213
On Motion of Mr
Davie
seconded by Mr
Jones, Resolved that the Board proceed to ballot for the Professors of the
University, upon which the following persons were nominated
& unanimously chosen, to Wit, Samuel E McKorkle
as Professor of Moral political philosophy &
History, Mr
Samuel
Harris
as Professor of Mathematics, and the Reverend David Ker
as Professor of
Languages.
seconded by Mr
Jones, Resolved that the Board proceed to ballot for the Professors of the
University, upon which the following persons were nominated
& unanimously chosen, to Wit, Samuel E McKorkle
as Professor of Moral political philosophy &
History, Mr
Samuel
Harris
as Professor of Mathematics, and the Reverend David Ker
as Professor of
Languages.Resolved that further consideration on the subject of erecting the principal
building of the University be for the present postponed, and the
Committee appointed for that purpose be discharged.
Resolved that the President, Mr Davie
Mr Jones
Mr Hogg
Mr Stone be appointed a Committee, respectively
to correspond and make enquiry for some proper person to fill the place of
President of the University, and to get information upon what
terms some such person may be procured for that purpose.
Mr Jones
Mr Hogg
Mr Stone be appointed a Committee, respectively
to correspond and make enquiry for some proper person to fill the place of
President of the University, and to get information upon what
terms some such person may be procured for that purpose.On Motion, Resolved that the next annual meeting of this Board shall be on the
first Monday of December next.
Resolved that a Commission of three per Cent be allowed on the Bonds taken up
hereafter to be taken for the Security of the Monies arising
Page 214
from the Sales of Escheated Lands to be paid in
the same manner as Commissions allowed on Bonds for Sales of Confiscated lands,
and also a Commission of two and an half per Cent. on monies arising out of
Sales of Escheated Lands collected by the Attorney.
Page 214
Then the Board Adjourned till tomorrow.