Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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126 Mr. FLAGG moved that the present seal continue to be the seal of the University until the new one is prepared. Carried. IMPROVEMENTS TO COLLEGE BUILDING. Mr. GOLTRA, Chairman of Committee on Buildings and Grounds, reported the following: Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to whom was referred that part of the Regent's report relating to front portico, beg leave to report, that they recommend that the Regent cause the portico to be finished in accordance with the design furnished by J. M. VanOsdel, and adopted at a former meeting of the Board. They also recommend that approved jacks be placed on all the chimneys of the rear extension of the College building; also, that the roof of the said rear extension be covered in the best manner with the best quality of roofing tin. They also recommend that a sufficient number of lamps be obtained and arranged in the halls and passages of the College building, to properly light the halls, passages and stairways, when required. We also recommend that a bell be placed in the cupola, suitable for the use of the Institution. The expense of such improvements, exclusive of portico and bell, will be about $800. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) M. C. GOLTRA. The report was adopted. On motion of Mr. JOHNSON, the EEGENT was instructed to purchase a suitable eight-day clock for the use of the University. ELECTION OF PROFESSORS. The REGENT called Mr. MAHAN to the Chair, and, as Chairman ot the Committee on Faculty and Courses of Study, reported verbally, presenting the name of Willard F . Bliss, of Nokomis, 111., as a suitable person to fill the Chair of Professor of Agriculture—moving the passage of the following resolution : Resolved, That Willard F. Bliss be and he hereby is elected for one year to the Chair of Professor of Agriculture, his term of office to commence with the fall terra of this Institution, at a salary of f 2000 per annum. Mr. BLISS was unanimously elected. The EEGENT yielded the floor temporarily to Mr. BURCHARD, Chairman of the Committee on Salaries of Secretaries and Treasurer, who reported as follows:
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