Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 105]

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XII. BOARDING HALL.

The committee recommend that a suitable person be employed to take the rooms designed for the boarding department, and maintain in the same a boarding hall, for such officers, students, and employees, as may desire board. They recommend that a suitable stove or cooking range, and tables and chairs for the dining room, be furnished, and that these articles be granted, free of charge for rent, to such person, and that he shall receive the amounts paid for board, as his compensation. He shall be required to keep the rooms and furniture in good repair, and restore them, when called for, in as good order and condition, ordinary wear excepted, as when he received them. The rates of board shall be as low as practicable, and shall be subject to revision by the Board and the Executive Committee.

XIII. ADDITIONAL COURSES.

Other courses of study will be organized as soon as the circumstances of the University will permit. The Military Department ought to partly develop at the outset.

Mr. MCCONNELL moved to adopt the report. Mr. BLACKBURN moved to so amend the report that " no matriculation fee " shall be demanded from honorary and prize pupils. Adopted. Mr. HAYES moved to further amend by adding, "but all other pupils shall be charged at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum for tuition; provided, however, that the Executive Committee shall have power to reduce or abate said charge, and to increase the number of honorary scholarships. The yeas and nays were called for on Mr. HAYES' amendment, and taken, as follows : Members voting yea were Messrs. Blackburn, Brown of Pulaski, Burchard, Burroughs, Dunlap, Edwards, Galusha, Harding, Hayes, Johnson, Lawrence, Mahan, Quick, Scroggs—14. Members voting nay were Messrs. Allen, Bateman, Brayman, Cobb, Cunningham, Elagg, McConnell, McMurry and the Regent—10. The amendment to the amendment was declared adopted. Mr. COBB offered the following as a substitute for the amendments of Mr. BLACKBURN and Mr. HAYES, and moved its adoption: "A matriculation fee of ten dollars each shall be charged all pupils in attendance; and all, except the honorary and prize pupils, shall be charged a tuition fee of fifteen dollars each, per annum." The substitute was adopted. Mr. FLAGG moved to amend the substitute so as to charge twenty dollars per annum as tuition for pupils from other states.