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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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97 Mr. FLAGG moved that the Chairman of the Agricultural Committee be instructed to contract with Mr. Periam according to the term? of this vote. This motion prevailed. On motion of Mr. DUNLAP, the blank in the resolution offered b j the committee, was filled with the name of THOMAS QUICK. The report was then submitted for vote of the Board, and adopted. • Mr. BURCHARD presented the following, viz: Resolved, That the sum of twelve hundred dollars be appropriated for the purposes indicated in the report of the Committee on Agricultural Department, and that the Regent be authorized to draw, from time to time, warrants for such parts thereof as may be needed. The whole amount so drawn not to exceed the sum hereby appropriated. Adopted. The REGENT called Mr. CUNNINGHAM to the Chair, and presented the names of gentlemen as suitable persons to fill chairs as Professors in the University, and read testimonials in their favor, viz: William Baker, of Springfield, Illinois, and George W. Atherton. PROFESSORS ELECTED. Mr. CUNNINGHAM presented the following resolutions, and moved their adoption: f Resolved, That Professor William M. Baker be and he is hereby elected to a chair, hereafter to be named ; his term to commence March 1, 1868, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. Resolved, That Professor G. W. Atherton be and he is hereby elected to a chair hereafter to be named; his term to commence on the first day of March, 1868, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. Each resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. MOCONNELL moved to instruct the Regent to notify the gentlemen chosen as Professors, of their election. Carried. The private session was then closed, by vote of the Board. OPEN SESSION—4 P. M. Mr. GOLTRA, Chairman of Committee on Buildings and Grounds, presented the following report, which wTas adopted, viz: 1. We recommend that the work on the building, already begun, be finished, and the fence completed. —9
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