Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 122]

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Your committee fnrther report, by the same authority, that many of the leading manufacturers have signified their willingness to furnish any of the more expensive implements, manufactured by them, at half price : and several agents at two-thirds of their value. Believing it to be due to the gentlemen who have made donations, and signified their willingness to furnish additional implements at reduced prices, that the Board should give an expression of their feelings in relation thereto, your committee offer, for the consideration of the Board, the following resolution; Resolved, That the thanks of this Board, and of the friends of Industrial education throughout the State, are due to the honorable gentlemen, whose names are herein given, for the liberality and public spirit manifested by them |n furnishing to the University implements for the institution, and to illustrate Agricultural and Mechanical science. All of which is respectfully submitted. (Signed) T. QUICK, Chairman.

The report was adopted. Mr. JOHNSON moved that the accounts now in the hands of the Regent, be referred to the Auditing Committee for settlement; which was agreed to.

INVITATION TO .REPORTERS FOR THE PRESS. On motion of Mr. BURROUGHS, it was

Resolved, That this Board appreciates the interest taken in its proceedings by the newspaper press of the State, and cordially invites the representatives of the different papers to all meetings of the Board, and to make full reports of all proceedings, excepting such as the Board may indicate or wish to withhold.

ADJOURNMENT.

On motion of Mr. seven this evening.

JOHNSON,

the Board adjourned until half-past

EVENING SESSION—MARCH 10.

Board re-assembled at 7J o'clock. The REGENT presiding. The roll was called, and nineteen members responded. The REGENT called Mr. BURROUGHS to the chair, and reported, verbally, the steps which he had taken in regard to ornamenting the college grounds.