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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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112 ADJOURNMENT. The Board then adjourned until eight o'clock to-morrow morning. INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, MARCH 11, 1868. The Board of .Trustees met, as per adjournment, and was called to order, at 8|- o'clock, by the Regent. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. Mr. Riley, of Urbana, Mr. QUICK was called to the chair. On the call of the roll, the following members responded, viz : Messrs, Allen, Blackburn, Brayman, Burchard, Burroughs, Cobb, Cunningham, Dunlap, Flagg, Galusha, Goltra, Harding, Hayes, Johnson, Mahan, McMurry, # Pickrell, Pullen, Quick, Scroggs, VanOsdel and the Regent—22. Mr. QUICK, Chairman of Committee on Agricultural Department, reported, viz: The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the Head Farmer's communication to the Regent, respectfully report, that they have had the same under consideration, and find the suggestions therein contained, in the main, practical, and recommend that the same be referred back to the Regent and Professor of Agriculture, to be carried into effect, as far as, in their discretion, the same can be done advantageously to the Institution. Your Committee further recommend that the sum of ten hundred and forty-five dollars ($1045) be placed at the disposal of the Head Farmer, for the purchase of two teams, and the necessary plows, cultivator, mower, rake, etc. (Signed) T. QUICK, Chairman. This report was approved. ANNUAL REPORT OF REGENT. The RECENT presented his annual report, as follows: The by-laws of the University make it the duty of the Regent to "make an annual report to the Board, exhibiting the progress and condition of the several departments of the University, with such suggestions as he may deem needful for their improvement." The work of the year just closed has been preparatory in character, and its history is simply the record of the several steps taken for the organization of the depart-
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