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Resolved, That the Finance Committee be instructed to employ a competent accountant, and to see that a set of books is opened in double entry, including distinct accounts of the leading sources of income and expenditure; and the said accountant to present a proper balance sheet at each meeting of the Board, and the books to be at all times open to the inspection of the Trustees of the University. And the said accountant also to be subject to the call of the Regent for any clerical services he (the Regent) may find necessary.

Mr. BLACKBURN offered the following as a substitute for the resolution of Mr. BURROUGHS :

Resolved, That the Regent be authorized to employ sueh clerical aid us he may need, to keep the accounts of this Board and the University.

This resolution was adopted.

REPOBT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.

Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Chairman of the Committee on Nominations, reported as follows:

For Recording Secretary.—Jonathan Peri am. Executive Committee,—Messrs. Hayes, Pullen, Harding, Goltra, Cobb, YanX)sdel, Mahan and Quick. Auditing Committee,—Messrs. Lawrence, Edwards, Galusha, Burchard and A. M. Brown. Finance Committee.—Messrs. Cobb, Pickrell, Cunningham, Burchard and Harding. Faculty and Course of Study.—Messrs. the Regent, Brayman, Hayes, Flagg and Bateman. Buildings and Grounds.—Messrs, Goltra, Cunningham, VanOsdel, Johnson and McConnell. Agricultural Department—Messrs. Quick, Pickrell, Allen, Blackburn and McMurray. Horticultural Department.—Messrs. Pullen, Dunlap, Flagg and Galusha. Mechanical Department.—Messrs. Scroggs, Goltra, Brown of Chicago, and VanOsdel. Military Department.—Messrs. Brayman, Quick, Lawrence and Dunlap. Library and Cabinets.—The Regent, W. C. Flagg, N. Bateman, "A. M. Brown, J. S. Johnson. By-Laws,—Mahan, Blackburn and A. M. Brown.

Mr. HAYES was, at his request, excused from nomination as a member of the Executive Committee, and Mr. CUNNINGHAM was substituted. Mr. BURROUGHS was also excused, at his own request, from nomination on the Committee on Library and Cabinets, and the REGENT substituted. Thus altered, the report was adopted.