Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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u REPORT OF CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Mr. FLAGG reported the progress he had made in discharge of his duties as Corresponding Secretary; which, on motion of A. M. Brown, was approved, and the Auditing Committee instructed to settle for freight and expressage upon the books and pamphlets collected by the Corresponding Secretary for the Board. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Mr. A. M. BROWN read a resolution creating an Executive Committee. Mr. BURROUGHS offered the following as a substitute, which was accepted by Mr. BROWN, viz: The Board shall appoint an Executive Committee, consisting of nine (9) members, who shall meet at the seat of the college at least quarterly, and oftener if they shall find it necessary, for the transaction of any business necessary to be done in the vacations of the Board. The said Executive Committee shall, for the purpose for which they were appointed, possess all the powers of the Board: Provided, that they shall not revise or change the acts of the Board, nor of any committee of the Board entrusted with special business ; shall not sell real estate, nor the land scrip or bonds belonging to the University, without the consent, in writing, of a majority of all the members of the Board; and shall be strictly confined to such business a$ can not be left till the annual meetings of the Board, The committee shall hold their office till the annual meeting next after their appointment. RESOLUTION ON TIME OF OPENING THE UNIVERSITY. Mr. FLAGG offered the following resolution : Resolved, That the best interests of the University require a postponement of the commencement of the principal courses of study until the year 1868. The resolution was so amended as to be in the following words, viz : Resolved, That the best interests of the University require a postponement of the commencement of the principal courses of study until the first Monday of March, A. D. 1868. The resolution, thus amended, was unanimously adopted. BUSINESS TRANSFERRED TO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Mr. A, M. ing, viz: BROWN read and moved the adoption of the follow- Resolved, That the business intrusted to the Auditing Committee by previous orders of the Board, except the auditing of the Treasurer's accounts, be referred to the Executive Committee, and that the special committee appointed to report in relation
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