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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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71 Lot 3 B l o c k 5 1 . . "4,7,8 " 51 " 3 " 54 u " 4&8 54 " 7 " 54 Twenty-four lots .> $3C0 1,350 450 600 .. 300 $9,150 By the vacation of the streets, four more lots would fall to the Trustees, which would make the whole number of the lots, in fact, twenty-eight; twenty-four of which would have to be paid for, and four gained by the vacation of the streets passing between certain lots in the twenty-four. The purchase of these lots would add over five and a half acres to the grounds, making in all about twenty acres, which will prove in the end to be none too much. In the purchase of the above lots, the ground would be extended on the east and west, so as to bring the University grounds proper to the same width as the forty acre tract known as the Wills tract; thus amplifying the college grounds for ornamental shrubbery, flower gardens, parade grounds, etc., and bring it into uniform width with the farming lands, adding beauty and symmetry to the whole premises. A consideration of these facts induces your Committee to most respectfully recommend the purchase of the last-mentioned twenty-four lots. (Signed) J. W . SCRQGGS, M. L. DUNLAP, J. H. PI0KRELL. By vote of the Board, this report was laid upon the table. The Treasurer of the Board, J. W. BUNN, read, by request, a statement of his receipts, expenditures and investments to this date. Mr. COBB, from Finance Committee, read a proposition from Mr. Lewis, for the purchase of one hundred thousand acres of scrip at eighty-five cents per acre. The proposition was referred to the Finance Committee. On motion, the Board took a recess until 2 o'clock, p. M. AFTERNOON SESSION. November 26, 1867. Board met at 2 o'clock. BEGENT in the Chair. Twenty-two members were present. The CHAIRMAN- called for the report of Committee on Library and Cabinet.
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