Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 43]

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held three meetings ; the first held the 12th of May, the second was held June 11th, and the third September 16th. At the meeting in May, the committee audited the accounts then due. It was ordered by the committee that .the students might be employed at overwork at 12^ cents an hour. The Regent was instructed to take measures to secure as favorable terms as possible for students' uniforms. The Regent and head farmer were authorized to employ a gardener, and $400 were appropriated for repairing farm buildings and fences. A portion of the trees having been received from Mr. Dunlap's nursery, a committee was appointed to confer with the supplier concerning the prices for the same. At the meeting of June, the accounts were audited to that date. The issue of a circular and catalogue was ordered, and appropriations were made for drums and fifes. A committee was appointed to inquire into the quality and cost of tile wanted for draining farm and garden. It was ordered that application should be made to the Trustees to sell 50,000 acres of scrip at not less than $1 10 per acre. These orders were subsequently carried out, but no sale of scrip has yet been made under the authority thus obtained. The committee also ordered that Assistant Professors shall be paid a salary of $1200 per annum. At the meeting in September all accounts were audited to that date, and appropriations were voted as follows : For Chemicals $368 69 " Chemical apparatus 439 45 " a Microscope, not exceeding 250 00 " Forcing pit 250 00 " Drainage 1200 00 ." Surveying instrument 400 00 Judge Cunningham and Mr. Periam were appointed a committee to rent the Griggs farm for the next year. A meeting of the Trustees was ordered to be called for the 18th of November. Alterations were authorized to be made to provide a dining room in the basement, and to fit up the old dining room for the library and reading room, with portable furnace to warm the class rooms and chapel above it. The purchase of additional chairs, and of seed wheat, was also ordered. The Professor of Chemistry was instructed to keep an account of chemicals used by each student^