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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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MINUTES OF MEETING OP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. AUGUST 2, 1871. The Committee met at 3 P. M., in the Eegent's office. Present: .Messrs. Brown, Cobb, Cunningham, Goltra, Pickrell, and the Eegent. The reading of the minutes of tne last meeting was dispensed with. The report of the Book-keeper, his statement of expenditures to date, and of collections, were read and approved. The bills presented for payment were audited and allowed. The Committee then took a recess till 7:30 P. M. EVENING SESSION. The Committee assembled at 7:30 P. JVI Br. Gregory and Judge Cunningham were appointed a committee, with power to act, to have lightning rods put on barns and house on horticultural ground. The Eegent was authorized to employ the following assistants and teachers: Mr.^E. E. Warder, assistant in Chemical Department, at a salary of $1,000 per year $ Mr. I. D. Foulon, as teacher of French, and general assistant, at a salary of $75 per month, for ten months; a private secretary, at a salary of $50 a month. The Eegent reported progress of negotiations to obtain a competent drawing teacher, and was authorized to employ the candidate, at a salary of $1,000 per year. I t was voted that there be employed a competent Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, at a salary not exceeding $1,500 per annum. The Faculty were authorized to change the course of Veterinary lectures from the winter to the fall term, if found desirable. A hard wood floor was ordered to be laid in the main hall and corridors of the first story. On motion, permission was given to the farm superintendents to sell the old hay press, and dispose of the other implements worn out, or not desirable, excepting those donated to the University.
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