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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1873
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143 To the Regent and Executive Committee '• GENTLEMEN: I would respectfully submit for your consideration the question of our lumber-drying house. The main question is : how shall we furnish steam to Mr. Steadman, who uses it, and receives the proceeds 1 I t may also be questioned, as to whether repairs should come out of the proceeds. The pipes have been frozen and burst, causing repairs amounting to an item. Tours, obediently, S. W. KOBI^TSOK". The following communication in relation to the manufacture of thermometer graduating machines, from Prof. Robinson, was received.: To the Megeni'andExecutive Committee : GENTLEMEN : Accompanying this, please find two letters from liochester, each containing an order for a graduating machine. The price named in correspondence is $25 00 more than that of machines -we have made heretofore, viz., $175. I think we should clear 50 or 75 dollars on each. The state of out work in the shop is now such as to admit of our going ahead with the machines. I would respectfully ask if we shall proceed with them. Respectfully, S. W. KOBI^SOK. On motion of Mr. Scott, Prof. Robinson was authorized to make the machines, if the Regent, on inquiry, should find the parties responsible, and that accurate accounts of outlays on said machines be kept. Mr. James R. Scott, to whom was referred the matter of the hay-press sold to Mr. Harris, reported that no settlement has been made with Mr. Hairis. Mr. Scott further recommended, that the claim against Mr. Harris be abandoned; whicdi was adopted. Mr. Pearson, from the Committee on Mechanical Department, reported in favor of retaining the services of Mr. Steadman under his minimum salary, until March 18th. Adopted. On motion, it was Resolved, That the Regent be authorized to return a proportionate sum of the term fee to students who are prevented from prosecuting their studies by protracted sickness : Provided, That m no case shall the amount returned exceed one-half of the fee paid for the current term. The report of the Book-keeper, of expenditures and collections, was read and approved. The bills presented for payment were audited and allowed. On motion, the sum of $25 00 was appropriated towards the purchase of apparatus for gymnasium for the ladies of the University. The Committee then adjourned to meet at 4 P. M., March 10th, 1873. J. M. GREGORY, Regent. E. SNYDER, Secretary.
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