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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876
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205 AUGUST 8, 1876. The Executive Committee met at the call of the chairman, at 4 P. M., in the University parlor. Present—Messrs. Cobb and Gardner. Absent—Mr. Pickrell, who telegraphed that sickness in his family prevented attending. The salary of Mr. I. 0. Baker was increased to $75 per month. Messrs. A. E. Barnes and M. A. Scovell were re-appointed assistants in the Chemical Laboratory, and teachers in preliminary year, at a salary of $60 per month. It was ordered that a separate account be kept of funds received for tuition in the preliminary department; also that the following parts of salaries of instructors in that' department be paid out of said fund, viz : A. C. Swartz $20 per month. I. O.Baker 20 " A.E.Barnes 20 " " M. A. Scovell 20 " C.I.Hayes 10 " " Advertisements for the fall opening of the University were ordered to be inserted in the following papers : Prairie Parmer, Chicago, Ills., four times. Rural World, St. Louis, Mo., four times. Western Farm Journal, Des Moines, la., four times. Western Agriculturist, Quincy, Ills., one time. Seventy-five dollars were assigned for the purpose. A request from Dr. F. W. Prentice for purchase of Lupton's Anatomical Charts was referred to Mr. Gardner. It was resolved that the teaching in elocution during the coming year be confined to the winter and spring terms. Mr. E. Hume was allowed $25 for services in June, 1876, in full of account. One hundred dollars were appropriated for purchase of apparatus of instruction from Centennial Exposition under direction of the Regent. The report of the Business Agent was then received. The bills submitted for audit were referred to the full meeting of the Board. Adjourned.
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