Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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mfl UNr£E&Sa!T£ (yf fiXWois 413 covered without considerable expense, I secured an opinion from Judge Marker, Legal Counsel of the University, as to the advisability of further procedure. On thoro examination of the title, he rendered the same opinion that he had rendered when the University accepted the title from Captain Smith, namely: that there is no qustion but that the Board of Trustees has pfoper title to the land in fee simple and that the University should not go to further expense in adjusting it. This opinion was confirmed by you to me on June 30 and I so advised the Molloy people and their attorney. In reply I was advised that they were very anxious to have the title adjusted before they consummated the deal and that they would on their own initiative see if the proper records could not be set up so that the abstract might show a title satisfactory to them. I have indicated to them that we would allow them a short time further to make these adjustments. In the meantime the farm is being operated by a tenant for the University. I have no doubt but that an equitable adjustment of the rights under the lease can be made at any time that the contract can be consummated. I regret the delay in closing up the affair, but we have expected that each week would bring matters to a dose and the proposition has drifted al6ng for a considerably longer time than I had anticipated. If the Board of Trustees has any further instructions regarding the matter, I should be glad -to receive them. Otherwise, I shall proceed and bring the matter to a head just as promptly as possible. Cordially yours, LLOYD MOREY On motion of Mr. Ward, the Comptroller of the University was instructed to offer a merchantable title for this far,m to Mr. and Mrs. Molloy. LENDING OF CURTIS SEAPLANE (17) A request from Lee Hammond, Lieutenant in the Aviation Training Corps, Great Lakes Training Station, for the use of the Curtis seaplane which was lent to the University by the U. S. Government, and which, according to the understanding of Lieutenant Hammond, is not being used by the University. As a matter of fact, this seaplane is used—or the engine of it—for instruction in our School of Military Aeronautics. We might get some other machine to take its place, and it would be a valuable service to trie Aviation; Training Corps if they could have the seaplane. On motion of Mrs. Evans, the President of the University was authorized to lend the Curtis seaplane to the Aviation Training Corps of the Great Lakes Training Station, in case it should be found possible to do so. RETIRING ALLOWANCE FOR PROFESSOR ROLFE (18) A request from Professor Charles Wesley Rolfe for retirement from active service as Professor of Geology. Professor Rolfe was graduated
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