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Proceedings ------------------
First Day
Columbia S.C. Oct 14, 1861
This being the time & place appointed for the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South, persuant to the call of the President of the Board Several members {illegible: being?} assembled at the Rectory of Trinity Church. After prayer by the Rt Rev President the meeting was called to order, & in the absence of the Secretary, the Rev Mr Crane was requested to perform the duties of that office.
The roll being called the following members of the Board answered by their names
The Rt Rev Bishops Otey, Elliott, Green, Rutledge & Davis
The Rev Mssrs Curtis, Glennis Mitchell & Crane. Mssrs L. N. Whittle, G. R. Fairbanks, & C. T. Pollard.
There being no quorum, the meeting adjourned until to-morrow at 10 A. M.
Second Day
Oct 15. 10 {insert symbol}o'clock A. M.
The same members of the board met as on yesterday. After prayer by the President, the calling of the roll was, on motion dispensed with, {illegible} meeting adjourned until 5. P.M.
Oct 15. 5. {insert symbol:}o'clock P. M.
The Board met. Upon calling the roll, in addition to those present this morning, the following members answered to their names: --
The Rt Rev Bishops Atkinson, Gregg, & Lay, and Mr. W. A. Pringle.
A quorum being present, the Rt. Rev. President {illegible} the Board duly organized.
On motion of the Rev Mr Crane the Rev David Pise, D.D., was unanimously reelected
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Secretary of the Board for the ensuing year. In the absence of Dr Pise, the Rev. W. C Crane, was, on motion, of Bishop Elliott, appointed Secretary pro. tem.
Upon motion of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Atkinson, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the feelings of the members of this Body in reference to the death of their late lamented associate, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Cobbs. The chair appointed an the Committee
Bishop Atkinson, Rev Dr Leacock, and C. T. Pollard, {struckthrough: on motion of Bishop Gregg it was Resolved}
The Rt Rev Bishop Green, on behalf of the committee appointed for that purpose at the last annual meeting of the Board, pre sented the following Rules of Order --
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The Rev Mr Mitchell, on behalf of the Committee on Finance, presented the following Report.
The Committee on Finance, in presenting their Report, beg leave, in justice to themselves, respectfully to remind the Board, that the duties of the Committee are defined in the following Resolution, passed at the last meeting of the Board, held at University Place, Oct. 9, 1860, to wit : --
"Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed by the President of the Board, to be known as the Committee on Finance, which shall meet at University Place, at least three days before the next annual meeting of the Board, and to which shall be reported by the Commissioners, Executive Committee, Diocesan Treasurers, and Treasurer of the University, all such matters as may be under their direction & control connected with the financial affairs of the University, so as to enable that Committee to prepare a Report of the financial affairs of the University to be furnished to the Board on its assembling."
The Journals, containing this Resolution, and the other Proceedings of the Board at its last meeting, through printed by order of the Board, have not, so far as the Committee can ascertain, been distributed even to the parites named in the Resolution; and this, it is presumed is one reason why only a small part of the Reports called for by said Resolution have been furnished to the Committee. The few which have been received were obtained in response to a request
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of the Committee, who, when it was fully ascertained "that the Journals of the last meeting of the Board had not been distributed, sent a manuscript copy of the aforesaid Resolution to each of the several parties therein named.
They are not sufficient, however, to enable the Committee to furnish the Board, at this time, with any statement of the financial affairs of the University which would be of any service or value whatsoever.
Finding it impossible, therefore, ( by no fault, however, of their own ) to perform the duty assigned them either satisfactorily to themselves, or so as to affect any good purpose, your Committee respectfully ask to be excused from any attempt to do so so at this present meeting of the Board.
Respectfully submitted by
Jno. M. Mitchell } Committee
Chas. T. Pollard } on
Dan'l Griffins } Finance.
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Oct. 16th. 5 o'clock, P.M.
The Board met & was opened with prayer by the President.
The same members were present as on yesterday.
Bishop Atkinson, from the Committee appointed to prepare Resolutions in reference to the death of Bishop Cobbs, presented the following Resolutions, which, on motion were adopted.
The Committee appointed to prepare resolutions in reference to the death of the late Bishop Cobbs, a former member of this Board, beg leave to report, the following.
Resolved 1st. That in the death of Bishop Cobbs this Board has not only experienced a heavy loss in common with the whole church which has been thus bereaved of one of its most eminent & useful Prelates, and with the community which has been deprived of one of the best and wisest and most {illegible} men of his generation, but has itself especially suffered in losing the services of a member whose zeal in its behalf was intent, whose counsels were always judicious, and whose great and noble {illegible: merited?} influence in his Diocese, and elsewhere, recommended to the publick {illegible} -{illegible} and {illegible} any enterprise he was known strongly to sustain.
Resolved 2nd that in the death of Bishop Cobbs, each member of this board feels that he has lost a personal, and highly valued friend.
Resolved 3rd that a copy of these resolutions