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Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina- Raleigh, 8th Decem. 1797.
The Trustees of the University of North Carolina having recieved the Representation of Joseph Caldwell, Professor of Mathematics, and the Report of the Committee thereon; and having proceeded to fill the Professorship of Natural Philosophy, by the appointment of James S. Gillaspie to that Chair.
Resolved, that the thanks of the Board be given to Joseph Caldwell Esquire, for the faithful and able manner in which he has discharged the various duties of his appointment; and that he be informed, the Board recieved with pleasure the assurance of a continuation of his services as Professor of Mathematics,
A Copy A. Potter Secrety
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Resolution of the Trustees of the University passed Dec. 9th 1797
South Carolina (171). [9 Dec 1797]
Know all. Men by these presents, That We Pleasant Henderson, Robert Burton and Absalom Tatom
are held and firmly bound unto the Trustees of the University of North Carolina in the sum of two thousand pounds current money of the said State: to be paid to the said Trustees or their successors; to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Signed with our hands and seals this [ninth?] day of December seventeen hundred and ninety seven.
The Condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas the above bound Pleasant Henderson was, by vote of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina on the seventh day of this present month appointed steward of the University for the sum of one year commencing on the first day of January which shall happen in the year 1798, and as such did ---- and -----, and is bound to furnish each student and other person living at common at the said University for Breakfast on each and every day a sufficient quantitiy of good milk on good coffee, and tea, or chocolate and tea, together with a warm roll or loaf of Wheat or corn flour, at the option of each student, and a sufficient quantity of butter; For Dinner a dish, or cover of bacon and greens or beef and turnips, together with a sufficient quantity of fresh Meats or Fowls or Puddings and Tarts, with a sufficiency of Wheat or Corn Bread; and for supper a sufficiency of Coffee Tea or milk at his option, together with the necessary quanitity of Bread or Biscuit- and to furnish also potatoes and all other kinds of vegetable food usually served up in Carolina, in sufficient quantities- and to cause that the tables be covered every other day with clean clothesTo bring or cause to be brought, from the spring such quantity of water as shall be necessary for the students in the opinion of the Faculty, and to place the same at or in the University as he may be directed. To cause that the rooms in the University be swept the Beds made daily; and to cause also that the whole of the floors be washed clean at least once every fortnight, together with the passages, stair cases, steps etc and