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(note at top of page: J.S.P. agent - S Wait D.D. 1849)

On motion the Board agreed to confer the
Degree of D.D. on Rev Samuel Wait of Wake
Forest.

A Communication was received from
Prof. White on the Presidency which was
read and ordered to be entered on record.

To the Trustees of W.F. College

Dear brethren

I have the honor
to receive through your Committee a verbal notice
of my appointment to the Presidency of your Institution.

For this additional mark of your favor
you will please accept my sincerest thanks, and
allow me at the same time to say, that so sensibly
do I feel my inability to meet your expectations
and that of the Public, that I feel it would be great
injustice in me to accept more than temporarily
the honor tendered.

Permit me therefore to express the hope
that you will speedily find a person worthy to
be entrusted with the interest of your Institution
and allow me, while I may be comparatively useful
to occupy a more humble place and one involving
less anxiety and responsibility.

(note added: June 14, 1849)

Very respectfully yours
John B. White

Resolved that in considering of $2000 to us
paid by D.S. Williams, J.J. James, N.J. Palmer
and J.B. White we authorise a good and sufficient
Deed in fee simple to be executed to them for
the house & lots occupied by Prof Owen and
also for that occupied by Mr Young.

On motion, appointed G.W. Thompson
J.S. Purify and N.J. Palmer agents to [illegible]