1. Enclosure not found, but see the entry for the faculty meeting on 25 March 1826, where the two reports (notes 2–3 below) were read and approved (ViU: Special Collections, Minutes of the General Faculty).

2. The committee, consisting of Charles Bonnycastle, George Tucker, and Emmet, issued a report (4 pp.; marked “A”) advising “the expediency of establishing a Police” as the best means of ensuring that “Civil government […] may be rendered efficient.” The report stated that “a recurrence of these disturbances” that marred the previous session “has already taken place” and that the “Professors and students, of regular habits, have again been annoyed by parties of noisy and drunken young men, returning home, at all hours of the night.” The “darkness of the Arcades” and the “extent of ground, which the Dormitories cover” made it difficult to procure evidence and easy for offenders to escape. Thus, “a single Rioter, may now, pass through the University at Night, and, by shouting, Knocking at the doors, ringing Bells or firing gunpowder annoy the whole Establishment for hours.” The professors, the report went on, neither are equipped to investigate these proceedings nor can “conceive any remuneration, sufficient to compensate the danger of injury to their persons from stones and brickbats, or to their feelings as Gentlemen, from the coarse abuse of Rioters and Drunkards.” The report pointed out the advantages of employing night watchmen and suggested that “a Police, consisting of Six able-bodied White men” would “prove sufficient.”

3. The committee, consisting of Thomas H. Key, George Long, and George Blaettermann, presented a report (4 pp.; marked “B”) that detailed a number of faculty complaints and urged action by the Board of Visitors. The complaints included that the faculty were restricted from “punishing the most outrageous conduct in the immediate neighborhood” of the university by an enactment that limited them to disciplining “disorderly conduct ‘within the precincts’”; that there is a “continued and undiminished difficulty of procuring Books for the Classes”; that hacks traveling between the university and Charlottesville “every hour of the day and night” convey the students “to the Taverns” and bring them back in “a state of intoxication”; that the hotelkeepers are too beholden to the students to rein in their “drunkenness, riotous conduct, [and] profane and indecent language”; and that “there are two or three shops, between the University and Charlottesville,” unlicensed, where “students are in the habit of resorting for the purpose of drinking and practising other vices.”