Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 6 October 1823
Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors
A meeting of the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia was held at the University on the 6th Octr 1823, at which were present Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Breckenridge, John H. Cocke, George Loyall, and Joseph C. Cabell.
Resolved that the board approves of the contract entered into with Giacomo Raggi for1 furnishing bases of marble of Carrare for the columns of the Rotunda.
Resolved that they recommend to the executive committee to procure capitals of the same marble for the same columns if practicable on terms not higher than those offered by Thos Appleton.
Resolved that they recommend also to the said committee to procure squar[es] of marble for paving the Portico of the Rotunda if they find that it can be don[e] on terms preferable to what it will cost to have the same paved with country stone.2
Resolved, that it be an instruction to the collector of the University to call once more on the subscribers who are in arrear for the payment of their arrears, that from those not ready to make payment he may receive instead thereof bo[nds] or notes from those who have not already given them payable in ninety days, & if these be not given that he institute suits in the proper court with instructions to the attorney engaged to press the suits to execution with the least delay practicable
Resolved that the board think it expedient to continue the collector so long as the executive committee may deem his employment necessary to finish the collection.3
A Report to the President & Directors of the Literary Fund having been proposed was agreed to.
| Th Jefferson |
| Oct. 6. 1823. |
MS (ViU: TJP-VMTJ); in Joseph C. Cabell’s hand, signed and dated by TJ; word endings obscured by tight binding supplied from Trs. Tr (ViU: TJP-VMJCC). Tr (ViU: TJP-VMJHC). Tr (ViU: TJP-VMJB). Tr (MHi); extract subjoined to FC of TJ to Alexander Garrett, 8 Oct. 1823; in TJ’s hand and signed by him; undated; with TJ’s additional note appended beneath: “To the above I will add that we think the Collector should be continued certainly until he has executed the 1st resolution.”
The collector of the university was John L. Thomas.
1. Cabell here canceled “finishing.”
2. MHi extract begins here.
3. MHi extract ends here.
Index Entries
- Appleton, Thomas; and capitals for University of Virginia search
- Breckinridge (Breckenridge), James; as member of University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- building materials; marble search
- building materials; marble, Carrara search
- building materials; stone search
- Cabell, Joseph Carrington; as member of University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Carrara marble search
- Cocke, John Hartwell (1780–1866); as member of University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Literary Fund; University of Virginia Board of Visitors reports to search
- Loyall, George; as member of University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); as member of University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- marble; Carrara search
- marble; for University of Virginia search
- Raggi, Giacomo; as stonecutter for University of Virginia search
- Thomas, John L.; as collector for University of Virginia search
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- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
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