Enclosure: Virginia Council of State’s Appointment of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 1 March 1824, enclosure no. 1 to James Pleasants to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1824
Enclosure
Virginia Council of State’s Appointment of University of Virginia Board of Visitors
Monday 1st March 1824
The Governor called the attention of the Board to the appointment of Visitors for the University of Virginia, in conformity with the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly passed 25th February 1819—Whereupon it is Advised, that the following persons be appointed Visitors—to wit,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C Cabell, George Loyall James Breckinridge and John H Cocke—
and in pursuance of the provisions of the aforesaid Act of Assembly the Executive is authorized to appoint a day for the meeting of the said Visitors—It is also advised that the said Visitors shall assemble on the first monday in April next, at the said University near Charlottesville in the County of Albemarle, and should a majority fail to meet on that day, the meeting shall stand and be adjourned from day to day until a majority of the Board of Visitors shall attend.1
MS (Vi: RG 75, Journals of the Council of State); in council clerk William H. Richardson’s hand; dateline at head of day’s proceedings, followed by indication that the members initially present were Governor James Pleasants, Peter V. Daniel, William F. Pendleton, William H. Roane, William Selden, and John Campbell; signed by Pendleton, Daniel, Robert G. Scott, and Campbell at the end of the day’s proceedings. Tr (ViU: TJP); in Richardson’s hand, signed and attested by him; at head of text: “In Council 1st March 1824”; endorsed by TJ: “Visitors appmt of Mar. 1. 1824.” Tr (ViU: JHC); in Richardson’s hand, signed and attested by him; at head of text: “In Council, 1st March 1824”; docketed in an unidentified hand: “Commission to attend University of Virginia 1st Monday in April 1824.”
1. Trs here include “Which the Governor orders accordingly.”
Index Entries
- An Act for the establishment of an University (1819) search
- Breckinridge (Breckenridge), James; appointed to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Cabell, Joseph Carrington; appointment of to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Campbell, John (ca.1788–1866); as member of Va. Council of State search
- Cocke, John Hartwell (1780–1866); appointment of to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Daniel, Peter Vyvian; as member of Va. Council of State search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Public Service; appointed to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Johnson, Chapman; appointment of to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Loyall, George; appointment to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); appointed to University of Virginia Board of Visitors search
- Pendleton, William F.; as member of Va. Council of State search
- Pleasants, James; as governor of Va. search
- Richardson, William Harvie; as clerk of Va. Council of State search
- Roane, William Henry; as member of Va. Council of State search
- Scott, Robert G.; as member of Va. Council of State search
- Selden, William; as member of Va. Council of State search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; meetings of search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; members of search
- Virginia; Council of State search
- Virginia; General Assembly search