October 5-6, 1891
10-05-1891
Volume OB - Pages 148-151
Reno, Nevada
October 5, 1891
The regular meeting of the Board of Regents was held this day.
Present: Governor Colcord, J. W. Haines, H. L. Fish and E. T.
George. Absent: J. D. Torreyson.
On motion, reading of claims allowed September 5, 1891 was
suspended.
Minutes of the last meeting were read and salary of Richard
Brown was changed to read Fifteen Hundred Dollars per annum
from September 1, 1891, instead of One Hundred and Twenty Five
Dollars per month. With this change, the minutes were approved
as read.
The President was authorized to purchase all the necessary tools
and machinery for the Mechanical Department and send Richard
Brown to San Francisco for that purpose.
It was ordered that the salary of T. W. Cowgill be fixed at
Eighteen Hundred Dollars per annum from Sept. 1, 1891 to be paid
from the Agricultural College Fund.
It was ordered that the Laboratory building be connected with
the town sewerage at the nearest point.
Professor Jackson was allowed One Thousand Dollars for the
fitting of Laboratory building.
Governor Colcord, on motion of H. L. Fish, was elected Vice
Chairman of the Board of Regents.
Mr. Richard Brown was authorized to purchase a suitable furnace
for the Laboratory building while in San Francisco.
It was ordered that a wood shed be built for the Dormitory
building and that a cement floor be laid in the Assay Office of
the Laboratory building.
On motion of Governor Colcord, Professor R. D. Jackson was ap-
pointed Principal of the Mining Laboratory it being a unanimous
vote of the Board.
The appointment of Henry Thurtell as Professor in Mechanical
Drawing, Mathematics and Mechanics by the President of the Uni-
versity at an annual salary of Eighteen Hundred Dollars, commenc-
ing from October 1, 1891, was confirmed.
Claims were allowed from the Contingent University Fund as
follows:
S. A. Jones 108.33
J. M. Neall 50.00
Robert Lewers 50.00
Mary W. Emery 154.16
H. K. Clapp 100.00
Kate Kinney 24.00
Geo. H. Taylor 25.00
Donald Mc Kay 75.00
S. G. Kendall 75.00
Mrs. Schulke 40.00
Reno Water Co. 116.23
C. E. Clough 3.75
F. M. Payne 165.00
Geo. Booth 16.92
W. O. H. Martin 15.45
S. J. Hodgekinson 5.50
C. J. Brooking 51.35
Robert Lewers 30.50
G. Lundberg 56.25
Charles Sehn 53.75
Geo. H. Taylor 4.35
John F. Aitken 10.50
G. W. CLark & Co. 3.00
Geo. H. Fuller Desk Co. 84.00
R. D. Jackson 50.00
A. A. Manning 120.97
J. J. Walker 1,200.00
Reno Water Co. 134.80
W. H. Hamilton 5.00
First National Bank 90.00
Total $2,918.81
Claims were also allowed against the Agricultural and Mechanical
College Fund.
S. A. Jones 108.33
W. Mc N. Miller 166.66
R. D. Jackson 166.66
Robert Lewers 100.00
J. M. Neall 100.00
J. W. Phillips 150.00
T. W. Cowgill 150.00
Richard Brown 125.00
Kate Kinney 15.00
Bausch & Lomb Optical 15.00
Payot Upham & Co. 4.00
Saul Carson Co. 114.17
Saul Carson Co. 134.45
Saul Carson Co. 176.64
A. A. Manning 229.18
Total $1,755.09
No further business appearing the Board adjourned.
E. T. George
President
Geo. H. Taylor
Secretary