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March 3, 1852

The Board met at 3 o'clock at the house of the President. Present - Hopkins, Henderson, Barbour, Coons, Dunn, Bullock. Montgomery, Johnstone & Price being reappointed & Mr. Hogue appointed for first time, appeared & were qualified by Mr. Hopkins, Justice of the Peace in Boyle County, administering to them the oath of office. The Board appointed Mr. Barbour to confer with the Treasurer as to the form of his annual report & directed the Treasurer to have it printed for the use of the Synod.

The Faculty reported that they were not yet ready to propose any final arrangements for the accommodation of the students in hearing preaching. The Board empowered the local members to expend, if they shall deem it advisable, an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars for securing to the students a sufficient number of church pews for their accommodation.

The Committee of local members, who had been empowered to purchase residences for the Professors, reported that they have purchased two houses at a cost of $3,150.00 for the two. It was ordered that, as no additional residences are at present needed, the committee be directed to make no additional purchases. Messrs. Henderson & Barbour were directed to rent the houses purchased for the College, & keep them insured.

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The Committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Financial Agent reported. Their report was approved & ordered to be recorded on the minutes of the Board. It is as follows. The committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Financial Agent report that they have carefully & thoroughly examined the whole of Mr. Jacobs transactions as agent for the College from November 1, 1842, to the present date. During this period the moneys collected by him & passed through his hands amount to about $25,398.08 - besides a considerable sum received in notes. For all the various sums received by him at different times, he has accounted by producing satisfactory vouchers in receipts of the Treasurer for cash, notes, & bank stock placed by him in the Treasurer's hands for the use of the College. There are at this time in the hands of the Financial Agent sundry notes uncollected, viz. Fry & Vischer's $118.25; Claud Charles Todd's $118.00; Rev. W. Jones' $35.00; Rev. R. Tyler's $10.00; an unpaid balance of a note on John Taylor; two notes of Rev. W. M. Scott $851.07; Lee's note $1,000.00; & Dunwiddie's $10.00. With the exception of his still holding these notes for collection, Mr. Jacobs has balanced his accounts with the College up to this time by paying all that he has collected or held for it up to the present date. In

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examining the multifarious, troublesome, & responsible transactions of your Financial Agent, extending through so long a period as nine years & a half & managed so successfully & faithfully, your committee have been impressed with a feeling of admiration, which they feel it due to themselves & the Board to express, of the unwearied & patient industry, the ever-active vigilance, & the successful skill with which Mr. Jacobs has continued to labor, year after year, in a work in which his only remuneration has been the consciousness that he was aiding an institution whose object is to do good to man & glorify God.

February 2, 1852, John C. Young, David A. Russell, Committee

The Treasurer & Secretary were appointed a committee to audit annually the accounts of the Financial Agent.

The Board approved of the security offered by the authorities of the town of Danville for the loan of $10,000.00. The Financial Agent is allowed by the Board to use his own judgment in selling either Kentucky Bank stock or Louisville Bank stock for the purpose of this loan - he advising with the Secretary & Chairman of the Board.

The Board having received Mr. Williams' declination of his appointment, proceeded to appoint Mr. Ormond Beatty to the Chair of Natural Philosophy & Chemistry; Rev. Henry Snyder to the Chair of Mathematics; & Mr. James Barbour to the Chair of Belles Lettres, Rhetoric, & Political Economy.

The Professor of Natural Science was allowed the sum of $400.00 for the present purchase of apparatus, & $100. 00 per annum to be expended hereafter in his department.

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Under Graduates Who Have Studied Professions

List made out August 1844

Ministry George Moore John D. Dawson Samuel R. Alexander Greenbury D. Murphy Andrew W. Kerr William H. Forsyth N. S. Rice Ben Shaw Peter Fuleinwider William P. Alexander John R. Gorce Stephen F. Cocke William Clark Charles Martin William Robertson David Nelson John A. Meeks Robert Wall C. S. Spilman J. F. Coons D. L. Stuart J. W. Crabb Alexander McKinney Collin McKinney Samuel Stuart W. H. McAulay Edward Cope Henry H. Cambren James Birney W. B. Dysart Ralph Harris George Coons B. Haden A. E. Young B. Lefler

Ministry B. F. Crawford Samuel Hughes F. J. Boggs A. Martin Rev. Bradshaw Rev. Dysart John Rice

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Law James F. Rollins John B. Benuss J. M. Clay William Thompson Francis P. Stone M. Chrisman G. J. Trotter Sherrod Williams J. B. Marshall J. W. Cocke Joseph Holt W. M. Munford W. S. Burch Caleb Wallace Humphrey Marshall Thomas B. Reed A. F. Smith Henry Pope William D. Reed D. F. Kenner J. H. Grimes Richard Cocke Richard A. Buckner James M. Alexander Vivian W. Edwards C. G. Wintersmith Samuel Glover J. T. Boyle James Walter James E. Munford William A. Owsley James J. Moore Speed S. Fry John G. Burch George Grundy William Birney A. H. Edgar

Law James Hayes James C. Patrick Clifton Prewitt A. Thornton R. Singleton W. Hudson James Clark John Leavy John H. Wilson M. Pindell Caleb Logan W. S. Martin W. F. Barrett D. McCreary A. Robertson S. W. Bullock T. T. Berry William S. Berry Joshua F. Bullitt F. W. Desha J. B. V. McCall Blanton Duncan James Caperton Thomas M. Crutcher U. McCreary

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Medicine Alonzo Bast John C. Bast J. M. Boyle Ed. T. Rochester Samuel M. Letcher W. C. Aldridge John K. Kerr Will Warren J. B. Warren Joseph A. Thompson Elias Fisher Samuel Smith Willis Green D. F. Tod C. H. Fry Ben. Helm James M. Reed James Moore D. R. Knox Uriah Bass John R. Weisiger W. A. Downton James Burch James Keith Theodore P. Conn James Foster Thomas Montgomery Paul R. Booker Giles M. Ormond John C. Maxwell S. D. Price Joseph Smith Cotton John Armstrong James B. Duke H. S. Saunders

Medicine

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Camillus C. Davis, Lieutenant in the Army
William M. McKee, Captain in the Army
John A. Jacobs, Principal of the Deaf & Dumb Asy.
William D. Kerr, Instructor in the Deaf & Dumb Asylum
Samuel G. Mullins, Professor Bacon College

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Minutes continued

A communication was received from Michael G. Youce on the subject of a debt due to him on the Blackburn house & lot. It was referred to the Financial Committee, viz. the Financial Agent, the Secretary, the Treasurer, & Mr. Barbour to report to the Board at its next meeting.

A proposition was received from David A. Russel to relinquish two scholarships to the College, if the College would release him from the obligation to pay one scholarship note of $500 held by the College & for which he is responsible. The Board declined to accept the proposition.

The Board appointed Rev. John Montgomery & Rev. Robert Johnston a committee to attend the examinations & unite with the Committee of Visitors in a report to the Synod.

The Board adjourned to meet at 3 o'clock on the Tuesday before the last Thursday in June.

John C. Young, Secretary

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