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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 50

Minutes of the First Meeting of the Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Junior, University

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Minutes of the First Meeting of the Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Junior, University.

San Francisco, Saturday, At twelve o'clock, M.

Pursuant to the invitation of the grantors, a meeting of the Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Junior, University was held at the time and place above mentioned, in the library of the residence of Leland Stanford, in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California.

There were present of such Trustees:
  • Lorenzo Sawyer,
  • Charles Goodall,
  • Alfred L. Tubbs,
  • Francis E. Spencer,
  • Henry Vrooman,
  • Charles F. Crocker,
  • Timothy Hopkins,
  • Henry L. Dodge,
  • Irving M. Scott,
  • William Ashburner,
  • H. W. Harkness,
  • Josiah Stanford,
  • Horace Davis,page 36
  • John Boggs,
  • T. B. McFarland,
  • Isaac S. Belcher,
  • John Q. Brown,
  • George E. Gray,
  • N. W. Spaulding,
  • W. M. Stewart.

The meeting was called to order, and upon motion, Lorenzo Sawyer was chosen Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and H. C. Nash, Secretary, pro tern.

Leland Stanford, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, were then presented to the members of the Board of Trustees, and thereupon they delivered to the Trustees the grant made by them, duly executed and acknowledged, founding and endowing the Leland Stanford, Junior, University.

Upon motion of Mr. Spencer, the following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved, That the Trustees receive said grant, "and accept for themselves and their associates the "trusts therein imposed."

On motion of the Chairman, the following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized for and "as the act and deed of the Trustees to have the grant "herein properly recorded on the records of the coun" ties of Tehama, Butte, San Mateo, and Santa Clara, "State of California."

On motion of Mr. Vrooman, the Trustees adjourned to meet at the call of the Chairman.

Lorenzo Sawyer

, Chairman.

H. C. Nash

, Secretary.