Excerpt from Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi: Held at Jackson, Mississippi, October 26, 1870 On motion, it was resolved that the Proctor is hereby directed to have the needful alterations made on the first floor of the middle hall of the northwest Dormitory, known as Lafayette Hall, so as to render it suitable for the Reading-room, and to have the necessary furniture provided for the room; and that the second and third stories of the same hall be fitted up for the accommodation of the Law Department as Lecture and Library-rooms. On motion, it was resolved that the salaries of Assistant Professors be one thousand dollars per annum instead of one hundred dollars per month. On motion of Mr. Simrall, it was resolved that Professor Geo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.