The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-22
Board of Regents Meeting.
Location Of the Institution.
WHEELING THE PLACE

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present on Wednesday, Mr. Henry
Brannon, of the Sixth District, reported
The committee on Permanent Organ
ization reported for President of the
Board, Governor F. II. Peirpoint, ofthe
Second, and for Secretary, G. K. Leon
ard of the Third District. The report
was adopted and the gentlemen above
named elected. Messrs Foreman and
Brannon were appointed 10 conduct the
President to the chair The President
in few appropriate remarks returned
his thanks for the conferred.
The committee on Bylaws submit
ted its report, which was read and con-
sidered by sections. Section 4 of arti-
Gle LIST was amended SO as to require the
Secretary of the Board to be Secretary
of the. Executive Committee, and 10
compel him to reside in the neighbor-
hood of the Institution. Another
amendment makes the Executive Com
mittee supervisors of the expenditures
of the Institution under the direction of
the Board of Regents
The hour for opening and considering
proposals for the location of the lnsti-
tuition for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
having arrived, the further considera-
ton of the bylaws was postponed.
Proposals were received from Harri-
son, Wood Ohio and Hampshire coun-
ties.
The proposition from Ohio county Of
fers the property known as the Wheel
inc Female College in the city of
| Wheeling for the use of the State as an
Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind, with the proviso that if at any
/ time the State shall cease TO use such
property as said institution, then the
property shall revert to the county.
Harrison county proposes TO give the
State three-story brick building, origi-
nallv intended for "a hotel, on Main
street in Clarksburg. They also pledge
themselves to aid in the erection of a
new building when needed, and r. NJ.
Poole proposed to denote the one-tenth
part of his entire income to the Board
OF Regents if the institution shall be
located in that city.
Hampshire county proposes to do
nate the Romncv Classical Institute and
fifteen acres of land if the Institution he
located III Ronncy.
Wool county offers To furnish the
Board of Regents for two years free Of
expense, Il building suitable for the In
Stitution, and free medical attendance
for two years, if the Institution shall he
located at Parkcrshurg. Mr.. Leonard,
in submitting the above, proposition,
said he expected to he able to make the
offer of money donation beside the
above. but it had not reached him a.
yet
The advantages and claims of the diff
frrcnt localities were put in their strong
light hy the persons delegated To make
the offers above named.
Pending the argument the Board
took Il recess until halfpaSt two.
In the afternoon the Board were taken
to the building offered 10y Ohio County
and the city Of Wheeling for the Use Of
the State. After a thorough cXamina-
ton the Board returned to the DALEY
House and resumed its deliberations.
The consideration of the bylaws was
resumed, and, after some amendments,
adopted.
The question of the location of the
Institution being in order, Mr.. Fisher
moved that the Board now proceed to
ballot for the location Of the Institution
for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Mr.. Foreman was in favor of post
poning the matter Of selection. The
regents had seen one of the buildings
offered and he wanted them to see the
Others
Gen. Couch said that, though the
svmpathies of the Regents had been
with Romney, as the original mover in
in this charity, yet the magniticence Of
the offer by Wheeling, the adaptability
of the building for the purpose named,
and the fact that it is all ready for oc-
cupancy must compel the Board Of
Regents to vote for the location in the
city of Wheeling.
The motion to takea vote on locating
the Institution prevailed, and the ballot
resulted as follows:
ClarkSburg.
Parkersburg
No locality having received a major
ity Of all the votes cast, a second bal
lot was had, with the following result:
Clarksburg
Wheeling having received a majority
of all the votes cast was declared Sc
lcctcd as the location for the lnstitu-
ton for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
Nr. Fisher returned the thanks Of
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