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$10.000.00 of O.U certificates maturing at the times aforesaid
to said W. J. Hayes + Sons is hereby fully ratified approved
and confirmed by this Board their bid being found
by the Board to be the highest and best bid received
as well as all proceeding now or heretofore had
by said Board and its Secretary in and about the
sale thereof this 24th day of August 1900.
Mr Whiley moved that
said sale of said O.U. Certificates to said W. J. Hayes
and Sons and all of the above findings and
proceedings in relation to the sale of said $10.000.
O.U. Certificates to W. J. Hayes + Sons be fully ratified
approved and confirmed. [inserted] Which motion was duly seconded [end inserted] and the yeas and
nays being demanded a call of the roll was
had resulting as follows"
Yeas: Super. Lowrey, Jewett, Hamblin. Davidson Lene
Fenton, Jones, Welch, Wood, Whiley, Coultrap, Moore
Blackstone [crossed out] and [end crossed out] Foster and Biddle, being the unanimous
vote of all fo the members of this Board present
at this meeting, [inserted] nayes none [end inserted] and being more than a quorum
of said Board, nine members in law constituting a
quorum thereo, and thereupon the Chair declared
that said motion had been unanimously adopted
and that said bid had been duly awarded to said W. J
Hayes and Sons for said $10.000. O.U Certificates so sold
to them as aforesaid.
[inserted] Motion to
rescind
action of
Board lost. [end inserted] Mr Jones offered the following resolution; "Resolved
that the action of this Board at its June meeting providing
for the election of teachers and employees by ballot be and
it is hereby rescinded, and that hereafter all such
elections be viva voce", 'and moved to adopt in which
motion was duly seconded, and the yeas and nays being
demanded a vote was taken resulting as follows: Yeas"
Lowrey, Hamblin, Lene, Fenton, Jones and Coutrap: 6.
Nays, Jewett, Davidson Welch, Wood, Whiley, Moore
Blackstone, Foster, and Biddle. 9- and the Chair
declared that said motion had been lost.