1897-05


WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for May 1897
Volume 01    -    Page 061

1897-05-26 [year incorrectly stated as 1898 in original minutes]  Board met pursuant to call with the chairman, Mr. Edens and the clerk present, the meeting having been called for the purpose of ratifying the prior informal action of the trustees in requesting the chairman to go to Olympia to confer with the state auditor and hasten the issuance of warrants for claims allowed and certified April 27, and concerning which it appeared from correspondence the auditor had some misunderstanding, not as to the merit of the claims, but as to the amount available for payment on claims against the contractor. As a result of the chairman's conference with the auditor the claims represented by vouchers Nos. 77 to 81 inclusive were allowed and warrants issued and delivered-


WWU Board of Trustees meeting minutes for May 1897
Volume 01    -    Page 062

1897-05-26 [year incorrectly stated as 1898 in original minutes]   to the chairman, still leaving the full balance due upon the contract for the creation of the building, viz $6,654.86 and the sum of $44.97 unexpended out of the appropriation of $40,000 approved March 7, 1895, as per detailed statement furnished to the auditor by the clerk. Voucher N. 82, favor of R.C. Higginson, for $10.70 expenses of trip to Olympia at the time and for the purpose above stated, was allowed and ordered certified to the state auditor. Unexpended balance of appropriation $34.27. Adjourned. Record approved. O.H. Culver, clerk. R.C. Higginson, chairman.


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