The following bids were rejected, and the Surveyor General ordered to notify them accordingly.

The board of commissioners met this day in the executive chamber. Present: John W. Geary, Governor and ex-officio president; John F. Hartranft, Auditor General; J. M. Campbell, Surveyor General.

The award of three hundred thousand acres of agricultural land scrip to Peter Wise, Esq., was declared forfeited, the said Wise having failed to comply with the terms of his agreement with the board.

A proposition from Mr. G. F. Lewis was then submitted to the board, in which he proposed to take all the unsold scrip heretofore awarded to Mr. Wise at fifty-five cents per acre; to pay for forty-eight thousand acres at this date, and to lift and pay for the whole of it in fifty days.

The proposition of Mr. Lewis was accepted, and the Surveyor General ordered to transfer the scrip upon the payment of the purchase money. On motion, adjourned. J. M. CAMPBELL, Secretary pro tem.

HARRISBURG, PA., August 7, 1867.

Commissioners for sale of agricultural college land scrip met this day in the executive chamber.

Present: John W. Geary, Governor and ex-officio president; John F. Hartranft, Auditor General; J. M. Campbell, Surveyor General.

The Surveyor General reported to the board that all the scrip had been sold and the money received for the same, except seven hundred and fiftyfive pieces of the amount awarded to Mr. Lewis, and which would be lifted in ten days or two weeks.

The Surveyor General was authorized to invest the money received for scrip in Pennsylvania bonds of 1×67, excepting one tenth of the gross amount received on all the scrip donated to the State.

The Surveyor General was also authorized and directed to return to Mr. P. Wise the bonds and other securities forfeited by him on account of non-compliance with the terms of his contract, as soon as Mr. Lewis will have lifted all the scrip awarded to him after the contract of Mr. Wise had been declared forfeited. On motion, adjourned.

J. M. CAMPBELL,

Secretary pro tem.

HARRISBURG, PA., September 17, 1867. Board of commissioners for the sale of agricultural college land scrip met this day in the executive chamber.

Members present: John W. Geary, Governor and ex-officio president; John F. Hartranft, Auditor General; Jacob M. Campbell Surveyor General.

The various bills for publishing proposals for sale of agricultural college land scrip in the papers of the State, and the printing of circulars, were presented and examined, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of twentyfive hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents, ($2,531 78.) On motion, it was ordered that the Surveyor General draw his warrant upon the treasury for the amount, and pay the bills, filing his vouchers for the same. On motion, adjourned.

J. M. CAMPBELL,

- Secretary pro tem.

HARRISBURG, February 12, 1868.

Board of commissioners for the sale of agricultural college land scrip met this day in the executive chamber,

Members present: John W. Geary, Governor and ex-officio president; John F. Hartranft, Auditor General; Jacob M. Campbell, Surveyor General.

The application of Moses Thompson, treasurer of the board of trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, was presented and read, asking the board of commissioners to place to his credit the sum of twentyfive thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, ($25,750,) of which sum it was proposed seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars ($17,750) should be expended in the purchase of an experimental farm in Chester county; and eight thousand dollars ($8,000) for an experimental farm near the college in Centre county.

On motion, it was ordered that the Surveyor General place to the credit of Moses Thompson, treasurer of the trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, the sum of seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, ($17,750,) to be applied to the purchase of the experimental farm in Chester county; and that action upon the application for the eight thousand dollars ($8,000) be postponed for the present. On motion, adjourned.

J. M. CAMPBELL,
Secretary pro tem.

HARRISBURG, April 23, 1883.

Board of commissioners for sale of agricultural college land scrip met this day in the executive chamber.

Members present: John W. Geary, Governor and ex-officio president; John F. Hartranft, Auditor General; Jacob M. Campbell, Surveyor General.

An opinion of Judge Pearson, president judge of Dauphin county court of common pleas and quarter sessions, on a case stated by the trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, on the one side, and the board of commissioners on the other, as to the legality of paying to the trustees the eight thousand dollars ($8,000) to be applied to the farm near the college, as heretofore asked for by them, was read.