Oliveiro versus University of North Carolina, 1829, 1860-1896.

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Oliveiro versus University of North Carolina, 1829, 1860-1896.

Items relating to Oliveiro versus University of North Carolina (1878). This case involved Simao da Rocha Oliveiro, originally of Portugal, who died in Edenton, N.C., where he owned property that was at the center of a legal dispute between the University and Oliveiro's Portuguese heirs. Included is a letter, dated 14 February 1866, in which the University of North Carolina is described as broke and heavily in debt.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...