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Excerpt from The Ohio Alumnus, Vol. 1: Published Monthly by the Ohio University Alumni Association; February 1924 The time of the members of the board was taken up with the many problems of surveying, appraising and leasing the college lands; for the lands had to be con verted into a medium of exchange before buildings could be erected or students taught. The medium of exchange at an early meeting - May, 1809 - was, hemp at $6 per cwt., delivered; steers, three years old and not over eight, delivered on the first Monday in November; and hogs weighing not less than 250 pounds at $3 per cwt. So slow was the flow of cash into the treasury that not one cent had reached the desired destination at the time of the third meeting of the board in April, 1806. At this time there were seventy-five in Alex ander and eighty tracts in Athens township with claimants. These tracts were appraised at values ranging from thirty-seven cents to per acre. In that same year, 1806, forty house lots and forty out-lots in Ath ens were sold, the top price being $52, paid by Ebenezer Currier for lot No. 17. John Millikan was one of the appraisers. The trustees also had much to do with the administration of the affairs of Athens before its incorporation in 1811. At the April meeting in 1806, the trustees set aside lots, 35 for a court house, 37 for a jail, and 18 for the use of the city. The trustees named the streets, College, Court, Presi dent, Union, Washington, Vine, State, Con gress, High, Mulberry and Olive. Vine street has become a part of University. Ter race, and Olive is that part of Court street from President to Mulberry. The swamp lands of Athens were drained at the ex pense of the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.