Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 5]

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INTRODUCTION.

" A N ACT donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," approved July 2,1862, prescribes as one of the conditions of the grant, that—

" A n annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including State, industrial and economical statistics, as may be sup posed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior."

For the purpose of carrying out this requirement of the act of Congress, it was provided, under section 5 of u An act to provide for the organization and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial University," that—

" T h e Trustees may appoint, also, the Corresponding Secretary, whose duty it shall be, under the direction or with the approval of the Trustees, to issue circulars, directions for procuring needful materials for conducting experiments, and eliciting instructive,information from persons in various counties, selected for that purpose, and skilled in any branch of Agricultural, Mechanical and Industrial Art; and to do all other acts needful to 'enable him to prepare an annual report regarding the progress of the University in each department thereof—recording any improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including State, industrial and economical statistics, as maybe supposed useful; not less than five thousand copies of which shall be published annually, and one copy be transmitted by said Corresponding Secretary, by mail, free, to each of the other colleges endowed under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, entitled "An act donating lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts ;" one copy to the United States Secretary of the Interior ; and one thousand copies to the Secretary of State of this State, for the State Library, and for distributiou among the members of the General Assembly. Also, a Recording Secretary, whose duty it shall be to keep faithful record of the transactions of the Board of Trustees, and prepare the same for publication in such annual report."