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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886
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95 The Auditing Committee submitted the following report, which was approved: To the Board of Trustees : Your Auditing Committee, to whom was referred the report of the Business Agent and Treasurer, report that they have examined vouchers 201 to 500, inclusive, present series, and find them correct and properly receipted, and would recommend that the same be approved. CHARLES BENNETT, GEO.C.EISENMAYER, Committee. The following resolution, presented by Trustee McLean, was passed: Resolved, That this Board has heard with pleasure the account of the work lately begun oy the Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and that it desires the responsive efforts of all undergraduate students. The Faculty is thereupon hereby requested to provide such regulations as shall insure the performance of the duties of this department of instruction by all matriculated undergraduates of the University. The Executive Committee submitted the following report in regard to the Griggs farm: To the Trustees of the University of Illinois: GENTLEMEN: At vour last June meeting your Executive Committee, to whom was referred the matter of leasing the Griggs farm for the year 1885-6. reported the terms on which said lease was made. We now beg leave to submit the following as the proceeds of said lease and our further actions in said matter. We received for oats grown on said farm $107.25; for hay, $125; which sums were turned over to the Business Agent. The corn, about 1,700 bushels, remains unsold in cribs on said farm. We also caused to be built on said farm a crib 10 feet wide by 11 feet high and 48 feet long, at. a cost of $78.66. Respectfully submitted, J. T. PEARMAN, Committee. The report was received and approved, and Trustee Pearman was authorized to rent the farm. The Eegent was authorized to expend not to exceed $100 for the purpose of securing an experimental station. In the matter of land contracts the Board instructed the Committee on Nebraska Lands that they should close contracts for deeds only in accordance with the terms of original contracts. The Board then adjourned to meet again Tuesday, April 6, 1886, at 10 o'clock A. M., at Chicago, at the office of Trustee Follansbee, 14 and 18 Bryan Block, unless otherwise directed by the President. GEORGE A. FOLLANSBEE, E. SNYDER, President pro tern. Recording Secretary, #
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