Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1898 [PAGE 270]

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270

UNIVEESiTY

OF

ILLINOIS.

[June,8,

I t was ordered that for the present the Business Manager pay bills for water furnished the University at the rate of $1,000 a year, payi n g quarterly. On motion of Mrs. Flower, the Committee on buildings and Grounds was authorized and instructed to advertise for bids, and to let contracts for coal to be used by the University for the next year. President Draper presented the following estimates, furnished by the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, of appropriations needed for the current quarter ending June 30, 1898, and the next quarter ending September 30, 1898.

A G R I C U L T U R A L E X P E R I M E N T STATION—ESTIMATES, C U R R E N T Q U A R T E R .

From Labor.

Farm

Fund. $300 00

QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,

From Salaries Labor Publications P o s t a g e and stationery F r e i g h t and express H e a t , light and water C h e m i c a l supplies -Feeding stuffs T o o l s , implements, and machinery. Scientific a p p a r a t u s T r a v e l i n g expenses B u i l d i n g s and repairs Contingent Total. From Labor S e e d s , plants, and s u n d r y supplies Total

General

Fund.

$1,830 605 275 30 30 30 25 110 75 510 30 35 165 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

$3,750 00

Farm

Fund.

$530 00 220 00 $750 00

Appropriations from Experiment Station funds were made to meet these estimates. President Draper reported back, with his approval, the recommendations of Professor Forbes, Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, with regard to appointments and salaries for the ensuing year beginning July 1, 1898, and the appointments were thereupon made, as follows:

C A. H a r t , systematic curator of collections C. A. Kof oid, s u p e r i n t e n d e n t of Biological Station C C. A d a m s , entomological assistant M a r y J . Snyder, secretary H . C« F o r b e s , librarian and b u s i n e s s agent $1,000 00 1,300 00 750 00 900 00 1,100 00

Lydia M. Hart, artist, $20.00 a month, with pay at the rate of 35 cents an liour when the work given her comes, at -this rate, to more than the salary earned. E. B. Forbes, entomological assistant, $70.00 a month.