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1896.]

PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The Committee submits the report of Professor White with regard to the work, and recommends that $2,000 additional, as suggested in his report, be appropriated for completing the work. The Committee alsa recommends that the building be washed down so that all fire stains may be removed. The Committee further recommends that a payment of $80 be made to Professor White for his servicBS as architect in charge. To the Committee on Buildings and Grounds: GENTLEMEN: A S architect in charge of the repairs upon the Chemical Laboratory, which were* directed by you Aug. 19th, I have to report that the work has progressed very favorably and that the changes, so far as the inside of the building is concerned, will be practically completed by tomorrow evening. The completing of the balance of the exterior work will not interfere with the use of the building. The work in the interior has been of a temporary nature and has cost about $2,000. This includes all carpenter work, plastering, cleaning, and kalsomining of walls, plumbing, ventilating (including a new 6 H. P. motor), and fixed furniture, such as chemical desks and hoods and apparatus cases. Probably $200 or $300 will be necessary to complete this work, besides what will be needed for movable furniture, such as settees, chairs, and tables. The roof is constructed as a permanent feature and being all new it was feasible to make it contract work. Bids were received from three firms on a trussed roof supported on the outside walls only, and covered with slate. All flashings, valleys, and aprons were specified to be copper, the cornice, galvanized iron, and the gutter, tin. The bids were: J. C. Sedgwick, Champaign, $3,931. L. M. Moore, Danville, $4,170. H. M. R. Construction Co., Chicago, $5,550. The contract was awarded to J. C. Sedgwick. The appropriation of $2,500 made for this work was only a guess at the cost, for there were then no drawings available upon which to base an estimate. The deficit on the roof is $1,431, and the interior work will exceed the appropriation by about $200. Some furniture is also still needed. It will require an additional appropriation of about $2,000 to meet these items. To make the building as sightly as possible on the exterior the brick work should be washed oif. This is an expense I can not estimate, but it certainly can not be very great and I ask that it be authorized. Respectfully submitted,

JAMES M. W H I T E ,

Associate Professor of Architecture. \

LIBRARY HALL.

The work on the Library Building is progressing satisfactorily, and in the opinion of the Committee the contractors are doing the work well. The report of the architects and superintendents, which is here inserted* and made part of this report, is expressive of the greatest confidence that the wdrk is going on according to the contract and specifications.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Sept. 16, 1896.

To the Building Committee of the Board of Trustees. GENTLEMEN: We beg leave to present the following report on the progress of the Library Building. A delay of several weeks occurred in putting in the stone foundations, caused by the sickness of the quarry manager and retarded shipment of stone. But