Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1898 [PAGE 36]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

APPROPRIA'i IONS.

[Sept. 15,

Board expen ses Salaries for instruction and P r e s i d e n t Salaries for services .-. Buildings and grounds : F u e l and lights and electric power Stationery and p r i n t i n g : Repair shop P r e p a r a t o r y School Mechanical d e p a r t m e n t Architectural, Agricultural, Horticultural, Military, and Civil Engineering departments Laboratories L i b r a r y and a p p a r a t u s Incidentals F u r n i t u r e and fixtures Heating apparatus W a t e r supply Greenhouse. Advertising School of Pharmacy— , Salaries for instruction Salaries for services A p p a r a t u s and materials Coal, gas, water, telephone, stationery, printing, etc R e n t of building Agricultural E x p e r i m e n t Station—general fund. Agricultural E x p e r i m e n t Station—farm fund

W 00 37,420 00 4,650 00 1,000 00 2,000 00 600 00 300 00 100 00 600 00| 400 00 1,000 00 50 00 500 U i O 400 00 400 001 125 001 100 00 $50,245 0(* 1,000 00 $51,245 00, $2,250 00 500 00 1,000 00| 600 00! 1,200 00| $3,750 00 750 001

$5,550 00 $4,500 W

Also, the balance, $750, of the state appropriation for shop practice was assigned for the use of the Mechanical Department. The bills of the Treasurer, Mr. Spaulding, amounting to $310.98, for accrued interest and premiums paid for the purchase of bonds for the endowment fund were referred to the Committee on Finance^ with power to act. The bill of H. T. Sperry & Son, amounting to $42.45, for insurance on gvrns, wTas allowed and ordered paid. The bill of Cunningham & Boggs, for expenses and services,. $202.81, was allowed and ordered paid. Professor Shattuck asked that the pay of his clerk be increased from $45 to $50 per month, and it wTas so ordered. Professor Forbes was authorized to employ a messenger in his office at a salary of $12 a month to January 1st and $15 thereafter. For repair of microscopes in the Zoological Department and purchase of some additional parts, $100 was appropriated. On motion of Mr. Raymond, $25 was appropriated for incidental expenses on the south farm. President Draper and Messrs. Armstrong, Morrison, and Bullard were appointed a committee to consider and report to the Board at its next meeting as to appropriations to be asked for at the next session of the General Assembly. The Board directed Mr. Morrison to say to the gentleman asking for the loan of an eagle from the Museum, to be carried in the political procession the next day, that the Board declined to grant therequest.