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1896.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTESS.

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P a p e r s I , K, L , M a n d N , p r e s e n t e d b y t h e Business Manager, were* referred to t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e . O n motion of Mr. M c L e a n , t h e T r e a s u r e r ' s bill, excepting t h e i t e m of $211.75 to J . S. H u e y , attorney, was allowed a n d ordered p a i d : amount, $110.45. Professor B r e c k e n r i d g e ' s bill of traveling expenses, a m o u n t i n g t o $62.09, a n d M r . B u l l a r d ' s bill, a m o u n t i n g to $77.40, were ordered paid. T h e B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r was directed to correspond with those persons holding l a n d contracts w h o h a d been long d e l i n q u e n t i n t h e p a y m e n t of interest, a n d to a r r a n g e , if practicable, for t h e p a y m e n t of arrearages on said contracts, or for t h e i r surrender. T h e m a t t e r of t h e p a y m e n t of a n o t e of $1,500.00, falling d u e F e b r u a r y 19, 1897, secured b y m o r t g a g e on t h e p r o p e r t y received from t h e Chicago College of P h a r m a c y , was referred to t h e Comm i t t e e on t h e School of P h a r m a c y , with power to act. T h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s m a d e t h e following; report:

URBANA, ILLINOIS, December 9, 1896;.

lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds desires to report upon matters referred to it as follows: We recommend that a section of hose be provided in the place of the one destroyed by fire in the Chemical Laboratory last summer. We recommend that a cement floor be placed in the corridor of the basement of Natural History Hall, and an appropriation of $200.00 for this purpose. The basement is used constantly and it has become necessary that this work should be done. We recommend an appropriation of $400.00 for finishing the equipment of the Astronomical Observatory. This amount completes the work of the building'. We recommend that Professor White be paid $100.00 in full for services and expenses in supervising and superintending the reconstruction of the Chemical Laboratory. We recommend that the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds place wire screens over the windows of Military Hall for their protection. The construction of the library building is progressing in a very satisfactory manner, The building will soon be enclosed, and so protected from the weather that work may be pursued during the winter. From the progress of the work during the existence of the contract we judge that the building will be completeted on time, and wTill be in every satisfactory. It is reported to your Committee by the architects that by a change in the plastering, prepatory to the decoration of the building, and the ommission of such decoration as is included in the present contract, a saving of $1,540.00' may be made. We recommend this change in the contract and that the amount thus saved, together with $1,500.00 more, making a total of $3,040.00,. be appropriated for decoration in the building.