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1897.]

P R O C E E D I N G S OF BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

F I N A N C I A L S T A T E M E N T , M A R C H 31, 1897.

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1896. Decembe r 3 1 Balance 1897. 31 T r e a s u r e r ' s receipts March 31 Business Manager's receipts

RECEIPTS.

$155,269 61 '. $6,287 51 12.801 16 19,088 67 $174J58 28

1897. March

EXPENDITURES.

31 W a r r a n t s , t h r e e m o n t h s University general Laboratory of'Natural H i s t o r y Agricultural E x p e r i m e n t Station School of Pharmacy 31 B a l a n c e Current State appropriations Laboratory of N a t u r a l History A g r i c u l t u r a l E x p e r i m e n t Station School of P h a r m a c y i..

$70,499 06 2.081 41 3,739 45 5,674 72

$81,994 64

March

$6,851 96 80,587 16 2,981 76 1,149 26 793 50 $92,363 64 174.358 28

S. W.

SHATTUCK,

Business Manager. T h e Board t h e n adjourned to meet at 1:30 o'clock p . m., W e d n e s day.

SESSION OF WEDNESDAY.

W h e n t h e B o a r d met p u r s u a n t to a d j o u r n m e n t t h e same m e m b e r s were p r e s e n t as on t h e day before. T h e following report from t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e was received and approved on motion of Mr. A r m s t r o n g :

CHICAGO, April 14, 1897.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Your Finance Committee reports as follows in relation to the bond of Elbridge Gr. Keith, the Treasurer elect: The Committee had the bond, which is submitted herewith, made out in legal form by Mr John P. Wilson, attorney of the Board, and presented it to the said Elbridge Gr. Keith, who duly signed said bond in the penal sum of $750,000, as principal, with William^ J. Watson, Sidney A. Kent, Arthur Dixon, and William A. Fuller as sureties. Your Committee believes said bond to be ample in form and security, and recommends that the same be approved and filed with the Secretary, by him to be recorded. Respectfully submitted,

T. J. N. B. SMITH, MORRISON, A L E X MCLEAN,

Finance Committee. O n motion of Mr. S m i t h t h e S e c r e t a r y was i n s t r u c t e d to provide himself with a s u i t a b l e book in w h i c h to record b o n d s a n d o t h e r d o c u m e n t s of like i m p o r t a n c e .