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1901.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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WHEAREAS, The Chicago School Board has offered to sell the West Division high school building of that city; and, WHEREAS, The said building is adjoining the building of the Medical College and adequate to the needs of the College; and, WHEREAS, Additional room is desired for the use of the Pharmacy School and for a Dental School, both of which may be housed in the surplus room of the said high school building; therefore, be it Resolved, That the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of Chicago is hereby authorized to purchase the West Division high school property of the City of Chicago, described as lots one CI) to seven (7), inclusive, in block twenty-three (23), also sublots one {1) to seven (7), inclusive, of lots nineteen (19) to twenty-five (25), inclusive, in block twenty-three (23), and the vacated alley running north and south through said block twenty-three (23) in Ashland Second Addition to Chicago, in the west half (*2) of the northeast quarter (14) of section eighteen (18), township thirty-nine (39) north, range fourteen (14) east of the third (3d) principal meridian, the said purchase to include the building or buildings thereon, together with the furniture, fixtures and apparatus therein, all of the said property to be acquired for the purposes of the College of Medicine of this University, in accordance with article twelve (12) of an agreement entered into between this University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons on the ninth day of February, A. D. 1900, and that the sum to be paid for the said property be an amount not exceeding one hundred and eighty-six thousand ($186,000) dollars; it is further Resolved, That the College of Physicians and Surgeons is hereby authorized to make permanent improvements in the building described in the foregoing resolution, after its purchase, for the purposes of the Medical College, to an amount not exceeding five thousand ($5,000) dollars, in accordance with article 12 of the contract aforesaid. All of which is respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, T. J. SMITH, LUCY L. FLOWER, ALEX. MCLEAN,

Committee. Mr. S m i t h moved to a m e n d b y a d d i n g to t h e resolution for t h e p u r c h a s e of t h e p r o p e r t y in q u e s t i o n t h e following: Provided that this purchase shall in no way be allowed to operate to postpone the termination of the contract now in force, between the University of Illinois and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, so far as it relates to the University's acquiring the title and receiving the deed for the property described, so as to conform to the provisions of article ten of original contract with the College of Physicians and Surgeons. ! i l a CD i l Z j l l Mrs. A b b o t t moved to a m e n d further by s t r i k i n g out from t h e r e p o r t all reference to t h e School of P h a r m a c y a n d to a proposed d e n t a l school. O n t h i s a m e n d m e n t t h e roll was called a n d t h e a m e n d m e n t was lost: Yeas—Mrs. Carriel, Mr. M c K a y , M r s . A b b o t t , a n d Mr. H a t c h ; nays—Messrs. M c L e a n , Bullard, S m i t h and N i g h t i n g a l e a n d M r s . Flower; absent, G o v e r n o r T a n n e r a n d Messrs. F u l k e r s o n a n d B a y l i s s . T h e a m e n d m e n t offered by M r . S m i t h was adopted. Mr. M c K a y moved to refer t h e report to t h e A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l for an opinion as to t h e legality of t h e proposed p l a n of p u r c h a s e .