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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[July 14

(b) That the sale be announced by advertisements, the first of which shall appear thirty days prior to the date of the sale. (c) That the advertisements call for sealed bids specifying the amount which the bidder will give for the building or buildings upon which he bids. (d) That all bids be accompanied by an agreement on the part of the bidder to remove from the University property, without cost to the University, the building or buildings which may be allotted to him under his bid, within a period of thirty days after the formal acceptance of the bid, every precaution to be taken in this connection to safeguard the University interests against damage. (e) That the advertisement provide that any or all bids may be rejected. 2. That Mr. S. K. Hughes be asked to call into conference one real estate man of Champaign and one of Urbana, the three together to make a survey of all the improvements on the area which we are in process of securing, for the purpose of arriving at a fair estimate of the value of said improvements as apart from the land upon which they standi and to make a formal report of the facts as they find them. Under my direction our Blue Print Department has already made photographs df all of these buildings. I should expect that the results of the findings of this committee, together With the photographs of the buildings in question, would be embodied in a formal report to the president and trustees, the purpose of which would be to make of record a present-day estimate of the amounts we are paying for real estate, based, of course, upon the purchase price paid for the property involved. Respectfully submitted, W. P. M. Goss. I t was voted that Dean Goss be given the authority requested.in the foregoing letter, to sell, the buildings now owned by the University on the site to be occupied by the new Engineering building, in accordance with the plan of procedure proposed in the letter.

P L A N S FOR N E W B U I L D I N G S .

The supervising architect was heard on the subject of the plans for the new buildings {or which the Forty-seventh General Assembly made appropriations. I t was voted t h a t the supervising architect be directed to proceed with the plans for the addition to the Women's building, these plans to be submitted for criticism to McKim, Mead and White. I t was voted also t h a t the supervising architect be directed to proceed with the plans for the kiln house for the department of ceramics, for which the General Assembly made an appropriation of $21,000.00.

KEPORT OF C O M M I T T E E S ON B U I L D I N G S AND GROUNDS AND AGRICULTURE.

I t was voted to approve in, full the recommendations contained in the following report of the joint meeting of the Committees on Buildings and Grounds and Agriculture held on J u l y 14, 1 9 1 1 :

URBANA, I I I . , July 14, 1911.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois:. Your Committees on Agriculture and on Buildings and Grounds held a joint meeting at the University on this date. Mr. Grout and Mr. Hoit of the Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Evans of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, and Mr. Hatch, member of both committees, were present.