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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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an easement 10 feet wide and approximately 396 feet long and containing .03 acres, more or less, to Illinois Power Company for the construction, operation, and maintenance of overhead electrical service and appurtenant equipment along the north side of Lots 1 and 2 in Ben Baer's Addition to the City of Champaign, commonly known as 1006-8 South Fifth Street, and the south side of Lot 4 in Block 2 of Isaac Grove's Addition to the City of Champaign, commonly known as 1003 South Sixth Street for the purpose of providing electrical service to the City of Champaign and City of Urbana and in favor of a vacation of a current Illinois Power Company easement crossing the University's Area Studies and International Programs Building site, Urbana, campus. T h e easement will remain in effect as long as Illinois Power Company continues to use the easement for the transmission of electricity.

Resolution Authorizing Easement to Illinois Power Company

Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public Corporation be, and they thereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of and on behalf of this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to Illinois Power Company, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement 10 feet wide and approximately 396 feet long and containing .03 acres, more or less, along the north sides of Lots 1 and 2 in Ben Baer's Addition to the City of Champaign, commonly known as 1006-8 South Fifth Street, and the south side of Lot 4 in Block 2 of Isaac Grove's Addition to the City of Champaign, commonly known as 1003 South Sixth Street, for the purpose of providing electrical service to the City of Champaign and City of Urbana and in favor of a vacation of a current Illinois Power Company easement crossing the University's Area Studies and International Programs Building site, Urbana campus, and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public Corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. Grantee shall have the right, with the prior approval of this Corporation, to cut, fell, and remove trees, shrubbery, and bushes as may be required to provide necessary clearance. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to the property of this Corporation by the construction, operation, maintenance, reconstruction, replacement, and removal of the said electrical circuit, and to indemnify this Corporation and its representatives from liability in connection with Grantee's activities. T h e utility easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as said Grantee continues to use the easement for the transmission of electricity. Upon termination of the easement Grantee shall peaceably surrender possession of said premises to this Corporation and full and complete title then shall remain in this Corporation free and clear of said easement and without necessity of reentry or demand. T h e right-of-way easement shall be over the following-described property: Situated in the State of Illinois, the County of Champaign, and being more fully bounded and described as follows: Two strips of land, each ten (10) feet of even and equal width, situated in part of the Southeast Quarter (SElA) of the Northwest Quarter (NWV4) of Section 18, Township 19 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the said strips of land are described as follows: Strip A T h e South side of Lot Four (4) in Block Two (2) of Isaac Grove's Addition to the City of Champaign;