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I recommend that this offer be accepted, and that an appropriation of $650 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund therefor. It should be noted that the net receipts from the sale of land and buildings in College Place authorized by the Board, May 16, 1925, amount to over $11,000. These receipts have been accredited to the Reserve and Contingent Fund. On motion of Mr. Trees this recommendation was adopted, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r s . Grigsby, M r . Small. PURCHASE OF COLLEGE PLACE PROPERTIES (5) The Superintendent of Business Operations recommends the purchase of the following properties in College Place: Owner Lot Size Price Maude C. Foster 55 50' x 114' $2,35° Mrs. Sarah L. Picknell 28 535^'x 114' 2,700 H. I. Carpenter 26-27 5ij4'xii4' 4,700 I recommend the purchase of these properties for the sums indicated, and recommend further that an appropriation of $9,750 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund for this purpose. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this recommendation w a s approved, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, M r . Barr, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees, M r . W h a m ; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r s . Grigsby, M r . Small, REPORT ON COLLEGE PLACE PROPERTIES (6) The following report from the Superintendent of Business Operations on remaining properties to be acquired in College Place: September 2, 1925 President David Kinley, 355 Administration Building Dear President Kinley: With the purchase of four lots which I am recommending today there are only three vacant properties left to acquire in College Place. I am making a tentative offer on Lot 29, which may be accepted, but it will be necessary for us to condemn Lots 33 and 62. I recommend that we offer Mr. C. S. Dale, who holds title to Lot 33, 50' x 114' in size, the sum of $2,250; and Mr. George B. Brown for Lot 62, which is 54'xi 14', the sum of $2,500; and that i we do not receive an acceptable offer f from Mrs. Anna H. S. Bailey on Lot 29, which is a corner lot, 50' x 114'; (we offered her $2,500); and that in the event thesefiguresare not accepted the Legal Counsel of the University be instructed to proceed to condemn the properties. There are two improved properties which we will have to acquire in order to vacate a street bordering the Parade Ground on the north. I do not think it will be necessary for us to condemn these two properties, but I haven't been able to obtain satisfactory offers. Yours truly,

James M. White

Superintendent of Business Operations O n motion of M r . Trees, the Supervising Architect w a s instructed to m a k e definite offer of the s u m s noted for lots 29, 33, and 62, and to report the results at the next meeting of the Board.