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B O A R D O F TRUSTEES To this Mr. Paisley replied:

[July 23

Champaign Illinois June 25, 1930 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois d o David Kinley, President of the University of Illinois and Executive Agent of the Board of Trustees thereof Urbana, Illinois In re: Roselawn Cemetery Gentlemen: The undersigned, Thomas J. Paisley and Grace Howe Paisley accept your proposition for the purchase of lots in Roselawn Cemetery as outlined in your letter of June 24, 1930, as follows: First: The undersigned will procure the Quit Claim Deed or deeds from Ada M . Paisley, Bessie R. Wolf, and her husband as outlined in said letter. Second: The undersigned will furnish the affidavit of Grace Howe Paisley as requested in your letter. Third: The undersigned will as soon as possible call meetings of the members and Board of Directors of Roselawn Cemetery Association and will then present and move the adoption of resolutions at said meetings as requested in your letter and will use their earnest influence to cause the said resolutions to be passed and adopted by the members and Board of Directors of said Corporation, the said resolutions to be in such form as shall be approved by your attorney. Yours truly, Thomas J. Paisley Grace H o w e Paisley I may say that I sent a copy of my letter to the President of the Board, having told him of i in conversation, and it met with his approval. t On June 28, our attorney, Mr. Riley, informed me that the Board of Trustees of the Roselawn Cemetery Association, on June 27, adopted the resolution asked for, as follows:

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ROSELA W N CEMETER Y ASSOCIATION BE IT AND IT IS HEREB Y RESOLVED, That ROSELAWN CEMETERY

ASSOCIATION release and relinquish, and it hereby does release and relinquish, unto the B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS, any and all right said R O S E L A W N C E M E T E R Y A S S O C I A T I O N may have in or to the care, control and management of, in or to any portion of the tract of land known as R O S E L A W N C E M E T E R Y in Champaign County, Illinois, save and except only as to such portions of said tract of land as may have heretofore been sold for burial purposes and that said B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS be and it is hereby released from the care, control, and management of such excepted portions of said tract, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be taken or construed as releasing or waiving the right of ingress and egress, on the part of the owners, their family and friends, of such lots as have heretofore been sold for burial purposes, to such lots as have heretofore been sold for burial purposes, nor shall anything herein contained be taken or construed as a restriction of the right of burial upon any of the lots heretofore sold for burial purposes. B E IT A N D I T IS H E R E B Y F U R T H E R R E S O L V E D , That the release and relinquishment of the right of care, control and management so granted in the foregoing resolution to the B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS shall extend to and be effective as to such lots in said Roselawn Cemetery heretofore sold for burial purposes as hereafter may be sold and conveyed by the rerespective owners thereof to the said B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E UNIV E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS. B E IT F U R T H E R R E S O L V E D , That this resolution shall be effective only and tohavestatement, for I O N Members theRoselawn CemeteryadoptRa of Epurpose. C E1930. E Thisthe adoption T our attorney of resolutionto members voteOsimilar W according uponItY A S S O Cfrom the similarof the the Association called of that50-46, N 18, M I E R received I A ofmembers meeting thereof adopted by for S L A resolution. remained by a at a resolution by the be to Association, July