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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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ASSIGNMENT OF ROYALTIES RECEIVED FROM PACIFIC FLUSH TANK COMPANY FOR FELLOWSHIP IN CHEMISTRY ( n ) Professor A. M. Buswell, of the Department of Chemistry, requests that the Board of Trustees consider assigning the royalties received on a sewage treatment process which he discovered and which has been patented, to a graduate fellowship in colloid chemistry, a field in which a very limited amount of research work is being done at the University. T h e Pacific Flush T a n k Company, of Chicago, has been given an exclusive license to develop this patent commercially. Its contract with the University provides for a minimum payment of $350 a year in royalties, payable quarterly beginning July I, 1935, for a period of five years. During the first year the minimum of $350 was received. A recent report from the Company indicates that the sum of $251.75 has accrued for the past quarter, but that no further royalties, above the specified minimum, will accrue during the year. A t least $350 will be collected this year, making a total of $700. T h e receipts under this contract are being carried to the General Income of the University, and any assignment such as Professor Buswell suggests would require an appropriation from the General Reserve. T h e Board has followed a somewhat similar procedure with royalties in at least one other case.

No action was taken on this request, it being the sense of the Board that it cannot specifically assign the income derived from these royalties for any particular purpose since such income, like other general University receipts, is payable into the State Treasury and is subject to reappropriation by the General Assembly of Illinois.

LAPSE OF APPROPRIATION FOR PARKING AREAS (12) On July 10, 1936 (Minutes, page 2 ) , an appropriation ($3,815) was made for the development of three parking areas, on Sixth Street, at the McKinley Hospital, and near the Architecture Building. Since that meeting, plans have been made for other development of the area in the immediate vicinity of the Architecture Building. In view of this it is recommended that the Physical Plant Department be authorized to abandon the development of a parking area in that location and that any balance in the general appropriation made for this purpose, not needed for the development of parking areas on Sixth Street and at the McKinley Hospital, be permitted to lapse into the General Reserve Fund.

On motion of Mr. Barrett, this recommendation was adopted.

APPROPRIATION FOR TELEPHONE SERVICE FOR CHICAGO DEPARTMENTS (13) T h e Department of Public Welfare provides a centralized telephone service for the Research and Educational Hospital and the College of Medicine. T h e Department is unable to continue this service to the University during the remainder of the present biennium unless the University assumes a part of the cost. T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department therefore recommends that an appropriation of $765 be made from the General Reserve Fund to provide for the salary of one Information Clerk at $85 a month until July 1, 1937, at which time the total cost of the service will be assumed by the Department of Public Welfare.

On motion of Mr. Barr, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Barr, Mr. Barrett, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Karraker, Dr. Meyer, Mrs. Plumb, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Wieland; no, none; absent, Mr. Horner, Mr. Mayer, Mr. Williams.

APPROPRIATION FOR BUSINESS OFFICE (14) A recommendation that an appropriation of $1,020 be made from the General Reserve Fund to the Business Office, to provide for the salary of an additional Clerk in the Accounting Division. T h e Comptroller has submitted a list of the specific activities which have materially increased the volume of work in this division.