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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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printed on pages 468-486) are hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for record, with the exception of Senate Bills 41 and 42, which have been given to the Secretary of the Board previously, and Senate Bills 6i, 62, and 525. Other legislation enacted by the General Assembly, which will affect the University, is as follows: Senate Bill 204—Creates Educational Commission. This bill creates a commission of 15 (5 members of the State Senate to be appointed by the President thereof, 5 members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker thereof, and 5 persons to be appointed by the Governor), to make a thorough investigation, study, and survey of existing higher educational facilities and resources in this State including those which are supported either in whole or in part by public funds and those which are supported by private endowment, present and potential demand for higher education, the needs of the State for additional physical facilities and teaching personnel for higher education, the adequacy of the existing facilities, the financial resources of the State available or necessary for expansion programs, the method of supplying such additional facilities if such are found necessary, and all other matters germane to the subject matter of the survey. Senate Bill 6—Authorizes the Southern Illinois Normal University to E x pand Its Curricula. This bill amends the act providing for the establishment and maintenance of the Southern Illinois Normal University by authorizing that institution to offer such other courses of instruction as the college determines with certain limitations imposed upon offering of courses leading to professional degrees in Law, Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, but without any restrictions on offering courses of instruction in Engineering and Agriculture, or any other fields of study, including graduate work. House Bill 235—Amendment of Civil Service Act. This bill amends Sections 10, 12, and 36a of the Civil Service Act of 1005, as amended, providing for the classification and filling of positions and the removal, discharge, or demotion of employees. (Certified copy printed on page 469). House Bill 766—Reorganizes Medical Center Commission in Chicago. This bill amends the act of 1941 establishing a medical center district and a medical center commission in Chicago by increasing the membership of the commission from five to seven, four members to be appointed by the Governor, one by the Mayor of Chicago, one by the Chicago P a r k District, and one by the commissioners of Cook County, and eliminates the provision providing for the appointment of one member of the commission by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. T h e act also appropriates $42,000 for ordinary and contingent expenses.

This report was received for record. On motion of Mr. Jensen, the following resolution was adopted:

Whereas, the Honorable George F . Barrett, Attorney General of Illinois, did in the final days of the session of the Sixty-third General Assembly detect an error in the appropriation bill for the University of Illinois (Senate 550, House 891) and did immediately draft a new and correct bill, secure its introduction into the General Assembly, and support and promote its passage in the last minutes of the session, and did immediately notify the University of his actions; and Whereas, these actions did save and secure to the University an important and substantial item in its budget; therefore be it Resolved, that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois does hereby voice its appreciation and thanks to the Attorney General for his publicspirited support and assistance of the University, and does instruct its Secretary to send a copy of this resolution to the Attorney General.

On motion of Mr. Davis, the following resolution was adopted:

Whereas, the Honorable Francis B. Murphy, Director of the State Department of Labor, the Honorable Richard J. Daley, Senator from the Ninth District, the Honorable Rice W . Miller, Senator from the Thirty-eighth District, and the Honorable Robert H . Allison, Representative from the Thirtieth Dis-