| |
| |
Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
426 History University of Illinois To combine the friends of this interest, THE INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS was incorporated by the-Legislatnre February 1853. 1st With a capital of $20,000, to be raised by members fees and donations; 2d. With a Board of one chief Director and five associates whose office it shall be 3d. To print and distribute books, pamphlets, and papers, explaining the advantages and necessity of this system of education. 4th. To employ lecturers to visit all parts of the State for the same purpose, and to appoint agents for making collections, &c. 5th. To circulate, and present, to the Legislature and to Congress, petitions, urging the adoption of this plan for a University and the liberal endowment thereof by Congress lands and by State funds in each State in the Union. 6th. To receive from each member ten cents admission, and ten cents annual subscription, with fee for diploma and such voluntary donations as may be contributed. 7th. The funds so collected to be applied to the payment of lecturers, agents, and officers, (other than Associate Directors, who shall receive no compensation for services,) to the payment of printing and such incidental expenses as shall be approved by the Board: and on the establishment of a University as herein contemplated, any surplus funds in the treasury to be paid over to the treasury of such University. 8th. Members of the Industrial League, who desire it, may withdraw from their membership upon giving notice to any agent of the Board, provided their dues are all paid, including those for the year in which they withdraw. 9th. The year of the League commences with the first day of each January. [The undersigned herehy enter their names as members of the "Industrial League of Illinois, j j from the date set opposite their names.]
| |
