Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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125 The motion prevailed, and Messrs. CUNNINGHAM, were appointed said committee. On motion of Mr. HAYES, it was Resolved, That the Regent be required to make an actual test of all the oil to be used in this building, and that none be used which is less than one hundred and ten degrees, fire test. HARDING and BUECHARD At seven o'clock the Board took a recess until eight. EVENING SESSION. Board re-assembled at eight o'clock, KEGENT in the chair. On motion of Mr. QUICK, the Corresponding Secretary was instructed to embrace in his annual report an account of the Inauguration ceremonies. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY AND CABINETS. Mr. BURROUGHS, Chairman of Committee on Library and Cabinets, made a special report, as follows: 1st. The committee recommend that the subject of further appropriation to the exploring expedition of Major Powell, be referred to the Committee on Library and Cabinets, with power. 2d. That the initiation fees of students, for the present term, be appropriated to supply the immediate wants of the library. The report was adopted. CHANGE OF SEAL OF THE UNIVERSITY. Mr. FLAGG moved that the words " Farmers and Mechanics" be stricken out from the outer circle of the seal of the Board; which was so voted. Mr. HAYES moved that the seal be so amended that the words " Illinois Industrial University " be put into the outer circle above, with the inscription "Chartered in 1867," placed in the outer circle below / which was agreed to. Mr. MCMURRAY moved that the motto upon the seal be changed from the words " Onward and Upward," to the words "Learning and Labor." This motion prevailed. The Board voted to instruct the Treasurer to have a new seal prepared, in accordance with the plan just adopted.
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