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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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133 THE GRIGGS FARM. Mr. COBB moved the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved% That J. 0. Cunningham be authorized to sell the Griggs farm, Or any portion thereof, at not less than sixty dollars per acre. Terms; Twenty per cent, down, and balance on ten years' time, at eight per cent, interest, payable annually. The yeas and nays being called on this resolution, were taken, resulting as follows: Members voting ye$, were: Messrs. Burehard,, Cobb, Dunlap, Galusha, McMurray, Pickrell, Quick and Scroggs—8. Members voting nay, were: Messrs. Allen, Blackburn, Brayman, Burroughs, Cunningham, Flagg, Goltra, Harding, Hayes, Johnson, Mahan, Pullen, VanOsdel and the Kegent—14. The resolution was declared lost. FREE TUITION TO INDIGENT STUDENTS. On motion of Mr. CUNNINGHAM, it was voted that indigent students be admitted free, at the discretion of the Faculty. SCHOOL HOUSE SITE DONATED. Mr. BLACKBURN moved that the petition for a school house site upon the Busey farm, as per report of the Committee on Agricultural Department, be granted, and the acre of ground asked for be leased, rent free, for school purposes only, upon condition that a good fence is kept up around said lot. Carried unanimously. RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS. The thanks of the Board were unanimously tendered to Prof. George F. Boot, and all who assisted him, for the most excellent music rendered at the Inauguration exercises; also, to the ladies and citizens of the two cities of Urbana and Champaign and their vicinities, for the sumptuous collation provided to-day for this Board and its guests. On motion of Mr. CUNNINGHAM, the thanks of the Board were unanimously tendered to the Becording Secretary, for the able manner in which he has discharged the duties of his.office during the year.
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