Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 39]

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27 Mr. PICKRELL offered the following: Resolved, That the Finance Committee be a committee on titles, with power to employ a competent attorney, to examine titles of the real estate proffered to the Trustees of the Industrial University, and report to the next meeting of this Board. Which, on motion, was adopted. Mr. JOHNSOK moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the next meeting of the Board was fixed to be holden on the first Tuesday in May next, and explained that his object in making the motion was to follow it with another, fixing th& next meeting on the first Tuesday in June next. The question on Mr. Johnson's motion was put by the Chair and declared lost.

POLYTECHNIC BRANCH AT CHICAGO.

Mr. HAYES called up from the table the resolutions offered by Mr. Van Osdel on the previous evening, for the establishment of a Polytechnic Department of the University at Chicago. The resolutions were read by the Secretary, as follows :

WHEEEAS, In the act of the General Assembly establishing the Illinois Industrial University, it was contemplated that departments might be established at different points in the State, and particularly that there might be a Mechanical or Polytechnic Department in Chicago; therefore, Retolved, That whenever the members of the Board, resident in Chicago, shall present to this Board of Trustees evidence that they have secured funds or reliable subscriptions to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and buildings worth not less th in'fifty thousand dollars for the use of a Polytechnic College, and shall notify the Board of Trustees that such a College can be advantageously opened there, the IJoard of Trustees will proceed, upon the basis of such arrangements, to establish a Polytechnic Department at Chicago, which shall thenceforth receive the fostering care of the Board. Resolved, That the Trustees resident in the Third Grand Judicial Division of the State, be and are hereby appointed a committee, with power to control and carry out the preliminary arrangements for this department.

The question being on the passage of the preamble and resolut i o n s , as read by the Secretary, Mr. HAYES offered the following substitute therefor :

Resolved, That a Mechanical or polytechnic Department of the Illinois Industrial University be and the same is hereby established at Chicago, at such a point as a majority of the members of the Board of Trustees, residing in the Third Grand Division and First Congressional District, shall determine. The said members of said Division and District are hereby authorized and empowered to receive contributions and subscriptions for said department, and, as a committee of the Board, to take all other necessary and lawful proceedings for the organization of said department, and the direction an4 control thereof.