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For expenses attending sale of scrip $385 55 For insurance 132 18 For cabinet, Powell's expedition 500 00 For express charges on books 61 25 For fees and expenses locating scrip 24 50 There are outstanding bills and contracts for labor, material and lands, which will require, perhaps, three thousand dollars more. In order to make an estimate of our expenses for the coming winter, we would respectfully ask Chairmen of committees, or members of the Board, to hand in accounts or unpaid bills at once.

Mr. PICKKELL moved that the bills presented at this meeting be referred to the Auditing Committee. The motion was sustained. Mr. BRAYMAN moved that the report of the Finance Committee be laid upon the table, to be taken up for action at some future time during this meeting. Carried. Mr. GTOLTRA, Chairman 'of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, asked further time to report; which was granted.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

Mr. QUICK, Chairman of Committee on Agricultural Department, presented the following report:

The Committee on Agriculture beg leave to submit, for the consideration of the Board of Trustees, the following, as the result of their deliberations since the May meeting, touching the condition and management of the University lands: 1. The present extent of our grounds, including the purchases made by the Executive Committee, exclusive of the University lot, is about (1000) one thousand acres: nearly 200 adjoining the University lot, 410 in the Busey farm, and 400 in the Griggs farm. 2. There will be needed, for the University work, only about 600 acres ; the 35 acres of the new purchase for horticulture, 160 acres for the experimental farm, and the 410 for the stock farm, tree planting, etc. 3. The Griggs farm should be sold as soon as it can be done wisely, and the proceeds should be sacredly kept to reimburse the permanent fund for the sums used in the purchase of additional lands. 4. The Horticultural Department may be allowed twenty acres, from the one hundred and sixty, for orchards. 5. The remainder of the experimental farm should be put at once, the coming season, under active cultivation, both to bring it into a higher state of improvement, and to ascertain carefully its soil and topography, preparatory to the subdivision into proper fields, for the future work of the Agricultural Department. 6. The stock farm (Busey place) may also be taken into the care and supervision of the University officers, in order to secure on it a cultivation which may tend to its improvement, and leave at our disposal such part of it as may be found necessary