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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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70 PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL LOTS. Mr. SCROGGS, Chairman of the Committee of the Executive Committee, on the purchase of additional lots, reported as follows : The Committee appointed to inquire into the feasibility of the purchase of additional lots to the Illinois Industrial University grounds, would beg leave to respectfully submit the following report: One entire tier of lots upon the west side of said grounds has been purchased, and the deeds have been made out, and are now ready for delivery whenever the money shall be paid for the same, except two, viz: Nos. 140 and 173. On account of a little delay on the part of the agent for the sale, lot No. 140 has not been fully secured by deed. The temporary absence of Mr. Sherfy has also delayed the transfer, by deed, of lot No, 172. The lots already deeded to the Trustees rate as follows, viz: Lot No. " " " " " u 105. 106 139. . . . , 114 206 20*7 208—half lot , . $800 300 300 300 250 250 150 $1850 Your Committee would further state that, in setting the fence on the west side, fourteen feet of said grounds were left out, so as to make the street on the west (Wright street) eighty feet in width, and would suggest that the same width—eighty feet—be continued south, along the 40 acres, on the west line, making an avenue through to the 160 acres known as the experimental farm, and that said avenue be called "College Avenue." Time having been given to the Committee to report upon the purchase of the lots upon the east side of the University grounds, the Committee now report as follows: Twenty-four lots upon the east side of the University grounds, in blocks 41, 42, 51 and 54, making half of said blocks, and consisting of three tiers of lots, running from Main street, on the north of the University, to the Springfield road south. The cost of said twenty-four lots on the east would be, at present prices, as follows: Lot 5 Block 41 " 6 " 41 " 5&6 " 42 u "5&6 51 " 5 " 54..., " 6 " 54 " 3 " 41.... " 4 " 41 " 7&8 " 41 " 3&8 " 42 "4&? " 42 $300 450* 900 900 300 300 300 300 900 600 900 ,
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