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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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APPENDIX. The following documents are the memorial to the Legislature alluded to on pages 48, 55, 58 and 59, and the appropriation bill as it finally became a law. Comparing the two, we find the following results: App. for Agricultural Dep't Horticultural " Mechanical " Chemical " Apparatus, etc Drill Hall Total Asked. $38,000 22,000. 40,000 30,000 25,000 15,000 $170,000 Granted. $25,000 20,000 5,000 10,000 f $60,000 MEMORIAL TO THE HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS, FOE THE SESSION OF 1869. GENTLEMEN : The Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, at their recent meeting, appointed a committee to address to you a memorial in regard to the condition and wants of this new State Institution. It is not necessary to recount to you the prominent part taken by eminent citizens of this State, in securing the grant of public lands for industrial education ; nor the almost unprecedented liberality of the citizens of the several sections of the State, in the bids made to secure the location of the University. Never have the people of a state exhibited a higher or broader interest in the foundation of an institution of learning, than the people of Illinois in this.
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