Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 384]

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AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOK THE BENEFIT AND COMPLETION OF THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sum of sixty thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to the Illinois Industrial University, located at Urbana, Champaign county, Illinois, in amounts and for the purposes -hereinafter set forth, viz : To the agricultural department, including the erection of barns and other out-buildings for the experimental and stock farm, houses for farmer and farm laborers, fencing, drainage, wells, teams, tools, seeds, roads, bridges, fruit and forest trees, and stock of several breeds and varieties, twelve thousand five hundred dollars per annum, for two years. To the horticultural department, including horticultural buildings and structures, house for gardener, barn and tool house, horticultural implements, fencing, underdrainage, roads, forest and fruit trees, shrubs, plants, etc., ten thousand dollars per annum, for two years. To the chemical department, the sum of five thousand dollars. To be used for other apparatus and for books, by direction of trustees, ten thousand dollars. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State of Illinois for the said sums of money, upon orders of the board of trustees of said University, signed by the regent and attested by the secretary of said board, with the seal of said institution affixed thereto. And it shall be the duty of said treasurer, and he is hereby authorized, to pay the same out of moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that said orders of said trustees shall not be given except as, in their judgment, the necessity arises for the expenditure of the moneys so appropriated for the specific purposes herein provided. § 3. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be in force from and after its passage. §. 4. The board of trustees shall not create any indebtedness nor incur any liabilities beyond the provisions of this act. APPROVED March 27,1869.