Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 47]

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41 Chemistry. Thos. J". Burrill as Assistant Professor of Natural History and Botany, Col. S. W. Shattuck as Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Instructor in Military Tactics, and Capt. E. Snyder as Bookkeeper and Instructor in Bookkeeping, and now recommend these gentlemen for permanent appointment to these several places. The Regent further stated, that Capt. Snyder had been employed during the term in teaching German, and recommended that he be appointed to an Assistant Professorship, to b - hereatte named. The Board, on motion, proceeded to consider the nominations made by the committee on Faculty and Course of Study, and on motion of I. S. Mahan, it was voted—"That Professor A. P. S. Stuart be and is hereby elected to the chair of Chemistry, at a salary of two thousand (2000) dollars per annum, to take effect from and after September 1, 1858; that Thomas J. Burrill be elected Assistant Professor of Natural History, at a salary of twelve hundred (1200) dollars per annum, for the term of one year from the 1st day of September, A. D. 1868. Resolved, That Col. S. W. Shattuck be elected Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Instructor in Military Tactics, at a salary of twelve hundred (1200) dollars per annum, for one year from September 1st, A. D. 1868. The Regent asked that Captain Snyder be appointed Assistant Professor without assigning his place, at a salary of twelve hundred (1200) dollars per annum. Whereupon on motion of Mr. Cunningham, he was so appointed, his appointment to take place from and after this date. Mr. Hayes, of Chicago, asked leave to read a communication from the Common Council of Chicago, in relation to the Polytechnic School in Chicago; which being granted, he proceeded to read as follows :

STATE OF ILLINOIS,)

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CITY OF CHICAGO. ) I, A. H. Bodman, Clerk of the City of Chicago, do hereby certify that the following proceedings were had in the Common Council of said city, at a regular meeting held August 3d, 1868, to-wit : Aid. Holden, of Committee on Finance, to whom had been referred several petitions in relation to the location of the Mechanical department of the Illinois Industrial University, and asking that the Common Council appropriate a certain amount of money therefor, submitted a report recommending the adoption of a preamble and resolution attached thereto.

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