Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 69]

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55 moved a reconsideration. Carried. tute lie on the table ? Voted nay. Question: Shall the substi-

On motion, the whole matter was referred to full Board at their annual meeting. The ayes and nays being called for, resulted as follows : Ayes-—Allen, Blackburn, Brown of Pulaski, Brown of Chicago, Burchard, Cobb, Goltra, Kile, Lawrence, Mahan, Pullen, the Kegent—12. Nays—Dunlap, Edwards, Flagg, Cunningham, Galusha, Lawrence, McMurray, Pickrell, Quick, Scroggs, VanOsdel—11. A. M. Brown offered the following resolution : Resolved, That a committee of three, of which the Regent shall be Chairman, be appointed, whose duty it shall be to prepare an address to the Legislature setting forth fully and in detail the plans of the Board for the 'improvement of the lands of the University, and the increase of its facilities for teaching, the importance of carrying out these plans and the necessity for lid from the State in carrying them out, with estimates of the amounts •equired. Adopted. The Auditing Committee, to whom was referred the Treasurer's Report, have examined the same and compared his vouchers with his accounts, and find the same entirely correct; that he has exhibited warrants drawn by the Regent, numbered 16, 34, 58,jl05, 145, 151, 153, of old numbers, and of No. 1 ;o 278, inclusive, except No. 113, of 2nd series, and we recommend that the Treasurer be ordered to cancel said warrants so paid by him, and hold the &rue. L, W. LAWRENCE, A. M. BROWN, H. C. BURCHARD, SAMUEL EDWARDS, O. B. GALUSHA, Auditing Committee. The following resolution, offered by H . C. Burchard, was then dopted: Resolved, That the Treasurer, under the direction of the Chairman of the inance Committee, be authorized to invest in the bonds of Counties of this bate drawing ten per cent, interest, whenever the same can be safely done, portion of the land scrip funds now temporarily invested in Illinois six per mt. bonds. Also the following: Resolved, That the Treasurer be authorized to pay the taxes on the lands cated by the University, and that the Regent issue warrants in his favor r such sum as may be necessary. Carried. On motion of Mr. Edwards, the Chairman of the Auditing Com-