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EVENING SESSION.

Meeting called to order by the Begcmt, who called Judge Lawrence to the Chair, and then presented the JKeport of Committee on Faculty and Coarse of Study, which, On motion of Mr. Blackburn, Was accepted, and its recommendations adopted.

REPORT.

The Committee on Faculty and Course of Study recommend, that Prof. S. W. Shattuck be employed as Professor of Civil Engineering and Instructor in Mathematics, at a salary of $1,800 per annum; Prof. T. J. Burrill, as Professor of Botany and Horticulture, at a salary of $1,800 per annum; Prof. Edward Snyder, be Professor of Book-keeping and Teacher of Military Tactics, at a salary of $1,500, and that $300 per annum be allowed him as Bookkeeper. That the Executive Committee be instructed to employ the necessary assistant teachers, at such salaries as they may find proper. J. M. GREGORY, Chairman.

Judge Brown, in the absence of the Chairman, Mr. Cobb, presented the

REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

The Committee on Finance have directed me to make the following report : Your Committee recommend the re-engagement of Prof. Snyder, as Bookkeeper of the University, and that his salary be made sufficient to compensate him for his labor. They would propose the sum of $300. The 50,000 acres of land scrip which was unsold at our last meeting, and which the Chairman of this Committee and the Treasurer were authorized to sell at discretion, were sold to G. F. Lewis at 89 cents per acre. He has paid for 8,000 acres, but wishes to abandon the contract. Your committee recommend that he be held strictly to his contract. Mr. Goltra and the Treasurer were authorized to locate 25,000 acres, but have not yet been able to do so. It is thought best that this scrip be retained until other lands come into market. Your committee have information that our lands in Nebraska and Minnesota are appreciating in value with satisfactory rapidity, and it is thought best that no attempt will be made to dispose of them until, at least, the patents are received. Your Committee estimate the receipts for the current year, exclusive of the legislative appropriations, as follows:

Interest " •• " on Champaign county "bonds " Morgan " " "Sangamon " " " Chicago water " $10,000 2,500 4,500 1,750