Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 64]

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56 ACT OF APPEOPRIATION.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Illinois Industrial University. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sums hereinafter mentioned be and the same are hereby appropriated to the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University. For the erection of a main building at a cost not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars when completed, to contain a hall for public exercises, the library, geological, zoological and botanical rooms, and rooms for lectures and class exercises and offices, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. For the erection of a building for the Mechanical department, at a cost not exceeding the amount hereby appropriated, when completed, to contain the rooms necessary for instruction in mechanical science and military tactics, for collections of models, work shops and other necessary rooms, and for furniture and apparatus for the same, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. For Chemical and Mining apparatus and furniture, and furniture and books for Chemical department, the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars for two years. For the Horticultural department, for the additional seeds, trees, and labor for the forest plantations, the sum of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars per annum for two years. For the Agricultural department, for the expenses of field and other experiments, and for expenses of the annual courses of Agricultural lectures held in various parts of the State, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum for two years. For apparatus and books for instruction in Agriculture and the mechanic arts, and the various branches of learning relating to the same, the sum of five thousand dollars per annum for two years. SEC. 2. The Auditor of State is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State for the appropriations for building, in favor of the parties to whom the same may be due, upon proper vouchers certified as correct by the Trustees or a majority of them, and approved by the Governor, and for the other appropriations herein, upon the order of the Board of Trustees or a majority of them, and the approval of the Governor : Provided, that no sum greater than $5,000 shall be drawn at one time for other than building purposes: And provided, further, that a second warrant shall not be drawn until satisfactory vouchers shall have been approved by the Governor, and filed with the Auditor, showing that all sums previously drawn have been properly expended for the purpose for which the same was appropriated. SEC. 3. For the construction of said building the Trustees shall not obligate the State for the payment of any sum of money in excess of appropriations made for that purpose; and the said Trustees shall, before either or any portion of said appropriations for building purposes shall be expended, cause to be prepared a full and complete set of plans and specifications of the entire proposed buildings, which shall be accompanied by estimates carefully made of the cost thereof, which shall be considered at a regular meeting of the Board, and by them approved, when it shall be submitted to the Governor for his approval. In case he approves the same, a copy of said estimates shall be filed in the Auditor's office when such appropriations may be expended.

APPROVED April 15, 1871.