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76

EVENING SESSIOK.

The Board reassembled at 8 o'clock P . M., the Eegent in the chair. Messrs. Mahan, Pullen and Yan Osdel arrived and took their seats. The following statement of the Bookkeeper was then read:

STATEMENT OF BOOKKEEPER. To the Regent of t?ie Industrial University :

I have the honor to submit to you, for the information of the Board of Trustees, the following financial statements: I. Statement of the real estate, personal property and other funds of the Illinois Industrial University. II. Statement of expenditures for the year ending March 1st, 1871. III. Statement of expenditures from State appropriations to March 1st, 1871, and unexpended balance. I V . Statement of all warrants drawn during the year and abstract of same. Y. Statement of the amount paid for students' labor in the several * departments.

Statement of the Seal Estate and Personal Property of the Illinois Industrial versity, for the year ending March 1st, 1871. BUILDINGS AND APPARATUS FOR INSTRUCTION. University building... -. Ornamental and parade grounds Library, 4,600 volumes Chemical Laboratory....,... Cabinets.... . . . Engineering instrument!., Mechanical shop Building machinery, tools, material Furniture and fixtures. ..... « $50,000 10,000 10,000 3,500 2,500 1,000 00 00 00 00 00 00 Uni-

3,500 00 3,000 00 $83,500 00

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 410 acres of land, at $*75 Two farm houses , , Two barns Teams, $1,000; colts, $200; hogs, $350; 60 steers, $3,500; produce unsold $1,550; implements, $1,500 • * 80 acres, Experimental farm, at $120 240 acres (Griggs farm) at $60. HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 120 acres, gardens and orchards, partly drained, valued at.. House on orchards House on gardens , Barn ; Green house Propagating house.

$24,000 2,850 1,200 650 3,450 300 00 00 00 00 00 00

$30,750 00 1,500 00 16,500 00 8,100 00 12,000 00 14,400 00 $83,250 00