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ADDITIONAL REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE.

To Regent and Board of Trustees of Illinois Industrial University: Tour Finance Committee, to whom was referred the report of Hon. W. C. Flagg, of experiments conducted during the past year, and recommendations for future operations, ask leave to report the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, That a warrant be drawn in favor of W . C. Flagg, for $476 50, to be paid out of State appropriation for Experimental purposes. Said amount to be in full for balance due Mr. Flagg on that account. 2. Resolved, That the plan proposed for future operations be referred to the Executive Committee, t© be acted upon at its next meeting. A. M. BROWN, Chairman.

Tl;e report was accepted and the resolutions proposed therein were adopted. The following report was made by Hon. Newton Bateman, Chairman of the Committee on Library and Cabinet:

To the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: GENTLEMEN : Your Committee on Library and Cabinet report that they find the Library has been increased during the year by the addition of 2,413 volumes—making the total number of volumes at present in the Library 7, 307. Valuable collections of minerals have been added to the Cabinet—in most cases without expense, save express charges. Both Library and Cabinet are now in a very satisfactory condition, and are consulted daily by large numbers of students. Your committee recommend that the appropriation of $5, 000, now available for the increase of the Library and Cabinet, be expended, or so much thereof as may be deemed expedient, during the current year, under the direction of the Regent and Faculty, due regard being had to the special needs of the several departments of the University, in the selection of the books and apparatus. NEWTON BATEMAN, JAMES P. SLADE, B. PULLED, Committee.

The report was accepted. The Chairman of the Finance Committee offered the following additional report; which was accepted:

The Finance Committee, to which was referred the Treasurer's statement of the sale of Agricultural College Scrip for the University, and the investment of the proceeds, report that they have examined the same and found it correct. They report the paper back that it may be placed upon the record. A. M. BROWN, Chairman. P. R. WRIGHT.

On motion of Judge A. M. Brown,

Resolved, That so much of the report of the Finance Committee as relates to the increase of the charges to students for incidental expenses, be referred to the Executive Committee, with power to make such increase, provided in their judgment a necessity for the charge shall become apparent.

On motion of Mr. Pearson, the appointments of Prof. J. C. Carey, Prof. D. C. Taft and Prof. J. B. Webb, were confirmed. Mr. Harold Hansen was appointed Instructor in Architecture and Free-hand Drawing, at a salary of $1,500 per annum. On motion of Judge Cunningham,

Resolved^ That the measure introduced in Congress by the Hon. J. S. Morrill, of Vermont, to further endow the Agricultural Colleges, meets with the hearty approval of the members of this Board, and that our fellow-citizens, representing the people and the State of Illinois in Congress, be earnestly solicited to give the measure their full support.

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