Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872 [PAGE 150]

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EVENING SESSION.

Committee assembled at 7:30 P. M. Eeport of Book-keeper, statement of collections, and expenditures to date, were read and approved, and the bills presented for payment audited and allowed. On motion of Judge Cunningham, the amount of $600 was assigned from the State appropriation, for Mechanic and Military hall, for the construction of racks for 300 muskets, and shelves for accoutrements, also $100 for the purchase of instruments for military band. The Eegent was directed to make applications for arms, ammunition, etc., necessary for military instruction. On Mr. Cobb's motion, the Eegent was requested to procure estimates on heating apparatus, furniture and fixtures for new University building. On recommendation of the Eegent, Prof. D. C. Taft was appointed Assistant Professor in Geology for the next academic year, at a salary of $1,500 per year. Hon. W. C. Flagg, Superintendent of Experiments, was requested to report to the Committee, at his earliest convenience, on the required alterations, or accommodations of barn for the purpose of experimental feeding. It was ordered that E. L. Lawrence bring before this Committee an estimate of cost and plan of location of certain ditches contemplated to be made on Stock farm. The bill of Mr. F. W. Stone of Guelph, Canada, for two Hereford cattle, amounting to $400 in gold, was audited and ordered to be paid. It was moved and carried that the Farm Superintendent be authorized to sell the remaining 29 head of cattle, and such hogs as are ready for sale. The sum of $25 was appropriated to defray the expense of reporting and publishing the proceedings of the recent meeting of representatives of Agricultural and Industrial Institutions at Chicago$ the same to be charged to the Experimental appropriation. Prof. S. W. Eobinson was authorized to buy a boiler large enough to feed the engine and warm the rooms of the Military and Mechanical hall, and directed to use his discretion as to kind of boiler to be purchased. It was resolved that the Eegent and Corresponding Secretary be authorized to make such arrangements for holding, during the coming winter, Farmers 7 Institutes at the University, and other parts of the State, as they may find advisable, provided that not more than $500 be used in such Institutes. The preparations for the laying of the corner stone of the new University building, and dedication of the Mechanic and Drill hall, were