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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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156 EVENING SESSION. The Committee met at the time appointed. The bills presented for payment were audited and allowed. The following preamble and resolution were adopted: WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at its regular session, held in the year 1871, passed an act appropriating the sum of $75, 000 for the erection of a main University building, for the use of the Industrial University, which building, by the terms of said act, should not cost to exceed $150,000; and whereas, the act aforesaid required that full plans and specifications for said proposed building should be presented to the Governor of Illinois, and be by him approved before any contract should be entered into for the construction of said building, or any part thereof, by the Board of Trustees ; and whereas, plans and specifications for a building, such as is contemplated in said act, were presented to the Governor of Illinois, and were by him approved; and whereas, on the 6th day of June, 1871, by the authority of the Board of Trustees, and in pursuance of the authority of said act, the Eegent of the University did enter into a contract with Mr. E. E. Gehlman, for the construction of a building according to the plans and specifications so approved by the Governor of Illinois, said building to be fully completed for the use of the University on or before September 1, 1872 ; and whereas, in pursuance of sail contract, the work upon said building was commenced and partially completed during the year 1871, leaving the walls in an unfinished condition; and whereas, the General Assembly has adjourned, having failed to make the necessary and expected appropriation for the full completion of said building; and whereas, as we are advised by the architect in charge of the building, serious losses are likely to occur to the University in the event of a forfeiture of the contract with Mr. E. E. Gehlman ,- be it therefore Resolved, That the bonds of Champaign county, now held by the University, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be by the Treasurer converted into cash, and used in the completion of said building, according to contract now in force with Mr. E. E. Gehlman, dated as aforesaid. The subject of removing the hedge east of new University building was referred to a committee, consisting of the Eegent and Mr. J. E. Scott. The renting of the gardener's house, to Mr. D. A. Stedman, was referred to the Eegent and Judge Cunningham. The printing of the Catalogue was referred to Dr. J. M. Gregory, with power to act. The standard of qualification regarding the examination for admission for the academic years 1872-3 and 1873-4, was raised as follows: Eor 1872—College of Engineering, Plane Geometry. College of Literature, Plane Geometry. Eor 1873—College of Agriculture, Elements of Botany and Physiology. College of Engineering, Algebra and Geometry complete. College of Natural Science, Botany, Physiology and Natural Philosophy. College of Literature, Algebra and Geometry, elements of Botany and Physiology. It was moved and carried, that from September, 1872, a term fee of $5 be charged to every matriculated student of the University. One tenoning machine, not to exceed $250 in price, was ordered to be bought for the carpenter's department. The Committee adjourned till May 1, 1872, at 4 o'clock P. M. J. M. GEEGOEY. Eegent E. SNYDER, Rec. Se&y.
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