Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876 [PAGE 120]

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120 Roscoe, 111.; John C. McCanley, Defiance, Ohio; John Mueller, Wurtemberg, Germany; Fernando A. Parsons, Waterloo, Iowa; Emory Patch, Janesville, Wis.; Watson Pickrell, Mechanicsburg, 111.; Wm. C. Pollock, Mt. Vernon, III.; Elna A. Robinson, Champaign, 111.; Melville A. Scovell, Rantoul, 111.; Clarence O. Scudder, Creston, 111.; L. Fenn Warner, Rockford, 111. Partial certificates were granted to the following named students, on recommendation of the Faculty: Kate Hullinger, Rock Falls, 111.; Kate Karcher, Champaign, 111.; George R. Shawhan, Sidney, 111.; Hector H. Tyndale, Springfield, 111.; C. W. Lambert, Rantoul, 111. The Business Agent read his report.

E E P O R T OF BUSINESS A G E N T . HON. EMORY COBB, President of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: SIR :—I have the honor to make the following report: Paper A is a statement of the State appropriations at date, including those made by the lastLegislature. Paper B shows the condition of the current appropriations, expenditures and collections for t h e three months ending June 1, 1875. Paper C is a list of warrants drawn since the March meeting of Trustees. Paper D is a list of bills offered for auditing. Paper E gives in a crude form, estimates for the repairs of roof, etc. of New Building. In the same connection I will draw your attention to repairs required in the building. The main stairway needs attention ; windows and doors need overhauling, especially the first n a m e d ; a little plastering and painting are required ; the boilers of the heating apparatus need overhauling, the tubes of one of them being in bad condition. Other parties I suppose will call your attention to the work which should be done upon the grounds. The Old Building will need its usual summer's cleansing and repairs. The outside wood work needs a coat of paint, and the windows, as a rule, better stops. The walk on the west side of the grounds your committee will, I suppose, have re-laid this summer. As authorized, a new fence has been made on the north side of the arboretum, and the fence outside of the walk placed inside. The Machine and Carpenter shops are in a satisfactory condition in most respects. The Board is requested to authorize their being run this summer, if it can be done without loss to the University. Such a course seems necessary in order to keep their custom. It also seems desirable to have the work of the Veterinary buildings, if put up this summer, done by the carpenter shop. The tools authorized to be purchased for the latter shop will be got before September. Improvements in the machines of Doth shops have been made. It is desirable to complete the steam pump for the machine shop at once. The cost will be $30. All work possible it is best, certainly, to keep till term time. This seems an exception. The dry chamber for the Carpenter shop is giving satisfaction, and is worked at far less expense than the old dry house. Mr. Baldwin, whose agent placed a gas governor upon our meter a year ago, has not removed it, though I notified him that the Trustees refused to accept it. The action of the Trustees is asked in regard to having the old building occupied during the vacation. If not otherwise directed it will be occupied only by two assistants of the University for better protection. Also, as to what building of the , if any, may be occupied by students working for it during vacation. I recommend that the present Foreman be retained for the shops, so far as their commercial work is concerned. Respectfully submitted, S. W. SHATTUCK, Business Agent.

" Av—Statement of State Appropriations, June 5, 1875.

On account of New University building. Heating apparatus Fitting and furnishing Gas fixtures Physical Laboratory , Taxes on lands Agricultural experiments. Taxes for 1875 and 1876 Buildings and grounds Physical Laboratory Printing office Veterinary Department.... Appropria- Expended. Unexpendted. ed. $15,000 18,000 7,350 1,200 3,000 6,000 1,500 $6,000 2,000 1,000 500 2,000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 $15,000 001 17,972 94 7,271 17 1,200 00 2,997 33 5,202 78 1,442 69

$27 06 78 8S 2 67 797 22 57 31

URBAN A. J u n e 8,1875.

S. W. SHATTUCK, Business Agent,