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FOUR F O R T Y - F I V E P . M.

The Board reassembled at 4:45 P. M. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The report of the Business Agent was read and accepted, as follows :

To HON. EMORY COBB, President of the Board oj Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: SIR:—I have the honor to make the following report as Business Agent, for the three months, ending June 1st, 1876 : Paper A gives a list of the appropriations made March 14, and the expenditures under the same, also the collections passing through my hands for the three months Paper B is a list of the warrants drawn since the March meeting. Paper Cis a list of the bills presented for auditing. The collections, both on account of the shops and term fees have been slow. Those for the machine shop have not been equal to the expenses, but in the carpenter shop will show a good balance when a collection of 1450 is made from the State Centennial Committee, which will be at an early day. The deficiency in the Mechanical Department is owing to the manufacture of the graduating machine for the Centennial Exposition, and a large lathe intended for the shop. If the graduating machine should be sold for what the one made before it was, the shop account would be made good. The question" of running the shops, or shop, during the vacation is presented for your consideration. Some custom work will present itself, but not enough, I think, to run three or four hands the full time. There is also some work for the University which it is desirable to have ready at the opening of the next year. If both shops could be placed under one direction for the summer, when run, it might be more profitable to the University. Mr. Robinson is a valuable foreman in the iron working shop and I trust will be retained. The usual amount of repairs and cleaning of building will be needed this summer. I believe the main stairway should be attended to, certainly, the end one will need strengthening In several of the large rooms the plaster is being pushed from the timbers which support the floors above, and needs attention. Caps should be placed on the top of the ventilating flues, those which were there having been torn off by the wind. The ventilation of the building at present is bad. The second boiler should be overhauled—the material for the work is now on hand. The Dormitory buildi«ng has not been well occupied the past year, and I raise the question of making some changes in the rooms, making a portion of them better than they now are, and charging higher rates; also charging lower rates for some of the present ones—charging for the room the same whether there are two students or one in it. The best rooms oftea have but one student in each. Several students have applied for permission to room in the building during the whole or part of the vacation. Will the Trustees express their wishes in the matter. Mr. Baker, the present janitor and fire engineer of the new building, asks for a re-engagement of one year, at about $900 for the year. Several students also have applied for the position. If it was not thought best to have a family in the building, the work could be done as well as it now is for less money, by taking responsible students. I request that Mr. Parsons be retained as Business Agent's clerk, at $20 per month, in addition to his pay as Instructor in Bookkeeping. I also request a leave of absence from the University for three weeks during such time in the vacation as my duties will allow. Respectfully submitted. S. W. SHATTUCK, Business Agent

URBANA, J u n e 6, 1876.

The bills presented for payment were audited and allowed : The Regent then presented his report, as follows:

REGENT'S REPORT. To the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University : GENTLEMEN—The work of another academic year in the University is closed. Instruction has been given during the year to 386 students. The numbers in the several Colleges and unattached Schools were as follows: College of Agriculture 45 '• Engineers 72 '' Natural Science 34 " Literature and Art 193 School of Domestic Science 6 '' Commerce 24 " Military Science 65 Elective , 5 It will be observed that in some cases students belong to more than one School. Those in Military Science are always attached to other Schools. The numbers in the College of Literature and Art are swelled by the fact that most of the female students are found in that College. The teaching force employed during the year includes— Regent and Professors 13 instructors 5 Lecturer 1 Besides these regularly employed teachers, instruction has been given in the University to pri vate pupils or classes, with the consent of the Regent and Faculty, as follows: In vocal music, by

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