Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876 [PAGE 93]

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can usually be done most cheaply and successfully by regular laborers working continuously, and needing but little supervision, but I believe the legislature and people will prefer to see less profit from our various departments, and more employment of our students even at some sacrifice. J. M. GREGORY, Regent.

The following bills were audited and allowed: Table " D . "

No. To whom. Champaign & Urbana Gas Co . G. W. Flynn & Co.. , H. Swannell , Mflller Enterprise Coal and Coke Co.. U. S. Patent Office Crane, Breed & Co KimbarkBros, & Co Webster, Davies & Co A. Snidaker Trevett & Green Dodson & Hodges E. L. Lawrence A. Brown W. S. Maxwell Allen Mackey & Co Jones & Laughlins Fuller & Fuller Fuller & Fuller Illinois Central Railroad Co.:.. S. W. Shattuck S. W. Shattuck ..... E. N. McAllister J. B. Webb Mechanical Department Architectural " Agricultural " Experimental Farm Margnart & Co For what. Gas bill for November, 1874 1,000 programmes .". Chemicals Glazing Thirteen cars coal Patent Office reports Fireman's salary, November, 1874 Hardware Lumber Castings Hardware Hardware Farm expense, November, 1874 Furnishing and plastering cistern Paints, oils, etc • Four yards velvet cuttings Iron Glass and chemicals One barrel plaster paris Donation freights for November, 1874 Students' pay-roll for November, 1874 Petty expenses for November, 1874 Postage... Expense for Engineering Department Work for other departments Amount.

151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 171 176 177 178

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Corn and potatoes for Agricultural Department. Glass apparatus

$94 00 10 00 15 47 6 75 191 00 20 00 51 40 5 98 28 05 43 32 14 28 63 26 224 28 9 75 21 72 5 55 22 90 7 83 4 38 253 80 330 08 17 98 11 42 15 14 114 23 253 20 458 91 94 40 7 58

The Business Agent's report was taken up. The matter of repairing the roof of the new building was referred to the executive committee with power to act, also that of side-boarding and painting the old mechanical building. Seventy-five dollars were appropriated for changing the old dry house into a forge furnace-room, and for a new smaller dry house; to be charged to the respective departments. The proposed change of partition in.carpenter shop was authorized, and $45 appropriated, chargable to the carpenter department. Matting for the halls was ordered to be purchased to the amount of $40— from incidental expense; also, $20 for a call bell in New University Building. The action of the Business Agent, in regard to moving the -small boiler, was approved. An appropriation of $15, for apple and pear stocks, and $20, for purchase of seeds and plants for spring, was granted, to be charged to the Horticultural Department. A table was ordered to be purchased for the Regent's office, not to exceed $20. An appropriation was made for the Chemical Department of $123, for fitting up the old library for additional laboratory, and $146 80 for the purchase of chemicals. The request of Dr. Prentice, for place for dissecting classes, was referred to Mr. Gardner and Business Agent. Adjourned till 9 o'clock A. M., December 16, 1874.