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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878
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10 $40,000 for chemical laboratory, heating apparatus and fixtures for same. The plans and estimates for these buildings were approved in the main, and authority given to the executive committee to change the same in detail, if desirable or necessary. Mr. Gillhani moved to also ask the state for an appropriation of $35,000, for refitting and remodeling the old university building into a ladies' dormitory. The motion was lost. The executive committee were instructed to lay these requests before the general assembly, at their next meeting, also to memorialize the legislature in reference to defining and increasing the power of this board in regard to investments of funds, sales and purchases of lands, etc. An amount of $105 was allowed for a purchase of apparatus and models, made at the Centennial Exhibition by Dr. Gregory. The executive committee were directed to employ head farmer E. L. Lawrence for the next year. Mr. Elagg submitted a series of by-laws for the faculty; they were referred to the executive committee, the regent, and Mr. Flagg, for report at the March meeting. It was moved to reconsider Mr. Gillhain's motion in regard to the appropriation for refitting old building. Carried. The subject was then referred to the executive committee, with power to recommend the appropriation if deemed expedient and desirable. Adjourned. BOARD MEETING, MARCH 18, 1877. The board met in the University parlor, and was called to order at 4 o'clock, p. m., by president E. Cobb, who read the scriptures, and was followed with prayer by Mr. Blackburn. P r e s e n t : Messrs. Blackburn, Cobb, Flagg, Gardner, Gilliam, Mason, and Sabin. Absent: Governor Cullom, Messrs. Byrd, Brown and Pickrell. A letter from Mr. Brown was read, regretting the impossibility of attending this meeting, on account of ill health. The minutes of the meeting of the last meeting were read and approved. Reports of officers now being in order, Dr. Gregory presented his report, which was received and laid upon the table. REGENT'S REPORT. To the Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University ; GENTLEMEN : This meeting closes the first decade in the history of the University, and opens a new one. I have deemed it wise and fitting that the history of the several colleges and schools, constituting
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