Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880
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194 AFTERNOON SESSION. The Board assembled at 2:30 P. M. Mr. Gardner and the Business Agent were appointed a committee to aet on the matter of needed repairs on roofs, the amount of such repairs not to exceed $400 (from State Appropriation for Buildings). Mr. Gardner and the Business Agent were appointed a committee to advertise for a tenant and were given authority to rent the Dormitory. The Executive Committee reported that the bond of the Treasurer, Mr. J. W. Bunn, had been received and approved. The report was adopted. The following report was presented by Mr. Gardner, from Committee on Binding for Library: To the Board of Trustees Illinois Industrial University: There were sent in June to the Gazette office in Champaign, two hundred volumes of periodicals to be bound, and old books to be rebound or repaired. The price for binding is to be the same as last year, seventy-five cents a volume; the repairing in proportion. D. GARDNER, J. D. CRAWFORD, Librarian. The following appropriations from the current funds of the University were made: APPROPRIATIONS FROM CURRENT FUNDS, For the six months ending February 29, 1880. Board expense Salaries Fuel and lights Stationery and printing Buildings and grounds Incidental expense Fixtures and furniture Library Military Department Agricultural Department H orticultural " Chemical '* Mechanical " Architectural " Special: Collection of Specimens of Food Fitting of Photo. Room Surveyor's chain Drafts protested P hysical Laboratory Total $300 00 16.555 00$3,000 00 200 00 100 00 200 00 100 00 50 00 50 00 1,447 74 79 62 55 52 41 40 10 64 30 00 15 00 15 00 400 09 . . 3.700 00 1,634 92; 460 09* 102 71 $22,752 72 Mr. D. Gardner, chairman of the committee appointed to employ janitors, made the following oral report: That th« committee have continued Mr. Williams as janitor of the Dormitory, at $20 p e r month, under the supposition that the engagement may end at the close of the fall term. That Mr. \. B, Baker be continued janitor of the main buil ling, at a salary of $40 per month; his duties and obligations to be similar to those he has had in the past; also, that the committee consider it essential to the safety and good working of the heating apparatus that it should be inspected thoroughly several times each day, and that Mr. Baker isexpected to perform this dut .being responsible to the Mechanical Department for th& same; and that $20 of this salary are for this service. Adjourned till 7:30 P. M.
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