Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 212]

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216 The Farm Committee made the following report, which was received and approved:

To the Board of Trustees of 1.1. lT.: GENTLEMEN—The committee to whom was referred the matter of drainage and leasing that portion of University lands known as the Griggs Farm, beg leave to report that they have had put in 800 rods of tile-drain, at a cost of $500, and have leased said farm for the sum of $450, and one-half of hay on 40 acres of meadow.

URBANA, I I I . , Dee. 12, 1883.

J. T. PEARMAN, K. N. PADEN, CHAS. BENNETT,

Farm Committee.

The Executive Committee submitted the following report, which was received and placed on file:

To the Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: GENTLEMEN—The Executive Committee report as follows: That on the 11th of September, upon consideration of the items referred to it by the Board at the meeting of Sept. 5th, with power to act upon them, authoriry was given to the Regent to expend money therefor, not to exceed the sums specified, as follows: For purchase of the "Chase lots" $450 For painting the North Barn. 150 For repairs in gentlemen's wardrobe 25 For an attendant in same, per month 20 For seven curtains in upper Drawing Room 14 That on the 13th of September, the recommendation of the Regent that Miss Mary E. D arrow be appointed assistant in Modern Languages at a salary of $600 for ten months, was approved, and the appointment was ordered at the salary named. Also authority was given to Dr. S. H. Peabody, Regent, to sign on behalf of the University the requisite petitions to secure a street railway in front of the property of this University on Wright street and Green street. The condition of the petition to be such that the track of such railway shall be so constructed as not to disfigure the street, and shall be kept in good repair with road bed full and level so as to form no obstruction to carriage crossing at any point opposite the University land; and no depot building shall be erected opposite the University Buildings without the consent of the Board of Trustees. The construction and conditions above to? be Tembodied in the ordinance and a guarantee that sufficient cars shall daily run on the proposedjline as to accommodate the needs of the travel to and from the University. The expenses in the Gentlemen's Coat Room have been found to be $30.63. The authorization for street railway has been entered in only so far as the line on Wright street is concerned. S. M. MILLARD, J. T. PEARMAN, CHAS. BENNETT.

On motion of Mr. McLean, the Begent, Trustees Millard, Bennett and' Pearman were appointed a committee, to report at this session of the Board a plan whereby the. Nebraska lands can be offered for sale as per terms of the resolutions heretofore adopted. On motion, the action of the Executive Committee in engaging the services of Miss Mary E. Darrow, was approved; also the obtaining the detail of Mr. Arthur T. Woods of the U. S. Navy as Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, and the allowance of $400 per annum, in lieu of subsistence and quarters, was approved and appropriated. On motion, the Begent and Executive Committee were empowered to employ a teacher of elocution, if they deem it necessary. On motion, not to exceed $150 was appropriated for the gymnasium, as asked by the Begent. A bill of Trustee Bennett, for expenses incurred in inspecting Nebraska lands, amounting to $54.20, was audited and allowed.