Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 103]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

And it was further ordered by the said Committee that all lands belonging to the University and lying south of the University main building on the north farm, or so much thereof as the Station may require, be assigned for the use of the Station and that the use of the barns belonging to the University be granted for feeding experiments. It was further ordered by said Committee that cattle may be fed, and special crops grown upon euch parts of the south farm belonging to the University as may be needed, providing, such use of the south farm shall not interfere with the University crops growing. On motion it was further ordered by said Committee that rooms upon the upper floor of the chemical building and, if found necessary, a room for an office on the first floor of said building, be assigned for the use of said Station, and permission given to erect partitions dividing the large south room of the upper story in such building according to the plans presented, and to open necessary doors for convenient communication between the apartments; also to make connections with the water system of said building and to arrange the gas system in such a manner that the expense thereof may be kept distinct from that used lor the University, the charges, alterations and repairs in said chemical building not to exceed the cost of five hundred dollars ($500.00). It was further ordered by the said Committee that the Board of Direction proceed to erect a building for the purposes of the Station according to the plans presented and approved by the Committee, and that the same be located west of the avenue leading south from the University main building and near the large sycamore tree as described in said report; that the cost of said building when completed shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00); also that said Board build a house for storage of fertilizers as recommended, in some position where it shall be neither conspicuous nor offensive, at a cost not to exceed one hundred dollars t$100.00), and that the Board of Direction be authorized to make such other and sundry repairs as may be found needful, not to exceed the cost of fifty dollars ($50.00). On motion it was further ordered by the Executive Committee that the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) be appropriated from the Experiment Station fund to be used on the said building and repairs. The following recommendations and nominations were presented by the Board of Direction as to officers of the Station, viz.: Prof. George E. Morrow to be agriculturist, Prof. T. J . Burrill, to be horticulturist and botanist, Prof. William McMurtrie to be chemist. On motion the committee approved the recommendations and appointed the respective persons named for the positions recommended, they to hold their respective offices until April 1,1889, and until their successors are appointed. And it was further ordered by the committee that a sum not to exceed one-third of the salaries of the said professors, for the time in which they shall be employed in the service of the Station, shall be transferred from the Experiment Station fund to the treasury of the University in accordance with the estimates for said services made and reported by the Board of Direction. Upon the nomination of the Board of Direction the following persons were appointed at the salaries named, to-wit: Thomas F. Hunt, assistant agriculturist, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum; George W. McCluer, assistant horticulturist, at a salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum; and John A. Miller, assistant chemist, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, such persons to hold their respective offices until the first of April, 1889, and until their successors are elected. Upon motion it was further ordered that the Board of Direction be authorized to employ persons to fill the following positions in said Station at the salaries named, viz.: An assistant chemist at a salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) per annum; an assistant botanist at a like salary. The employment not to extend beyond April 1,1889. On motion the following appropriations were made from the experiment fund for the purposes named, the moneys to be used from said appropriations for the respective purposes appropriated, not to exceed the sum so named for that purpose, to-wit: For printing, including bulletin for first quarter, records, stationery and postage $500 00 For tables, cases and apparatus in chemical laboratory 2,700 00 For botanical apparatus 320 00 For scales and tools .... 200 00 For type writer 100 00 For meterological instruments 100 00 For books and periodicals 3,000 00 For incidental expenses 500 00 For salaries of officers and assistants 2,175 00 On motion the committee adjourned. S. M. MILLARD, ™ ) EMORY COBB, dT >Executive Committe. CHAS. BENNETT, )

Treasurer J. W. Bunn read his quarterly report, which was received and referred to the Auditing Committee.