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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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The Executive Committee submitted the following report:

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois: GENTLEMEN : At the meeting of the Board held in September last, authority was given to the Regent and the Executive Committee to negotiate with the Champaign and Urbana Water Company (now the Union Water Supply Company) to bring their lines within the University grounds, and to supply the University buildings with water. This improvement has been deemed especially desirable as farther protection against fire. The Committee has attended to this duty, and the Exeeutive Committee has entered into contract with the said Water Supply Company to lay a six inch main to the University grounds, and into them on such r, line as the trustees may determine, to set at proper places two double fire hydrants, and to furnish water to the University as required, not to exceed 500,000 gallons per annum; the University is to pay for this service, $400 per annum in equal quarterly payments of $100 each, and if an excess of 500,000 gallons per annum is used, to pay 25 cents per thousand gallons. The contract is to run for five years. A double hydrant is to be set at corner of Springfield avenue for protection of machine shops. All of which is respectfully submitted. S. H. PEABODY, Regent. S. M. MILLARD, ) Executive CHAS. BENNETT, s Committee.

The report was received and the contract approved. Dr. Peabody, as chairman of committee on agricultural experiment stations, submitted the following report:

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois: GENTLEMEN: Your committee to whom was referred the matters concerning the organizing of an agricultural experiment station at the University, pursuant to the provisions of an act of congress passed at its last session,respectfully reports: That in accordance with a decision made by the Comptroller of the Treasury, it appears that no appropriation was made by congress for carrying into effect the provisions of the act referred to, and therefore no action can at present be taken by this University. On receipt of a copy of the act of congress, the Governor of the State referred it to the General Assembly by a message, and the Assembly has, by joint resolution, a copy of which is hereto appended, given the assent required by the act of congress, and has authorized the University to establish and conduct such experiment station whenever congress shall appropriate funds for the support of such a station. All of which is respectfully submitted. For the Committee, S. H. PEABODY, Chairman.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION—35TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has passed an act approved by the President March 2,1887, entitled ''An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of the act supplementary thereto; 1 ' and WHEREAS, It is provided in section nine of the aforesaid "that the grants of mcney authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants; 1 'therefore, be it Besolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein,That the assent of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois be, and is hereby given to the purposes of the grants made in said act, and that the Trustees of the University of Illinois be. and ihey ar^ hereby authorized and empowered to organize and conduct an agricultural experiment station in connection with the agricultural college of said University of Illinois, in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in the act of congress aforesaid. Adopted by the Senate April 14, 1887. JOHN C. SMITH, President. Concurred in by tha House of Representatives May 11,1887. W. F. CALHOUN, Speaker. Filed in the office of the Secretary of State May 17,1887. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, \ 0ffice f Secretarv u m c e ot feecretar STATE OF ILLINOIS, fPs* yI, HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a joint resolution adopted by the 35th General Assembly of the State of Illinois now on file in this office. IN iWITNESS WHEREOF. I hereto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of State, at the City of Springfield, this 23d cay of May, A. D. 1887. HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State.

The report was received and ordered to be placed on file, Adjourned to 8 o'clock a, m,