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PBOCEEDINGS OF BOAED OF TRUSTEES.

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Sec. 5. The Directors shall report to the Regent and Trustees at each regular or quarterly meeting of this Board such experiments and investigations as they desire to undertake, also shall report the probable expense of the same, and shall designate such instruments, lands, help, and other requirements which they m^y need to carry out successfully the proposed work, and no experiments or investigations requiring the expenditure of money shall be made by the directors of such Station without the approval of the Board of Trustees of the University, or in case of emergency, the Executive Committee of said Trustees, first had and obtained. Sec. 6. The Treasurer of the Board of Trustees is hereby designated and appointed to receive and have the custody of the moneys appropriated from time to time by the Congress of the United States and any and all other moneys appropriated or donated at any time for the purpose of such station, and he shall keep all such moneys in a separate fund account, and shall pay the same out upon warrants signed by the President of the Board, of Trustees,, and countersigned by the President of the Board of Direction of such station, but no money shall be drawn or used for any purpose except for the work and needs of the Experiment Station. Sec. 7. The Board of Direction shall render to the Board of Trustees at each regular and quarterly meeting an account of all moneys received and expended together with the vouchers for all expenses and disbursements, and shall report to the Trustees any facts which shall affect the financial management of the Experiment Station. Sec. 8. The Board of Direction with the consent of the Trustees shall appoint a secretary whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President of the Board, to keep a complete record of the work of the station, to carry on the correspondence, supervise the editing and printing of all bulletins and reports, and shall do all other work necessary to be done about the business of such station, which may required of him by said Board or its President. Sec. 9. In case any professor of the University is appointed as a Director or is otherwise employed in the work of the Experiment Station, he shall be paid for such service from the Experiment Station fund, and the amount so paid him shall be deducted from his salary as a regular professor, such assignment and payments to be made by the Trustees upon a fair and equitable apportionment of his service taking the regular salary of such professor as a guide. Sec. 10. The Board of Trustees shall appoint all regular assistants on the Station work and fix the salaries of the Directors and all employes, but the Board of Direction may employ and pay from a fund, appropriated for that purpose, to be drawn by the usual warrant, all temporary assistants, laborers, janitors, and workmen, such employment and payment to be reported to the Trustees at each regular or quarterly meeting. Sec. 11. The Trustees shall from time to time set off such lands belonging to the University as maybe needed for experimental work; which lands shall be free of rent charge, but all produce therefrom, after its needs for purposes of experiment have ceased, shall belong to the University without charge and may be removed from the land by the University. The Trustees shall likewise assign such farm tools, machinery, labor, and teams for the use of the station as may be convenient without interfering with the University work and its farms, and whenever necessary teams, tools, and machinery shall be purchased for the exclusive use of the Station, and whatever shall be furnished to the Experiment Station by the University either in help, materials, teams, or special work shall be paid for from the station fund at current values and rates. Whenever deemed advisable for experiments on any subject requiring the use of buildings, tools, stock, or animals for feeding or dairy purposes, or the use of the laboratories, greenhouses, or veterinary buildings, for chemical work, plant experiments, or the treatment of diseases, the Board of Direction shall report to the Board of Trustees, such needs, specifying what arrangements can be made which will not conflict with the University work, and the Trustees shall make ail necessary provisions which shall be reasonable and feasible, to promote the experimental work. It being the declared intention of the Board of Trustees to render every assistance possible to further the •efficacy and success of the Experiment Station. Sec. 12. The Trustees will assign rooms in the University buildings for an office or other purposes from time to time as shall be needed, under such terms as shall be provided when assigned. Sec. 13. The Experiment Station shall be deemed a department of the University, and except as may be herein or hereafter specially provided, all its officers and employes shall be governed by the same regulations which govern other departments of the University. The Regent shall include the Experiment Slation as one of the subjects of his regular quarterly report to the Trustees, with •statements as to its progress, suggestions as to its current needs and prospective development, and recommendations as to appropriations and management as occasion shall seem to require. Questions which may arise touching the Station, its work, or its relationships, not herein provided for, shall be referred to the Trustees of the University, who may add to, rescind or amend these regulations at their discretion. Respectfully submitted, S. H .PEABODY, A. McLEAN, E . COBB, Committee. C. BENNETT, , S. M. MILLARD,J

The report was adopted. Trustee Bennett offered the following resolution, which was carried:

Resolved, That Dr. S. H. Peabody, Professors G. E . Morrow, T. J . Burrill, and W. McMurtrie, are hereby appointed, without salary 5 Directors of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, to hold said positions until the next annual meeting of this Board, or until their ^successors are elected. Dr. S, H. Peabody is hereby designated President of said board.

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