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PROCEEDINGS OP BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The following special appropriations from current funds were also made:

For For For For printing of catalogues commencement expenses certificates for accredited high schools Regent's traveling expanses $400 00 150 00 100 00 55 81

The Auditing Committee made the following report, which was received and approved.

Board of Trustees^ University of Illinois: Your committee respectfully report that they have examined the accounts and bills on which warrants, Nos. 201 to 450 (both inclusive) were drawn, and find the same correct as reported by the Business Agent. They have also examined the report of the Treasurer and find the same correct. We recommend that the same be filed. G. R." SHAWHAN, [Auditing Committee.

The regular appropriation for the ensuing quarter for the Laboratory of Natural History, $450, was granted. The Farm Committee was instructed to collect or secure the rent now due for the Griggs farm, or declare the lease forfeited. Adjourned to meet at Chicago, in the Grand Pacific Hotel, on Wednesday, March 21, 1888, at 10 o'clock a. m. S. M. MILLARD, President E. SNYDER, Secretary.

ADJOURNED MEETING, CHICAGO, MARCH 21, 1888.

The Board met, pursuant to adjournment, at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago, at 10 o'clock a. m., March 21, 1888. Present: Messrs. Bennett, Clemens, Cobb, Dysart, Eisenmayer, McKay, McLean, Millard, Pullen, and Shawhan. Absent: Governor Oglesby, and State Superintendent Edwards. I n the absence of the Secretary, Alexander McLean was appointed Secretary pro tempore. The minutes of the meeting of December 13, 1887, were approved. The following named gentlemen present, by invitation, were invited to participate in the deliberations of the Board. They were, Charles F. Mills, Secretary, Hon. Lafayette Funk, Representing the State Board of Agriculture. Milo Barnard, President, A. C. Hammond, Secretary, Representing the State Horticultural Society. Lovejoy Johnson, President. R. Lespinasse, Secretary, Representing the State Dairymen's Association.