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PKOCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TBUSTEES.

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stances surrounding the experiments, which can in any way affect them, and work out such results as the facts? may show and put the same into shape for proper reports, to be published from time to time as required by the act of March 2, 1887. The Directors may adopt such rules of organization as they may deem necessary, which shall not be in conflict with the laws under which the department is organized, or with such regulations as the Trustees may from time to time prescribe. 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 may 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 noinoney 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 ex-, penses and disbursements, and shall report to the Trustees any facts which shall affect the financial management of the Experimental 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 be required of him by said Board or its President. Sec. 9. In case any professor of the University shall be employed in the work of the Experiment Station, the Board of Direction shall estimate the value of his services while so employed, such estimate to be made upon the basis of his regular salary as such professor, and whatever sum shall be found as a proper compensation for such services, such amount shall be paid into the treasury of the University from the Experiment Station fund. Sec. 10. The Board of Direction shall, at its discretion, appoint all officers and regular assistants employed upon the work of the Station, and shall fix the compensation of said appointees. 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 quarterly meeting. No member of the Board of Direction shall receive any compensation for acting as such, beyond his necessary expenses while engaged upon his duties as such member of the Board. Sec. 11. The Trustees shall from time to time set off such lands belonging to the University as may be 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 or 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 all 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 Station 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 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.

On motion, the Board proceeded to appoint trie members o£ the Board of Direction of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, as provided for in the plan of organization.