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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The m a t t e r of protecting the water pipes in the room for g a s analysis in the chemical l a b o r a t o r y was referred t o the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. F r o m the funds of the horticultural department, forty dollars was assigned for t h e purchase of p o t s and forty dollars for t h e purchase of greenhouse stock. The subject of a communication from certain students was given in charge of t h e Chairman of the Committee on Instruction and the Acting Kegent, with power t o act. The Board then adjourned, t o meet a t 8 o'clock in the evening a t the Doane House, in Champaign.

EVENING SESSION.

When t h e B o a r d met, p u r s u a n t t o adjournment, the same members were present as in the afternoon. The requests made by the Board of Direction for a u t h o r i t y t o t a k e up new experiments were granted, as asked, on motion of Mr. McKay. The resignation of Dr. Manns was accepted. Mr. E. H. F a r r i n g t o n was, on motion of Mr. McKay, a p pointed F i r s t Assistant Chemist of t h e Experiment S t a t i o n for one year from J a n u a r y 1, 1 890, a t a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a year, payable annually. Appropriations for t h e Experiment S t a t i o n were made, on m o t i o n of Mr. Shawhan, from S t a t i o n funds, as asked for in t h e report from t h e Station. The Acting Regent was directed t o extend, on behalf of t h e B o a r d of Trustees, a cordial invitation t o the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations t o hold its next annual meeting a t this University. On motion of Mr. Bennett, the following report from t h e Committee on Buildings and Grounds was a p p r o v e d :

R E P O R T OF BUILDING COMMITTEE.

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois.

GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds reports that the work on the "buildings under the direction of the committee has progressed acceptably, except with regard to the roof of the new drill hall. The delay was caused by the failure of the steel contractor to supply material for the roof. This has occasioned a delay of nearly six weeks and considerable extra expense in finishing our work. There is a clause in the steel contract for a rebate of six dollars per day for each day the work is delayed over time. Mr. Felkel, the contractor, asks to have this waived and that he be paid in full for his work. Your committee has to recommend that the contract be settled as it stipulates, as that amount will scarcely reimburse the extra cost we are subject to on account of the delay. The attention of the Board is called to the report which Professor Bicker, as architect, makes to the committee. ^