Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 31]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

Besolved, That the following appropriations from the state appropriations for the Laboratory of Natural History be made for the quarter ending March 31, 1889:

For For For For the the the the field work and the office incidental expenses.. improvement of the library pay of assistants publication of bulletins

«2">0 00 250 00 750 00 75 00

And that the President and Secretary be directed to draw the necessary requisition for the sum of thirteen hundred and twenty-five dollars from the proper fund to pay the above named appropriations. On motion of Mr. Cobb, a u t h o r i t y was g r a n t e d the B o a r d of Direction of the Experiment S t a t i o n t o undertake experiments a s set forth in t h e report m a d e by t h e President of t h a t B o a r d . On motion of Mr. McLean, t h e Board of Direction was authorized t o expend moneys in carrying on the operations of t h e S t a t i o n according t o t h e requests and estimates presented in t h e same report. Professor BurrilPs request, presented in t h e Regent's report, was referred t o the Executive Committee. The Regent and Professor Morrow were appointed t o represent t h e Agricultural Experiment S t a t i o n and the Agricultural College a t the meeting of persons connected with agricultural experiment s t a t i o n s t o be held a t Knoxville, Tenn., beginning New Year's day, and $100, or so much of it as m a y be needed, was assigned from the funds of t h e Experiment S t a t i o n t o defray their expenses. On motion of Mr. McLean, $50 was appropriated from current funds t o be used in m a k i n g a n exhibit a t the P a r i s Exposition of next year. The special committee on legislation reported as follows, and t h e report was approved on motion of Mr. Cobb:

REPORT ON LEGISLATION.

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois.

GENTLEMEN: Your committee upon Legis]ation respectfully reports: That it has carefully considered the needs of the University for the next two fiscal years, 1889-90 and 1890-91, and it recommends that the following sums be asked of the General Assembly:

For For For For For For For taxes on lands in Minnesota and Nebraska buildings and grounds machine shops .' apparatus and material , books and publications collections of natural history current expenses of instruction.. Per annum Also, for building a drill hall For removing the boiler from chemical building to boiler house, enlarging same and adding necessary steam pipes and fittings, and for new boiler for machine shops ! Total appropriation for two years

SI,700 p e r a n n u m 3,000 2,000 1,500 1,500 1,000 25,000 $35,700 15,000 2,500 $88,900