Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 103]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

The Business Agent's askings for appropriations follows:

Board expenses Buildings and grounds. Military department Total

were as

$200 150 50 $400

On motion of Mr. Cobb, these several a m o u n t s were assigned from current funds. The Regent's bill of $20.94 for traA^eling expenses was ordered paid. The m a t t e r of the new b a r n was then t a k e n up and, on motion of Mr. Cobb, it was voted t o a d d $1,000 t o the s t a t e appropriation of $2,500, and t h a t the building of the b a r n within this limit be p u t in charge of t h e Regent, Professor Morrow, and the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. On motion of Mr. R a a b , $1,000 was appropriated for g e t t i n g a water supply a t the n o r t h barn by laying a 4-inch main connected with the city water works, and the m a t t e r was p u t in charge of the same committee as the new barn. On motion of Mr. Graham, Professors Burrill and Forbes, t h e Regent, and Messrs, Bullard and Morgan were appointed a committee t o consider and m a t u r e plans for the new building a n d it was ordered t h a t so soon as t h e plans were ready t h e President should call a meeting of the Board t o pass upon them. On motion of Mr. R a a b , t h e following a p p r o p r i a t i o n s were m a d e for purposes named from t h e s t a t e a p p r o p r i a t i o n for buildings and grounds:

Bepairs, cleaning, calsomining, etc #400 00 Ceiling over stairway in University Hall 60 00 Painting outside woodwork of University Hall, the Chemical Laboratory, the veterinary buildings and the Observatory 750 00 Care of grounds to end of season 150 00 Total SI,360 00

On motion of Mr. Morgan, the question of p u t t i n g in new front doors t o University Hall, as proposed by t h e President, was referred t o the committee on plans of new building. On motion of Mr. Cobb, f 162.50 was assigned from t h e library fund t o be used in binding. On motion of Mr. Cobb, f 75 was appropriated from t h e s t a t e a p p r o p r i a t i o n for cabinets t o be used, as asked by Professor Burrill, in obtaining assistance upon the herbarium. On motion of Mr. R a a b , t h e farm report was approved for record. The request of the S t a t e Horticultural Society, as presented by Mr. H. M. Dunlap, was g r a n t e d on motion 6i Mr. Cobb.