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UNIVERSITY

O F ILLINOIS.

suits and professions of life, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and iDeluding, for all male students, military tactics." In my opinion, in establishing t h e course of studies, t h e Board of Trustees would be limited to t h e provisions of this section, b u t they will be t h e judges of whether or not t h e proposed studies are within this, section. Very respectfully,

GEORGE H U N T , Attorney General.

Your Committee finds t h a t this Board has no legal power to entertain* and accept t h e proposition of t h e College of Physicians and Surgeons, and recommends t h a t t h e College be notified of our legal powers in this matter. Your Committee feels t h a t a medical department, located in Chicago, would be a most valuable and substantial enlargement of the work of theUniversity, and hopes t h a t the establishment of such a department m a y not be long deferred.

S. A . BULLARD, ) EMORY COBB, > Executive Committee.. LAFAYETTE FUNK, )

The report was approved for record. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds made the following report *

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds desires to makethe following report: Your Committee is gratified to report the progress in the construction of the natural science building. The work is doing in a good and substantial manner, entirely satisfactory to the Committee. The materials which the contractor is using are also entirely satisfactory. We have appointed Mr. S. P. Sutton permanent superintendent of the builning, a t a salary of one hundred dollars per month by t h e authority given us a t t h e last meeting. We recommend t h a t your Committee on Buildings and Grounds be authorized to make a contract with Mr. Valentine Jobst, contractor of t h e new building, t h a t for a consideration of $250 dollars, he turn ever tothe Board of Trustees, a t the close of his contract for the construction of the new building, the building complete, without loss or damage by fire or otherwise. The new front doors to University Hall have been put in place, though the work is not fully completed. We recommend t h e appropriation from current funds of an additional amount of $25 to complete the same. The heating of Military Hall is not yet completed, and will be reported upon a t a future meeting. The dry kilns and lumber sheds for the architectural shops are completed, and are very satisfactory. We ask for an additional appropriation of $85 for t h a t work. The boiler and engine for t h e electrical labora f ory were purchased, and have been put in in a very excellent way. There is some additional expense for labor and extra fittings not contemplated in the appropriation. This is fully explained in the report of the Regent and Professor Stratton. Professor Stratton shows us t h a t all the purchases of machinery for t h e electric laboratory have been a t reduced rates, and he has also secured donations as follows, for which we recommend t h a t he make suitable acknowledgment.