Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 88]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF

TRUSTEES.

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The following having completed their courses in military science, have been recommended to the Governor of the state, and have been honored by him with commissions by brevet as captains in the Illinois National -Guard:

F r a n k H a r v e y Rno. Alfred E r n e s t H a r v e y . E d w a r d B e s a n c o n Clarke. F r e d e r i c Woodruff Clarke. OraDealMcClure. F r a n k l i n Oscar Smolt. R o s s S t r a w n Wallace. Charles Davis Vail.

The affairs of the University, as concerned by legislation still pending in the General Assembly, are as follows: The askings for the University were duly presented in the two houses of the General Assembly. Sub-committees from the regular appropriation •committees visited the University, and representatives of the Univers ty presented statements of its needs to the full committees at Springfield. T h e Senate passed the bill with only slight reductions. The reductions made by the House committee on appropriations were more serious; they have been approved by the House. The bill has passed second reading, and will undoubtedly pass the House and be concurred in by the Senate in its present form. [It was so passed, and was concurred in by the Senate June 11th]. The bill as it stands is the largest ever passed for this institution. While some of the reductions are in sensitive places which give annoyance, the two most important items, t h a t for expenses of instruction, and t h a t for a new building remain as asked, and are substantial subjects for congratulation. The bill provides as follows:

For For For For For For For For For For For For t a x e s on M i n n e s o t a lands, for two y e a r s r e p a i r s a n d i m p r o v e m e n t s , for two y e a r s m a i n t e n a n c e of s h o p s , for t w o y e a r s a p p a r a t u s a n d material, for two y e a r s b o o k s a n d publications, for t w o y e a r s collections of n a t u r a l history, for two y e a r s . . . g e n e r a l a c c o u n t of instruction, for t w o y e a r s . h e a t i n g military hall rebuilding b a r n furniture n a t u r a l science building h e a t i n g a n d furnishing s a m e Total ,.s S3,200 00 5,000 00 3,000 00 3,000 00 2,000 00 1,000 00 40,000 00 3,500 00 2,500 00 1,000 00 60.0110 00 10,000 00 $134,200 00

of which $70,600 will be available July 1, 1891, aud $63,600 July 1, 1892. The General Assembly also passed an act giving assent to the purposes of the congressional act of August 30, 1890, known as the Morrill college aid bill, and appropria ing any moneys which might come into the hands of the State Treasurer before July 1, 1893, to the University of Illinois. This action is in accordance with suggestions made orally by the Attorney General of the state and reaches forward to the extent of the authority of the present legislature. Pursuant to the provisions of congressional and state acts, the first installment, of $15,000, has been received by the University Treasurer, and has been put to use in accordance with your directions given at the meeting in March. In reponse to official inquiries made for the Secretary of the Interior by the Commissioner of Education I have reported to him the disposition made of this $15,000, and I have received assurance t h a t the second installment, $16,000, will be forwarded shortly. I t is evidently understood by the officials at Washington who have charge of disbursements under the act in consideration, t h a t each institution must make a report satisfactory to the conditions of the law, upon the uses made of the money received under one disbursement before another disbursement or installment will be paid over. The appointments made possible by reason of the increased funds of the University, and authorized by you, have all been made, except to the chair of mining engineering. For this negotiations are still pending. The gentlemen placed in the other chairs are proving themselves well worthy t h e confidence placed in them.