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PROCEEDINGS BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Tey E. Parker, assistant in architectural shop, half time, at a salary of $300; and the appointments were made. The committee further reported recommending t h a t the salary of Professor C. M. Moss be made $2,000 a year; t h a t the salary of Professor A. W. Palmer be made $2,000 a year: and t h a t the salary of Assistant Professor George W. Myers be made $1,500 a year, and the report was adopted. The committee on instruction and the regent were given power to fill, with the approval of the president, all places in the corps of instructors t h a t it was necessary to fill. The business agent made the following report, which was referred to t h e finance committee :y

BUSINESS AGENT'S REPORT. U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, July 5, 1893.

JV. W. Graham, Esq., President Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, SIR:—The attention of the board is requested to the change in the form of the State appropriation from what it has been in the past. This will necessitate a change in the matter of keeping a record of the expenditures, unless the board sees fit to assign, or set aside at the beginning of each year, some definite sum for each general class; as, "Instruction in departments, $40,000." If such assignments are not made, the record will be kept as it is for the United States fund. Attention is also requested to the action of the board at its meeting of Dec. 13, 1892, authorizing the ordering of apparatus and supplies for t h e departments of physics, electricity, chemistry, and botany, amounting to $5,200, to be paid for after July 1, 1893. These orders were given, and I now hold bills on t h a t account amounting to some $3,000, on which payment is expected at once. An appropriation of the $5,200 is requested. I t might be assigned as follows: United States fund of 1893-4— Electricity and physics $4,000 00 S t a t e funds— Chemistry 500 00 Botany 200 00 Current funds (earnings)— Chemistry 500 00 Appropriations from current funds for several inclosed bills should be made: James Inglis , $18 00 Bacon, Mittendorf & Hall 5 83 " 3 00 " 4 36 Total $31 19 I t was expected t h a t these would have been met by the Illinois board of World's Fair commissioners, but its ruling shuts them out. Last year the excavation for a coal house was made but the building was not put up as the necessary money was not available. Immediate action in this matter and any other, when changes are to be made in the buildings, is requested. The general repairs and cleaning are going on. Respectfully submitted,

S. W. SHATTUCK,

Business Agent. After some further discussion of the regency question the board adjourned to meet at 11 o'clock a. m., Thursday.

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