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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. SESSION THURSDAY MORNING.

The board met pursuant to adjournment, t h e same members being present as on Wednesday, except Mr. Kaab. The finance committee made the following reports, which were severally adopted:

CHICAGO, July 5, 1893.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of 1 llinois. GENTLEMEN: Your finance committee recommends t h e following appropriations as contemplated by t h e action of t h e board a t its meeting Dec. 13, 1892. From U. S. fund for 1893-4— For departments of physics and electrical engineering $4,000 00 F r o m state funds— For chemical laboratory ».. 500 00 For botanical laboratory 200 00 From current funds (earnings of laboratory)— For chemical laboratory 500 00 Respectfully submitted,

ALEXANDER MCLEAN, J A M E S E. ARMSTRONG, F . M. M C K A Y , CHICAGO ) [Finance Committee, ) I I I . , July 5, 1893.

To tJw Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee recommends t h e payment by appropriation from current funds of bills on file: James Inglis, for bromide pictures $18 0O Bacon, Mittendorf & Hall, for picture frames 13 1& Respectfully submitted,

ALEXANDER MCLEAN, JAMES E. ARMSTRONG, F. M. M C K A Y , ENGINEERING HALL. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, July 6, 1893. ) [Finance Committee. )

The committee on buildings and grounds made t h e following report:

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee on buildings and grounds reports t h a t it m e t June 7th, immediately after t h e adjournment of t h e board, and decided upon a competition for designs for t h e new engineering hall—the competition to be limited to t h e graduates of t h e architectural department of t h e University. With t h e advice of t h e professors in t h e engineering courses t h e number and sizes of t h e rooms necessary for t h e building were fixed upon. Your committee also determined to offer four prizes for t h e four best designs, t h e aggregate amount to be $1,100, $500 of which was to be applied upon t h e architect's fees for services, if t h e architect employed should be t h e one entitled to t h e first prize. Two and one-half per cent, of t h e actual cost of t h e building was offered as t h e price of t h e service of t h e architect. I t was t h e desire of t h e faculty of t h e college of engineering t h a t there be erected one or two one-story buildings, isolated from t h e main building, for purposes of laboratory work in magnetic electricity and in other lines. Accordingly, t h e committee decided to erect one building, costing