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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The instructor in charge will see t h a t order is preserved in the hall during class hours. Students excused from drill for physical disability will not be allowed to exercise in t h e gymnasium, except by special permission of the faculty. All students must provide themselves with gymnasium slippers. The use of tobacco in the hall is prohibited. Damage to apparatus will be charged to the person or persons causing it.

THE ILLINI.

The control of the Illini on the part of the students of the University shall be vested in a committee of students to be called the Illini Board, to be eiected by the students in accordance with the regulations approved by the faculty. Copies of these regulations may be had at any time in the regent's office.

SUSPENSION OF RULES.

These rules, or any of them, may be temporarily suspended, as to special and unusual cases, by vote of three-fourths of the members of the faculty present at any authorized meeting.

ADOPTED BY THE FACULTY AND A P P R O V E D BY THE TRUSTEES.

The committee which was appointed to compile t h e by-laws of Board reported as follows: To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee appointed to compile the by-laws of board of trustees, has been over t h e proceedings of the board since printed by-laws, now in use, were approved in 1880, and presents the lowing as the by-laws of the board now in force: BY-LAWS.

I. MEETINGS OF T H E BOARD.

the the the fol-

SEC; 1. All meetings of the board of trustees shall be held at the University, in Urbana, unless otherwise ordered and a majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum. Sec. 2. The board shall hold an annual meeting the second Tuesday of March, and other meetings as often as once in three months at such times as t h e board may designate. Sec. 3. Special meetings may be called, whenever necessary, by t h e president or any two members of the board, by mailing to each member of the board at least five (5) days before the meeting a notice of the call. Provided, t h a t in such notice the business to be attended to at such meeting shall be specified.

II. ORDER OF BUSINESS.

SEC. 1. The business of each meeting shall be conducted in the following order: 1. Calling t h e roll of members. 2. Reading, corrections and approval of minutes of last meeting. 3. Election of officers. 4. Report of regent and other officers. 5. Reports of committees. 6. Communications, petitions and memorials. 7. Unfinished business. 8. New business.