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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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legislative appropriations for maintenance and for new buildings. Professor Burrill being ill and unable to attend the meeting of the board, this paper was read by the secretary. On motion of Mr. Graham, it was voted to ask of the legislature, as a separate item, $1,600 a year for taxes on Minnesota lands, and to increase by $1,600 the item of $4,400 a year for "equipment in t h e several departments," in the report of the committee. The board then took a recess till 2:40 o'clock p. m. The other matters of t h e report were severally approved and the report as a whole was approved and referred to a committee on legislation, to be appointed. To the same committee was also referred the paper from the regent, and with it the papers submitted by Professors Kicker, Forbes, and Snyder, with regard to proposed new buildings. On motion of Mr. Morgan, it was voted t h a t the president appoint a committee of five members of the board, of which committee the president should be a member and chairman, whose duty it shall be to prepare and cause to be presented to the General Assembly a bill asking for appropriations as indicated by the action just taken by the board, and further, as in their discretion may be found to be advisable; and to promote the passage of said bill. A bill asking for appropriations for the State Laboratory of Natural History for the next two years was submitted, with a communication in relation thereto from the director of the Laboratory, Professor Forbes. The bill was approved and referred to the committee on legislation for introduction into the General Assembly. The sums asked are as follows: For the field work and t h e office expenses, the sum of $1,500 per annum. For the improvement of the library, the sum of $1,000 per annum. For salaries and assistance, the sum of $3,500 per annum. For the publication of bulletins, the sum of $250 per annum. For the illustration of the biennial report of the state entomologist, t h e sum of $250 per annum. For colored drawings of the fishes of Illinois, in illustration of the third volume of the Natural History Survey of the State, the sum of $600. The committee on legislation was instructed to prepare and cause to be introduced into the General Assembly a bill to secure the transfer to the treasurer of this board from the state treasury of such sums of money as may accrue to the State of Illinois for the University prior to J u l y 1, 1895, under an act of the congress of the United States, approved August 30, 1890. Several hundred dollars was appropriated for the annual catalogue. Two hundred dollars was appropriated for the cost of printing and sending out a circular to the high schools of the State. One hundred dollars was appropriated for making an exhibit of the University in the "collective exhibit" to be made by t h e land grant colleges in the Agricultural building at the Columbian Exposition. The following petition, to which twenty-one names were signed, was received and laid over for further consideration: To the Honorable Board of Trustees, University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Knowing of the effort making to secure appropriations for the erection of additional buildings at the University, and believing that the action herein proposed will meet the approval of the professor of architecture and will do much to encourage and stimulate the alumni architects to their best effort, and at the same time show that the board believes in its own school of architecture, and those sent out from