Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 92]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Assignments were made as follows:

From state appropriations— Buildings and grounds Apparatus and materials Mechanical and architectural shops Expenses of instruction From U. S. f u n d Salaries for instruction

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$615 00 237 29 713 79 4,000 00 2,000 00

The business agent was asked to report to the board the amount of coal received under the contract with the Horns' Coalery Co. Appropriations for the State Laboratory of Natural History were made as follows:

For For For For field, office, and incidental expenses salaries and assisiance publication of bulletins printing additional copies of Vol. 1, Natural History Survey of Illinois

$375 875 125 600 00 00 00 00

MINNESOTA LANDS.

The committee on Minnesota lands reported as follows: To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, GENTLEMEN: Your committee on Minnesota lands reports the following sales completed since its report in September last:

No. Date. Name. Description. Acres. 40 76.13 80 Price. $12 50 12 50 16 00 Whole price. $500 00 951 63 1,280 00 Cash. $100 00 151 63 80 00

109 Sept. 1,1892 Otto M u n s o n N W . S E . 4-123-36 110 S e p t . 10,1892 J . E . E r i c k s o n .. E.y 2 SE.25-124-36 l v i n g n o r t h e a s t of r a i l w a y . 111 A u g . 1,1892 N.1/2 N E . 8-117-34

The number of acres sold is small because the people in the vicinity of our lands had a poor wheat crop last year, and consequently are not ready to invest in land now. I t is anticipated t h a t a good wheat crop this year would be followed by a large demand for the land. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BTJLLAKD, )

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S. W. SHATTUCK, > Committee on Minnesota Lands.

W . L . PlLLSBTTRY, )

On motion of Mr. McLean the following resolution was adopted: Besolved, That the treasurer of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois is hereby authorized to receive and receipt for all moneys, and to indorse all orders, drafts and checks due and payable to the said board of trustees, or to the said University of Illinois, and especially all drafts drawn by the Treasurer of the United States, payable to said board of trustees, or to said University of Illinois, on account of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the said University. The president announced the committees as follows, Mr. Gore, at his own^request, having been excused from committee service: Executive—Graham, Morrison, Bullard. Farm—Morrison, Raymond, McLean. Buildings and Grounds—JBullard, Morgan, Morrison. Finance—McLean, McKay, Armstrong. Instruction—McKay, Raab, Armstrong. Publications—Graham, Burrill, Pillsbury. Library—Burrill, Raab, Morgan, Shattuck, Crawford.