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PROCEEDINGS1 OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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State for t h e payment of any sum beyond the amount appropriated. This being so, and t h e trustees being incapable of binding the State by express contract, much less can t h e board bind the State by its laches in failing to make a safe bridge. No right of action exists in favor of a trespasser who, while trespassing on private grounds, is injured, though the owner be guilty of ever so much negligence. I see no use in putting up a sign "Private Way," unless i t be intended as a gentle invitation to people to keep out. Yours, etc.,

J. O. CUNNINGHAM.

The committee on finance made t h e following report, which was approved:

URBANA, I I I . , March 15, 1893.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your finance committee reports t h a t it has examined the vouchers of t h e Experiment Station, ~No. 1 to 129, inclusive, for t h e half year ending December 31, 1892, and has found the same correct and properly receipted. The committee recommends t h a t t h e vouchers be duly filed in t h e office of the secretary of t h e Experiment Station. Respectfully submitted, F L * L A M C K R A Y ! C L B A N ' \ Committee on Finance. I t was voted, on motion of Mr. McKay, t h a t the president should appoint four others, who, with himself, should constitute a committee on legislation. The president appointed Mr. Bullard, to be chairman, and Messrs. Morrison, McKay and McLean. The committee on buildings and grounds made t h e following report, which was approved: To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee on buildings and grounds desires to make t h e following report: The heating apparatus for Natural History Hall has been completed and accepted, and t h e balance on t h e contract paid with t h e exception of $200, which was withheld as a forfeit for not completing t h e contract on time. The apparatus is reported by t h e architect as exceptionally good and satisfactory, and your committee is gratified t h a t t h e work has been done so well. The necessary gas fixtures have been purchased and put in place. The work has been satisfactorily done within t h e appropriation. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, ) Committee

on ALEXANDER MCLEAN, > -

NELSON W. GRAHAM, ) Buildings and Grounds.

The board then took a recess to attend chapel exercises. After re-convening, on motion of Mr. McKay, the matter of furnishing information to t h e newspapers was discussed, and t h e regent was directed to request t h e faculty committee on publication to give this subject careful attention, as the board deemed it of great importance. The farm committee reported that, after due consideration, its judgment was t h a t it would be unwise to grant the request of t h e Urbana and Champaign Electric Street Railway Co. On motion of Mr. McKay, t h e report was adopted, and t h e secretary was directed to notify Mr. Harris of t h e action of t h e board.