Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1896 [PAGE 225]

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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

Treasurers

Report—Continued.

$1,235 16 79846 1,302 67 1,457 93 183 56 95 60 7,490 74 3,112 12 621 95! $76,876 56

F e b r u a r y 29 By amount paid out of state appropriation for a p p a r a t u s and material, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto. 29' By amount paid out of state appropriation for shop practice, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto By amount paid out of state appropriation for Chemical Laboratory, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached h e r e t o . . . 29 By amount paid out of state appropriation for Laboratory of Vegetable Physiology, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto By amount paid out of state appropriation for paving streets and walks, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto By amount paid out of state appropriation for fire protection, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto By amount paid out of U. S. fund as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto , By amount paid out of U. S. fund for the Experimentj Station, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto 29 By amount paid out of U. S. E x p e r i m e n t Station farm account, as per list of w a r r a n t s attached hereto

Balances— General fund $8,238 47 E n d o w m e n t fund 28,945 93 U. S. E x p e r i m e n t Station fund 3,739 22 E x p e r i m e n t Station farm fund 597 72 U . S . fund 49 09 State appropriations— 30,421 98 For salaries 1,199 37 For library 1 3,702 23 For Laboratory of N a t u r a l History 768 51 For cabinets 5,133 34 For E n g i n e e r i n g College 4,974 00 For Astronomical Observatory 2,439 39 For fitting and furnishing E n g i n e e r i n g Hall For building and equipment of Biological E x p e r i 1,682 29 m e n t Station 281 15 For Biological E x p e r i m e n t Station 1,188 98 For a p p a r a t u s and material 447 49 For shop practice , 2,251 31 For Chemical Laboratory 309 37 For Laboratory of Vegetable Physiology 1,702 21 For fire protection 894 45 For paving street and walks

98,966 50 $175,843 OS

A letter from Mr. F. E. Bonham, a student of the University, was, on motion of Mr. Inglis, referred to the President of the University. I t was now 11 o'clock and the Board adjourned until 2 o'clock in order that the rest of the forenoon might be spent in the architects' rooms in examining the plans for the library building.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.

Upon convening in the afternoon, the Board, by the following vote, authorized the carrying out of the idea of the architects in using stone of two colors in the exterior walls of the building: Yeas— Flower, Bullard, Smith, Graham, Armstrong, Raymond; nays—Inglis, McLean, Morgan, Morrison. Mr. McLean offered the following resolution: Besolved, That the new library building be erected on the northwest corner of the present quadrangle, and in front of the President's House, where stakes are now set, in lieu of the site heretofore selected south of the greenhouse.