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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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T h e B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r was a u t h o r i z e d to contract, u p o n receiving a satisfactory bid, for f u r n i s h i n g t h e c h e m i c a l a n d b o t a n i c a l laboratories of t h e U n i v e r s i t y with supplies a n d a p p a r a t u s , to be imported, n o t exceeding $1,600 in a m o u n t .

LAW SCHOOL.

P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r p r e s e n t e d t h e following r e c o m m e n d a t i o n as to the organization of a L a w School as a p a r t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y : To the Board of Trustees. The time has arrived when it seems to me that the interests of the University imperatively demand that the Board shall take decided steps looking to the organization of a Law School. This can be established here without very great difficulty or expense. In order to insure it at the opening of the next University year I recommend: 1. That the Board appropriate $3,500 for the salaries of instructors during the year 1897-98. 2. That the Board appropriate $3,000 for the purchase of books. 3. That the Board appropriate $500 for any other other expenses necessarily incurred in this connection. 4. That the President be authorized and requested to present to the Board, at as early a date as practicable, detailed plans for the contemplated School. Very truly yours,

A. S. DRAPER,

President. I t was voted to establish a L a w School as proposed, a n d a p p r o p r i a t i o n s were m a d e therefor as r e c o m m e n d e d . T h e B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r was a u t h o r i z e d to lease, for use of t h e E x p e r i m e n t S t a t i o n , two t r a c t s of land, one for $25 a year rental, at O d i n , a n d t h e o t h e r at $10 a year rental, at Edgewood. T h e r e q u e s t for a messenger in t h e College of E n g i n e e r i n g was postponed. T h e r e p o r t of t h e S u p e r i n t e n d e n t of B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s was Teferred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s . . Mr. M c L e a n offered t h e following resolution, wThich was a d o p t e d : WHEREAS, The Chicago College of Pharmacy has become the School of Pharmacy of this University; in order that this Board may be fully and promptly advised of the doings and workings of said School, therefore be it Resolved, That a standing committee, consisting of five members (the President of the University and the Business Manager being two of these) be appointed, which shall report to this Board at its regular meetings concerning the School of Pharmacy.

MEDICAL SCHOOL.

T h e special committee, to which was referred at t h e m e e t i n g of t h e B o a r d held Sept. 15, 1896, propositions from two medical schools of Chicago, m a d e t h e following report. To the Board of Trustees. Your committee appointed at the last regular meeting, to consider a proposition from the Colleere of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, looking to