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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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1899] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 127 M E E T I N G OP T H E E X E C U T I V E COMMITTEE, J U L Y 5,1899. A duly called meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the Sherman House, in Chicago, Illinois, July 5, 1899. There were present Mr. McLean and Mrs. Flower; absent, Mr. McKay. I t was ordered that Professor Tompkins be allowed $150.00 in addition to the amount which was allowed him by the Board at its session June 27th, inasmuch as he stated that in order to serve at the Summer School "he withdrew from other engagements from which he would have realized the sum of $1,000.00." Professor Burrill had reported that it was necessary to procure the services of an assistant in botany and zoology for the Summer School, and he was given authority to obtain such assistant at a salary not to exceed $100.00. ' ALEX. M C L E A N , President. MEETING OF JULY 26, 1899. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met in the Trustees' Room, Library Building, Urbana, Illinois, on the forenoon of Wednesday, July 26, 1899. All the members of the Committee were present. Vice-President Burrill was also present. The following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois be authorized to sign a petition to the Board of Local Improvements of the city of Champaign requesting that Wright street be paved with brick, with curbs and gutters of cement, from John street to University avenue in the said city of Champaign. The Committee on Agriculture was authorized to make the following repairs on the south farm, and the sum of $163.00 was appropriated therefor: To take up and relay, setting it two feet lower in cement, 42 feet of the foundation wall of the barn, material furnished and wall laid for To repair house drain and sink To build 120 rods of wire fence at 65 cents a rod N $75 00 10 00 78 00
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