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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Dec. 19,

The action of the Committee was approved and an appropriation was made to pay the premium due. Three hundred dollars was appropriated for the purchase of asteam water-feed pump to be used in the heating plant. President Draper presented a request from the military band for an appropriation of $43.00 to liquidate a debt incurred by the band at its last concert. Consideration of the request was postponed. The Board then adjourned to meet at the Sherman House, in Chicago, at 9 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1900.

SESSION OF WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10, 1900.

The Board met pursuant to adjournment at the Sherman House,, in Chicago, Illinois, at 9 o'clock a. m., Wednesday, Jan. 10,1900. The members present were Messrs. Bayliss, Bullard, Fulkerson, Hatch, McKay, Nightingale, and Smith, and Mrs. Flower, Mrs. Carriel, and Mrs. Abbott; those absent were Governor Tanner, and Mr. McLean. President Draper was present. I n the absence of the President of the Board Mr. Bullard was made President, pro tern. Attention having been called to the matter by President Draper, it was ordered that the expenditure of $750.00 appropriated to the Agricultural Experiment Station by the General Assembly of 1899, (paragraph 47 of the Act of April 19, 1899, making an appropriation for the expenses of the State government) should be under the direction of the Business Manager of the University, and that receipted bills for such expenses, when audited and approved by him, should be forwarded to the State Auditor in order that warrants on the State Treasurer might be drawn for the payment of the same; and that the Business Manager should keep all necessary accounts concerning this appropriation. President Draper presented from Professor Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture, a request for some modifications of the plans of the dairy building.

CHANGES IN THE DAIRY BUILDING-.

1. Outside door receiving platform too narrow to admit weighing canChange places with the door into store room. 2. No opening into creamery room large enough to admit some of its machinery. Widen by leaving out west wall of bottling room, building the sterilizer beside the one in wash room, and put in two five-foot double doors, one into creamery, and the other into cheese room. 3. Communication with boiler room is had by first going four feet upstairs then down. Make direct entrance through store room, if necessary. 4. All drainage both in creamery and cheese rooms, is to one spot and without gutters. This will make sloppy rooms. Move bell trap about 6 feet from present position to a spot in center of room north and south and 8 feet from west wall, and make gutters leading north, south, and east to within three feet of wall of room In creamery make one gutter in cement floor, 9 feet from west wall extending to within 3 feet of sides of room and leading to bell trap at middle, to accommodate the churns. Also gutter in cement floor parallel to last, but 18 feet to the east with bell trap to ac-