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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 30

power, belonging to the old heating plant, are not now in use. These boilers were too small to use in the new plant, as each boiler of that size would require very nearly as much care and labor in attending it as one boiler of the capacity of all. Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds has had these boilers painted over so as better to preserve them, and requests that the business manager be authorized and instructed to sell them for the greatest amount obtainable; but not for less than $600 for the four, or one or more at proportionate rates, having publicly invited proposals for them. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, J . E. ARMSTRONG,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds, T h e r e p o r t of t h e c o m m i t t e e was adopted.

FENCE AROUND ILLINOIS FIELD. SPRINGFIELD, I L L S . , Sept. 30,1898.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—Your Committee on Building and (irounds, in whose charge you placed the improvements to be made on Illinois Field, desires to report that a plat of the grounds and sketches of an iron picket fence seven feet high, two cross rails, three-quarter inch square pickets with malleable points on top, and with posts seven feet apart, were made by the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, together with specifications of materials and labor in its manufacture and erection. It was decided that two double gates twelve feet wide were necessary for carriage entrances and three single gates six feet wide for individual admission. Ornamental posts were planned for at the four corners and at the gates. Proposals were asked for seven companies who manufacture iron fences. The following bids were received:

Koken Iron Works, St. Louis Additional for erecting fence Stewart Iron Works, Cincinnati Additional for putting up Ellis & Helfenberger, Indianapolis Additional for putting up Plain fence Additional for putting up John Booth, Chicago Additional for putting up Dow Wire Works, Louisville Additional for putting up , Belmont Iron Works, Philadelphia., Additional for putting up., $4,300 001 400 00 [$4,700 00 $2,300 00 250 00 2,550 00 $2,545 00 150 00 2.695 00 $2,329 00 250 00 2,579 00 4,400 00 3,142 00 $3,148 00 350 00 3,498 00

Considering the prices and quality of work to be done the committee decided to award the contract to the Stewart Iron Works, of Cincinnati, O., which was c'one August 23d last, for the sum of $2,550, erected upon the campus. The work is to be done by October 15th next, and at this date a part of the fence has arrived and men for the work of erection. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, J . E. ARMSTRONG, M R S . LUCY L. FLOWER,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds, I t was ordered t h a t t h e r e p o r t b e p r i n t e d with t h e m i n u t e s .