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19011

PEOOEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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On motion of Mr. McLean the foregoing recommendations were referred to the Committee on Finance with instructions to report thereon at this session of the Board. It was voted to amend the report of the Committee on Instruction as follows: 1. To make Dean Scott's compensation $2,750.00 a year. 2. To make Miss Carpenter's compensation $1,000.00 a year. 3. To make Professor Talbot's compensation $2,300.00 a year. A recess of fifteen minutes was then taken in order that the Committee on Finance might consider the report, and at the conclusion of the recess the Finance Committee reported as follows. URBANA, June 11,1901. lo the Board of Trustees: Your Finance Committee begs leave to report on the matter of salaries referred to it that, not having had sufficient time to investigate the subject, fully, the whole matter is respectfully reported back to the Board without recommendation. Respectfully submitted,

F. M. MCKAY, ALEX MCLEAN,

Finance Committee, The report was accepted. The report of the Committee on Instruction, as amended was then adopted on motion of Mrs. Carriel, appointments and appropriations being made as therein recommended. President Draper presented the resignation of Mr. N. S. Spencer, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, and it was accepted to take effect September 1, 1901. President Draper also presented a communication from the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds with reference to repairs needed and the employes of his department. This was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, with power to act. A communication was received from the "Board in Control of Athletics" asking for an appropriation for the improvement of Illinois Field and for the building of a grand stand thereon. Fifteen hundred dollars was appropriated to extend the fence about Illinois Field and to improve the ball diamond. The salary of W. L. Pillsbury as Secretary and Registrar was made $2,350.00 a year. President Draper presented a communication from Major Feoh6t, Professor of Military Science, asking that from Sept. 1, 1901, during the remainder of his detail, he be allowed $48.00 a month as "commutation of quarters." I t was voted that the request be complied with.