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1902]

PEOCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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T h e following estimates b y Professor D a v e n p o r t , D e a n of t h e College of A g r i c u l t u r e , with r e g a r d to expenses in t h e College of A g r i c u l t u r e and t h e A g r i c u l t u r a l E x p e r i m e n t S t a t i o n for t h e q u a r t e r e n d i n g J u n e 30, 1902, were a p p r o v e d :

FOR THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. FOR THE EXPERIMENT STATION.

F r o m General F u n d Agronomy Animal h u s b a n d r y Dairy h u s b a n d r y Horticulture Household science Veterinary science Thremmatology From R e c e i p t s Animal h u s b a n d r y Dairy h u s b a n d r y Horticulture Office and incidentals

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$900 00 700 00 700 00 700 00 150 00 50 00 100 00 $3,300 00 $ 150 00 1,400 00 150 00 200 00 $1,900 00

F r o m General F u n d , U. S.— Salaries Agronomy Animal h u s b a n d r y Dairy h u s b a n d r y Horticulture Botany Publications Office and incidentals F r o m Receipts, U. S. F u n d Agronomy F r o m R e c e i p t s , State S t a t i o n H o r t i c u l t u r a l fund

$1,625 00 400 00 300 00 300 00 300 00 100 00 450 00 275 00 $3,750 00 $330 00 250 00

J . L . R a y ' s bill of $90, for legal services and for p r i n t i n g in t h e case of D. H . Clark vs. T h e U n i v e r s i t y of Illinois, in t h e A p p e l l a t e C o u r t , was approved a n d ordered paid. Notices of certain claims against t h e contractors, Kelly & O ' B r i e n , were referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s and G r o u n d s .

STREET CAR R I G H T OF WAY.

T h e following report relative to the a t t e m p t of t h e U r b a n a a n d C h a m p a i g n S t r e e t Railway C o m p a n y to renew its t r a c k along t h e old line was a d o p t e d :

URBANA, I I I . , March 11, 1902.

lo the Board of Trustees: At the last meeting: of the Board of Trustees the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, with President Draper added, was directed to take steps which would prevent the Urbana and Champaign Street Railway Company from operating two lines of road through our grounds, and it* possible to reach an adjustment with the company. Immediately after the Board meeting the Committee hrld a conference with the president and counsel of the road, at which it was agreed that the University should request the city of Urbana to extend the franchise of the company running from the University grounds east to Goodwin avenue and north to the old line of the road for a period of 20 years, and that in consideration of this the road should quit claim any rights which it might have to the strip of land over which it was operated through the University ground* just north of the Machine Shops prior to the laying of the line on Green street. Pursuant to this, the members of the Committee made very earnest request of the city council of Urbana to grant the extension of franchise. After much urging the council reluctantly did it. It is true that the council amended the franchise as drawn by the counsel of the railroad company in three particulars: (a) Bv providing that the company should operate a service between Urbana and Champaign as often as every 12 minutes; (b) by making the franchise extend from the east side of the University lands rather than throusrh the University lands to Wright street; and (c) ttiat the franchise should only take effect upon the company giving up all claim to its right of way through the University grounds. In view of the expressed willingness of the president of the railway company to make a ten-minute service