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UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S .

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of the building in accordance with this decision. These plans we lay before you and we ask your approval of the same and that the Committee may be authorized to have the work done and the building prepared for the use of the College at the opening of the session in September next. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, ALEX. M C L E A N , MARY T. CARRIEL, A. F . NIGHTINGALE,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds. T h e action of t h e C o m m i t t e e was approved. T h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s s u b m i t t e d t h e following r e p o r t w h i c h was adopted.

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

lo the Board of Irustees. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds reports that about the middle of February Mr. Fred Lu Peterson resigned as Superintendent of Buildings, the same to take effect March 1. The Committee being in session at the University about that time the matter was fully considered and the recommendation of President Draper, that the duties of the Superintendent of Buildings be transferred for the time being to the Superintendent of the Central Heating Station, was accepted. Your Committee now recommends that for the rest of the year Mr. Joseph Morrow be charged with the responsibilities of both positions, and that he be allowed, with the approval of the President of University, to employ a clerk or assistant at a salary of $50 per month; and that while Mr. Morrow continues to fill both positions his salary be at the rate of $1,500 yer year the same to commence March 1.

S. A. ALEX MARY A. F BULLARD, MCLEAN, TURNER CARRIEL. NIGHTINGALE,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds.

N E W CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

. T h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s a n d G r o u n d s m a d e t h e following r e p o r t which was a d o p t e d , a n d t h e a p p r o p r i a t i o n r e c o m m e n d e d was made. lo the Board of Irustees: Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds desires to report in regard to the heating, ventilation, and plumbing of the new chemical laboratory that since letting the general contract for the building it has been evident that we should be able to complete the building within the appropriation only with the most rigid economy. We have felt also that it was not desirable to cheapen unduly or complete unsatisfactorily any portion of the work but rather to make plain and substantial, and yet attractive withal, all parts of the work still to be done. With this end in view we had the specifications for the heating, ventilation, and plumbing of the building prepared; and we took the further precaution to have bids called for in several ways, so that we could have the choice of having a part or all of the work done at once. February 28, your Committee received the following sealed proposals for doing all this work: Walsh &Heuck, Champaign, 111 $14,130 32 H. Sandmeyer & Co., Peoria 14,270 00 Field, Shorb & Co., Decatur, 111 13,171 69 J . D. Wallace, Champaign, 111 14,700 00 Thomas & Smith, Chicago, 111 14,871 00

URBANA, March 11, 1902.