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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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T h e C o m m i t t e e on A g r i c u l t u r e p r e s e n t e d t h e following report w h i c h was a p p r o v e d and a p p r o p r i a t i o n s were m a d e as t h e r e i n r e c ommended:

CHICAGO, Sept. 21, 1900.

lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: The Committee on Agriculture begs leave to recommend that, as the balance of last year's agricultural fund was, July 1st, as follows: United States fund, $3,536.17; endowment fund, $617.88; farm fund, $1,916.74; total, $6,070.79; and, as $5,000.00 of this was appropriated at the last meeting, the balance $1,070.79 be appropriated for the purchase of apparatus, refrigerating plant, etc., for the agricultural building. The balance of Experiment Station funds, July 1st, was $663.46, of which $97.21 has been expended during the current quarter, leaving $566.25. There will come to the Experiment Station from the State Board of Agriculture for analysis of fertilizers the sum of $350, which together with the balance makes $916\ 25. Your Committee recommends that this amount be appropriated for equipment of the College of Agriculture, and in addition thereto any balance which may exist at the end of the present quarter. It is estimated that the income of the College of Agriculture the present year will be as follows: U. S. $12,500.00; interest on endowment fund, 113,500.00; farm fund, $3,000.00. Total, $29,000.00. Of this amount there will be required for salaries $13,608.00, leaving for maintenance $15,320.00. Of this last amount there has been appropriated for the current quarter $3,900.00. Your Committee recommends that the salaries for instructors in domestic science be paid from farm receipts. Your Committee further recommends that the silos recently constructed be paid for from the special appropriation of $2,000.00, and that for this purpose $400.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, be appropriated. Your Committee also recommends that the cattle barn and the house occupied by Professor Davenport be wired for electric lighting and that $200.00 from the same fund be appropriated for this purpose. The Committee also recommends that an appropriation of $600.00 be made to supply steam heat for the agricultural building, the money to be paid from balances not otherwise appropriated. Eespectfully submitted,

ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT, MARY T. CARRIEL, THOMAS J. SMITH,

Committee on Agriculture. 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 p r e s e n t e d t h e followi n g r e p o r t w h i c h was a p p r o v e d : CHICAGO, Sept. 21,1900. lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds to which was referred a petition of the Mayor, Board of Local Improvement and certain property owners of the city of Champaign, to the effect that; the University aid in opening a street on the south side of the city limits of Champaign from Wright street west to Fourth street, begs leave to report that in the opinion of your Committee the benefits of the said streets would be enjoyed by the said property owners, and that, as they have the means within themselves to open the street, there is no occasion for the University to give land for one-half of said street, as the petitioners request. We look unon it as true that the University authorities are in sympathy with the spirit of improvement exhibited in both the cities of Champaign and Urbana, and that it will aid important improvements where its aid is necessary to the success of the undertaking, and where there is a compensating benefit to the University, either directly or indirectly.