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48

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Jan. 23,

The Committee also recommends an appropriation of not to exceed $100.00, to be paid from the State appropriation for buildings and grounds, for the purpose of dressing and oiling the floors of the rooms of the domestic science department. The Committee also recommends that the executive department of the Illinois Farmers' Institute be invited to recommend to this Board one of their number to serve on the Advisory Board of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Eespectfully submitted,

ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT, MARY T. CARRIEL, FRED L. HATCH, F. M. MCKAY,

Committee on Agriculture.

CAPT. CLARK'S CLAIM.

A majority report from the Finance committee, signed by Messrs. McKay and Smith, was presented by Mr McKay, recommending that the sum of $550 be paid Capt. Clark. Mr. McKay moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Nightingale, of the same committee, presented a minority report, declaring that there was due Capt. Clark only so much as remained unpaid of the amount which it was agreed to pay him on account of his children's tuition, and recommending that this amount, and no more, be paid. Mr. Nightingale moved that the minority report be substituted for the majority report. After a long discussion, the previous question having been ordered, the minority report was substituted for 4he majority report by the following vote: Yeas—Mrs. Abbott and Messrs. Bayliss, Hatch, Nightingale, McLean and Bullard; nays—Mrs. Carriel and Messrs. McKay and Smith; absent, Governor Yates, Mr. Conrad and Mrs. Flower. The minority report was then adopted by the same vote. The following resolution was adopted: Besolved, That the Board has learned with pleasure of the promotion of Captain Daniel H. Brush, for four years professor of military science and tactics in the University, and now with the army in the Philippines, to the position of Major in the United States army, and hereby sends its congratulations to Major Brush, with its best wishes for his good health and his prosperity. The Board adjourned until 2:00 o'clock p. m.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

When the Board met pursuant to adjournment the same members were present as in the morning. At the suggestion of Mr. Bullard, the Board listened to the-statement of Mr. Llewellyn, the architect of the Agricultural Buildings,, regarding the construction of the buildings.