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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[ J u n e 9,

SESSION O F TUESDAY, June 9, 1903. When the Board met pursuant to adjournment the same members were present as on Monday, excepting Mr. Bayliss.

COAL CONTRACT.

The following resolution offered by Mr. Bullard was adopted:

Ordered, that the Buildings and Grounds Committee be authorized and instructed to call for proposals for coal for the year beginning September 1, 1903, and for hauling the same, and upon receiving satisfactory bids to enter into contracts therefor in the usual form and manner and report what it does to the Board.

It was also voted, on motion of Mr. Bullard, that a standing committee on the College of Engineering be appointed by the Chair. President Draper stated that the Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, upon whom it had been voted to confer the degree of doctor of laws at commencement, would, on account of illness, not be able to be present on that day, and recommended that the rule of the Board requiring candidates for honorary degrees to be present when such degrees were to be conferred, be suspended in his case, and that the degree be conferred as if he were present. It was so ordered. A communication was received from Mr. L. C. Miller asking that he be allowed to continue the operation of the Dining Hall. The request was not granted.

TREASURER'S BOND.

The Executive Committee made the following report, which was adopted:

April 23, 1903. To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: The undersigned Executive Committee, to which your Board referred the matter of obtaining a bond of E. G. Keith, Treasurer elect of said Board, would report that we have attended to the same and obtained the bond with such sureties as we deem to be satisfactory and recommend your approval of the same. We also submit the bond together with certificate of the First National Bank and letter of Edward Dickinson, Assistant Cashier of said B a n k ; the same to be made part of this report, and that said papers be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Board.

ERED L. H A T C H , ALEXANDER M C L E A N ,

Executive Committee. K N O W ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, Elbridge G. Keith, as principal, and William J . Watson, Arthur Dixon, James B . Forgan, and T. P . Phillips as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the University of Illinois, of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, State of Illinois, in the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000), good and lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly, severally and firmly by these presents. W I T N E S S our hands and seal this 22d day of April, A. D. 1903.