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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. CONTRACT W I T H WATER WORKS COMPANY.

fSept. 9,

The Committee on Buildings and Grounds made the following report which was adopted, and the committee was authorized to make the contract proposed:

URBANA, ILLINOIS, September 10, 1902.

To the Board of Trustees, Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to which was referred the communication of the City Water Works Company, offering to provide for further fire protection, begs leave to report recommending that your committee be authorized to enter into a contract for ten years with the said company for all the service it may be able to render us for protection during fires at $150 a year. Eespectfully submitted,

ALEXANDER MCLEAN, S. A. BULLARD, A. F . NIGHTINGALE, F . M. M C K A Y , MARY T. CARRIEL,*

Comvfyittefi on Buildings and Grounds, N E W CHEMICAL BUILDING.

The Committee on Buildings and Grounds submitted the following report.

URBANA, ILLINOIS, September 9, 1902.

To the Board of Trustees. Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds begs leave to report concerning the new Chemical Laboratory that V. Jobst & Sons, contractors, have completed their contract and that the building has been turned over to the University. Mr. Spencer, the architect, reports that the work of the contractors has been good in every respect, and your committee is well satisfied with the work throughout. We recommend the acceptance of the building by the Board. During the progress of the work on the building a number of changes were found necessary and were made. These comprise mostly changes and enlargement in the facilities for ventilation, and in the preparation of the basement for storage purposes. The former amounted to an addition of $1,600 or more, and the latter to $1,170 for the concrete floor covering basement. The total amount for extra work is Deduct work omitted Net total for extra work $3,344 20 284 55 $3.059 65

This extra work was not permitted by the committee until we had fully examined into the necessities therefor, and were convinced that i t was not only desirable but necessary for the best use of the building as a laboratory, and that the expenditures proposed were reasonable for the amount of work to be done. We therefore recommend the payment of this amount to the contractors. Eespectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, A. F . NIGHTINGALE, i \ M. M C K A Y , MARY T. CARRIEL,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds.

The report of the committee was adopted and the charge for extras, $3,059.65, was ordered paid.