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1904.]

PROCEEDINGS OP THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. STREET PAVING.

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A communication from Mr. J. A. Glover, Mayor of Urbana, with regard to paving on the east side of the University grounds was presented, and the President and Secretary of the Board were authorized to sign on the behalf of the University, a petition for such pavement, payment for the same to be made in installments. Captain T. J. Smith's bill of $350.00 for legal services in connection with the injunction suit against the Urbana & Champaign Railway, Gas and Electric Company was ordered paid.

SCHOOL OF PHARMACY.

The Committee on the School of Pharmacy, with the Business Manager, was instructed to report the next morning with regard to the policy to be pursued concerning the school during next year.

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY.

The Committe on the School of Medicine, with the Business Manager, was instructed to confer with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, and arrange, if found practicable, for the separation of the School of Dentistry from the College of Medicine, and reorganizing the school as the College of Dentistry of the University of Illinois. Mr. George W. Gere's bill for legal services in connection with the purchase of the Allen and McGuire properties, the acquiring of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and in the trial of the case of Copeland vs. University of Illinois, et al., with expenses in connection therewith, the amount being $290.05, was ordered paid.

LOCATION OF T H E AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS.

After hearing Professor Blair, of the Horticultural Department, it was voted to locate the new buildings for the live stock department 300 feet south of the road running east and west, north of the house occupied by Dean Davenport, as shown on plat presented; and the new building for the Horticultural Department north of said road, on division F of plat shown. It was ordered that the plantings by the Horticultural Department in the tract lying west of Wright street extended, should be of such a nature as not to occupy the grounds more than twelve years from this date. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds was authorized, when plans and specifications had been fully completed, to advertise for bids for the erection of these buildings.