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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 6,

Mr. Bullard then called up the following resolutions which had also been presented at the meeting of April 28, and laid over to this meeting, and moved the adoption of the first of them.

Besolved, That the Pharmacy Department shall hereafter be denominated the College of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois. Besolved, That the salaries of the corps of instruction hereafter be made independent of the income from the fees of the department; and the President is requested to consider duly this change in annually reporting on the corps of instruction of the department.

It was moved to amend this resolution by striking out the word "College" and inserting the word "School." The amendment was adopted by the following vote: Yeas, Messrs. Hatch, Kerrick, McLean, Nightingale and Mrs. Evans; nays, Mr. Bullard, Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Alexander; absent Governor Yates, Messrs. Bayliss, Dickirson and McKinley. The resolution as amended was adopted. Mr. Bullard moved the adoption of the second resolution, After much discussion this resolution was laid on the table. The following resolution offered by Mr. Nightingale was adopted:

WHEREAS, Since the School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois belongs to the University, having been received by gift, and "WHEREAS, I t is the desire of the University to place the School on a firm basis, as a department of the University, and to furnish it such an equipment as will make it a continued credit to the University, and of extended use to pharmaceutical science, therefore Besolved, That the University ask of the legislature, at its coming session, a reasonable appropriation to carry out this purpose.

A motion that $3,000 be appropriated for the use of the School of Pharmacy from the fees of the University was lost on the following vote: Yeas, Messrs. Bullard and Hatch, and Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Alexander; nays, Messrs. Kerrick, McLean and Nightingale and Mrs. Evans; absent, Governor Yates and Messrs. Bayliss, Dickirson and McKinley. Mr. McLean offered the following resolution which was adopted:

Besolved, That the Business Manager advance from time to time as needed to furnish the School of Pharmacy a sum not to exceed $3,000, and that said sum of $3,000 be repaid into the treasury of theUniversity out of the fees and such other receipts as said School shall receive on or before the 1st day of September, 1905.