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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TRUSTEES.

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Meeting of June 2, 1905.

T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met at the College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, Friday, J u n e 2, 1905, at 2 : 0 0 o'clock p . m., in pursuance to the following call issued by the secretary M a y 25, 1 9 0 5 : "Upon the call of the president, Mr. S. A. Bullard, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, at the College of Medicine, corner of Congress and Honore streets, Chicago, Illinois, at 2:00 o'clock p. m., Friday, June 2, 1905, to authorize conferring degrees upon those students of the college Who are to be graduated on the following Tuesday, to elect a treasurer of the University, and to transact such other business as may be brought before the board." W h e n the board met pursuant to the foregoing notice all the members were present, viz.: Governor Deneen, Messrs. Abbott, Barber, Bayliss, Bullard, Davison, Kerrick, McKinley, M c L e a n a,nd M r s . A l exander, M r s . Busey, and M r s . Evans. President James w a s present.

TREASURER.

T h e Executive Committee made the following report which was received and confirmed.

UEBANA, I I I . , June 2, 1905.

To the Board of Trustees. Your Executive Committee would report that the treasurer of the University, Mr. Elbridge G. Keith, died in Chicago May 17, 1905. Your committee met Mr. James B. Forgan, the president of the First National Bank of Chicago, May 20th, and arranged with the First National Bank and the bondsmen of Mr. Keith to continue the payment of warrants against the treasurer, until such time as the board could elect a new treasurer and he should qualify for the office. The following is presented as the action of the bondsmen in regard to this matter, which the bank and your Executive Committee accepted and agreed to:

CHICAGO, I I I . , May 19, 1905.

The University of Illinois, The First National Bank of Chicago, and, all others whom it may concern: The undersigned sureties on the bond given by the late Elbridge G. Keith for the faithful performance of his duties as treasurer of the University of Illinois, hereby request that warrants drawn on said treasurer and payable at the First National Bank of Chicago be paid in due course notwithstanding said Elbridge G. Keith's death until a successor to him as such treas" urer be elected and qualified, and in consideration of any and all such payments the undersigned hereby undertake and agree that the bond of said