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UNIVERSITY

OF I L L I N O I S .

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of the University to the College of Physicians and Surgeons to take the place of the present contract on this subject, and that said contract be submitted to the Board of Trustees for its consideration as soon as convenient—if necessary, at a special meeting called by thp president of the board for this purpose. Voted on motion of Mr. Hatch that such recommendation be approved and that a cony of the proposed contract be sent to each member of the board in advance of the meeting. 6. A recommendation that a copy of the joint resolution passed by the Legislature of the State relating to salaries at the University of Illinois be printed in the minutes of this meeting. Voted on motion of Mrs. Evans that said recommendation be approved.

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STATE OF ILLINOIS, DEPARTMENT OP STATE, To all to Whom these Presents shall Gome—Greeting: I, JAMES A. ROSE, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the following and hereto attached is a true copy of Senate Joint Resolution No. 12 of the Forty-sixth General Assembly, filed April 7, 1909, the original of which is now on file and a matter of record in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the great Seal of State. Done at the city of Springfield, this 8th day of April, A. D. 1909.

JAMES A. ROSE,

[SEAL.]

Secretary of State.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 12. WHEREAS, It is the evident will of the ^people of this commonwealth that the University of Illinois shall be made s*o complete in its organization and equipment that no son or daughter of this State shall be obliged to seek in other states or other countries those advantages of higher education which are necessary to the greatest efficiency of social service either in public or private station; and, WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has imposed upon this institution, in its Agricultural and Engineering Experiment Stations, and in its graduate school, the duty of carrying on extensive and important investigations of vital interest to the agriculture, industry and education of the State, and the conduct of these investigations calls for the very highest ability and the most thorough training on the part of those entrusted with their supervision; and, WHEREAS, The great progress of this institution in the last five years has attracted the attention of the whole country and made other institutions desirous of drawing away the members of the faculties in said University; and, WHEREAS, The present schedule of salaries is not sufficient to enable the institution to compete on equal grounds with other state and private universities in the United States; therefore, be it ' \ Resolved, by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That it is the sense of this General Assembly that the Board of Trustees