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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAKD OP TRUSTEES.

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voted to recommend to the board allowing the company to lay a second track under such restrictions as might be formulated by Judge Harker and the Supervising Architect. Your committee also met a special committee appointed by the Champaign Chamber of Commerce, which asked that the board agree for the University that the University bear its share of an extensive drainage system, which involved covering in with brick the boneyard for a considerable distance. Your committee told these gentlemen that at present the University had no funds which could be used for such a purpose, and on so short notice, and with so little knowledge of what the University's share of the expense might be, it could not think of going to the Legislature and asking for a special appropriation for this purpose. Respectfully submitted,

FRED L. HATCH, CHARLES DAVISON, LAURA B. EVANS,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds. The items of the report were considered severally. The first with regard to the track on Green street was adopted. The second with regard to the additional track on the "old right-ofway" was referred again to J u d g e Harker. The action of the committee with regard to the drainage proposition was approved.

W A T E R P I P E ACROSS S O U T H C A M P U S .

A communication was received from the clerk of the city of Champaign, and also one from the Champaign and Urbana Water Company asking that the water company be permitted to lay a water pipe across the south campus along the line of the railway track. These communications were referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to act.

M I L I T A R Y AND B A N D S C H O L A R S H I P S .

Upon request of the comptroller, Professor S. W. Shattuck, $2,000 was by the following vote appropriated for the payment of military and band scholarships: Yeas, Messrs. Abbott, Crebs, Davison, Grout and Hatch, and Mrs. Alexander, Mrs, Evans and Mrs. Busey; nays, n o n e ; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Blair, Meeker and Moore.

E E P O R T OF T H E A U D I T COMPANY.

Mr. Grout, from the Committee on Finance, presented the report of •the Audit Company for the quarter ending March 3 1 , 1909. May 22, 1909. Mr. Albert P. Grout, Chairman, Finance Committee, University of Illinois: DEAE SIR—In compliance with instructions, we have made an audit of the hooks of account of the University of Illinois for the period from Jan. 1 to March 31, 1909, heing the third quarter of your fiscal year, and submit, herewith, our report, together with the appended exhibits and schedules showing the receipts and disbursements in detail for the quarter and in total from July 1, 1908 to March 31, 1909.