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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Dec. 8

five feet six inches (5 feet 6 inches) west of present west curb line of said Matthews avenue to a point east of the north end of the Agricultural building of-the University of Illinois, thence turning westerly upon a seventy-five (75) foot radius curve and crossing the campus along a line coinciding with the center line of the present paved portion of Daniel street, extended, to a point not more than seventy-three (73) feet east of the present east curb line of Wright street from which point the line shall turn northward toward Wright street on a seventy-five (75) foot "radius curve and run northward in the paved portion of Wright street west of the present east curb to John street." In consideration of the permission to construct, maintain and operate an electric" railway across the University campus granted by the Trustees to the Company, the Company agrees, in constructing the railway to be guided by specifications .to be approved by the Trustees of the University respecting the location, grade or grades, kind of rails, trolley poles, etc. The Company will also, at its own expense, make all changes in and repairs to walks, drives, tunnels, sewers, pipes, etc., necessitated by the construction work. The Company further at its own expense will grade the approach to its track across said campus on either side so as to afford an easy slope on either side to said tracks and facilitate crossing the same, in accordance with specifications and directions furnished by the University; and in the event that the grade of said campus shall hereafter be changed by said University, said Company agrees to make the changes in the grade of its track necessary to conform to such altered grade of said campus. The trolley wires shall be supported on poles of ornamental design, placed on one side of the track only, and shall not carry feeder cable nor cables. A sheltered waiting room of approved design shall be erected when1 required by the Trustees at some convenient location to be designated by them at the time. The permission hereby granted the Company to cross the campus with its track does not constitute an easement or exclusive right to the land so occupied, and although the Company agrees to gravel or sod, as required, the space between the rails and for a distance of three (3) feet on either side thereof, the Trustees do not waive their police nor other jurisdiction over this strip of land. The Company further agrees that should the track as located be found to interfere, with future building plans, it will, at its own expense and within twelve months after receiving written notice to that effect, move its tracks to a new location to be designated by the Trustees, so as to accommodate such new building plans, without materially altering or impairing the efficiency of the route herein specified. The party of the second part would regard a route running immediately south of the present Agricultural building, and, if necessary, directly west across the campus to Wright street and thence north in Wright street as not "materially altering or impairing the efficiency of the route herein specified." We recommend that the Board of Trustees approve of the agreement and that the officers of the board be authorized to execute the same.

(Signed) W. L. ABBOTT,

• E. J. JAMES.

On motion of Mr. Madden the report of the special committee was approved by unanimous vote, and the executive officers of the board were authorized to sign the agreement. The committee submitted to be printed as a part of the record in this case the following exhibits: A. A letter of the president of the University, dated Nov. 10, 1908, to Hon. William B. McKinley, president of the Illinois Traction System, Champaign, 111., as to conditions on which the Board of Trustees had indicated their willingness to grant the permit asked for by the Champaign and Urbana Railway, Gas and Electric Company.