Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 614]

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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S .

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

[June

29

Repairs, etc.

MUSEUM.

$32i000 00

Additions, equipment, etc

M I N I N G ENGINEERING.

2,000 00

Expenses

MISCELLANEOUS.

2,300 00

a.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Board expense .Labor and services Gas, coal, etc Printing and postage and catalog and advertising.. Furniture and fixtures Summer session Lectures Sstenographer (vice-president's office) High school contest Public school drawing exhibition Editing catalog, etc Alumni quarterly Stenographer (catalog %) Blue printing Editing University bulletins Incidentals '

2,500 60,000 40,000 12,000 5,000 $119,500 15,000 5,000 300 400 50 500 1,000 300 500 1,000 8,000

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 QO 00 00 00

b.

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Total $32,050 00 On motion of Mr. Crebs and by the following vote, the budget was approved as presented: Yeas, Abbott, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Crebs, Davison, Governor Deneen, Mrs. Evans, Grout and H a t c h ; nays, n o n e ; absent, Blair, Meeker, Moore and Mrs. Busey. 3. Opinion of Judge O. A: Harker, counsel of the University, concerning the power of the Board of Trustees to regulate the use of the University driveways by automobiles, motor cycles and other vehicles.

URRANA, I I I . , May 31, 1910.

Dr. Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. DEAR SIR—In compliance with your request I am pleased to submit to you the following: OPINION as to the power of the Board of Trustees to regulate the use of automobiles and motor cycles within the University grounds. The Board of Trustees has legal and exclusive control of all the University grounds except where traversed by public highways. As I understand it, the right of easement in the public streets extends only to Springfield avenue and that part of Green street lying east of the Engineering Hall in the entire body of land bounded by University avenue on the north, Wright street on the west, Romine street and Mathews avenue on the east, and a direct line from the south end of Wright street to the south end of Mathews avenue on the south. Over the remainder of the University grounds north of the public highway extending east and west immediately north of the cemetery the public have no right to easement whatever. The mere fact that the University authorities have laid out walks and driveways over its grounds for the accommodations of students, teachers,