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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OE TRUSTEES.

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a contract, approved by the Board of Trustees in their proceedings of Jan. 22, 1907, under which we pay the Home Telephone Company a rental of $3.00 per year for each telephone and extension. We now have 156 telephones on the campus and 37 extensions, making a total of 193 telephones, upon which we pay the Home Telephone Company for exchange service $579.00 per annum. Our contract with this company is indefinite as to time and was probably made when there was no expectation of our extending the system to its present numbers. There are at present on the campus 18 Bell telephones and five extensions, of which number the University pays for fourteen of the telephones and for the five extensions, at the following rate: President's office, $3.00 per month; all other telephones, $2.00 per month; extensions, $1.00 each per month. This makes the total rental per annum payable to the Bell Company, for the fourteen telephones and five extensions, $420.00. We have nothing whatever to do with the maintenance of the Bell telephones. The other four Bell telephones on the campus are located respectively in the State Geological Survey, the State Laboratory of Natural History, the State Entomologist's office, and the Diphtheria Testing Laboratory, and are paid for out of other funds than the regular telephone appropriations. The total maintenance expense therefore for telephone service per year at the University is represented by the following: Services charged by the Home Telephone Company, as per foregoing statement $579 00 Services charged by the Bell Telephone Company 420 00 Maintenance cost of our own telephones 579 00 Total, per annum $1,578 00 To which must be added the installation of new telephones. The State appropriation for telephone exchange was $1,500.00, for one year only, and since that fund was exhausted bills for telephone service have been met out of the general funds. In April, 1907, the board authorized the acceptance of a proposition made by the Bell Telephone Company to connect with five trunk lines to the University telephone exchange at an annual rental of $180.00 for the entire service. The Bell Telephone Company, however, found upon investigation that the proposition was not a feasible one, and nothing has been done in that connection. Respectfully submitted,

J A M E S M. WHITE,

Supervising The committee adjourned.

A. W. C. M. MOCONN, P. L.

Architect,

GROUT, ABBOTT.

Clerk'.

Adjourned Session, January 26, 1911.

P u r s u a n t to the adjournment taken at the evening session of J a n u ary. 17, 1911, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois m e t at the University in Urbana on Wednesday, J a n u a r y 25, 1911, to attend the unveiling of the portrait of James 1ST. Brown in the U n i -