Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912 [PAGE 185]

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1911]

PROCEEDINGS OE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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2a. F o r increase of historic, scientific and a r t i s t i c cabinets and collections, four t h o u s a n d dollars $4,000.00) per annum * $ 8,000 00 • 3. F o r additions to the library, twenty-five t h o u s a n d dollars ($25,000.00) per a n n u m 50,000 00 4. F o r fire protection, fifteen h u n d r e d dollars ($1,500.00) • per a n n u m 3,000 00 4a. F o r additions to a p p a r a t u s and appliances, four thousand dollars ($4,000.00)' per a n n u m 8,000 00 5. F o r laying p a v e m e n t s and w a l k s and widening walks around m a i n buildings, four t h o u s a n d dollars ($4,000.00) per a n n u m 8,000 00 6. F o r m a i n t e n a n c e and extension of t h e engineering college ' and t h e expenses of the E n g i n e e r i n g E x p e r i m e n t Station, n i n e t y t h o u s a n d dollars ($90,000.00) per a n n u m . . 180,000 00 7. F o r p a i n t i n g and repairs on buildings and improvements to grounds, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) per a n n u m . . . . .... 50,000 00 8. F o r c a r r y i n g on State W a t e r Survey, seventy-five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) per a n n u m * 15,000 00 9. F o r m a i n t e n a n c e of D e p a r t m e n t of Social and Political Science and I n d u s t r i a l Economics, including instruction in banking, insurance, railway administration, farm organization and m a n a g e m e n t , agricultural education, etc., twenty-five t h o u s a n d dollars ($25,000.00) per a n n u m : .... 50,000 00 10. F o r equipment and support of L a w School, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) per a n n u m 50,000 00 11. F o r equipment and m a i n t e n a n c e of t h e School of Pharmacy, t e n t h o u s a n d dollars ($10,000.00) per a n n u m . . . 20,000 00 12. F o r equipment and m a i n t e n a n c e of Chemical Laboratory, ten t h o u s a n d dollars ($10,000.00) per a n n u m . 20,000 00 13. F o r m a i n t e n a n c e of t h e Graduate School, fifty t h o u s a n d dollars ($50,000.00) per a n n u m 100,000 00 Total .' $1,724,000 00 SEC. 2. T h a t t h e r e be and is hereby appropriated for t h e equipment, maintenance and extension of t h e College of Medicine of t h e University of Illinois the sum of sixty t h o u s a n d dollars ($60,000.00) per a n n u m . SEC. 3. T h a t i t shall be t h e duty of t h e College of Agriculture t o give thorough and reliable instruction in t h e economic production of crops; t h e t r e a t m e n t vOf t h e different soils of t h e S t a t e in such m a n n e r a s to secure largest r e t u r n s from each and w i t h o u t i m p a i r i n g i t s fertility; t h e principles of breeding and m a n a g e m e n t of live stock, including a n i m a l diseases and a thorough knowledge of the v a r i o u s breeds and m a r k e t classes; the economic and s a n i t a r y production of dairy goods, and t h e best method of m e e t i n g existing m a r k e t demands, and of extending and developing t r a d e in t h e agricultural productions of t h e State. T h a t it shall be t h e f u r t h e r duty of said college to provide and m a i n t a i n such live stock specimens, laboratories, a p p a r a t u s and other m a t e r i a l equipment, together w i t h teachers of such experience and skill as shall m a k e such i n s t r u c t i o n effective. T h a t to* carry out t h e provisions of t h i s section t h e r e be, and hereby is, appropriated t h e sum of two h u n d r e d and seven thousand, nine h u n d r e d dollars ($207,900.00) annually, for t h e years 1911 a n d 1912. SEC. 4. T h a t it shall be t h e duty of t h e Agricultural E x p e r i m e n t Station to conduct investigations calculated to develop the beef, pork, mutton, wool and horse producing i n t e r e s t s o f - t h e State, and especially to devise a n d conduct feeding experiments intended to determine t h e most successful combination of stock foods, particularly in Illinois g r a i n s and forage crops;'ati& to discover t h e most economical and successful m e t h o d s of m a i n t a i n i n g ant-