Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914 [PAGE 261]

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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FOR P U R C H A S E OF CLASSICAL A N D PEDAGOGICAL LIBRARIES.

(20) A request for authority to purchase, from the book firm of Gustave Fock, of Leipzig, the classical philogical library of the late Johannes Vahlen, Professor of Classical Philology in the University of Berlin, and also to purchase of the same firm the pedagogical library of the late R. Aron, of Berlin, a t a price not to exceed the sum of twenty thousand five hundred dollars ($20,500) for both collections. On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, it was voted that such authority be given to the President of the University. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery. ATTENTION CALLED TO PROPOSED SITE FOR NEW LIBRARY,

President James called the attention of the board to the recommendations made by the supervising architect, approved by the State Architect, concerning the location of the proposed new Library Building, as printed in the minutes of January 7, 1913, pages — , and asked that each member of the board inspect the proposed location, as further recommendations will be made on this matter at a later meeting of the board. *At this point President James withdrew, having an engagement to address a meeting of alumni then in progress. RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING T H E APPROPRIATION T H E GENERAL ASSEMBLY. BILL BEFORE

On motion of Mrs. Busey, the following resolution was adopted: WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees of the University is informed that the University appropriation bill before the General Assembly contains a clause providing as follows: "The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants from time to time upon the State Treasurer, for amounts expended or bills then due, from the sums herein appropriated, payable severally to the persons named, upon the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor, certified to by the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, with the corporate seal of the University attached thereto." Therefore, Be it Resolved, That the Board of Trustees respectfully protests to the Appropriations Committee against the clause above quoted and requests the substitution of the following clause: The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sums hereby appropriated upon the order of the Board of Trustees of said University, attested by its secretary and the corporate seal of the University; provided that ho part of said sum shall be due and payable to said Board of Trustees until itemized vouchers shall be filed with the Auditor for all previous expenditures incurred by the University on account of the appropriations hitherto m a d e ; and provided further that vouchers shall be taken in duplicate and that the original duplicate vouchers be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts for the expenditures of the sums appropriated in this Act. The board adjourned. W. L. ABBOTT, President. C. M. MCCONN, Secretary.

* See insert, meeting of June 25,1913, page 263.