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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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[March 10,

that will occupy a great part of said lots five, six, seven, and eight, and the alley-way adjoining lots five and six on the south and lots seven and eight on the north and proposes in consideration of the portion of the alley so desired being vacated, that it will, for public use, dedicate, grant, and convey to the city of Urbana from the west side of lot eight and the east side of lot nine a strip of ground equal in width to said alley running from the north line of lots eight and nine to the south lines of the same and to their intersection with Springfield Avenue. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Urbana, That to enable the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to construct a building for its School of Education on lots five, six, seven, and eight, in block fifty-five, Seminary Addition to the city of Urbana, all that portion of the alley which traverses said block from east to west for the distance of one hundred and thirtytwo feet immediately east from Mathews Avenue be vacated, and that the course of said alley be changed so as to turn south from the east end of the one hundred and thirty—two feet so vacated and extend south with a uniform width of sixteen and one-half feet to the north line of Springfield Avenue. •Sec. 2. The vacation of said alley for the one hundred and thirty-two feet as described in section one shall in no wise and to no extent become effective until the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois shall by proper deed of conveyance grant and convey to the city of Urbana for the use of the public as an alley*way a strip of ground;from the east side of lot eight and the west side of lot nine in said block fifty-five of the uniform width of sixteen and one-half feet and extending from the north line of said lots to Springfield Avenue and shall grade and improve suclq strip from its point of intersection with Springfield Avenue to the present alley with proper curve so as to put the same in condition equal to that of the present alley. \ Sec. 3. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois is required and % agrees that it will replace that portion of the sanitary sewer running through the alley-way mentioned, which is to be vacated, with a cast iron bell and spigot pipe, with joints properly caulked with lead and oakum for the whole distance of 132 feet, whenever ordered so to do by the city engineer of the city of Urbana. On the recommendation of President James, it was voted to print this ordinance in the minutes. Mr. Trevett suggested that the matter of the title to the alley be referred to the Legal Counsel of the University for investigation.

LOCOMOTIVE TESTING LABORATORY. URBANA, I I I . , March 5, 1914.

(10) A letter concerning the running of the Locomotive Testing Laboratory. Mr. Edmund J. James, President University of Illinois, Urbana, III. DEAR S I R : We respectfully call your attention to the fact that the smoke, noise, vibration caused by the running of the locomotive in the Testing Laboratory are an annoyance to the citizens who live nearby. We ask you, therefore, to use your influence toward having this condition remedied in so far as is possible. Very respectfully,

H. A. MILLER, C. W. YAPP, J. C. W H I T E , J. B. BENNETT, MRS. J. M. DUNSETH.

On the recommendation of President James, it was ordered that the receipt of the petition be acknowledged and that steps be taken to make the use of the Laboratory as inoffensive as possible.

IMPORT ORDER, BOTANY AND BACTERIOLOGY.

(11) A request from Professor William Trelease, Head of the Department of Botany, for permission to place an import order to the amount of $2,100 for the purchase of glassware, chemicals, apparatus, microscopes, etc., for the Departments of Botany and Bacteriology. * On the recommendation of President James and on motion of Superintendent Blair, the desired authority was given and the appropriation involved was made. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery.

P E T I T I O N OF DR. A. G. F A I R F A X .

(12) A letter from Dr. A. G. Fairfax, of Chicago, petitioning for admission to the senior class of the College of Medicine. The discussion of this petition was deferred until the arrival of Dr. Montgomery (see page 730).