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PKOCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES. [ENCLOSURE.]

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. For the Year, September 1, 1910, to September 1, 1911. Receipts Vr $100,310 90 Expenditures 94,165 77 Balance, September 1, 1911 $6,145 13 Collected on account of the year 1910 in the year 1911-12 1,017 00 Total balance for year $7,162 13 Two missionary scholarships returned 2,000 00 Final balance for the year 1910-11 $5,162 13 For the Ten Months, September 1, 1911, to July 1, 1912. Receipts $98,519 29 Less receipts belonging to year 1910-11 1,017 00 $97,502 29 Expenditures 89,423 76 Balance, July 1, 1912

August 8, 1912. COUNSEL'S S T A T E M E N T .

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$8,078 53

S. W. SHATTUCK.

President Edmund J. James, University

MY DEAR PRESIDENT J A M E S :

of Illinois.

August 5, 1912.

[Two paragraphs of Mr. Harker's letter, relating to an entirely difffferent matter, are here omitted.] Professor Shattuck and I have agreed upon terms of settlement with the College of Physicians and Surgeons except as to the earnings under the lease of 1910-1911. I have advised him that he should pay over none of those, earnings unless expressly authorized by the Board of Trustees or the Executive Committee. I am satisfied that the Internal Revenue Department will not insist upon any claim for t a x free alcohol that was used for educational and scientific purposes. What I mean is that the department will make no claim because of the technical irregularity in having the permit continued to the curator of the College of Physicians and Surgeons instead of having it transferred or issued to the curator of the Medical Department of the University of Illinois. What the department will insist upon is a claim for violation of the federal statute by the use of the alcohol by professors in the college upon paying patients. If there are such violations, the University is in no way liable, but the recovery would be against the curator and his bondsman; so I can see no reason why the College of Physicians and Surgeons should be called upon to give any indemnity bond on that score. I can conceive of no other claim that could be legally urged against the University either by the State or any individual because the officials immediately in charge of the college have violated some provision of the statute or some rule of common law. I have fully advised Professor Shattuck as to the character of release for furniture, apparatus, etc. Sincerely yours,

O. A. HARKER,

Legal Counsel. On motion of Mr. Abbott, it was voted to approve the comptroller's account as printed above, to direct the comptroller to pay over to the College of Physicians and Surgeons the sum of eight thousand seventy-eight dollars and fifty-three cents ($8,078.53), more or less, being the balance on account of the transactions of the Medical School for the ten months ending July 1, 1912, and to appropriate the sum of eight thousand seventy-eight dollars and fifty-three cents ($8,078.53), or so much thereof as may be required, for this purpose; the payment of the said sum to the College of Physicians and Surgeons by the comptroller to be conditional, however, upon the receipt by him of a certificate from the proper officers of the College of Physicians and Surgeons that the property, plant, and equipment leased by the University on September 1, 1911, as described in the indenture of said date and the schedule thereto attached marked "Schedule A" (which bears the signatures of D. A. K. Steele, President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and S. W. Shattuck, Comptroller of the University of Illinois, for the purpose of identification), have been received by the College of Physicians and Surgeons from the University in good condition, as provided in section 2 of —7 U