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AGREEMENT

PROCEEDINGS OE THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES.

WITH UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT CONCERNING EXTENSION WORK. OF

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AGRICULTURE

(6) The following correspondence relating- to a proposed agreement between the United States Department of Agriculture at "Washington and the University of Illinois concerning the extension work in Agriculture and Home Economics in the State of Illinois. (a) A letter from Hon. D. F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: July IS, 1914. Dr. Edmund J. James, President, University of Illinois, Urbane^ III. SIR: Your attention is called to previous correspondence suggesting that a specific understanding be arranged between the various state agricultural colleges, and the United States Department of Agriculture for the cooperative conduct of extension work in agriculture and home economics when Federal funds are involved. In line with such suggestion, there is handed you herewith for your consideration and signature, if approved, a memorandum of understanding which it is believed will meet the situation, and provide an efficient and economical administration of extension work. Dr. A. C. True, Chairman of the States Relations Committee of this Department, and Prof. C. B. Smith, in charge of demonstrations, conferred with your Dean Davenport recently regarding extension work, at which time the details of this memorandum were discussed. Should it not be wholly clear to you, Dean Davenport may be able to further explain It. If this memorandum is agreeable to you, please sign the five copies inclosed and return to the department for execution here, upon which the memorandum will become effective and two copies will be returned to you for your file. Very truly yours, (b) Memorandum of understanding between the University of Illinois and the United States Department of Agriculture regarding extension work in agriculture and home economics in the State of Illinois. WHEREAS, The University of Illinois has, or may hereafter have, under its control Federal and State funds for extension work in agriculture and home economics, which are and may be supplemented by funds contributed for similar purposes by counties and other organizations and by individuals within said State, and the United States Department of Agriculture has, or may hereafter have, funds appropriated to it by Congress which can be spent for demonstration and other forms of extension work in the State of Illinois: Therefore, with a view to securing economy and efficiency in the conduct of extension work in the State of Illinois, the President of the University of Illinois, acting subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of said University, and the Secretary of. Agriculture of the United States, hereby make the following memorandum of understanding with reference to cooperative relations between said University and the United States Department of Agriculture for the organization and conduct of extension work in agriculture and home economics in the State of Illinois: • I. The University of Illinois agrees: (a) To organize and maintain in its College of Agriculture a definite and distinct administrative division for the management and conduct of extension work in agriculture and home economics, with a responsible leader, selected by the college, and satisfactory to the Department of Agriculture ; (b) To administer through such extension division thus organized any and all funds it has or may hereafter receive for such work from appropriations made by Congress or the State Legislature, by allotment from its Board of Truetees, or from any other source; . (c) To cooperate with the United States Department of Agriculture in all extension work in agriculture and home economics which said department is or shall be authorized by Congress to conduct in the State of Illinois. II. The United States Department of Agriculture agrees: . (a) To establish and maintain in the Department of Agriculture a States Relations Committee, pending the authorization by Congress of a States Relations Service, which shall represent the department in the general supervision of all cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics in which the department shall participate in the State of Illinois, and shall have charge of the department's business connected with the administration of all funds provided to the states under the Smith-Lever Act. (b) To conduct in cooperation with the University of Illinois all demonstration and other forms of extension work in agriculture and home economics which the department is authorized by Congress to conduct in the State of Illinois. III. The University of Illinois and the United States Department of Agriculture mutually agree: (a) That, subject to the approval of the President of the University of Illinois and the Secretary of Agriculture, or their duly appointed representatives, the cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics in the State of Illinois involving the use of direct Congressional appropriations to the Department of Agriculture shall be planned under the joint supervision of the Director of Extension Work of the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois and the agriculturist in charge of demonstration work of the United States Department of Agriculture in the North and West; and that the approved plans for such cooperative extension work in the State of Illinois shall be executed through the extension division of the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois in accordance with the terms of the individual project agreements ; (b) That all agents appointed for cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics in the State of Illinois, under this memorandum and subsequent project agreements, involving the use of direct Congressional appropriations

D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary.