Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1916
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850 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [Oct. 14, board of education of the city of Chicago and that board is desirous of changing the location of the school. I recommend that this site be acquired if possible and as soon as possible by the University for the use of the Medical Departments of the University which are located in Chicago. I wish to take this occasion again to emphasize the necessity of acquiring a site for a Clinical Building at the earliest possible moment. On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, the President of the Board of Trusteeswas authorized to secure an option on this property if possible. BOARD OF E X A M I N E R S ' IN A C C O U N T A N C Y . (7) The University Committee on Accountancy recommends that Mr. Nathan William MacChesney of Chicago be appointed a member of the Board of Examiners in Accountancy for a term of three years ending July 1, 1918, in place of Mr. Marquis Eaton, whose term has expired. On motion of Mr. Carr, this recommendation was approved. P R O T E C T I O N OF GAME. (8) A request from the American Game Protective and Propagation Association that the University join it in furtherance of the work for the protection of game birds. On the recommendation of Dean Eugene Davenport of the College of Agriculture and Prof. Stephen A. Forbes, Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, I recommend that this association be permitted to add the name of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to the list of organizations which are in favor of sustaining the Federal Migratory Bird Law. On motion of Mr. Carr, this recommendation was approved. PROPOSED B A T T E R Y OF A R T I L L E R Y . (9) A statement in regard to the proposed battery of field artillery. The Professor of) Military Science, Maj. F. D. Webster, is very anxious that the University should organize a battery of field artillery as a part of the University military organization. Such a battery would be a part of the National Guard and would go into camp each year with the batteries of the regular army. The equipment, valued at $125,000, would be the same as that of the regular army, and would be furnished by the Federal Government and the State. Thirty-two horses are furnished each battery of organized militia, and complete equipment is provided for each enlisted man and forage and expense for the care of the horses by the State. Maj. Webster, in a letter dated September 14, 1915, estimates that it would be necessary for the University to provide one gun shed with store-rooms, etc., 50 by 100 feet, estimated cost fifteen thousand dollars, one stable for thirty-two horses, estimated cost five thousand dollars, heating and lighting equipment and maintenance, estimated cost five thousand dollars; total, twenty-five thousand dollars. The annual expense for heating and lighting would be about twenty-five hundred dollars. It is proposed to admit certain members of the Faculty to membership in this battery. This seems to be a very desirable arrangement indeed. There is one such battery organized at Purdue, where an arrangement has been made with the Governor of the State by which the batters?- shall not be called into actual service as a part of the National Guard except in extreme cases. No action was taken on this subject. LABORATORY FEES. (10) The Council of Administration at its meeting of September 14, 1915, voted to recommend to the board that the laboratory fee in the new six-hour course in qualitative, analysis (Chemistry 3a) be fixed at eight dollars; and that the fee in Chemistry 111 be made two dollars a credit hour up to a maximum of ten dollars. On motion of Mr. Carr, this recommendation was approved. AUTHORITY FOR TRANSFER OF FUNDS. (11) A letter from the Comptroller of the University in regard to the transfer of moneys in the hands of the University Treasurer: October 11, 1915. President Edmund J. JameSj University of Illinois. DEAR S I R : In my opinion, the Board of Trustees should give authority to the Comptroller to transfer moneys from one fund to another fund in the hands of the University Treasurer, as demanded by the exigencies which constantly arise in the business office. Such authority in no way interferes with - the liability of the University Treasurer to the Board of Trustees or the University. The transfers in no way interfere with the stipulations covered in the bond he has given the University as a matter of good faith and protection. • The power to order transfers of moneys from one fund to another should* be given the Comptroller because in most instances in which such transfers must be made board action could not be waited for. To illustrate: At the beginning of ±he present fiscal year, expenses chargeable to the SmithUever Funds arose at once. At the same time there were no funds out of which to pay these expenses since the proceeds from the United States Government were not received. Such expenses, of course, include certain salaries and other items that must be paid, and could not be held up for board action; funds must at once
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