Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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igi6] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS S E T T L E M E N T FOR CHEMISTRY LABORATORY 97 (4) A letter from the Supervising Architect concerning the settlement with Freeman and Brooks for the addition to the Chemistry Laboratory. September 12, 1916 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois M Y DEAR PRESIDENT J A M E S : The plans agreed on as a basis of settlement with Freeman and Brooks, the contractors for the new Chemical Laboratory, have not materialized because Freeman and Brooks's lawyers insisted that a consideration in their agreeing to arbitrate the disputed differences was that the University should pay to the bonding company the amount of money which the University records showed to be due Freeman and Brooks. T h e total of the claims filed is about three times the amount which we consider to be due and it is, therefore, impossible for us to pay this balance to the bonding company without the State Auditor and the University Comptroller being liable for the other claims. The proposition was submitted to the State Auditor who advised that unless all liens were withdrawn and an order given by Freeman and Brooks for the distribution of the balance, he would not pay any more on Freeman and Brooks's contract. As there did not seem to be any prospect of an agreement between the bonding company and the claimants, five of the claimants have entered suit against the bonding company. W e still hope that,it may be possible for us to arbitrate our differences with Freeman and Brooks so as to determine just what our obligation to them is, After that has been accomplished the case will probably have to be settled in the courts as between the sub-contractors and the bonding company. Very truly yours, J A M E S M. WHITE Supervising Architect No action was taken on this matter. RELATIONS WITH THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PRINTING (5) A request from the State Superintendent of Printing for complete statistics covering the amount of printing, printers' supplies, office supplies, and stationery purchased by the University during the past year. Judge Harker, who was present by request, stated his view of the application to the University of the provisions of the law passed in 1915 concerning the State Superintendent of Printing. In his opinion, this law abrogated all previous laws on the subject, and, inasmuch as it did not mention specifically the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois among the institutions to which the law should apply, the University could not be held subject to the pro-
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