Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918 [PAGE 416]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 17,

For Reserve and Contingencies .,-. .-., » 250,000,00 Total *M:.~...»..» .;....:.;.; ,.,..,„...,.., ...^...^gOOjOOO.OO Section 2. The term "salaries and wages*' as Used in this Act, shall mean and include salaries, wages and other "compensation for personal service. The term "departmental office expense" as Used in this Act, shall mean and include postage, telephone, telegraph, rent, office supplies, express, freight, drayage, printing and binding, for departments and institutions. The term "traveling expenses" as used in this Act shall mean and include railroad fares, hotet bills, livery hire, street car fares and similar personal expenses incused Wholly in the State service. The term "operating supplies and expenses" as used in this Act shall mean and include fuel, food, wearing apparel, household supplies, plant and departmental supplies and institutional operating expenses. The term "school supplies" as used in this Act, shall mean and include supplies used for distinctly educational purposes and not included in other classes. The term "repairs on present buildings, grounds and equipment" as used in this Act shall mean and include replacements but not betterments. Such repairs may be under contract in whole or in part or may be by the direct use of labor, materials and service. The term "equipment," as used in this Act, shall mean and include equipment of permanent value, including furniture, fixtures, machinery, scientific apparatus, livestock, vehicles, maps, books, educational equipment and recreational equipment. The term "the completion of buildings now under construction," as used in this Act, shall mean and include expenditures for the construction of buildings, now partially completed, new fences, tunnels, side walks, drainage ditches, pavements, walls and other permanent improvements, either in whole or in part and including the designing of such structures and the supervision of construction. Such construction may be Under contract, in whole or in part, or may be by the direct use of labor, materials and service. Section 3. There is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and' until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly, for the payment of interest on the endowment funds of the said university as provided by Section 2 of the Act relating to said university, approved June 11, 1897, the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary under the terms of said Act. Section 4. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer under sections 1, 2 and 3 of this Act, for amounts expended or bills then due from the sums appropriated in the said sections, payable severally to the persons pa.med, upon the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor, certified to by the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, with the corporate seal of the University attached thereto.