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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 16,

NOTE—Insert at this point a number of cents equal to the yearly tuition fees of the institution (or department thereof) in the college year of 1917-18 divided by 270; e. g. on an average yearly tuition fee of J100.00 the amount is 100-r- 270 = .3703 cents.

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CONTRACTS FOR UNIFORMS (8) A letter from the Comptroller in regard to the disposition of the uniforms for the R. O. T. C. which were contracted for by the University. October 11,1918 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois

M Y DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES:

At the meeting of the Executive Committee held on September 3 , 1 was authorized to sell to students the uniforms contracted for, or to make such other disposition as was found to be possible, and under which proper realization could be had. The Commanding Officer of the S. A. T. C. refused to authorize the sale of the uniforms to students. Subsequently, advice was received from the Committee on Education, stating that the Quartermaster General had been authorized to purchase contracts such as ours. On my request the Commanding Officer asked the Committee as to whether he was authorized to take over this material and use it for the local unit. He was advised that he was not so authorized, and that the matter would be handled entirely by the Quartermaster General's Office. I have forwarded copies of the contracts to the Quartermaster General, and requested his early attention. The local Quartermaster has also kindly sent a recommendation to the Quartermaster General that the contracts be taken over at the price at which they were drawn. The matter therefore stands at this point, and we shall doubtless be obliged to wait for action of the Quartermaster General's Office. Cordially yours,

LLOYD MOREY

This letter was received for record.

LABORATORY FEES (9) A letter from the Registrar concerning fees. October 9, 1918 Dr. Edmund J. James, President

DEAR M R . PRESIDENT:

I enclose herewith a list of the laboratory fees for the first quarter of the current year for presentation to the Board of Trustees. In accordance with your instructions, I have begun the assessment of fees on the basis of this list and am transmitting the bills as I make them up to the Business Office for collection. The fees in this list are based so far as possible upon the list of fees already approved by the Board of Trustees as given on pages 112-113 of the "Annual Register" for 1917-18. In other words, wherever one of our new quarter courses was based on one of our former semester courses we have simply made the fee proportional, the number of hours in the two Qourses and the number of weeks in the quarter and semester being taken into account, In a few cases where the course is entirely new this