Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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222 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 8, mately $150,000 at "contract rates, and approximately $60,000.00 of special items, all of which are in process of payment. Other vouchers are being prepared to cover the total expenditures made for the project. It is expected that this loan will be repaid by the 10th of January. •• Cordially yours, LLOYD MOREY This action of President of the Board and the Comptroller was approved. BUDGET REQUESTS, t 9 1 9 - 1 9 a 1 (22) A draft of a report on the budget to the State Director of Finance, Mr. Omar H. Wright, asking for an appropriation of seven million dollars for the coming biennium, five million dollars from the estimated proceeds of the mill tax, and two million dplkrs as a special appropriation from the general funds of the State for building purposes. • These budget askings were approved and the President of the University- was authorized to present the same to the Director of Finance, the Governor, and the committees of the Legislature; and he also was authorized to prepare and present a special plea for the building appropriation, similar to that sent out by the Chairman of the Board during the last session; furthermore, he was authorized to make such concessions in the presentation of this budget as time and circumstances may make necessary. R E P O R T ON W H I T E PATENT At this point, the Committee on Agriculture announced that it had considered the application of Professor E*. A. White for permission to take out a patent on a method of hitching horses, and that the Committee recommended that it was not desirable for the University to take any steps in the matter, but that Mr. White be left free to develop this patent on his own initiative if he so desired. This recommendation was approved. The Executive Committee adjourned. H. E. CUNNINGHAM W. L. ABBOTT Clerk Chairman URBANAJ ILLINOIS, June 23, 1919 . I certify that in the foregoing pages, numbered 205 to 222 inclusive, is contained-the record ;of the transactions of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, at the meetings of the Board held on December 10, 1918, and January 8, 1919, and of the Executive Committee, held on January 8, 1919 as approved and received for record by the Board on March 11, 1919. ;: Secretary of the Board of Trustees
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