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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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[June 10,

cordancewith an Act entitled, "An Act to provide by a State tax for a fund for the support and maintenance of the University of Illinois," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, for the following objects and purposes: For salaries and wages $3,300,000.00 For office expenses 150,000.00 For travel 50,000.00 For operating 600,000.00 For repairs , 200,000.00 For equipment. 300,000.00 For permanent improvements 200,000.00 For contingencies 200,000.00 Total 35,000,000.00 Sec. 2. There is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the two years beginning July 1, 1919, and until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly, for the purchase of land and the erection of buildings, the sum of three hundred thousand (3300,000) dollars, payable out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the two years beginning July 1, 1919, and until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly, the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, payable out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for barns and other necessary accommodations to establish additional branches of military training desired by the War Department of the United States. Sec. 4. The appropriations made in Sections 1,2, and 3 of this Act shall be subject to all the provisions, conditions and limitations of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to State Finance," approved 1919, in force July 1,1919. Sec. 5. There is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the two years beginning July 1, 1919, 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 said University as provided by Section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to make appropriations for the University of Illinois, and providing for the management of the funds of said University and for the protecting the interests of the State in connection therewith," approved and in force June 11, 1897, the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sec. 6. The sum of $100,000.00, or so much thereof as shall accrue to the State of Illinois under the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under an Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862," approved August 30, 1890, and an Act of Congress entitled, 'An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908/ approved March 4,1,907, during the two years beginning July 1, 1919, is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois. Whenever any portion of said sum shall be received by the State Treasurer from the United States, it shall immediately be due and payable into the treasury of the University of Illinois. Sec. 7. Upon the order of the President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, countersigned by its Secretary and with the corporate seal of said University attached thereto, the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer for the sums appropriated in Sections 5 and 6 of this Act.