Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 498]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES SERUM LABORATORY

[July 12,

A statement concerning the hog cholera serum laboratory: By act of legislature the Serum Laboratory, heretofore conducted in Springfield under the Department of Agriculture, is transferred to the University of Illinois. The appropriation for this Laboratory, amounting to $11,500, was transferred from the Department at Springfield to the University. This sum is outside of the mill tax. The bill is as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: The following sums are hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the maintenance and operation of a live stock biological laboratory: Salaries and wages $5,000 per annum Operation $6,500 per annum Section 2. The appropriation herein made 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.

This report was received for record.

TEACHER-TRAINING IN TRADES AND INDUSTRIES

(14) A request for authority to sign an application to the Illinois Board for Vocational Education for teacher-training courses in trades and industries, and such other courses in agriculture and home economics as may be deemed advisable, under the Smith-Hughes act. To the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, Springfield, Illinois

GENTLEMEN:

The University of Illinois hereby makes application for approval of plans for the maintenance of teacher-training courses in trades and industry under the provision of the plan of the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, as approved by the Federal Board. In case this application is approved by the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, the said University of Illinois agrees: 1. To follow strictly the provisions of the plan of the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, as approved by the Federal Board for Vocational Education. 2. To submit to the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, when requested, such additional information as may be necessary for the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, in passing upon the work of the courses proposed herein. We hereby certify that the funds to be used by the University of Illinois to match Federal money herewith applied for, will be in all respects under public control and will be obtained from the following sources: From general funds of the University, not including Federal funds. CERTIFICATE OF OFFICERS OF THE INSTITUTION Illinois. To the Illinois Board for Vocational Education, Springfield,

GENTLEMEN:

The undersigned officers of the University of Illinois in the city of Urbana hereby certify that the minutes of the Board of Trustees of said institution show that this application for approval of plans for teacher-