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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 19,

RESOLUTION IN R E G A R D TO P A Y M E N T S O N CLINICAL. I N S T I T U T E CONSTRUCTION

On motion of Mr. Hoit, the following was adopted: m WHEREAS, on July 5, 1919, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois entered into an agreement with the State Department of Public Welfare, through its Director, Honorable Charles H. Thorne, for cooperation in the erection of a group of State and University buildings for use as hospitals, clinical institute, and medical buildings; AND WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the University, believing that the erection of said buildings would be more efficiently conducted and the interests of the State and the University better promoted if the enterprise of erection of said buildings were under one management, on July 12, 1919, passed a resolution turning over to said Department of Public Welfare, under the direction of Honorable Charles H. Thorne, the expenditure of the sum of $300,000 appropriated by the last General Assembly for the erection of a clinical institute for the University, to be one of the buildings of the cooperative group herein referred to, to be expended under the direction of said Director of Public Welfare, for the erection of said buildings, in accordance with the act appropriating said $300,000; AND WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees have seen and accepted the architectural plans of said clinical institute, Now, therefore, in order to facilitate payment for work done on said clinical institute, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby resolves that, in confirmation of the practise already followed, it will pay in the method prescribed by law for expenditures from University funds, bills presented for work on the construction of the University clinical institute heretofore referred to, to the amount of $300,000 appropriated therefor, and no more, on the presentation of proper certificates for such expenditures, issued by the Department of Public Works, and approved by said Director of Public Welfare and the State Architect; And in accordance with this resolution, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby authorizes and directs the President of the Board of Trustees and the Secretary of the Board to honor vouchers for this purpose, thus approved, in accordance with the provisions of the law for the payment of expenditures on account of University appropriations to the total mount of said appropriation of $300,000, and no more.

BILL OF CONSULTING ARCHITECTS

At this point, Mr. Carr presented a bill from Holabird and Roche for their services as Consulting Architects up to September 1, 1920, amounting to $5000.