Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 762]

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1928]

UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

759

T H I R D — A l l lands used exclusively as graveyards or grounds for burying the dead. F O U R T H — A l l unentered government lands; all public buildings or structures of whatsoever kind, and the contents thereof, and the land on which the same are located belonging to the United States. F I F T H — A l l property of every kind belonging to the State of Illinois. Within the intent and meaning hereof, all property whatsoever, real and personal, whether held in trust or absolutely, heretofore or hereafter transferred, donated to or held by the State, or any public educational institution thereof, for the encouragement of education, shall be deemed property of the State of Illinois. S I X T H — A l l property belonging to any county, village, or city used exclusively for the maintenance of the poor; all swamp or overflowed lands belonging to any county, so long as the same remain unsold by such county; all public buildings belonging to any county, township, city or incorporated town, with the ground on which such buildings are erected; all property owned by any city or village located within the incorporated limits thereof; except as heretofore been leased or may hereafter be leased by such city or village to lessees who are bound under the terms of the lease to pay the taxes on such property. All property owned by any city or village located outside the incorporated limits thereof but within the same county when used for the purposes of a tuberculosis sanitarium, farm colony in connection with a house of correction, or nursery, garden or farm for the growing of shrubs, trees,flowers,vegetables and plants for use in beautifying, maintaining and operating, play grounds, parks, parkways, public grounds, buildings and institutions owned or controlled by such city or village; and all property owned by any city or village outside of the corporate limits of same used exclusively for municipal purposes. S E V E N T H — A l l property of institutions of public charity, all property of beneficial and charitable organizations, whether incorporated in this or in any other state of the United States, and all property of old people's homes when such property is actually and exclusively used for such charitable or beneficent purposes, and not leased or otherwise used with a view to profit; and all free public libraries. E I G H T H — A l l fire engines or other implements used for the extinguishment of fires, with the buildings used exclusively for the safe keeping thereof, and the lot of reasonable size on which the building is located, when belonging to any city, village or town. N I N T H — A l l market houses, public squares or other public grounds used exclusively for public purposes; all works, machinery and fixtures belonging exclusively to any town, village or city, used exclusively for conveying water to such town, village or city; all works, machinery and fixtures of drainage districts, when used exclusively for pumping water from the ditches and drains of such district for drainage purposes. T E N T H — A l l property which may be used exclusively by societies for agricultural, horticultural, mechanical or philosophical purposes, and not for pecuniary profit. This report w a s received for record. MONEY FOR SUPPORT OF McKINLEY HOSPITAL (27) The Trustee of the Students' Mutual Benefit Association Fund has sent m e the following letter : Urbana, Illinois, June 28, 1928. To the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois: As Trustee of the Students' Mutual Benefit Association, with the approval of the Council of Administration, association, forto the University the sum of $11,000.00 from the funds of that I hereby offer use in the operation