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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 22

PURCHASES AUTHORIZED BY THE PRESIDENT (29) A report that in accordance with the action of the Board of Trustees on May 22, 1934 (Minutes, page 577), the following expenditures, amounting to $1,000, or over, were authorized by the President of the University because in his opinion immediate action was required: 1. Items of apparatus for the General Chemical Storeroom for use during the coming academic year from the following companies: A. Daigger and Company Wilkens-Anderson E. H. Sargent and Company Schaar and Company A. S. Alee Company Total $1 278 43 1 006 66 909 59 246 36 71 44 $3 512 48

2. Chemicals for the General Chemical Storeroom for use during the coming academic year from the following companies: Mallinckrodt Chemical Works E. H. Sargent and Company General Chemical Company A. Daigger and Company Total $1 318 93 1 168 49 1 12827 297 98 ?3 9 ' 3 67

3. Roofing tile for repairing roof of Law Building from Ludowici-Celadon Company at a cost of $2,502.00 f.o.b. Urbana. This was in two orders of $l>333-00 and $1,169.00, the latter being a supplementary purchase because it was impossible to see all of the defective tile before they were removed from the roof when the original supply was purchased. T h e tile was not subject to competition, as tile to match that now on the roof can be obtained from only one source. 4. Approximately two thousand bushels of yellow shelled corn from William Reifstack and R. R. Mattis at a cost of 54 cents per bushel for the Department of Animal Husbandry. 5. Approximately fifteen hundred bushels of yellow shelled corn from J. H. Krumm, Urbana, at a price of 75 cents per bushel (approximate amount $1,125.00) for the Department of Animal Husbandry. T h e local markets were canvassed and the proposed purchase, quality and price considered, represents the most advantageous transaction for the University. 6. One car of gasoline (10,000 gallons) for the physical plant from the Lincoln Oil Refining Company, the low bidder, at a cost of $1,000.00, including State tax. 7. Tray catalog units, bases, and cornices for the Library from Remington Rand, Incorporated, at a cost of $2,000 f.o.b. Urbana, to be charged to the Library Special Equipment Fund. T h e equipment is to match other equipment now in use and can be obtained only from this company. 8. Fire brick and fire clay for the physical plant at a total cost of $1,567.40 from the following companies, on the basis of competitive quotations, for use in resetting boilers in the power plant: M. L. Hecker $1,173 80 Chicago Retort & Fire Brick Company 393 60 9. A supply of steel (37,468 pounds) for the physical plant from H a g e r t y Brothers Company of Peoria, Illinois, at a cost of $1,344.69 f.o.b. Urbana, the lowest quotation received. 10. FoTty-eight steers to be purchased in Oklahoma under the direction of Professor H. P. Rusk, H e a d of the Department of Animal Husbandry, to increase the number of feeder stock, at approximately $2,500. T h i s purchase is not competitive; it is a matter of finding the type and quality of cattle needed. T h e order has been placed with the Champaign County Live Stock Marketing 11. Eight thousand feet centrifugal cast iron pipe and 23,600 pounds special castings from the American Cast Iron Pipe Company at a total cost of $14,995.14,