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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 18

obligations incurred by the Board under "An Act to authorize the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to enter into contracts with the United States for the erection of buildings and improvements, pursuant to Public Resolution n, 74th Congress, First Session, House Joint Resolution 117, approved by the President of the United States April 8, 1935, at 4:00 p.m., and to authorize the financing of such improvements in conformity with such resolution, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and such other Acts of Congress enacted for the purpose of aiding the processes of national recovery," approved July 11, 1935, or this Act or under both such acts) shall not exceed the sum of $100,000; to covenant against pledging all or any part of said receipts or collections or permitting or suffering any lien thereon. 6. To exercise all or any part or combination of the powers herein granted and to execute all instruments and contracts and to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers herein granted; Provided, however, that the obligations under leases, trust agreements or otherwise incurred by the Board pursuant to this Act shall not be a debt of the State of Illinois and the State shall not be liable thereon, and provided further that the bonds and other obligations of an active trustee appointed hereunder by the Board shall not be a debt of the Board or the State and neither the Board nor the State shall be liable thereon, and the bonds shall in substance so recite. The obligations under leases, trust agreements or otherwise incurred hereunder by the Board and the bonds or other obligations of an active trustee appointed hereunder shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or other debt limitation or restriction. Section 2. T h e powers conferred by this Act shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, the powers conferred by any other law, and may be exercised in conjunction with such powers conferred by other laws. Section 3. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. Section 4. Whereas the powers herein granted are necessary for the purpose of enabling the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to obtain grants and other aid from the Government in order to construct university, college or educational buildings, and for the relief of unemployment, therefore an emergency is declared to exist and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

JOHN P. DEVINE

Speaker,

House

of

Representatives

THOMAS F.

DONOVAN

President of the Senate This bill having been filed in this office by the Governor without approval, and it having been presented to him ten days, Sundays excepted, prior to this date, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this 20th day of March, A.D. 1936.

EDWARD J. H U G H E S

Secretary

of

State

AN A C T TO AMEND AN A C T ENTITLED " A N ACT CONVEYING CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY IN THE CLTY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, TO T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS," APPROVED JANUARY 16, 1936.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 1. Section 2 of "An Act conveying certain real property in the City of Chicago, Illinois, to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois," approved January 16, 1936, is amended to read as follows: