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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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ary of 1929 his office requested the Indemnity Insurance Company of North America to issue a combination policy covering persons engaged in cooperative research work and that this Company, without the knowledge and consent of the University, filed under date of February 12, 1929 with the Illinois Industrial Commission a form known as "Employer's written acceptance of the Illinois Workmen's Compensation Act." This fact did not come to the attention of the University for about two years. W h e n it did the Comptroller endeavored to secure the return of the form, and, failing in that, notified the Industrial Commission on February 20, 1931, that the form had been filed without the knowledge or consent of the University and was therefore null and void. On February 25, 1931, the Commission acknowledged this notice. The University Counsel is of the opinion that the Board of Trustees should take formal action requesting the Illinois Industrial Commission to remove from its files the document purporting to be acceptance of the Workmen's Compensation Act on the ground that this document is spurious, that its execution in any form was never authorized by the Board, and that no person was ever empowered by the Board to file acceptance of the terms of the Workmen's Compensation Act with the Commission. It is true that the University has in past years followed the provisions of this Act in compensating employees for injuries received in its service when the circumstances warranted acceptance of the liability, but the Board of Trustees has steadily taken the position that it was not subject to the terms of the Act. O n m o t i o n of M r . M o s c h e l , t h e Illinois I n d u s t r i a l C o m m i s s i o n w a s r e q u e s t e d t o e x p u n g e t h e p u r p o r t e d a c c e p t a n c e b y t h e U n i v e r s i t y of the W o r k m e n ' s C o m p e n s a t i o n A c t f r o m t h e r e c o r d s of the C o m m i s s i o n a s h a v i n g b e e n m a d e a n d filed w i t h o u t a u t h o r i z a t i o n of t h e B o a r d o f T r u s t e e s , a n d t o m a k e t h i s m o t i o n a p a r t of i t s files a n d f u r n i s h a c o p y of t h i s m o t i o n a s a p a r t of a n y r e c o r d of t h i s u n a u t h o r i z e d a c t i o n t o w h o m s o e v e r a t r a n s c r i p t of t h e r e c o r d of t h i s c a s e m a y b e g i v e n . ASSOCIATION O F GOVERNING B O A R D S O F STATE UNIVERSITIES AND ALLIED INSTITUTIONS (28) At various times the University has been asked to become a member of the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions. Most of the state universities in the Middle West are members of this Association and the University of Illinois is about the only one in this group not represented. Since this is an Association of boards of trustees and of regents, I am bringing the matter to the Board for its consideration. N o action w a s taken on this matter. S A M U E L HARE LOAN F U N D (29) Under the terms of the will of the late Samuel H a r e of Piper City the following bequest is made to the University: "I give and bequeath to T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, all the test and residue of my estate, and my said executor and trustee shall pay and deliver the same to said trustees, to be held by them in trust as a fund to be loaned to deserving and meritorious students attending such University, in Champaign County, Illinois, to be known as the Samuel and Lydia Hare Students' Loan Fund. The purpose of this bequest is to enable students who have by previous study demonstrated their worthiness but are without means to meet necessary student expenses to continue study in said University. Loans shall be made at current legal rates of interest and upon such security as said Board may deem adequate. T h e aggregate of loans made to any one student shall at no time exceed the sum of Five H u n d r e d Dollars. "The said fund and such accretions as may come to it by way of interest shall be permanent and perpetual and no part of it shall at any time be diverted from the purpose herein indicated." Mr. H a r e died on July 4, 1924, and by the terms of his will his wife, Lydia H a r e , owned a life estate in all the testator's property. She died May 3, 1935,