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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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improved aesthetics and reliability of service. T h e company has offered to pay $5 per rod, the customary amount. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University of Illinois Foundation be requested to grant an easement on the Cruse Farm of approximately 16.5 feet by 2,046 feet; and that the Board of Trustees adopt the following resolution, granting an easement of approximately 16.5 feet by 5,214 feet on University land. Resolution for Granting Easement over Cruse Property and Maxwell Property along South First Street Road, Champaign County, Illinois Be It and It Hereby Is Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this Corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to Illinois Bell Telephone Company, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Company," its successors, and assigns, the right and easement to construct, operate, patrol, and maintain its communication lines including the necessary underground cables, wires, conduits, splicing boxes, surface terminals, markers, and appurtenances upon, under, and across the land hereinafter specifically described, to form a part of a communication system to be owned by said Company in Champaign County, Illinois, to other lands and structures located beyond the land hereinafter described, and with the right of access to said land hereinafter described. Company shall agree to repair any damage caused to property of this Corporation by the construction, reconstruction, operation, patrolling, maintenance, renewal, or removal of said telephone communications cable, and to indemnify the University and its representatives and tenants from liability in connection with its activities; the term of said easement to be for such period as the easement may be used for the above-described purposes, but upon the discontinuation of use of or abandonment of said telephone communications cable, said easement to thereupon cease and determine without necessity of re-entry or demand; the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. T h e right-of-way easement shall be over the following described property; to wit: A strip of land one rod in even width lying parallel with, contiguous to, and West of the West right-of-way line of Township Road 1200E, in the South One Hundred Ninety and Twenty-Five Hundredths (190.25) acres of all that part of Section Twenty-Five (25), Township Nineteen (19) North, Range Eight (8) East, of the Third Principal Meridian, lying East of the Easterly right-of-way line of the Illinois Central Railroad, situated in the County of Champaign and the State of Illinois; and A strip of land one rod in even width lying parallel with, contiguous to, and East of the East right-of-way line of Township Road 1200E, in the Northwest Quarter (NW 'A) of the Northwest Quarter (NW 'A) and the North OneHalf (N Vz) of the Southwest Quarter (SW W) of the Northwest Quarter (NW 'A) of Section Thirty-One (S31), Township Nineteen North ( T 1 9 N ) , Range Nine East ( R 9 E ) , of the Third Principal Meridian, in the County of Champaign and the State of Illinois. O n m o t i o n of M i s s F o r s y t h , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d b) the following v o t e : Aye, M r s . Day, Dr. D o n o g h u e , M r . H a h n , M r

Madden, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone; no, none; absent, Mr Forsyth, Mr. Howard, Governor Thompson.