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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[August 25

July IS, 1938, during the recess of the meeting of the Board of Trustees held on the same day, pursuant to written notice sent to Mr, Oscar G. Mayer, Dr. Karl A. Meyer, and M r . O. M. Karraker, the duly elected members of the Committee."

This motion was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Cleary, Mr. Karraker, Dr. Meyer; no, none; absent, none.

RECOMMENDATIONS A N D REPORTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY

T h e Executive Committee considered t h e following matters presented for the President of t h e University.

OFFER OF T H E UNITED STATES OF AMERICA T O AID IN FINANCING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A UNIVERSITY BUILDING AND ADDITIONS A N D ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDINGS (1) T h e offer of the United States of America to aid in financing this project is presented in the form of a record of this meeting with a resolution of acceptance. T h e original copy of the offer is hereby given to the Secretary of the Board for record. If the offer is accepted the full text which follows should appear in the records of this meeting to conform to the regulations of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public W o r k s relating to such proceedings. NOTICE O F SPECIAL MEETING To the Members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois will be held in the city of Chicago at the Blackstone Hotel at six-thirty o'clock p.m. (Chicago Daylight Saving Time) on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1938, for the purpose of considering an offer of the United States of America to aid by way of a grant in financing the construction of a university building and additions and alterations to existing buildings including necessary equipment therefor and site improvements and adopting a resolution approving and authorizing the acceptance of such offer. Dated this twenty-third day of August, 1938.

By order of KARL A. MEYER, Acting President of the

Board

of Trustees

and Chairman

of the Executive

Committee of the

By A. J. J A N A T A

Assistant to the President University of Illinois

CONSENT TO MEETING We, the undersigned members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereby accept service of the foregoing notice, waiving any and all irregularities in such service and such notice, and consent and agree that said Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois shall meet at the time and place therein named, and for the purpose therein stated.

O. M. KARRAKER JAMES M. CLEARY KARL A. MEYER, Chairman

A special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, held pursuant to the preceding call of the Chairman, w a s held on the twenty-fifth of August, 1938. After discussion of the offer of the United States of America to aid by way of grant in financing the construction of a university building and additions and alterations to existing buildings, including necessary equipment therefor and site improvements, the following Resolution, numbered I, and