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1. College of Dentistry Additional lighting for operation of dental clinics $ 3 500 Various building improvements 4 300 2. College of Medicine Refrigerators, lantern slides, floor scales, and a shock-proof mobile unit for the Departments of Pathology and Roentgenology. .. 1 300 X-ray film projector for use in lecture rooms 1 600 Rehousing of Illustration Studio and Department of Surgery 1 700 3. General Building Improvements 5 730 Total $18 130 All of these requests have been carefully reviewed by the Committee 011 Special Appropriations and Non-Recurring Expenditures which recommends assignments of funds for these purposes. There is a net unencumbered balance of $9,330.53 in the State appropriation for equipment in the Second Unit of the Medical and Dental College Laboratories Building which is available for these items, so that an appropriation of $8,800 from the General Reserve Fund will be necessary to supplement this balance if provision is made for all of the items listed. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h e s e e x p e n d i t u r e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d a n d the appropriation w a s m a d e by the following vote: Aye, M r . K a r r a k e r . Dr. Meyer. STATE APPROPRIATION FOR CLASSROOM BUILDING (11) Following is the text of an Act of the Sixtieth General Assembly, First Special Session, appropriating $700,000 for the construction of a classroom building to replace the space lost when University Hall was abandoned: ;\ certified copy of the Act is hereby given the Secretary of the Board for the official record. Certificate Number 20069

STATE OF ILLINOIS OFFICE OF T H E SECRETARY OF STATE

To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: I, Edward J. Hughes, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the following and hereto attached is a true copy of an Act making an appropriation to the University of Illinois for the construction and equipment of a building to be used primarily for classroom purposes, the original of which is now on file and a matter of record in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Illinois, Done at the City of Springfield this 9th day of July, A.D. 1938.

EDWARD J. HUGHES

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A N A C T M A K I N G AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF A BUILDING TO BE U S E D PRIMARILY FOR CLASSROOM PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 1. The sum of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the purpose of erecting, equipping, and furnishing, including service connections, architectural and engineering costs, a building to be used primarily for classroom purposes and to the extent such building is not entirely needed for classroom purposes it may be used also for laboratory and office purposes.