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BOARD

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[September 30

Mr. Tinkoff interrupted with many objections, and presented a motion that the case be dismissed. President Mayer overruled the objections and denied the motion to dismiss. The President of the Board stated that in the absence of objection from a member of the Board, all his rulings in this case should be deemed the rulings of the Board. Judge Johnson presented the record of all proceedings in this case which were had before the Executive Committee, together with two certificates signed by H. E. Cunningham, Clerk of the Executive Committee and Secretary of the Board of Trustees, as follows:

C E R T I F I C A T E NO. 1 I, H. E. Cunningham, hereby certify that for many years last past I have been and now am the duly qualified and acting Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, that the within is the complete record of all proceedings had before the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois in the matter of the charges against Paysoff Tinkoff, including all pleadings, exhibits, testimony, motions, orders, briefs, and all other matters, which came before, were considered, heard, or made by the Executive Committee, and I now deliver the same to the Board of Trustees by order of the Executive Committee. This record consists of the following:

EXHIBITS

Exhibits offered or introduced or both in support of the charges against the respondent at the hearing before the Executive Committee, in Vrbana on April 27, / p j S , beginning at 4:20 o'clock in the afternoon. 1. Transcript of proceedings before the Committee on Accountancy and the Board of Examiners in Accountancy of the University of Illinois in Room 793, Palmer House, at ten o'clock a.m. on the nineteenth day of November and on the tenth day of December, 1937. 2. Notification from the Secretary pro tempore of the Board of Trustees to the Secretary of the Committee on Accountancy, dated July 20, 1937, that the complaint had been referred to the Committee to hold hearings and make a report with recommendations to the Board. 3. Complaint and amendment thereto vs. Paysoff Tinkoff. 4. Letter from President Willard to Secretary Tuttle of the Committee on Accountancy, dated July 7, 1937, advising that the complaint referred to in plaintiff's exhibit 2 would be referred to the Board of Trustees with his recommendation that the Committee on Accountancy be authorized to take up the matter and submit conclusions and recommendations. 5. Telegram, Rieger to Tinkoff, November 1, and respondent's exhibit 3 before the Committee. Not introduced because respondent objected. 6. Telegram, Tinkoff to Rieger, November 8, respondent's exhibit 4, not introduced because respondent objected. 7. The record in the District Court of the United States of America, for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, United States of America v. William J. Newman and Paysoff Tinkoff, defendants, containing indictment to the grand jury against Newman and Tinkoff, returned to the June term of said court in 1932 in six counts; also order of the court in the above entitled proceeding overruling Tinkoff's motion for a new trial and committing Tinkoff to the custody of the Attorney General to be confined in the United States Penitentiary for eighteen months on each of counts 1 and 2, such sentences to run concurrently, but execution stayed until September 3, 1934, because the defendant entered his motion for probation. This order is dated Monday, July 30, 1934. Also containing an order of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, dismissing Tinkoff's appeal in the above entitled matter, dated Thursday, April 25, 1935. The mandate of the Circuit Court is dated May 16, 1935. The whole above record being certified by Henry W. Freeman, Clerk of the United States District Court in and for the Northern District of Illinois.