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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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nois, that the Comptroller and the 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 G E N E R A L T E L E P H O N E C O M P A N Y , 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 which said land is included in the public highway, to form a part of a communication system to be owned by the said Company in LaSalle County, Illinois, to other lands and structures located beyond the land hereinafter described, and with the right of access to the 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 abovedescribed 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. The right-of-way easement shall be over the following-described property: Situated in the State of Illinois, the County of LaSalle, and only on the road right-of-way bordering lands described as follows: P a r t of the West One-Half ( W l/S) of Section 15; Township 31 North; Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian (3rd P.M.). The buried facilities to be placed within the road right-of-way on the North side of the public road running East and West along the South side of said Section and on the East side of the road running North and South along the West side of said Section. O n m o t i o n of M r . S w a i n , 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 y

the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie.

EASEMENT TO CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE COMPANY FOR PRAIRIE OBSERVATORY IN DOUGLAS COUNTY (24) The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends granting to the Consolidated Telephone Company, Mattoon, a permanent easement approximately 49.5 feet in width, a distance of approximately 660 feet, along the west property line of the Prairie Observatory, Douglas County, for construction of underground telephone lines which will provide improved telephone service to the University, and that the attached resolution be adopted. Resolution Granting Easement Over W e s t Three R o d s of T h e Prairie Observatory Property, D o u g l a s County, Illinois Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by T H E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S , a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the 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 C O N S O L I D A T E D T E L E P H O N E C O M P A N Y of Mattoon, 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 which said land is included in the public highway, and within