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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January IS

low base bidder, and proceed to procure this facility for the use of the University. 3. The Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver such instruments of transfer, conveyance, lease, contract, and other documents as are necessary to provide for the carrying out of the foregoing project and facility by the Illinois Building Authority. 4. T h e adoption of the resolutions submitted herewith to implement the official actions required, including authorization of the instrument of transfer of jurisdiction of real estate to the Illinois Building Authority. Submited herewith is a report of the Physical Plant Planning and Construction Office, including a schedule of the bids received, a copy of which is being filed with the Secretary of the Board for record. Resolution WHEREAS the Seventy-fifth General Assembly of the State of Illinois has declared it to be in the public interest that the Illinois Building Authority construct, on behalf of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, an Education and Communications (Education Center) Building on the Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois; and WHEREAS for that purpose it will be necessary for the Illinois Building Authority to acquire jurisdiction of the real estate upon which said building will be located; and WHEREAS The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois with its principal office in Urbana, Illinois, will be requested by the Illinois Building Authority to transfer jurisdiction of said real estate for the construction of said building. Now, Therefore, Be It and It Is Hereby Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, as follows: Section 1: That the Comptroller and the Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois be, and they hereby are, authorized to make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of this corporation, an instrument of transfer of jurisdiction to the property described in the attached document entitled "Instrument of Transfer," which said form of Instrument of Transfer is, by this reference, incorporated in and made a part of this Resolution.

On motion of Mr. Clement, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Governor Ogilvie, Mr. Page, Dr. Weatherly. January 23, 1969 Instrument of Transfer

In accordance with the provisions of "An Act to create the Illinois Building Authority and to define its powers and duties," approved August IS, 1961, as amended, and Resolution No IBA adopted on the day of , 19. by the Illinois Building Authority, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois, created under said mentioned Act, requesting the transfer of the certain described real estate and jurisdiction thereof to the Illinois Building Authority; Now, Therefore, the undersigned The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois does hereby transfer jurisdiction of the following real estate to the Illinois Building Authority, to wit: Exhibit "A" A parcel of land in the Northeast Vi of Section 17, Township 39 North, Range 14 East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, bounded and described as follows : Commencing at the point of intersection of a line 6.00 feet West and parallel with the West line of South Morgan Street (66 feet wide) and a line 18.00 feet North of and parallel with the North line of West Harrison Street (66 feet