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BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

[May 21

public health purposes by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the provisions of Section 203 (k)(l) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), as amended, and rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, more particularly described as follows: The South (S) Four Hundred Thirty-five and Six-tenths (435.6) feet of the East (E) Five Hundred (500) feet of the Southeast Quarter ( S E V4) of the Southeast Quarter ( S E I/O, of Section Twenty (20), Township Twenty-one North, (T-21-N), Range Nine East (R-9-E) of the Third Principal Meridian (3rd P.M.) situated in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois, including all improvements thereon and subject to existing easements; and WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, needs and can utilize said property for educational research purposes in accordance with the requirements of said Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved, that The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois shall make application to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for and secure the transfer to it of the above-mentioned property for said use upon and subject to such exceptions, reservations, terms, covenants, agreements, conditions, and restrictions as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, or his authorized representative, may require in connection with the disposal of said property under said Act and the rules and regulations issued pursuant thereto; and Be It Further Resolved that The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, has legal authority, is willing and is in a position to assume immediate care and maintenance of the property, and that H. O. Farber, Comptroller, be and he hereby is authorized, for and on behalf of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, to do and perform any and all acts and things which may be necessary to carry out the foregoing resolution, including the preparing, making, and filing of plans, applications, reports, and other documents, the execution, acceptance, delivery, and recordation of agreements, deeds, and other instruments pertaining to the transfer of said property, and the payment of any and all sums necessary on account of the purchase price thereof or on account of fees or costs incurred in connection with the transfer of said property for surveys, title searches, appraisals, recordation of instruments, or escrow costs.

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

PURCHASE OF MONTICELLO ROAD FIELD STATION SITE (39) The University has been leasing two tracts of land, known as the Monticello Road Field Station, for use by the Department of Electrical Engineering at Urbana in carrying on radio direction-finding research. A lease was entered into under date of May 6, 1957, with the Twin City Development Company providing for the leasing of the following-described property: The Northwest quarter ( N W \i) of the Southwest quarter ( S W \i) of Section seventeen (17), except the North one-half acre of said tract, located in Township eighteen (18) North, Range eight (8) East of the Third Principal Meridian, containing thirty-nine and one-half (39V2) acres more or less in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois. Under the terms of the lease, the University has the option to buy this tract at any time before the expiration of the lease period in 1972 at a cost not to exceed $17,577.50. Another lease was entered into under date of June 29, 1956, with the Twin City Development Company providing for the leasing of the following-described property: The Northeast quarter ( N E Vi) of the Southwest quarter ( S W \i) of Section seventeen (17) and the North one-half (N i/£) acre of the Northwest quarter ( N W 14) of the Southwest quarter ( S W 14) of said section seventeen (17), all in Township eighteen (18) North, Range eight (8) East of the Third Principal Meridian, in Champaign County, Illinois, consisting of 40i/£ acres more or less.