Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 1063]

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1968]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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(Mr. Bresee's appointment on the Board is for the period of his tenure as President of the University of Illinois Alumni Association.) O n m o t i o n of M r . P o g u e , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e a p p r o v e d . EASEMENT T O CHICAGO PIPE LINE COMPANY T H R O U G H ALLERTON ESTATE (37) The Vice-President and Comptroller recommends that the Chicago Pipe Line Company be granted an easement for the construction of a twenty-six-inch steel pipe line through Allerton Estate. The Company will pay the University $10 per rod for a total of approximately $1,460 for said easement. The Company requests the right to use, during the period of construction only, an additional twenty-five feet on each side of the fifty-foot right of way and all necessary working space (defined as being 200 feet on each side of the pipe line and 500 feet deep) on the northerly side of the Sangamon River for the storage of dirt during construction but with the understanding that no trees will be removed. The proposed grant will not interfere with experiments being conducted in the area by the Department of Forestry. The Department of Agricultural Economics, which manages the land, concurs. I concur and recommend adoption of the following resolution. Resolution Authorizing 26" Steel Pipe Line Kasement to Chicago Pipe Line Company Through Allerton Estate Be It, and It Hereby Is Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public 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 Chicago Pipe Line Company, a Delaware corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to construct, reconstruct, operate, maintain, repair, alter, replace, move and remove a 26" steel pipe line and other equipment appurtenant thereto under, through and across the land hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; "the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public corporation has the present right and capacity to grant (he same, and in consideration of the payment by Grantee to this corporation of the sum of Ten Dollars per rod for a total of approximately One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Dollars ($1,460.00). Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to property of this corporation by the construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, repairing, alteration, moving and removing of said pipe line and to indemnify this corporation and its representatives from liability in connection with Grantee's activities. The right-of-way easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as said pipe line is continued in service and has not been abandoned or discontinued. Upon termination of the easement, Grantee shall peaceably surrender possession of said premises to this corporation and full and complete title then shall remain in this corporation free and clear of said easement and without necessity of re-entry or demand. The right-of-way easement shall have a width of fifty (50) feet being twenty-five feet (25') on each side of a centerline described as follows: Beginning at a point in the centerline of the Sangamon River the South line of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees' tract in the Southwest quarter and West half of the Southeast quarter of Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 5 East, 3rd P.M., Piatt County, Illinois, lying North of the Sangamon River, and being East a distance of 1850 feet and North 385 feet from the Southwest corner of said Section 14. Thence in a Northeasterly direction across the University of Illinois Board of Trustees tract as follows : North 1 degree 35 minutes East a distance of 249 feet; thence North II degrees 35 minutes East a distance of 150 feet; thence North 21 degrees 35 minutes East a distance of 133 feet; thence North 31 degrees 50 minutes East a distance of 140 feet; thence North 42 degrees 01 minute East a distance of 400 feet; thence North 28 degrees 35 minutes East a distance of 39 feet; thence North 15 degrees 09 minutes East a distance of 38 feet; thence North 1 degree 41 minutes East a distance of 951 feet; thence North 8 degrees 48