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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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to a survey thereof made by William H. Zarley, County Surveyor of Will County, Illinois, on May 13th, 1913; also, commencing at the North East Corner of the Thirty one (31) acre tract above described, and running thence West on the North line thereof Three (3) rods, thence North to the center of the Plainfield Road, thence Southeasterly in the center of said Road to a point directly North of the place of beginning and thence South One Hundred and Seventy five One Hundredths (100.75) feet to the place of beginning, situated in the County of Will and State of Illinois.

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

EASEMENT TO GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS (37) The Vice-President and Comptroller recommends that the General Telephone Company of Illinois be granted an easement for the installation of an underground telephone cable over the road right-of-way only and bordering Allerton Trust Farm land in Piatt County, and that the following resolution be adopted. I concur. Resolution Granting Easement Over Road Right-of-Way Only and Bordering Allerton Trust Farm Land in Section 4, Piatt County, Illinois 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 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 General Telephone Company of Illinois, 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, over and across the land hereinafter specifically described which land is included in the public highway, to form a part of a communication system to be owned by the said Company in Piatt County, Illinois, to other lands and structures located beyond the lands hereinafter described, and upon, along, under and across the roads, streets, or highways on or adjoining said land hereinafter described together with the right of access to the said land hereinafter described, with the right to permit the attachment of the wires of any other Company. 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 above-described 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 Piatt, and only on the road right-of-way bordering land described as follows : On West road right-of-way bordering the South Seventy (70) acres of the East One-half (E i/2) of the Southeast Quarter ( S E 14) of Section Four (4), Township Eighteen North (T-18-N), Range Five East (R-5-E) of the Third Principal Meridian (3rd P.M.).

On motion of Mr. Swain, the foregoing resolution was adopted.