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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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estate and jurisdiction thereof is to be returned to the University when the terms of the Department's lease with the Illinois Building Authority have been complied with. The Vice-President and Comptroller and the Director of the Physical Plant recommend that the resolution adopted on February 19, 1964, regarding this transaction be rescinded and that the following resolution be adopted. I concur. Resolution WHEREAS the Seventy-third General Assembly of the State of Illinois has declared it to be in the public interest that the Illinois Building Authority construct an Addition to the Water Survey Building in Champaign, Illinois, for and on behalf of the Department of Registration and Education of the State of Illinois; and WHEREAS for that purpose it will be necessary for the Illinois Building Authority to acquire the real estate and jurisdiction thereof upon which said Addition to the present Water Survey 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, has been requested by the Director of the Department of Registration and Education to join with that Department in transferring to the Illinois Building Authority jurisdiction of the real estate for the construction of the Addition to the W a t e r Survey Building. Now, therefore, be it and it is hereby resolved by T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois as follows: Section 1. That the Comptroller and Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois be and they are authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of this corporation an instrument of transfer of jurisdiction of the following described property to the Illinois Building Authority, to w i t : Situated in the State of Illinois, the County of Champaign, the City of Champaign, in the N E 14 N W Vi of Section 18, Township 19 North, Range 9 East of the third principal meridian; being a part of Block 1 of J. S. Wright's addition to the City of Champaign and being more fully bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the N W corner of said Block 1, said corner being the intersection of the East property line of Sixth Street and the South property line of Springfield Avenue, both in the City of Champaign, and being marked with an iron pipe monument; thence easterly along the South property line of said Springfield Avenue, a distance of 106.3 feet to a corner, said corner being marked with an iron pipe monument; thence southerly along a line parallel to the East property line of said Sixth Street, a distance of 71.0 feet to a corner; thence easterly along a line parallel to the South property line of said Springfield Avenue, a distance of 1.3 feet to a corner; thence southerly along a line parallel to the East property line of said Sixth Street, a distance of 61.0 feet to a corner, said comer being marked with a cross cut in the concrete pavement; thence westerly along a line parallel to the South property line of said Springfield Avenue, a distance of 107.6 feet to a corner on the East property line of said Sixth Street, said corner being marked with a cross cut in concrete; thence northerly along the East property line of said Sixth Street, a distance of 132.0 feet to the place of beginning, containing 0.32 acres, more or less; in such terms as will permit said Illinois Building Authority to construct thereon an Addition to the present Water Survey Building and lease the same to the Department of Registration and Education of the State of Illinois.

On motion of Mr. Hughes, the resolution adopted February 19, 1964, regarding this transaction was rescinded and the above resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Jones, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, Mr. Kerner, Mr. Williamson.