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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 18

TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION OF PROPERTY FOR CONSTRUCTION O F CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING (25) The Illinois Building Authority has requested the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to transfer the real estate and jurisdiction thereof which constitutes the site of the Civil Engineering Building to be constructed by the Authority for the University under a lease agreement heretofore authorized by the Board. At the October 26, 1963, meeting, the Board authorized the acquisition of a portion of the site from the city of Urbana with appropriated funds. The VicePresident and Comptroller and the Director of the Physical Plant request authorization to complete such acquisition from general contract reserves instead of appropriated funds. The Vice-President and Comptroller, the Director of the Physical Plant, and the Legal Counsel also recommend the adoption of the following resolution to authorize the transfer requested by the Illinois Building Authority. 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 a Civil Engineering Building in Urbana, Illinois, for and on behalf of The Board of Trustees of the University 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 Civil Engineering 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 Illinois Building Authority to transfer the real estate and jurisdiction thereof for the construction of the Civil Engineering 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 : Tract 1: Lot Three (3), Lot Four (4), Lot Five (5), Lot Six (6), Lot Seven (7), and Lot Eight (8) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois; and also Tract 2 : That portion of Romine Street and Alley situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois vacated by an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Vacating a Portion of a Street and an Alley" adopted by the City Council of the City of Urbana, Illinois on the twentieth day of January, A.D., 1964 and bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the Northwest ( N W ) corner of Lot Five (5) in Block Fiftyone (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign and State of Illinois, and thence West ( W ) sixtysix feet (66') along the South (S) line of Main Street extended to a point, thence South (S) along a line parallel to the West ( W ) property line of Lots Five (5) and Six (6) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana Two Hundred Eighty and Five Tenths feet (280.5'), more or less, to a point on the North (N) property line of Stoughton Street extended West (W), Sixty-six feet (66') West ( W ) of the Southwest ( S W ) corner of said Lot Six (6), and thence East ( E ) Sixty-six feet (66') along the North (N) property line of Stoughton Street extended West ( W ) to the Southwest (SW) corner of said Lot Six (6) in Block Fifty-one (51) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, thence North ( N ) One Hundred Thirty-two feet (1321) more or less, along the West ( W ) property line of said Lot Six (6) to the Northwest corner ( N W ) of said Lot Six (6), thence East ( E ) One Hundred Ninety-