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1964]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

1251

Mr. Jones, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Dilliard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Kerner.

EXTENSION O F EASEMENT AT C A R T E R - P E N N E L L FARM (27) The Central Illinois Public Service Company has an easement for electric power transmission lines along the public roads adjoining the University's CarterPennell farm near Rankin in Vermilion County. T h e Company needs to install a heavier line and requests an easement to install three anchor wires on University property. The area of the easement is about one-seventh of an acre. Two of the anchors will be on non-tillable land, and most of the area around the third anchor can be farmed. The Company will pay $150 for the easement. The Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Vice-President and Comptroller consider this compensation adequate and recommend adoption of the following resolution granting an easement. Resolution 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 Board of Trustees 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 Central Illinois Public Service Company, an Illinois corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right to construct, operate, patrol, and maintain a transmission line, including poles, anchors and necessary fixtures and wires attached thereto, over and upon the land hereinafter described, for the transmission of electrical energy and communication such line to form a part of an electrical transmission and telephone system to be owned and operated by the said Grantee its successors, or assigns, extending from the lands owned by the said Grantee and the structures thereon in Vermilion County, Illinois, to other lands and structures located beyond the lands hereinafter described, and also to remove or trim all brush and trees on the said land within Fifty Feet (50') of the said transmission line, together with the right of access to the said land. Any damage to any property of the Grantor, its assigns or tenants, caused by the employees of the Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall be promptly paid by the said Grantee, its successors or assigns. The land of the Grantor over which this grant is given and the location of the line to be constructed thereon, are described as follows: TRACT I: The North One Hundred Feet ( N . 100') of that part of the Southwest Quarter ( S W U ) of the Northeast Quarter ( N E I/O of Section Eleven (Sec. 11) which lies East of Brook Creek and the West Four Hundred Twenty Five Feet ( W . 425') of that part of the Southeast Quarter (SEi/i) of the Northeast Quarter (NEi/£) of Section 11 which lies North of the North line of Carter's Second West Addition to the Original Town of Rankin, Illinois, all in Township Twenty-Three North (T.23.N.), Range Fourteen West (R.14.W.) of the Second Principal Meridian (2nd P.M.), Vermilion County, Illinois. This grant is made to grant the right to place One (1) anchor Nine Hundred Sixty-five Feet (965') North of the South line of the Northeast Quarter (NE14) of the said Section 11 and 1350 feet West of the East line of the said Section 11. Also, One (1) anchor to be placed 1070 feet North of the South line of the Northeast Quarter (NE14) of the said Section 11 and 1320 feet West of the East line of the said Section 11. Also, Two (2) anchors to be placed 1210 feet, more or less, North of the South line of the Northeast Quarter (NEi/4) of the said Section 11 and 1140 feet West of the East line of the said Section 11. TRACT II: The North Twenty-Five Feet (N. 25') of the West One Hundred Fifty Feet (W. 150') of the Northwest Quarter ( N W U ) of the Northwest Quarter (NW14) of Section Twelve (Sec. 12) in Township Twenty-Three North (T.23.N.), Range Fourteen West (R.14.W.), of the Second Principal Meridian