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1963]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Funds are available in the state capital appropriations to the University for 1963-65 from the Universities Building Fund and have been released. I concur and recommend adoption of the following resolution: Resolution Authorizing Condemnation of Property at 1105 W e s t Springfield Avenue, Urbana Be It, and It Is Hereby Resolved, Found, and Declared by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a body corporate and politic and a public corporation of the State of Illinois, that the following described real estate situated in the County of Champaign, in the State of Illinois, to-wit: Lot Four (4) in Block Five (5) and the West three (3) feet of Lot Five (5) in Block Five (S) of the Urbana Railroad Company Addition to the City of Urbana also called Urbana Railroad Addition to the Town now City of Urbana and all of the West One-half ( W V2) except the East Thirty (30) feet thereof of Lot Five (5) in Block Five (5) of the Urbana Railroad Company Addition to the City of Urbana, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois. is needed by the University of Illinois, an educational institution established and supported by the State of Illinois, for use as part of the site for construction of the next unit of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and for related educational purposes conducted and to be conducted by said University of Illinois and for the further expansion of the educational facilities of said University of Illinois and to enable said University of Illinois to discharge its duty to the people of said State and for public use, that funds have been appropriated by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois for the purchase of said land for said educational purposes; that this Board of Trustees has negotiated with the owners of said land through their duly authorized representatives for the purchase of said land at a price which this Board of Trustees considers fair and reasonable and which it finds constitutes the present market value of said land, but that said owner has refused to sell and convey said land, or any portion thereof, to said The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois for such price and continues to refuse to sell and convey the same to it except for a consideration and price which this Board of Trustees deems unreasonable and excessive and is, therefore, unwilling and has refused to pay; and Be It, and It Is Hereby Further Resolved, Found, and Declared by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that the compensation to be paid by it for said land cannot be agreed upon between this Board of Trustees and the owners of said property and they and it are unable to agree upon the purchase price to be paid to said owners for the sale and conveyance of said land by said owners thereof to said The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois; and Therefore, Be It, and It Is Hereby Further Resolved, Found, and Declared by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that because of said need of the University of Illinois for said land for the purposes hereinabove set forth and because the compensation to be paid to the owners thereof for such land cannot be agreed upon between them and this Board of Trustees, it is necessary for The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to take said land and acquire title thereto through the exercise by it of the right of eminent domain conferred upon it by law and to have the compensation to be paid by it to the owners thereof and any and all other persons who may have any right, title or interest in and to said land determined in the manner provided by law for the exercise of said right and power of eminent domain; and Be It, and It Is Hereby Further Resolved by this Board of Trustees of The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois that the necessary and appropriate action be taken for the acquisition of title to said property by said The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and to have the compensation to be paid therefore determined by the institution and prosecution to completion of a proceeding in eminent domain in a court of competent jurisdiction and that the Legal Counsel of the University be, and he is hereby, authorized to proceed accordingly, to institute and prosecute an eminent domain proceeding in the name and on behalf