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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Contract Changes

[June 20

Amount to be Paid to the University

$2 000 CO 25 000 00 7 285 00

With Whom International Minerals & Chemical Corp. United States Army DA-18-108-CML-5365 United States Army DA-49-007-MD-622 With Whom Harry F. Fisher (plastering)

Purpose Determining exchangeable magnesium in soils Treatment of poisoning by nerve gases and pulmonary irritants Enzymatic activity of salivary glands

Effective Date February 1, 1957 April 18, 1957 April 25, 1957

Adjustments Made in 1956-57 Cost-Plus Contract

Purpose Thirteen items; So.42 deduct to $1,400.00 Amount $1 798 64 Date April and May, 1957

This report was received for record.

C O N V E Y A N C E O F LAND TO THE M O R T O N A R B O R E T U M

(28) A toll road between Chicago and Aurora will cross a University-owned road which now provides access from Ogden Avenue (U.S. Route 34) to the University's Drug and Horticultural Experiment Station adjoining the Morton Arboretum in Du Page County. This roadway, including the Experiment Station property, was purchased by the University from the Morton Arboretum. The new toll road will not provide the access from Odgen Avenue, as presently used by the University, unless an overpass or an underpass is constructed. Public access to the east end of the Morton Arboretum is also necessary to take care of the increasing automobile traffic. To resolve this problem and give the University and the Arboretum access to their properties, the Illinois State Toll Highway Commission plans to relocate the Lacey Road, which now runs north and south about one-half mile east of the University property, to parallel the toll road. The relocated Lacey Road would then run southwest, and after intersecting the present University road would turn south over the toll road to the Warrenville Road intersection with Ogden Avenue thus providing access from the south and from the north. The deed of University land from the Trustees of the Morton Arboretum includes a reverter clause providing that whenever the property is no longer to be used for educational purposes it will revert to the Morton Arboretum. The Illinois State Toll Highway Commission is planning to acquire a part of the Morton Arboretum property immediately west of the present University access road. It is therefore recommended that the Board of Trustees of the University authorize the execution of a quitclaim deed to the Morton Arboretum for that part of the present University access road which will no longer be required by the University. The Trustees of the Morton Arboretum will then be able to convey the necessary rights-of-way for the new toll road and the relocation of the Lacey Road. The quitclaim deed will not be delivered until there is adequate legal assurance that the Lacey Road will be relocated and that the University access to its Drug and Horticultural Experiment Station during the period of construction of the toll road will be protected. The area of the roadway to be conveyed to the Morton Arboretum is 1.098 acres, and the Arboretum will pay the University $274.50 ($250.00 an acre) for this property. If the Board approves this transaction, the following resolution should be adopted. Resolution Be it, and it is hereby, resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public corporation of the state of Illinois, that its Comptroller and Secretary be, and they are hereby, in consideration of the payment to said public corporation of two hundred seventy-four and 50/100 dollars, authorized to make, execute, and deliver a quitclaim deed conveying to the Trustees of the Morton Arboretum, a foundation created and defined by Deed in Trust dated December 14' 1922, and recorded in the Recorder's Office of Du Page County, Illinois, on December 19, 1922, as Document No. 161512, in Book 142 of Deeds, at Page 485, the following described property: That part of Lot 2 of Assessment Plat Number 3, lands,,belonging to the Trustees under the Will of Joy Morton, Deceased, according to the plat thereof recorded March 30, 1935, in Book 20 of Plats on page 91 as Document