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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mr. Herrick, this allocation of funds was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Stratton.

APPROPRIATION FOR HORSE-RADISH RESEARCH (14) An Act of the Seventieth General Assembly of Illinois (Senate Bill 280), approved July 6, 1957, appropriated $S,000 to the University for research on diseases and insects causing damage and destruction to the vegetable known as horse-radish and on improvement of varieties and cultural practices, and for recommending to growers remedies which may eliminate menaces to the future crop of this vegetable in Illinois and methods of improving it. The Dean of the College of Agriculture, the Vice-President and Provost, and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that $2,500 of this appropriation be assigned for the year 1957-58 to the Department of Horticulture for horseradish research. The remaining $2,500 will be included in the budget for 1958-59. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, this allocation of funds was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Willamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Stratton.

EASEMENT TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS WATER CORPORATION (15) On May 28, 1957, the Board of Trustees granted an easement to the Illinois Power Company for the use of St. Mary's Road between First Street and the Illinois Central Railroad. The Illinois Power Company has sold a portion of the land owned by it to the Northern Illinois Water Company, which requests joint use of the roadway. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the VicePresident and Comptroller recommend granting of the easement and adoption of the following resolution to authorize an instrument of conveyance. I concur. 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 the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board of Trustees be, and they hereby are, upon the approval of the Legal Counsel, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of and on behalf of this corporation, such instrument of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents, as to them may seem necessary or desirable, in order to effectuate a conveyance to Northern Illinois Water Corporation of a right of way easement over and upon, and with the right to construct and maintain a roadway thereon, traverse, travel upon, cross, and use for usual road purposes, a strip of land not more than 12 feet wide, with an over-all width of 18 feet to provide for drainage, extending from St. Mary's road south approximately J4 mile along a line between the S W }4 of the N E lA of Section 24 and the S E % of the NE Yx of Section 24, all in T 19 N, R 8 E of the 3rd P.M., Champaign County, Illinois, on the site of the existing cindered farm lane, the exact location to be set forth in the instrument of conveyance herein authorized to be entered into, said right of way easement to be non-exclusive, and said Northern Illinois Water Corporation to agree to guarantee, and, in the event of any default by Illinois Power Company, to assume, the obligation of Illinois Power Company to construct and maintain thereon, in a manner acceptable to duly authorized representatives of this public corporation, an all-weather roadway 12 feet wide, with an over-all width of 18 feet to provide for drainage, at the sole expense of said Illinois Power Company and said Northern Illinois Water Corporation to agree to indemnify this public corporation against any loss or damages arising out of liability for personal injury, including death, or property damage, to any persons whomsoever, caused by ° r attributable to the construction, maintenance and/or use of said roadway by said Northern Illinois Water Corporation. The easement grant shall provide for a right °t way easement for an original term beginning with the date of said grant, and ending on August 5, 1967, and shall contain a provision authorizing renewal for an