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Sixteen Tears at the University of Illinois

Instruction, the Director of Agriculture, the Director of Labor, and the Director of Trade and Commerce. Since the Board had no State appropriation with which to undertake its work, it requested the University of Illinois to advance sufficient funds for the training of teachers in vocational branches. This the Board of Trustees agreed to do, and accordingly the University proceeded with the work. Of the $11,290.96 expended thereon during the year 1917-18, $5,645.48 of Federal money was refunded by the State Board for Vocational Education. The sums received as a result of the Morrill, the Nelson, and the Smith-Hughes acts are paid annually by the Treasurer of the United States to the State Treasurer. Each General Assembly enacts a law providing that the sums so received by the State Treasurer shall immediately be payable into the Treasury of the University upon the order of its Board, of Trustees. The income from the Hatch, the Adams, and the Smith-Lever acts is paid directly to the University Treasurer by the Treasurer of the United States. The income of the University of Illinois from each of the federal grants may be seen in the following table. It is worthy of note that the first of these federal appropriations for the support of the land-grant colleges was brought -about largely as a result of the efforts of a citizen of this state— Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of the Illinois College at Jacksonville; and that although a similar bill had been vetoed by President Buchanan in 1859,1 a president from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, affixed his signature to the bill of 1862. The fact should be added, that the appropriation of 1862 to the land-grant colleges was not the first appropriation made by the Federal government for the support of higher education in Illinois. By an act of Congress dated March 26, 1804, the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to locate in each of three districts in the Indiana Territory one entire township for the use of a seminary of learning. This gave Indiana, Illinois and Michigan each one seminary township,2 By the ^IL School Report 1881-2, p. cxli "El School Report 1881-2, p. exxad