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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Land 43 It will be noticed that the land donated by Champaign County consisted of four separate tracts, amounting in all to about 980 acres. One of the first acts8 of the Board of Trustees was to purchase additional land adjoining that given by the county, thereby enlarging the campus, straightening the boundary lines, and joining the 160 acre tract to the plot on which the chief building of the University stood. By the end of the year 1867 the majority of the various purchases called for by this plan had been consummated. The "Urbana and Champaign Institute grounds containing about ten acres/' specified in the offer of the county to the legislature, were found to contain somewhat less than seven and a half acres. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Trustees of the University held June 14, 1867, it was "Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee that Champaign county should make good its offer to the State by conveying sufficient grounds contiguous to the University to make up the size of the ground to ten acres." 4 On the same day a committee from the Board of Supervisors of the county reported to the executive committee of the Trustees that the Supervisors had authorized the conveyance to the University of ten lots adjacent to the campus and owned by the county.5 The program of campus enlargement included also the purchase of a tier of lots to the west of the Institute grounds, and the moving of Wright Street about sixty-six feet westward. The land formerly occupied by Wright Street thus became part of the campus.6 The west fourteen feet of this land, however, was added to Wright Street, giving that street a width of eighty feet. In all, during the year 1867, twenty-two lots were purchased, as well as nearly all of a forty-acre tract of land7 forty rods in width from east to west extending one hundred sixty rods southward from Springfield Avenue to the 160 acre Ttept. Univ. of 111., 1888, p. 42 4 Bept. Univ. of 111., 1868, p. 136 B Rept. Univ. of 111., 1868, p. 139 °Rept. Univ. of 111., 1868, p. 98; also Controller's Rept., Univ. of HI., Sept. 2, 1913, pp. 86-7 'Eept. Univ. of 111., 1868, pp. 140-2
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