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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Illinois Considers Disposition of Donation 205 proposed institution: the governor's commission before it digbanded in November, 1864, visited the institute and it was believed to be almost unanimously in favor of locating the university in Champaign county. 58 This amounted to little, of course, except as it might be interpreted as encouragement. According to a local paper, Dr. Scroggs reported favorably the meeting he had attended in Springfield. He reported thus, perhaps, from the cordial manner in which he had been received for apparently there was nothing else to base it upon. Such was the condition of affairs, when the legislature met in January, 1865, and, as has been related finally adjourned without action because of the disagreement upon the subject of the location of the proposed industrial university. It will be recalled that the bill introduced in the senate on January 13, 1865, by Senator Lindsay was the same as the bill introduced by the agriculturists with the exception of section 11. The substitute section shows just what Champaign county offered the state in 1865: " I t shall be the duty of the board of trustees to permanently locate said university at Urbana, in Champaign County, Illinois, whenever the county of Champaign shall, according to the proper forms of law, convey, or cause to be conveyed, to said trustees, in fee simple, and free from all incumbrances, the Urbana and Champaign Institute building, grounds and appurtenances, together with the farm of one hundred acres, connected therewith, as proposed in the following offer, in behalf of said county, to-wit: 'The undersigned, a committee appointed by the Board of Supervisors *of Champaign County, are instructed to make the following offer to the State of Illinois, in consideration of the permanent location of the Illinois Industrial University at Urbana, in Champaign county, viz: We offer the Urbana and Champaign Institute building, the college grounds, containing about ten acres, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging, with one hundred acres of land adjacent thereto, valued at one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, free from all incum"Travrie Farmer, November 12, 1864. According to the Union, Champaign, the commission must have visited Champaign sometime in October. JM
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