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Struggle for Location 1865-1867 218 negotiate at once for the purchase of the seminary building and grounds. At a meeting of the board of supervisors on March 20,1865, Stoughton and Babcock appeared, supposedly on invitation of the board, and submitted a proposal to sell the institute building for $30,000. The proposition was laid on the table until the June meeting, and then postponed from meeting to meeting for more than a year. The supervisors felt now that matters could be safely delayed, for they knew that the "elephant," as the institute was termed by its enemies, could not get up suddenly and walk away.2 By September, 1866, the time for definite action h#d arrived, for in a few months the legislature would assemble again. For the purpose of getting things under way Supervisor Cosgrove invited C. R. Griggs of Urbana to address the board at its meeting of September 12 in regard to the location of the proposed industrial university, after which Cosgrove offered the following resolutions: "Resolved, That the proposition now on file with the clerk of this Board of Messrs. Stoughton and Babcock, for the sale of the building, known as the Urbana and Champaign Institute with its adjacent grounds made to this Board at the session held in Sept. A. D. 1865, dated Sept. 11,1865 be accepted and that said building be offered to the State of Illinois for the purpose of the Industrial University. "Resolved, That a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated for the purpose of purchasing said building, a farm for the use of said Industrial University and for the purpose of bearing such other expenses necessarily involved in securing the location of the Illinois Industrial University in this county "Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions and appropriations are to be made upon the express condition that the said Industrial University be located in this county by the Legislature at its next session. *Record of the Board of Supervisors, III: 365 June 6, 1865, and September 13,1865, p. 385.
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