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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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214 History University of Illinois "Resolved, That this Board appoint a committee to take charge of all appropriations made by this Board, and that said committee be held responsible to and accountable for all monies committed to its charge and amenable to this Board for all expenses incurred by it. "Whereupon, Supervisor Condit offered the following substitute : "Resolved, That the question of appropriating funds for the purpose of securing the location of the Agricultural College in Champaign County be submitted to the legal voters of said county at a special election to be held on the 10th day of October next, at which election ballots shall be provided on which shall be written or printed, 'For Agricultural College? or 'Against Agricultural College.' " 3 ||p The substitute resolution was adopted and then Supervisor Cosgrove offered the following which was also adopted: "Resolved, That should a majority of the votes cast at said election as authorized in the above resolution be found 'For Agricultural College'. then and in that case the resolutions above offered, by Supervisor Oosgrove are adopted by this Board and the appropriation of One Hundred Thousand dollars ($100,000) is hereby made for said Agricultural College by this Board." In accordance with the above resolutions the question at issue was submitted to the voters of Champaign county at an election held on October 10, with the result that 4,601 voted for the college and 1,085 against the college; a majority, therefore, of 3,516 was in favor of bonding the county to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars, and this amount, by reason of the resolution passed by the board, was appropriated for an agricultural college. On December 4, 1866, the board met again and appropriated five thousand dollars* to be expended "cautiously and judiciously' 9 by a committee of three for the purpose of securing the location of the agricultural college in Champaign county.4 The preamble to the resolution stated that the towns of Urbana and •Record of the Board of Supervisors, 111:482, September 12, 1866. 'Record of the Board of Supervisors, 111:487, December 4, 1866.
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