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The University Located 255 this amount the city of Lincoln added $50,000 in bonds and the Chicago & Alton railroad offered $50,000 in freight. In lieu of $50,000 of city bonds the county offered the choice of three farms all within one mile of the court house in the city of Lincoln. In the closing statement to the legislature presenting their bid they summarize as follows: " In brief we propose to give the State for the use of the University, a most eligible and desirable farm on which to locate the Institution. We propose further to give the State enough money to erect a building, better and more costly than the present capital of the State, or the Normal University; and when all this is done, there will be the magnificent surplus of $100,000 left in the hands of the State to be expended in the supply of apparatus, machinery, and appliances of every sort necessary for the successful operation of the University. The State cannot ask more. Believing that no other location has submitted a more generous or liberal proposition or one more advantageous to the State, the citizens of Logan County ask for their proposition the candid1 and just consideration of the Legislature/jj 9 By February 8, 1867, four counties had presented petitions including offers of money, bonds, and lands, to the two houses of the general assembly to secure the location of the industrial university in their respective localities. In view of this situation the general assembly appointed a joint committtee of fifteen to visit these counties, to examine the items of the respective bids, and to report on or before the 15th of February on the cash value of each bid and the sufficiency of the titles by which the property was held.10 On the 9th of February the joint committee visited Champaign county, on the 11th Bloomington, on the 13th Jacksonville and then Lincoln. There were the usual reception committtees, speeches, dinners, and inspection trips. The report of the Committee to the legislature, made on February 16, was accurate in its statement of fact and fair in "Eouse Journal, 1867, 1 session, 23-24, 26-27; Senate Journal, 1867, 1 session, 499-550. The committee consisted of the following in the house: the chairman Mr. Enoch, Messrs. Hollowbush, Straun, Funk, Beeeley, Stage, Hanson, Odell, Brunner, and Harlan; in the senate: Messrs; Chittenden, Fort, Patton, Reilly, and Pinkney. itj&SE Bs!
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