| |
| |
Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
t The University Located 259 dustrial University, as far as they can under their powers, but will be bound, under the terms of their charter and the conditions of the endowments to said college, to continue the organization of said board of trustees, and see that their trusts are faithfully executed and the funds and endowments are not diverted from their original purpose. "All the lands offered by each county are eligibly situated, of the best quality, and well adapted for the purposes of model and experimental farming, or pasturage. The titles to the lands are all good, or can be made good, upon the acceptance of the offer by the State. The abstracts of title, together with the plats of the lands, are now in the hands of the committee. "All of which is most respectfully submitted. A. I. ENOCH, CHAIRMAN OP JOINT COMMITTEE. Springfield, Illinois, February 16, 1867." | Following the visit of the joint committee of the legislature, Champaign county issued a statement signed by the committee of the board of supervisors that Champaign county's bid, if valued as the joint committee valued McLean's bid, would have amounted to $555,400, an excess of $85,000 over Bloomington. They claimed also that a scarcity of water in and about Bloomington rendered it wholly impracticable as a site.12 McLean county replied by issuing a statement in circular form to the general assembly, signed by ten leading citizens headed by J. W. Fell, in which it declared that the joint committee of the two houses very properly based their estimates of value on actual cash sales and not on town or county assessments. "This effort,'{ they said, "to destroy the force of the committee's report by a process of reasoning so notoriously unreliable, demands at our hands no further notice." The committee denounced as "absolutely and transparently false" the charge about the "scarcity of water" in and about Bloomington.13 Beport8 General Assembly, 1867, 1:443-445. "The committee consisted of W. D, SomerB, T. A. Cosgrove, and C. B. Morehouse. See documents in Turner manuscripts, Springfield, also Appendix, p. 485, u ffiaHH
| |
