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University Organizes 277 subscriptions for the new branch.8 The committee proceeded to action in entire good faith and at the meeting of the board in November, 1868 a communication from the common council of Chicago was presented in regard to establishing such a department in Chicago and to the action of the board thereon.9 In a word the council offered to donate two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the endowment of the mechanical department of the university if legislative authority for the issuance of bonds to that amount could be obtained, provided the trustees agreed to establish the department in Chicago upon receipt of the donation. Therefore the following resolution was adopted without a dissenting voice: "Resolved, That in accordance with the resolution of this board of March 13th, 1867, establishing a Mechanical Department of the Industrial University at Chicago, as near as possible to the center of the city, the members of this Board residing in the Third Grand Division and First Congressional District be, and they are hereby, instructed to accept said proposition and notify the said city thereof; and they are authorized and instructed to execute and deliver such contracts as may be necessary or proper in the premises. " I . S.Mahan, Chairman of Committee." This is the last reference to the polytechnic department in Chicago. It died on paper. There is no evidence that the city of Chicago ever sought legislative authority therefor. It would seem, as the agriculturists and others had said, that the whole I scheme of establishing departments in Chicago and other parts of the state had not been made in good faith but merely to catch votes. The second meeting 10 of the board of trustees which was held in Urbana May 7, 8, and 9, 1867, was presided over by the regent. Dr. Gregory was to receive four thousand dollars a year *First animal report of the board of trustee*, 27. ^Second annual report of the board of trustees, 40. "Between the first and second meetings of the board of trustees occurred a stormy part of the struggle for the location already referred to in chapter X. r
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