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for his services, more by a thousand dollars than the board had at first proposed to offer. At this meeting the question of the location of the university was settled for good and all. Thomas Bonfield, a lawyer of Kankakee county, hired to examine the deeds, abstracts, certificates of election, and bonds offered by Champaign county, found the titles all without latent defects; whereupon the following was read by A. M. Brown of Pulaski county, and unanimously adopted: "WHEREAS, the county of Champaign has caused to be conveyed to the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, by good and unimcumbered titles, the building and grounds known as the Urbana and Champaign Institute, described as follows : Commencing at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the south-east quarter of section seven (7), town nineteen (19) range nine (9) east; running thence east four hundred and sixty-two feet; thence south seven hundred (700) feet; thence west four hundred and sixty-two (462) feet; thence north seven hundred (700) feet, to the place of beginning. Also, a part of the southwest quarter of section number eighteen (18), in said township, as follows; Beginning at the north-east corner of said tract; thence west eighty (80) rods; thence south one hundred and seven and thirty one-hundredths (107 30.100) rods; thence east eighty (80) rods; thence north one hundred and seven and thirty one-hundredths (107 30.100) rods, to the place of beginning. Also twenty-eight (28) acres off the north side of the south half of the south-east quarter of said section number eighteen (18). Also, the north half of the south-east quarter of said section eighteen (18). Also, the north-west quarter of section ninteen (19), in said township. Also, the north half of the south-west quarter, the south half of the north-east quarter, the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, and the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter, of said section nineteen (19). Also, the south half and the south half of the north-east quarter of section twenty-one (21), in said township; and, 'WHEREAS, also, said county of Champaign has issued under the forms of law, and delivered to said Board of Trustees, one hundred thousand dollars in the bonds of said county, due