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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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812 History University of Illinois " T o the Horticultural Department, including horticultural buildings and structures, house for gardener, barn and tool house, horticultural implements, fencing, underdraining roads, forest and fruit trees, shrubs, plants, etc., ten thousand dollars per annum for two years. "To the Chemical Department, the sum of five thousand dollars. "To be used for other apparatus and for books, by direction of the Trustees, ten thousand dollars. 1 ' Sec. 2. The Auditor of Public accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants upon the treasurer of the State of Illinois for the said sums of money upon the order of the Board of Trustees of said university, signed by the Regent, and attested by the secretary of said Board with the seal of said institution affixed thereto; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer, and he is hereby authorized to pay the same out of monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Provided that said orders of said Trustees shall not be given except as in their judgment the necessity arises for the expenditure of the monies so appropriated for the specific purpose herein provided. "Sec. 3. The act shall be deemed a public act, and be in force from and after its passage. "Sec. 4. The Board of Trustees shall not create any indebtedness, nor incur any liabilities beyond the provisions of this act. "Approved March 27, 1869." 5 Sixty thousand dollars for the biennium; it was a generous sum for the time and was probably just about as much as the university could make wise use of. The university opened for its second term of work on September 18,1868, with an attendance of only seventy-two students, which by March, 1869, had increased to one hundred and thirtysix. It is difficult to state the distribution of the students through the various courses as many of them were engaged in preparatory studies, but, in the opinion of the regent, at least one-third "Laws of Illinois, 1869; published in Prairie Farmer, April 24, 1869.
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