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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Report to the Board of Supervisors DOCUMENT NUMBER 17 481 Record Book Board of Supervisors, No. I l l , March 2, 1866. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE SENT TO THE BLOOMINGTON AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Champaign County: By a resolution passed by your Honorable body at its last meeting, Clark R. Griggs, A. H. Bailey and Daniel Gardner were appointed a Committee to attend a Convention to be held at Bloomington on the 14th day of December 1865, for the purpose of discussing the subject of future legislative action appertaining to the location of the Agricultural College, The two last named gentlemen, not being able to attend the Convention, appointed as their substitutes, W. H. Pierce, and J. C. Sheldon. Your Committee thus organized beg leave to report, that they in accordance with the instructions of the aforesaid resolution attended the Convention. Your Committee will not attempt to give a full detail of the doings of the Convention, supposing that most, if not all of the members of the Board have read them as published in the papers; but will only refer to the proceedings in a general way. We would most especially ask the attention of the Board to the resolutions passed and the Committee who reported them. The resolutions are as follows. WHEREAS, The true principles of education, like the true principles of civil government, everywhere require the greatest practicable union, co-operation, and concentration in all its higher departments, combined with the utmost practical diffusion in its lower departments; therefore, RESOLVED, That the State of Illinois should at present attempt to build only one University of the highest order, and that the energies and resources of our people should now be directed to that one end, and the undivided funds of our Congressional grant be appropriated thereto. RESOLVED, That we approve of the principle of location adopted by a former State Convention, and presented to the State
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