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Legislature at its last session by a committee of State Agricultural Society. RESOLVED, That we approve of the general principle adopted and approved by all parties at the last session of the Legislature, that, in preparing the charter for the University, all mere details of organization and government should be left to the future necessities of the people and the existing Board of Trust; and that the charter of the University should limit their freedom only on those points indispensable to a fundamental law. RESOLVED, That a committee be appointed to urge these views upon the next Legislature. RESOLVED, That we urge upon the people the necessity of keeping the principles embodied in these resolutions before aspirants to office, and that they emphatically reprobate any man as a candidate for the Legislature who is unfavorable to these views. RESOLVED, That we request the Chicago and Springfield papers, and all other papers in the State, to publish the proceedings of this Convention. (Signed by each member of the Committee). From the known views of the Committee who drafted these resolutions, and especially the Chairman, Prof. Turner, you will not be surprised that such views as are embodied in the second and fourth resolutions were presented to the Convention. The whole batch were at first attempted to be forced through the Convention, but by resolutions offered by one of your Committee, they were taken up for consideration seriatem. Your Committee did not see much to condemn in the other resolutions but strenuously opposed, by speeches and their votes, the passage of the second and fourth resolutions, as did a number of others from different portions of the State, feour Committee would here say that only twenty four counties out of the One hundred and two w«^i^presented in the Convention, that the whole affair seemed y f f ^ ^ ^ e ^ n up to further the interests of parties who urged and B | B ^ | the last sessioijpf the Legislature, I f ! Bill known as the ^ ^ ^ ^ f f l ^ S S P 1 1 1 which prfgided to locate H I g ^ ^ n by a CommiffiJAppointed by th$*mmnor, as the