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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mr. Swain, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Mr. Neal, Governor Walker.

EASEMENT ON HIGGINSON FARM

(27) In 1970 the University received a 120-acre farm in Wabash County from the estate of Ethel V. Higginson. The Mt. Carmel Public Utility Company and the Central Illinois Public Service Company now seek an easement over this property to construct power lines. The companies offered to pay $2,724.00 for the easement, based upon an appraisal by the Doane Agricultural Service, Inc., of $400.00 an acre damage to 6.81 acres of land. The University officers have maintained that there would also be damage to land outside the easement and requested $20.00 per acre for 33.2 acres. The companies have agreed to the University's request. After consultation with appropriate University officers, I recommend that an easement be granted to the Mt. Carmel Public Utility Company upon payment of $1,355.20 and to the Central Illinois Public Service Company upon payment of $2,032.80, or a total of $3,388.00. I further recommend that the following resolutions be adopted: Resolution Authorizing Electric Transmission Line Easement to Central Illinois Public Service Company Over the Ethel V. Higginson Property, Wabash County, Illinois Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF T H E UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public Corporation be, and they hereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name and on behalf of, this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to CENTRAL ILLINOIS PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to erect, reconstruct, operate, patrol, maintain, renew, and remove electric transmission and distribution lines, includingtowers, poles, anchors, and other equipment appurtenant thereto, for the transmission and distribution of electric energy through, over, and across certain lands hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public Corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. Grantee shall have the right to cut, fell, and remove trees, shrubbery, and bushes as may be required to provide necessary clearance. Grantee shall agree to pay to Grantor the sum of Two Thousand Thirty-two Dollars and Eighty Cents ($2,032.80) and to repair any damage caused to property of this Corporation by the erection, reconstruction, operation, patroling, maintenance, renewing, and removing of said electric transmission and distribution lines, and to indemnify this Corporation and its representatives from liability in connection with Grantee's activities. The right-of-way easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as said electric transmission and distribution lines are continued in service and have not been abandoned and discontinued. Upon termination of the easement Grantee shall peaceably surrender possession of said premises to this Corporation and full and complete title then shall remain in this Corporation free and clear of said easement and without necessity of reentry or demand. The right-of-way easement shall be over the following-described property: The South West Quarter of the North West Quarter of Section 8 in Township 2 South, Range 13 West of the 2nd Principal Meridian, Wabash County, Illinois. The center line of the said transmission line shall be located on or within 50 Feet of a line which extends Eastwardly from a point on the West line of the above described property which is 1,160 Feet North of the South West Corner thereof to a point on the East line of the said property which is 1,150 Feet North of the South East Corner thereof.