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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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any part thereof or interest therein only as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, or its successors in function in accordance with its existing regulations, may authorize in writing . . . " The University now has received an oral authorization from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to grant the easement, and is in the process of receiving written authorization. T h e $1,500 will be remitted to the United States government under the provisions of the grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Resolution Authorizing Easement to Northern Illinois Gas Company for Gas Pipeline at Northeastern Agronomy Research Center at Elwood

Be It, And It Hereby Is Resolved by T H E BOARD O F T R U S T E E S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S , a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this 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 N O R T H ERN I L L I N O I S GAS COMPANY, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to construct, reconstruct, operate, maintain, repair, alter, replace, move, and remove an eightinch (8") gas pipeline and other equipment appurtenant thereto, under, through, and across the land hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to property of this Corporation by the construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance, renewal, or removal of said gas pipeline, and to indemnify the University and its representatives from liability in connection with its activities; the term of said easement to be for such period as the easement may be used for the above-described purposes, but upon the discontinuation of use of or abandonment of said gas pipeline, said easement to thereupon cease and determine without necessity of re-entry or demand; 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. The right-of-way easement shall be over the following described property: T h e South sixteen and one half (16'/2) feet of the East Half (E >/2) of the Southwest Quarter (SW M) and the West Half (W W) of the Southeast Quarter (SE Vt) of Section twelve ( 1 2 ) , Township thirty-four North ( T 34 N ) , Range nine East (R 9 E) of the Third Principal Meridian lying North of and abutting the North Right-of-Way line of Craig Road in Channahon Township, in the County of Will, and State of Illinois. O n m o t i o n of M r . L i v i n g s t o n , this r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d by t h e following vote: Aye, M r . Forsyth, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . Lenz, M r .

Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Walker. Purchases

(28) T h e President submitted, with his concurrence, a list of purchases recommended by the Directors of Purchases and the Vice President for Planning and Allocation. The list of purchases was presented in two categories: purchases from appropriated funds (i.e., from State appropriations to the University) and purchases from institutional funds. T h e latter term designates funds received by the University under contracts with the United States government, contracts with private