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AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, endowment and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial University."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That if the legal authorities of the county of Champaign shall not, by or before the first day of June, 1867, convey or cause to be conveyed, to the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, by a good and unincumbered title, in fee simple, all the real estate mentioned and contained in the propositions of said county, and which real estate is described and set out in the act to which this act is supplemental, amounting to nine hundred and eighty acres of land, and if said county shall not also pay over and deliver to said trustees, by said day, all the bonds and other property offered by said county, mentioned in said act, then said board of trustees, or a majority of them, shall proceed without delay to permanently locate and establish said Industrial University in McLean, Logan or Morgan county; such county so selected shall in like manner be required in all things to fulfill and comply with the conditions and provisions of the offer heretofore made by such county, as an inducement for the location of said University in such county.

2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and be in force from and after its approval.

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I, Sharon Tyndale, secretary of state of the state of Illinois, do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies of enrolled laws now on file in this office. In witness whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the great seal of the state, at the city of Springfield, this 12th day of March, A. D. 1867.

SHARON TYNDALE,
Secretary of State.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SPRINGFIELD, ILLS., March 12, 1867.

In pursuance of the foregoing laws, and in response to the subjoined letter of appointment from His Excellency, Richard J. Oglesby, Governor of Illinois, the Board of Trustees (thereby created), met in the hall of the House of Representatives in this city, on Tuesday, the 12th day of March, 1867:

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THE GOVERNOR'S LETTER.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, Executive Department,
SPRINGFIELD, March 1, 1867.

DEAR SIR: You are hereby notified and informed that you have been appointed a trustee of the Illinois Industrial University, located in Champaign county. Your appointment will bear date March 1, 1867.

You are also notified that the first regular meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held in the city of Springfield, Illinois, on Tuesday, March 12, 1867, being the second Tuesday of said month, as provided by the act.

At this meeting the Board of Trustees, among other important duties to be performed, will be required to elect a Regent of the University. You are therefore respectively requested to attend said meeting, as required by law.

Yours, etc.,

R. J. OGLESBY,

Governor of Illinois.

As an ex officio member of the board, His Excellency, the Governor, called the meeting to order, and, directing attention to certain provisions of the law for the organization of the institution, said that it was made his duty to appoint one trustee from each Congressional District, thirteen in all, and five from each one of the three Grand Judicial Divisions of the State, making in all twenty-eight trustees to be appointed by him. In addition to these, the law also appointed four other ex officio members, to-wit: The Governor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State, the President of the State Agricultural Society, and the

Regent of the University, when he should be elected, who was also to be President of the Board. He felt that the trust devolving upon them was a highly important one, and that the men who assumed it, and discharged it gratuitously, were serving their State in no mean capacity.

The Governor heartily indorsed the project, and wished it the utmost success, not doubting that it was destined to be one of the foremost institutions of our State at no very distant day. Discretion, labor and perseverance were necessary to give it a successful impulse. He thought the State might congratulate itself upon the appointment of such a board, and again hoped their labors would be crowned with eminent success.

A temporary organization was then effected by the election of His Excellency, Governor Oglesby, as chairman, and James Rea, Esq., as recording secretary.

The secretary then proceeded to call the roll of members as furnished by the Governor's private secretary, Col. George H. Harlow, as follows:

First Congressional District-David S. Hammond, of Cook county, present.

Second Congressional District-Luther W. Lawrence, of Boone county, absent.

Third Congressional District-Horatio C. Burchard, of Stephenson county, present.

Fourth Congressional District-John S. Johnson, of Hancock county, present.

Fifth Congressional District-Samuel Edwards, of Bureau county, present.

Sixth Congressional District-O. B. Galusha, of Grundy county, present.

Seventh Congressional District-M. L. Dunlap, of Champaign county, present.

Eighth Congressional District-Lemuel Allen, of Tazewell county, present.

Ninth Congressional District-Alexander Blackburn, of McDonongh county, present.

Tenth Congressional District-M. C. Goltra, of Morgan county, present.

Eleventh Congressional District-J. P. Hungate, of Clay county, present.

Twelfth Congressional District-Willard C. Flagg, of Madison county, present.

Thirteenth Congressional District-A. M. Brown, of Pulaski county, present.

First Grand Judicial Division-L. B. McMurray, of Effingham county, absent.

Charles H. Topping, of Union county, present.

Thomas Quick, of Washington county, present.
Burden Pullen, of Clinton county, present.
Isaac S. Mahan, of Marion county, present.

Second Grand Judicial Division-George Harding, of Edgar county, present.

J. H. Pickrell, of Macon county, present.

Mason Brayman, of Sangamon county, absent.

J. C. Cunningham, of Champaign county, present.
J. W. Scroggs, of Champaign county, present.

Third Grand Judicial Division-John M. Van Osdel, of Cook county, present.

J. C. Burroughs, of Cook county, present.
S. S. Hayes, of Cook county, present.
Emery Cobb, of Kankakee county, present.
Robert Douglass, of Lake county, absent.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS.

His Excellency, Governor Oglesby, present.
Newton Bateman LL. D., present.

A. B. McConnell, absent.

Making in all twenty-six members present and five absent.

The Governor declared that a quorum of members being present the meeting was regular and lawful for the transaction of the business for which it was convened.

Mr. DUNLAP moved that the board now take a recess till 2 P. M.; which, by request, was withdrawn.

Mr. HAMMOND moved that the present organization be considered as permanent until after the election of a regent; which, on being seconded, was put and carried.

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