the rate of ten percent per annum, and two thousand dollars in fruit, shade, and ornamental trees and shrubbery, to be selected from the nursery of M. L. Dunlap, and furnished at the lowest catalogue rates, making an estimated valuation of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($450,000). Titles to be perfect, and conveyance to the state to be made or caused to be made by the county of Champaign, upon the permanent location of the Illinois Industrial University upon the said grounds, so to be conveyed as aforesaid, and we hereby in our official capacity guarantee the payment of the said bonds and the faithful execution of the deeds of conveyance, free from all incumbrances, as herein set forth. W. D. SOMERS, T. A. COSGROVE, Committee." 13. The board of trustees shall, by and with the advice and consent of the governor and adjutant-general, procure all such arms, accoutrements, books, and instruments, and appoint such instructors as may, in their discretion, be required to impart a thorough knowledge of military tactics and military engineering, and they may prescribe a uniform dress to be worn by the pupils of the University. 14. That upon the organization of the board of trustees and the appointment of said treasurer, and the filing with and the approval by said board of the bond of said treasurer, and all of said foregoing acts being duly certified to the governor, under the hand of said regent, countersigned by the said recording secretary, it shall then become the legal duty of said governor to deliver over to said treasurer the land scrip issued by the United States to this state, for the endowment of said University, and that thereupon it shall become the duty of said treasurer to sell and dispose of said scrip at such time, place, in such manner and quantities, and upon such terms as such board shall, from time to time, prescribe, or to locate the same as said board may direct. Said treasurer being in all respects pertaining to the sale of said scrip, and the reinvestment of the proceeds received therefor, and the securities when reinvested, subject to such order and control of said board as is not inconsistent with this act and the act of congress providing for the endowment of said University. 15. That all the right, title, and interest of the state of Illinois in and to said land scrip, is hereby invested in the Illinois Industrial University, for the use and purposes herein contained; and said scrip shall be assigned to said University by the governor of the State of Illinois on each certificate, and attested by the secretary of state under the seal of the state; and that the transfer of said scrip to purchasers by assignment on the back thereof, by the said officers of said University, under the seal thereof, in manner following, shall be deemed sufficient in law, to-wit: For value received, the State of Illinois hereby sells and assigns to..........the within scrip, and authorizes... to locate the same and obtain a patent on such location. Given under our hands and the seal of said University this ...day of..... .A. D. 186...... Countersigned by E. F., Recording Secretary, C. D., Treasurer. 16. That upon said treasurer making sale of any of said scrip, he shall at once invest the fund so received, report the same to the said board, stating amount sold, price obtained, and how the same was by him invested; which report shall be filed with the recording secretary, who shall transmit a copy of the same to the governor of said state, and he to the congress of the United States, in accordance with said act of congress. 17. That the said board shall order upon its minutes which of the several kinds of securities mentioned in the fourth section of said act of congress said treasurer shall invest proceeds of sales in. 18. The bond required to be given by said treasurer shall be conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as trea surer of the "Illinois Industrial University," and for any breach thereof suit may be instituted, in the name of the "Illinois Industrial University;" and it shall be deemed a criminal offense for any person or persons holding in trust any part of the funds of said University knowingly or negligently to misapply or misappropriate the same, indictable in any court having jurisdiction, in the same manner as other crimes are punishable, by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, according to the nature of the offense. 19. This act shall be a public act and take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 123) Approved, February 28, 1867. (Session. L., Ill., 1867, p. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization, endowment, and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial University." Section I. 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. Approved, March 8, 1867. (Sess. L., Ill., 1867, p. 130.) DOCUMENT NUMBER 27 The following petition to the legislature, prepared by a committee representing the mechanics of Chicago, was printed as a separate document. Turner manuscripts, university of Illinois TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The undersigned respectfully represent unto your Honorable Body, as follows: That at a meeting of Manufacturers and Mechanics, recently held in Chicago, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Act of Congress, of July 2d, 1862, making appropriation of Public Lands for the purpose of establishing Colleges of instruction in Agricultural and Mechanic Arts-the undersigned were appointed a committee to lay before your Honorable Body, in some specific form, the views and opinions there expressed. At this meeting it was the unanimous opinion, not only that the fund provided by Congress was susceptible of division so far as to permit of the establishment of distinct schools of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, in the State of Illinois, but that the interests of Agriculture and Mechanics alike demand that such a division should be made. Many and weighty reasons were given for this opinion. It was believed that the Agricultural interests of the State would be best satisfied by the location of an Agricultural School with some reference to the geographical centre of the State; on the other hand, the Mechanic Arts were mainly practiced in and near Chicago. There centered the whole Rail Road system of the State of Illinois. There her principal manufacturing establishments were founded. There by far the largest number of her operatives had their homes. There the capital of the manufacturer was invested. In short, there the head and heart of the manufacturing and mechanical interests of the State were located, and there for many years, if not for all time, they might be reasonably expected to remain. It was suggested, among other things, that the undersigned should prepare the draft of a Bill, to be laid before your Honorable Body, carrying out the design of Congress with reference to the mechanic arts, on the principle of establishing distinct institutions for those branches and for agricultural science. The undersigned felt deeply their incompetence for the task imposed upon them. The subject was novel, it was interesting; great interests depended upon the execution of the work consigned to their hands, and as their work should be well or ill done, might generations to come have cause to thank, or condemn them. Under these circumstances, it was both natural and reasonable that the undersigned should seek elsewhere that information which they did not themselves possess. Acting, therefore, upon what they deemed their duty under the circumstances, they caused a letter of inquiry and suggestion to be prepared, some thirty or more copies of which were sent to persons chiefly distinguished for the interest they had taken in the cause of education in general, and especially in that relating to agricultural and mechanical science. Among these were included the names of some of our first statesmen, scientists, theoretical and practical mechanics. The length of this letter alone precludes its insertion in this place, but so much of it as is directly interrogatory, will here be given. After propounding the general question, whether, under the act of Congress, the branches of agriculture and mechanics might both be taught in one and the same institution, and under a single corps of instructors, or whether they were so far dissimilar in character as to be best pursued in distinct institutions, organized and conducted with express reference to giving instruction in the one or the other branch of study, as the case might be, the letter proceeded as follows, viz.: "FIRST-How extensive ought to be the course of instruction in an institution, the design of which is to turn out scientific, practical mechanics? In other words, what studies, whether principal or subsidiary, should be embraced in such a course of instruction? "SECOND-How much time should be allotted to the pupil to complete a full course of mechanical study? "THIRD-Under what limitation, as regards age and educational qualifications, should pupils be received into the institution? |