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EDUCATIONAL-UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, ENDOWMENT FUND.

§ 1. Appropriates money accrued under Acts of § 2. How drawn.

1890 and 1907.

(HOUSE BILL No. 720. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.)

AN ACT appropriating to the trustees of the University of Illinois the money granted by an Act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890, entitled, “An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more perfect endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts," established under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, and the money granted by an Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907, entitled, "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908.”

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum or sums of money which may have accrued or may hereafter before the first day of July, 1917, accrue to the State of Illinois, under the provisions of an Act of Congress of the United States, approved August 30, 1890, entitled, "An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more perfect endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," established under an Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862; and the money granted by an Act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, entitled, "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908," are hereby appropriated to the trustees of the University of Illinois, and whenever any portion of the said money shall be received by the State Treasurer it shall immediately be due and payable into the treasury of said board of

trustees.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sums hereby appropriated, upon the order of the chairman of the board of trustees of said University, countersigned by its secretary and with the corporate seal of said University.

APPROVED June 24th, 1915.

EDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, GENERAL.

§ 1. Appropriates $5,000,000 for maintenance, fands, buildings, equipment, etc., for the biennium beginning July 1, 1915.

§ 2. Payable under Act of 1911-how drawn.

(HOUSE BILL No. 963. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.)

AN ACT making appropriations for the University of Illinois. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and is hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the biennium beginning July 1, 1915, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), payable out of money paid into the State treasury and set apart as a fund for the use and maintenance of the University of Illinois, in accordance with an Act entitled, "An Act to provide by State tax for a fund for the support and maintenance of the University of Illinois," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, payable as follows:

I. For purchase of lands, erection of buildings, equipment, reconstruction, repairs and betterments (including chemical laboratory, addition to commerce building, school of education building, woman's residence hall, ceramics building, addition to transportation building, railway electrical laboratory, horticultural field house, addition to natural history building, addition to mining engineering laboratory), nine hundred thousand dollars ...

II. Expenses of administration offices (including board of
trustees' president's office, comptroller's office, regis-
trar's office, council of administration, university
senate, etc.), one hundred and fifty-seven thousand
dollars

III. Expenses of general departments (including library
staff, military, physical training, supervision and dis-
cipline, university exercises, publications, museums,
etc.), two hundred and thirty thousand dollars....
IV. Expense of instructional work in the various schools
and colleges (including purchase of apparatus, maps,
charts, and books for the library), two million five
hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars ....
V. Expense of research and scientific departments (includ-
ing the agricultural and engineering experiment
stations), two hundred thousand dollars

VI. Expense maintenance and operation of physical plant
(including repairs, betterments, extensions, janitor
service, care and policing of grounds, and operation
of heating, lighting, and power plant), four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.

VII. General and contingent fund to provide for (increases of salary, additions to staff, emergencies, incidental and general purposes), five hundred thousand dollars

Grand total

$ 900,000

157,000

230,000

2,563,000

200,000

450,000

500,000

$5,000,000

§ 2. The appropriations made herein shall be paid only out of moneys paid into the State treasury and set apart for the use and maintenance of the University of Illinois in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide by State tax for a fund for the support and maintenance of the University of Illinois, approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911.

The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants from time to time upon the State Treasurer for amounts expended or bills then due from the sums herein appropriated, payable severally to the persons named upon the presentation of itemized vouchers therefore, certified to by the president and secretary of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois, with the corporate seal of the university attached thereto.

APPROVED June 28th, 1915.

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ELECTRIC PASSENGER ELEVATORS-CAPITOL BUILDING.

§ 1. Appropriates $5,000 for completing the installation of two passenger elevators.

§ 2. How drawn.

§ 3. Emergency.

(HOUSE BILL No. 693. APPROVED MAY 28, 1915.)

AN ACT making an appropriation for completing the installation of two (2) electric passenger elevators in the Capitol building at Springfield.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for completing the installation of two (2) electric passenger elevators in the Capitol building at Springfield, under the direction of the Secretary of State.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the moneys herein appropriated upon presentation of vouchers certified to by the Secretary of State, and approved by the Governor, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 3. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. APPROVED May 28th, 1915.

EMPLOYMENT OFFICE-ROCK ISLAND-MOLINE, PROVISIONAL.

§ 1. Appropriates $1,700 for moneys expended and to be expended by Cornelius Donovan for the biennium ending June 30, 1915.

§ 2. How drawn.

§ 3. Emergency.

(HOUSE BILL No. 76. APPROVED MAY 13, 1915.)

AN ACT making an appropriation of the sum of seventeen hundred (1700) dollars to reimburse Cornelius Donovan for money expended and to be expended in the management and maintenance of the Rock Island-Moline Free Employment office during the biennium ending with June 30, 1915.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of seventeen hundred (1700) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby appropriated, and directed to be paid to Cornelius Donovan from any funds not otherwise appropriated in the treasury of the State of Illinois, to reimburse said Cornelius Donovan for moneys. expended and to be expended by him in the management and maintenance of the Rock Island-Moline Free Employment office during the biennium ending with June 30, 1915.

Rent of offices, eight hundred eighty dollars

$880.00

Postage, express and telephone, three hundred sixty-three dollars

363.00

Furniture, fixtures and typewriter, two hundred eighty-three

and 50/100 dollars

283.50

Office supplies, one hundred three and 50/100 dollars..
Advertising and traveling expense, seventy dollars.

103.50

70.00

Total, seventeen hundred dollars

$1,700.00

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State treasury for the sum of seventeen hundred (1700) dollars herein appropriated upon the presentation of proper vouchers certified to by the superintendent of the Rock Island-Moline Free Employment office and approved by the Governor, which warrant shall be payable out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 3. WHEREAS, said sum of money is immediately required, therefore an emergency exists and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 165. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.)

AN ACT to make an appropriation for the benefit, aid and maintenance of the Illinois Firemen's Association.

WHEREAS, The Illinois Firemen's Association is an organization representing the firemen, especially the volunteer firemen, of the State, and is organized under the laws of this State; and

WHEREAS, The aims of the Illinois Firemen's Association are the education of firemen in the fire service, and the betterment of the service in the several towns and cities of the State, for which purpose annual meetings are held for the discussion of topics on the subject, and the hearing of suggestions that are of great value to the membership (made up of the fire departments of the State of Illinois). Therefore, to help sustain this organization in the holding of its annual meetings and the printing of its reports, and to otherwise promote the usefulness of this meritorious organization, the fire fighters, who voluntarily give their service in the protection of lives and homes:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and is hereby appropriated to the Illinois Firemen's Association the following sums, to wit: For the printing and distributing of its programs, its annual report of proceedings, organization, postage, stationery, expenses of the annual meeting, the dissemination of information pertaining to the business of the organization, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum.

§ 2. No part of said one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) shall be paid as salary to any officer of the Illinois Firemen's Association.

§ 3. The secretary and treasurer of the association shall make an annual statement to the Governor on or before January 1, of each and every year, of the disposition of the said appropriation.

§ 4. The State Auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the sum herein specified, and to deliver the same to the president and treasurer of the Illinois Firemen's Association upon their presenting proper vouchers for the same, signed by the president and secretary

of said association, and the State Treasurer shall pay out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED June 28th, 1915.

Preamble.

FLAG-RETURN TO 18TH TENNESSEE REGIMENT, CONFEDERATE.

1. Governor empowered to return flag on behalf of State-representatives named.

§ 2 Appropriates $200 for expenses-how drawn § 3. Emergency.

(SENATE BILL No. 420. APPROVED MAY 28, 1915.)

AN ACT to provide for the return of a flag of the Eighteenth Confederate Regiment of Tennessee, together with the fleld and staff of said regiment, and appropriating two hundred ($200) dollars to defray the expense thereof.

WHEREAS, a petition signed by citizens and representatives of the city of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and vicinity, was on the 31st day of March, 1915, presented to the State Senate of Illinois as follows:

We, the undersigned petitioners, would respectfully state to your Honorable Body, that we are representative citizens of the city of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and vicinity and in part, surviving members of the Eighteenth Tennessee Regiment Confederates, which regiment was organized and enlisted for the confederate army at said city of Murfreesboro in the year 1861.

That at the time of the organization of said regiment, a flag was presented to it by the ladies and citizens of Murfreesboro, the presentation address being delivered by a young lady of Murfreesboro, who afterwards became one of the most distinguished women of the South.

That thereafter, at the battle of Fort Donaldson, said flag was captured by Illinois troops and the same is now in the possession of the State of Illinois in the Hall of Relics at Springfield.

Your petitioners are informed that at one time the Legislature of Illinois, by resolution or otherwise, ordered the release and return of said flag, to its original holders, but that the purpose of said resolution was not carried out.

Your petitioners, their neighbors and comrades, earnestly desire the return of said flag, and represent that the same would be of great historical value to them and their descendants, and also to the State of Tennessee.

Therefore, realizing that the prejudices and animosities resulting in the late Civil War have become things of the past, and trusting in the magnanimity and liberality of your Honorable Body, also that of the people of the great State of Illinois, we ask that said flag be released and returned to be placed with our State Historical Society, or in the archives of the State of Tennessee.

We would further represent that we think Mr. L. M. Armstrong, of Peoria, Ill., formerly a citizen of Tennessee, who was closely related to donors of said flag and to prominent members of said regiment, would be a suitable person to receive and convey said flag, and we would most respectively [respectfully] ask that in the event of your Honorable Body ordering the release and return of said flag, Mr. Armstrong be deputized to receive the same and to bear it to us, or to the State of

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