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1244 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [May 29
desirable to discontinue the use of the latter by the University. The University
has not made any use of the tract conveyed to it by Thomas G. and Mary Dean
since December 31, 1954, and, in view of the University's discontinuance of the
use of the tract for the purposes specified in the deed for a period of more than
two consecutive years, the Board of Education of the Sparta Township High
School District has adopted a resolution requesting the University to convey the
east half of the tract to the County Board of School Trustees of Randolph
County, Illinois, and to their successors in office, for the use of the Sparta Township
High School District No. Ill, Randolph County, Illinois. The attorney for
the Board of Education of the Sparta Township High School District and the
Legal Counsel of the University are in agreement that the east half of the tract
can be properly so conveyed by quit claim deed in accordance with the provisions
of the deed given the University by the Deans.
Accordingly, the Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Vice-President
and Comptroller of the University recommend that the action of the College of
Agriculture in discontinuing the use by the University of said land for a period
of more than two consecutive years immediately preceding the receipt of said
request from said Board of Education be confirmed and ratified, that said request
be granted by the making, execution, and delivery of a quit claim deed so conveying
the University's interest in the east half of said tract of land, and that the
Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to make, execute, and
deliver such deed on behalf of the University and its Board of Trustees.
I concur and also recommend the adoption of the following resolution prepared
by the Legal Counsel, viz.:
Resolution
WHEREAS, by deed bearing date of July 1, 1915, one Thomas G. Dean and
Mary Dean, his wife, of Randolph County, Illinois, conveyed to the Board of
Trustees of the University of Illinois and their successors in office a tract of land,
situated in said county, containing twenty acres more or less and described as
follows:
Beginning at a stone at the northwest corner of the S.E. Quarter of the S.E.
Quarter of Section 36, T 4 S, R 6 W, Randolph County, Illinois, thence
running east along the north line of said S.E. Quarter of the S.E. Quarter of
said Section 36 for a distance of 1177.5 feet, thence running south parallel
to and 147.5 f ee t west of the east line of said Section 36 for a distance of
727.5 feet, thence running west parallel to and 592.5 feet north of the south
line of said Section 36 for a distance of 1181 feet to the west line of said S.E.
Quarter of the S.E. Quarter of said Section 36, thence running north along
said west line of the S.E. Quarter of the S.E. Quarter of said Section 36 for
a distance of 727.5 feet more or less to the point of beginning;
which deed is recorded in Book 78 at Page 63 of the records of the Recorder's
Office of Randolph County, Illinois; and
WHEREAS, said deed provided that the grantee therein was to use the tract
conveyed to it thereby for the purposes of agricultural experimentation and demonstration
and further provided that if the grantee should discontinue using said
land for said purposes for a period of more than two consecutive years it shall,
when requested, convey by proper deed to the Sparta Township High School the
east half of said above described tract of land; and
WHEREAS, the grantee in said deed has now discontinued the use by it of said
land for said purposes for a period of more than two consecutive years and this
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has been requested by the Board
of Education of the Sparta Township High School District to convey the east
half of said hereinabove described land as hereinafter resolved, authorized, and
provided for the purpose of complying with and carrying out the provisions ot
said hereinabove mentioned deed:
Therefore, It Is Hereby Resolved by this Board of Trustees of the University
of Illinois that the discontinuance for a period of more than two consecutive years
immediately prior to the receipt of said request from said Board of Education by
the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois of the use of said hereinabove
described land for the purposes specified in the hereinabove mentioned
deed be, and the same is hereby confirmed and ratified; and