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1957] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 947
On motion of Mr. Herrick, this allocation of funds was approved
by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr.
Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs.
Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Stratton.
APPROPRIATION FOR HORSE-RADISH RESEARCH
(14) An Act of the Seventieth General Assembly of Illinois (Senate Bill 280),
approved July 6, 1957, appropriated $S,000 to the University for research on
diseases and insects causing damage and destruction to the vegetable known as
horse-radish and on improvement of varieties and cultural practices, and for
recommending to growers remedies which may eliminate menaces to the future
crop of this vegetable in Illinois and methods of improving it.
The Dean of the College of Agriculture, the Vice-President and Provost, and
the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that $2,500 of this appropriation
be assigned for the year 1957-58 to the Department of Horticulture for horseradish
research.
The remaining $2,500 will be included in the budget for 1958-59.
I concur.
On motion of Mrs. Holt, this allocation of funds was made by the
following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mr. Herrick, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Hughes,
Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins,
Mr. Willamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Stratton.
EASEMENT TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS WATER CORPORATION
(15) On May 28, 1957, the Board of Trustees granted an easement to the Illinois
Power Company for the use of St. Mary's Road between First Street and the
Illinois Central Railroad. The Illinois Power Company has sold a portion of the
land owned by it to the Northern Illinois Water Company, which requests joint
use of the roadway. The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Vice-
President and Comptroller recommend granting of the easement and adoption of
the following resolution to authorize an instrument of conveyance.
I concur.
Resolution
Be it, and it is hereby, resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of
Illinois, a public corporation of the state of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the
Secretary of the Board of Trustees be, and they hereby are, upon the approval of
the Legal Counsel, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of
and on behalf of this corporation, such instrument of conveyance, contract, or
other document or documents, as to them may seem necessary or desirable, in order
to effectuate a conveyance to Northern Illinois Water Corporation of a right of
way easement over and upon, and with the right to construct and maintain a
roadway thereon, traverse, travel upon, cross, and use for usual road purposes, a
strip of land not more than 12 feet wide, with an over-all width of 18 feet to
provide for drainage, extending from St. Mary's road south approximately J4 mile
along a line between the SW }4 of the NE l A of Section 24 and the SE % of the
NE Yx of Section 24, all in T 19 N, R 8 E of the 3rd P.M., Champaign County,
Illinois, on the site of the existing cindered farm lane, the exact location to be set
forth in the instrument of conveyance herein authorized to be entered into, said
right of way easement to be non-exclusive, and said Northern Illinois Water Corporation
to agree to guarantee, and, in the event of any default by Illinois Power
Company, to assume, the obligation of Illinois Power Company to construct and
maintain thereon, in a manner acceptable to duly authorized representatives of this
public corporation, an all-weather roadway 12 feet wide, with an over-all width of
18 feet to provide for drainage, at the sole expense of said Illinois Power Company
and said Northern Illinois Water Corporation to agree to indemnify this
public corporation against any loss or damages arising out of liability for personal
injury, including death, or property damage, to any persons whomsoever, caused by
° r attributable to the construction, maintenance and/or use of said roadway by said
Northern Illinois Water Corporation. The easement grant shall provide for a right
°t way easement for an original term beginning with the date of said grant, and
ending on August 5, 1967, and shall contain a provision authorizing renewal for an