(110 ILCS 305/12) (from Ch. 144, par. 33)
Sec. 12.
It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to permanently
locate said University at Urbana in Champaign County, Illinois, whenever
the County of Champaign shall, according to the proper forms of law, convey
or cause to be conveyed to said trustees, in fee simple, and free from all
incumbrances, the Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings, grounds, and
lands, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging, as set forth in
the following offer in behalf of said county, to-wit:
"The undersigned, a committee appointed by the board of supervisors of
Champaign County, are instructed to make the following offer to the State
of Illinois, in consideration of the permanent location of the Illinois
Industrial University at Urbana, Champaign County, viz.: We offer the
Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings and grounds, containing about ten
acres; also one hundred and sixty acres of land adjacent thereto; also,
four hundred acres of land, it being part of section No. twenty-one, in
township No. nineteen, north, range No. nine east, distant not exceeding
one mile from the corporate limits of the City of Urbana.
"Also, four hundred and ten (410) acres of land, it being part of
section No. nineteen, township No. nineteen, range No. nine east, within
one mile of the buildings herein offered.
"Also, the donation offered by the Illinois Central Railroad Company of
fifty thousand dollars' worth of freight over said road for the benefit of
said University.
"Also, one hundred thousand dollars in Champaign County bonds, due and
payable in ten years, and bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent 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,
C. R. Moorhouse,
Committee."
(Source: Laws 1867, p. 123.)
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