Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1936-1939)

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FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1938

ing with the filing of the applications for projects. The information
required on these documents may come from various sources and will
be approved by either Professor Gram or Mr. Christensen or both as
occasion may require. Additional drafting and clerical help is to be
provided as necessary. Special building committees on the various
buildings will be made up of Messrs. Gram and Christensen, with
appropriate officials, to be named, particularly interested in such buildings respectively.
Dating from October 1, 1938, for the period of the building program or until further action by the Board, the following additions will
be made on an annual basis to the regular salaries: Walter Roth, $800,
Francis Shiel, $396, and Harold Anderson, $350.
Regent Stone was excused.
The Regents authorized the presentation to the Social Security
Division of the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue in Detroit,
of a document prepared by Mr. George J. Burke as attorney for the
Regents, setting forth his view of the status under the social security
law of certain subdivisions of the University organization.
The following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, The Regents of the University of Michigan, a Constitutional
Corporation, of the State of Michigan, desires to secure for the necessary use of
the University of Michigan, land adjacent to land now owned by The Regents
of the University of Michigan, and particularly as a site for buildings, structures,
and grounds for the erection of a dormitory for the housing of students of the
University of Michigan, which in the judgment of this Board is and should be
an integral part of a broad program of education, and the said corporation does
not hold title to sufficient real estate for such purpose and the following described
real estate situated and being in the Township of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, State of Michigan, has been selected by The Regents of the University
of Michigan as a necessary portion of the most available site for such purpose:
A part of lot number two in block five south of Huron Street, Range eight east,
according to the recorded plat of the Ann Arbor Land Company's addition to the Village
(now City) of Ann Arbor, beginning at a point in the west line of said lot two, eleven
feet south of the northwest corner of said lot; running thence east parallel with the
north line of said lot, seventy nine feet; thence southeast twelve and 728/1000 feet to a
point twenty feet south of the north line of said lot and forty four feet west of the
east line of said lot as platted; thence east parallel with the north line of said lot forty
two feet and four and one-half inches to an old fence; thence south to a point in the
south line of said lot two and one-half feet west of the southeast corner of the said
lot as platted; thence west along the south line of said lot two, one hundred twenty
nine and one-half feet to the place of beginning.
Commencing at the northeast corner of lot number 2, block 5 south of Huron Street,
Range 8 east, according to the recorded plat of the Ann Arbor Land Company's Addition
to the Village (now City) of Ann Arbor, running thence west along the north line of
said lot 15 inches; thence south to a point in the south line of said lot 30 inches from
the southeast corner thereof; thence east along the south line of said lot 30 inches to the
southeast corner; thence north along the east line of said lot to the place of beginning
and
WHEREAS, Said corporation now owns land immediately adjoining the abovedescribed land, and
WHEREAS, Said corporation has endeavored to purchase said above-described
land from the owners thereof and is unable to do so at a price which is commensurate with its value,
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the taking of the above-described land
and property be and is hereby declared necessary for the public use of said
University and of The Regents of the University of Michigan, and that the
Attorney General of the State of Michigan be requested to institute legal proceedings by law to condemn said property and that the Vice-President and Secretary
of The Regents of the University of Michigan be authorized and directed to sign
and verify in behalf of The Regents of the University of Michigan a petition for
the condemnation of such property and all other papers necessary or proper for
the conduct of such condemnation proceedings.