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President James of Illinois State University says the legislature 

 of Illinois at its last session (1912) passed a law providing that a 

 tax of one mill for every dollar of assessed valuation should be 

 levied for the support of the university. This will give about two 

 and a quarter million dollars per year, available July i, 1913. Owing 

 to the provision in the constitution of Illinois that the legislature 

 may not make appropriations for longer than two years, the legisla- 

 ture must appropriate at each session the money represented by this 

 mill tax and labeled for the support of the University of Illinois. 



Michigan and Wisconsin provide for the levying of a certain 

 so-called mill tax, three eighths or four fifths of a mill, the proceeds 

 of which are turned over to the board of trustees of the beneficiary 

 institution. 



The statistics of state universities and other institutions of higher 

 education partially supported by the state for the year ended June 

 30, 1912 {Bulletin, 1912, No. 33), give a great many details, among 

 them a table of property and income of state universities and other 

 state-aided institutions, showing that there were paid — 



By the United 

 By the State. States. 



To the University of California 1,124,506 80,000 



To the University of Indiana 1,918,900 79.938 



To the University of Minnesota 2,314,713 80,000 



To the University of Missouri 610,093 76,875 



To the University of Nebraska 651,318 80,000 



To the University of Cornell 478,000 72,000 



( Ohio University ^ 



Ohio < Ohio State University ^ 1,131,778 50,000 



( Miami University ) 



To the L'niversty of Wisconsin 1,552,398 80,000 



The same table gives the receipts from the mill tax and other 

 sources of some of the states, as follows : 



Colorado (4 institutions) 406,053 



Indiana (2 institutions) 259,504 



Iowa (3 institutions) 407,200 



Michigan (2 institutions) 932,867 



Minnesota 689,521 



Nebraska 374.163 



Ohio (2 institutions) 480,828 



South Carolina 1 14,1 13 



