shall be by him kept in suitable cases, which shall be opened only for the purpose of comparing with such standards the copies which by law are to be furnished for the use of the several counties, unless by a joint resolution of the general assembly, or upon a call of either house for information, or by order of the governor for scientific purposes. (March 17, 1891.)

SEC. 409-15. There be, and hereby is, established at the State university, at Columbus, Ohio, a central office for the promotion of forestry, to be entitled the State forestry bureau, which shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the governor, as a board of directors. The members of the board of directors shall be commissioned by the governor, and be duly qualified as like officers of the State; one of three directors shall serve for six years, the second for four years, and the third for two years, and on the expiration of terms of service appointments shall be made for the term of six years. (April 16, 1885.)

SEC. 409-16. It shall be the duty of said State forestry bureau to thoroughly inquire into the character and extent of the forests of the State; to investigate the causes which are in operation to produce their waste or decay; to suggest what legislation, if any, may be necessary for the development of a rational system of forestry, adapted to the wants and conditions of this State, and with the consent of the trustees of the Ohio State University the said directors may establish a forestry station on the grounds of said university. The directors shall select one of their number, or appoint a qualified person as secretary, to carry out the plans of the board, who shall receive such compensation for his services as shall be agreed upon by the board: Provided, That all expenses incurred under this act shall not exceed the amount hereinafter provided. Said directors shall serve without compensation, but shall be allowed their necessary expenses incurred in discharge of the duties of their office. (April 16, 1885.)

SEC. 409-17. This bureau shall annually make a report to the governor, which shall contain the results of the investigation, together with such other information as the board may deem necessary for the promotion of forestry in this State. Five thousand copies of this report are to be printed by the State, 2.000 of which shall be distributed by this bureau of forestry, and the remainder by the general assembly. (April 16, 1885.)

SEC. 409-18. There is hereby appropriated for the ensuing year, for the maintenance of said bureau, the sum of $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of meeting the actual expenses of carrying out the provisions of this act. (April 16, 1885.)

Laws, 1891, 369 G: SECTION 1. The assent of the State is hereby signified to the aforesaid act of Congress [of August 30, 1890], and to all the purposes, conditions, and provisions therein contained, and the faith of the State of Ohio is hereby pledged to the performance of all such purposes, conditions, and provisions.

SEC. 2. The treasurer of the Ohio State University is hereby designated to receive the moneys appropriated by said act of Congress. (May 4, 1891.)

Laws, 1902, 373 G: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from any moneys raised or coming into the State treasury to the credit of the Ohio State University fund, not otherwise appropriated, for the last three quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1902, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1903, the sum of $300,000, or so much as may come into the treasury to the credit of said fund; and for the last three quarters of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1903, and the first quarter of the fiscal year ending November 15, 1904, the sum of $300,000, or so much as may come into the treasury to the credit of such fund, to be applied to the uses and purposes of the Ohio State University in accordance with the provisions of section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended May 8, 1902. (May 10, 1902.)

Laws, 1902, 376 G: SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the Ohio State University, for the purpose of providing for the erection of needed buildings and improvements and the securing of needed equipment and for the payment of the costs, expenses and estimates thereof, as the work progresses, is hereby authorized to issue from time to time certificates of indebtedness to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $200,000 in anticipation of the annual levies authorized by section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended May 8, 1902.

SEC. 2. The certificates of indebtedness herein authorized shall be signed by the president and secretary of said board of trustees and sealed with the seal of said university, shall bear such rate of interest, not exceeding 4 per cent per annum, payable semiannually, as said board of trustees may determine and shall be payable by said board of trustees out of the revenues in anticipation of which they shall be issued as herein provided; and the moneys arising from the issue of such certificates shall be applied exclusively to the purposes for which such certificates shall be issued. Said certificates of indebtedness shall be sold by said board of

trustees at not less than their par value to the highest bidder, after notice of the sale thereof has been given in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city of New York, and also in the cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo; or may be issued to contractors for said buildings and improvements in payment of estimates for work and materials done or furnished by them. (May 10, 1902.)

OKLAHOMA.

[The following matter is taken from "The Statutes of Oklahoma, 1893. Being a compilation of all the laws now in force in the Territory of Oklahoma. Compiled under the direction and supervision of Robert Martin, secretary of the Territory, by W. A. McCartney, John H. Beatty, and J. Malcolm Johnston, a committee elected by the legislatíve assembly." Guthrie, Okla., 1893. Í Chapter I: SECTION 1. The provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to establish agricultural experimental stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and the acts supplementary thereto," approved March 2, 1887, are hereby accepted by the Territory of Oklahoma; and the Territory hereby agrees and obligates itself to comply with all the provisions of said act.

SEC. 2. Upon the approval of this act by the governor, he is hereby instructed to transmit a certified copy of the same to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior of the United States. (October 27, 1890.)

[Sections 3-26 comprise the provisions of an act of December 25, 1890, as amended March 13, 1893.] SEC. 3. An agricultural and mechanical college is hereby located in Payne County. It shall be the duty of the governor to appoint three competent citizens of said Territory as a board, whose duty it shall be to locate such institution at some point in Payne County and report their actions and doings to the governor relative thereto within ninety days after their appointment.

SEC. 4. The institution shall be known as the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, and shall be an institution corporate under the laws of Oklahoma; and the government and management thereof is hereby vested in a board of regents to be known as the "agricultural and mechanical college board of regents."

SEC. 5. The leading object of said college shall be to give instruction in agriculture, the mechanical arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic sciences, with special reference to their application in the industries of life; and to that end there shall be (stablished a sufficient number of professorships for teaching the above branches, including military tactics, and such arts and sciences as are related thereto; which professorships shall be filled by able and efficient persons, aided by such assistants and instructors as shall from time to time be necessary.

SEC. 6. Such institution shall not be located by said commissioners upon less than 80 acres of land, suitable and fit for use as an agricultural experimental station, which land shall be conveyed to such institution for the use and benefit thereof by good and sufficient title thereto. The said board of commissioners to locate said site shall receive as compensation for their services $4 per day each for the time actually and necessarily employed, together with all necessary and actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, to be audited and paid out of any fund in the Territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 7. The said county of Payne or municipality in or near which the said agricultural college shall be located under this act shall issue its bonds in the sum of $10.000 and deliver the same to the secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma, to be by him sold for said Territory at not less than their par value, the proceeds thereof to be by the secretary turned over to the treasurer thereof, to be placed to the credit of such institution, such bonds to run twenty years after the date of their issuance and draw 5 per cent interest, payable semiannually, and to be issued in the denomination of $1,000 each, with interest coupons thereto attached: Provided, If such county or municipality shall fail or refuse to issue such bonds or convey said lands after demands made therefor by such board, such institution may be relocated elsewhere: Provided further, That a majority of the qualified voters of said county or municipality shall at an election called for that purpose vote "for" the proposition to issue such bonds. The proceeds arising from sale of such bonds shall be used only in the erection of the building for such institution. Such bonds shall be payable to bearer.

SEC. 8. Such college, by its regents, may take title to real estate, enter into contract, locate buildings, and do all things necessary to make the college effective as an educational institution.

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SEC. 9. Such board of regents shall consist of five riembers and the governor of Oklahoma, who shall be ex officio a member of such board. The governor shall nominate and appoint such regents, who shall hold their office [two of them?] for two years and three of them for four years and until their successors shall be appointed and confirmed biennially by the legislative council: Provided, That the governor and council shall fill all vacancies in said board existing during the session of the legislature and that the governor shall fill such vacancies only as occur when the legislature is not in session. The governor shall cause to be issued to each of said regents a commission under the seal of the Territory.

SEC. 10. At the first meeting of said beard it shall organize by the members thereof taking and subscribing an oath of office as required by all civil officers of the Territory, and shall then proceed to elect a president and treasurer, and the president shall be president of the college and shall be secretary of the board. A majority of the board shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall require a bond of its treasurer and fix the amount thereof.

SEC. 11. The board of regents shall hold its meetings at the agricultural college and fix the time of holding the same: Provided, That members of the board shall receive as compensation for their services $5 per day for each day employed, not to exceed twelve days in any one year, and 5 cents per mile actually and necessarily traveled in attending the meetings of said beard, which sums shall be paid out of the Territorial treasury upon the vouchers of said board.

SEC. 12. The said board of regents shall direct the dispositions of all moneys appropriated by the Territorial legislature or by Congress, or funds arising from the sale of bonds provided for in this act for the agricultural college or experimental station for Oklahoma Territory, and shall have supervision or charge of the construction of all buildings provided for said college or farm. The board of regents shall have power to employ a president and necessary teachers, instructors, and assistants to conduct said school and carry on the experimental farm connected therewith, and to appoint a superintendent of construction of all buildings, who shall receive $3 per day for each day actually and necessarily engaged in the discharge of his duties, not to exceed fifty days in any one year, which sum shall be paid out of the Territorial treasury upon the vouchers of said board. The said board shall audit all accounts against the funds appropriated for the use of the agricultural college and experimental station, and the Territorial auditor shall issue his warrant upon the Territorial treasurer for the amount of all accounts which shall have been audited and allowed by the board of regents and attested by the president and secretary of the same: Provided, That no member of the board of regents shall be employed upon any work to be performed in connection with the agricultural college, nor shall any such regent be allowed any per diem except as provided by law, and provided that any member of the board of regents who shall not have complied with the provisions of this act by the 1st of April next [1893], the governor shall declare his office vacant and appoint a successor as provided by law.

SEC. 13. An auditing committee, composed of three members of the board and the Territorial treasurer, shall andit all accounts against the funds appropriated for the use of the agricultural college and experimental station. The Territorial auditor shall audit all accounts, expenses, per diem, etc., of the board of regents, and shall issue his warrant upon the Territorial treasurer for the amount of such accounts when allowed by the board and attested by the president and secretary of the same. SEC. 14. A full course of study in the institution shall embrace not less than four years, and the college year shall consist of not less than nine calendar months, which may be divided into terms by the board of regents as in their judgment will best secure the objects for which the college was founded.

SEC. 15. The board of regents shall fix the salaries of the president, professors, and other employees and prescribe their respective duties. The board may remove the president of the college or subordinate officers for just cause and supply all vacancies.

SEC. 16. The faculty shall consist of the president of the college and the professors, who shall make all needful rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the college and such other rules necessary to the preservation of morals, decorum, and health of students.

SEC. 17. The president shall be chief executive officer of the agricultural college, and it shall be his duty to see that all rules and regulations are executed, and the subordinate officers and employees, not members of the faculty, shall be under his direction and supervision.

SEC. 18. The president of the college and board of regents shall constitute a committee to fix the rate of wages to be allowed to students for labor on the farm or in the shops or kitchen of the agricultural college.

SEC. 19. The faculty shall make an annual report to the board of regents on or before the first Monday in December of each year, showing the condition of the school and farm and the results of farm experiments, and containing such recommendations as the welfare of the institution, in their opinion, demands.

SEC. 20. The board of regents shall make a report to the governor on or before the last Monday in December next preceding each biennial session of the Territorial legislature, containing a financial statement showing the condition of all funds appropriated for the use of the agricultural college and experimental station; also the moneys expended and the purposes for which the same were expended in detail: also the condition of the institution and the results of all experiments carried on there.

SEC. 21. The board of regents and the faculty shall have power to confer degrees upon all persons who shall have completed the course of study prescribed for such school by the board and faculty and who shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the studies contained in said course and who shall be known to possess a good moral character.

SEC. 22. There is hereby established an agricultural experimental station in connection with the agricultural college by this act established, and under the direction of the board of regents, for the purpose of conducting experiments in agriculture according to the terms of the acts of Congress establishing agricultural colleges and experimental stations.

SEc. 23. The assent of the legislature of the Territory of Oklahoma is hereby given, in pursuance of the requirements of section 9 of said act of Congress, approved March 3 [2], 1887, to the grant of money therein made and to the establishing of an experimental station in accordance with section 1 of said lastmentioned act, and assent is hereby given to carry out all and singular the provisions of all the acts of Congress.

SEC. 24. The board of regents hereby established, in connection with the governor and secretary of the Territory, shall be fully authorized to receive from the United States any and all appropriations made for the support or maintenance of agricultural colleges within the Territory, and shall be authorized to receipt for the same, and shall be chargeable therewith when received from the United States. SEC. 25. Citizens of Oklahoma between the ages of 14 and 30 years who shall pass a satisfactory examination in reading, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, and United States history, and who are known to possess a good moral character, may be admitted to all the privileges of the institution.

SEC. 26. The board shall possess a common seal, which shall be attached by the president of the board, or president of the college when the board is not in session, to all diplomas, honorary degrees, and all public documents emanating from the college.

Chapter 9, article 2: SEC. 15. The governor, secretary, and treasurer of the Territory of Oklahoma are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said Territory in the sum of $15,000 for the use and benefit of the agricultural and mechanical college of the Territory of Oklahoma, located at Stillwater, in Payne County, in said Territory, the said bonds to be of the denomination of $500 each and bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, payable annually, for which interest coupons shall be attached to said bonds and run thirty years from their date, and payable at any time after ten years from their date at the will of the Territory.

SEC. 16. Said bonds shall be styled Territorial agricultural and mechanical college bonds, and when issued shall be delivered to the treasurer of said Territory, and shall be by the treasurer of said Territory sold at not less than par, and without the payment of commission for their sale; and the fund arising from the sale of said bonds shall be a separate fund in the treasury of said Territory for the use and benefit of said agricultural and mechanical college of the Territory of Oklahoma, and shall be expended by the agricultural and mechanical college board of regents for the purposes of the erection of suitable building or buildings for the use of said agricultural and mechanical college.

SEC. 17. The said fund arising from the sale of said bonds shall be charged to the treasurer of said Territory by the auditor thereof, and shall be paid out only for the purpose aforesaid and upon an order in writing signed by the president of said agricultural and mechanical college, and countersigned by the auditor of said Territory; and upon returning said orders duly paid to the auditor of said Territory the treasurer shall receive credit for the amount so paid.

SEC. 18. The said bonds shall be issued by the governor, secretary, and treasurer of the Territory of Oklahoma at any time after the passage of this act, upon request in writing of the agricultural and mechanical college board of regents. SEC. 19. Said agricultural and mechanical college board of regents shall have

power to do any and all things necessary to the construction of said buildings: Provided, however, That no contract shall be made or be binding on the Territory that shall not be authorized by said agricultural and mechanical college board of regents at a meeting duly called for that purpose, of which each member shall have at least five days' notice in writing and in accordance with the provisions of this act.

SEC. 20. Before letting any contract for the furnishing of any material or the performance of any labor upon said buildings to any contractor it shall be the duty of said board of regents to adopt certain plans and specifications prepared by competent architects, giving on [an?] estimate cost of said proposed buildings, and the contracts shall be let with the view to the erection of said buildings according to said plans and specifications; and before any contract for the erection of said buildings, or for the furnishing of any material, or for the performance of any portion of the work let separately, it shall be the duty of the board to take good and sufficient bond from the contractor or contractors for the faithful performance of said work.

SEC. 21. No contract shall be let for the furnishing of the material or any portion of the material used in the erection of said buildings, or the construction thereof, until said board of regents shall have given thirty days' notice in one weekly newspaper published at Stillwater, in Payne County, in said Territory, and in one daily newspaper published at Guthrie, in said Territory, of the intention to purchase such material and let such contracts, and the contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, who shall give good and sufficient bond, with two or more sureties, for the faithful performance thereof, according to the terms of the contract: Provided, however, That the said board of regents may let the contract for the construction of said buildings as an entirety to one person or may let portions thereof to different persons, as the board of regents may determine shall be to the best interests of said agricultural and mechanical college.

SEC. 22. For the purpose of paying the interest on the said bonds herein before provided to be issued for the use and benefit of said University of Oklahoma, Normal School for the Territory of Oklahoma, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of the Territory of Oklahoma there is hereby levied upon all taxable property within said Territory an annual tax of one-half mill on the dollar, and for the purpose of creating a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds such levy shall be made as the Territorial legislature may hereafter prescribe. [Secs. 15–22 are a part of an act of March 16, 1893.]

Chapter 9, article 4: SECTION 1. The secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma is hereby authorized to sell the bonds hitherto issued by the town of Stillwater, Payne County, Okla., for the benefit of the agricultural and mechanical college situated at Stillwater, Okla., which said bonds are hereby legalized and approved: Provided, That in case the bonds shall be sold for less than par, the town of Stillwater shall and is hereby authorized to issue city warrants in a sum sufficient to make good the deficiency, and the total sum of $10,000 [shall be?] for the benefit of said school, as provided in chapter 2 of the general statutes of Oklahoma. (March 14, 1893.)

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Laws, 1893, council joint resolution No. 8: The provisions of the act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, * * are hereby accepted by the Territory of Oklahoma, and the Territory hereby agrees and obligates itself to comply with all the provisions of said act; and the treasurer of the Territory is designated as the proper officer to receive the funds therein appropriated.

Upon the approval of this joint resolution by the governor, he is hereby instructed to transmit certified copies of the same to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. (March 7, 1893.)

Laws, 1895, chapter 4, article 1: SEC. 12. [Appropriates] For the expenses of the board of regents of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the years 1895 and 1896, $1,000. (March 8, 1895.)

Laws, 1897, chapter 3: SEC. 13. [Appropriates] For expenses of the board of regents of the Agricultural and Mechanical College the sum of $1,000 for the years 1897 and 1898. (March 12, 1897.)

Laws, 1897, chapter 1: SECTION 1. The Colored Agricultural and Normal University of the Territory of Oklahoma is hereby located and established at or within a convenient distance from Langston, in Logan County, Oklahoma Territory, the exclusive purpose of which shall be the instruction of both male and female colored persons in the art of teaching, and the various branches which pertain to a common school education, and in such higher education as may be deemed advisable by such board, and in the fundamental laws of the United States, in the rights and duties of citizens, and in the agricultural, mechanical, and industrial arts. SEC. 2. The Colored Agricultural and Normal University shall be under the