direction of five suitable persons, to be known as a board of regents of the Colored Agricultural and Normal University of the Territory of Oklahoma, two of which shall be from the colored race, and the school aforesaid shall be governed and supported as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 3. Said board shall consist of the Territorial superintendent of public instruction, Territorial treasurer, and three others to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice of the council of the legislative assembly. The tenure of office of said board shall be for the term of four years. The Territorial treasurer, by virtue of his office, shall be treasurer of said board, and the members of said board shall elect from their members the president and the secretary. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep an exact and detailed account of the doings of said board, and he shall make such reports to the legislative assembly as are required by this act.

SEC. 4. Said board shall have power to appoint suitable persons as president and assistants to take charge of said university, and fix the salaries of each and their several duties. They shall also have power to remove either the president or assistants and appoint others in their stead. They shall prescribe the various books to be used in said university, and shall make and prescribe such laws as may be necessary for the good government and management of the same.

SEC. 5. The said board shall ordain such rules and regulations for the admission of pupils to said university as they deem necessary and proper. Every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination in such manner as may be prescribed by said board, and the board may in its discretion require an applicant for admission into said school, other than such as shall prior to such admission sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching school in the territory, to pay or to secure to be paid such fees or tuition as the board shall deem reasonable: Provided, That this feature shall be applicable only to the normal branch of said university.

SEC. 6. After said Agricultural and Normal University shall have commenced its first term, and at least once in each year thereafter, it shall be visited by three suitable persons, at least one of whom shall be colored, to be appointed by the governor, who shall examine thoroughly the affairs of the school and report to the superintendent of public instruction and to said board their views in regard to its condition, success, and needs, and any other matters they may deem expedient. Such visitors shall be appointed annually.

SEC. 7. As soon as any person has attended said university twenty-two weeks, said person may be examined in the studies required by law, and if it shall appear that such person possesses the learning and other qualifications necessary to teach a common school, said person shall receive a certificate authorizing him or her to teach a common school.

SEC. 8. The funds appropriated for the benefit of said university shall be under the direction and control of the board herein created. The treasurer of the Territory shall pay out of such funds all orders or drafts for money expended under the provisions of this act; such drafts and orders to be drafts of the Territorial auditor, to be issued upon a certificate of the secretary of the board, countersigned by the president of said board. No certificate shall be given except upon accounts audited and allowed by said board at a regular meeting.

SEC. 9. Services and all necessary traveling expenses, as hereinafter provided, incurred by the members of said board in carrying out the provisions of this act. shall be paid as hereinbefore provided out of any funds belonging to the said university in the hands of the treasurer of said board during the erection and completion of the necessary buildings. The principal, assistants, teachers, and said board, and other officers and employes of such university shall be paid out of the Colored Agricultural and Normal University school fund, which fund is hereby created. The members of said board of regents shall be entitled to $3 per day and 5 cents per mile for all time actually used and distance necessarily traveled in attending the meetings of said board.

SEC. 10. Said board of regents shall hold four regular meetings in each year, viz, in the first week in April, the first week in July, the first week in October, and the first week in January of each year. At the first meeting in April of each year the officers of said board shall be elected. The meetings of the board shall be held at the office of the governor until such time as the building for the use of said university shall be completed and thereafter in said building. Special meetings of said board may be called upon the written order of the president of said board, which order shall specify the object of such meeting. The majority of said board shall constitute a quorum to transact business.

SEC. 11. The secretary of said board shall annually, on the 1st day of January of each year, transmit to the governor a full report of the expenditures of such

university by such board for the previous year, itemizing the same in detail, and the president of said board shall at the same time make a full and complete report of the results attained by said school.

SEC. 12. Such board shail exercise a watchful guardianship over the morals of the pupils at all times, and no religious or sectarian tests shall be applied in the selection of teachers and none shall be adopted in said university.

SEC. 13. For the purpose of locating and supporting said university there shall be furnished 40 acres of land lying within a convenient distance of Langston, which shall, without cost to the Territory, be conveyed by good and sufficient warranty deed to said board of regents for the use and benefit of said university, not less than 10 acres of which land shall be reserved for a site upon which to erect buildings for said university, and the remainder shall be used in experimental agriculture. SEC. 14. For the purpose of this act the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, which appropriation shall be for the erection and completion of one wing of a suitable building for such university and for the maintenance of the officers and the board and corps of teachers and instructors created and authorized to be employed under this act.

SEC. 15. Any person who shall complete the full course of instruction in said university shall, upon passing proper examination, receive a diploma, which shall be signed by the president of said university and the president and secretary of the board of regents.

Src. 16. Any person having obtained a diploma from the normal department of said university shall be permitted to teach in any common school of the Territory of Oklahoma for a period of five years from the date thereof, said authority to teach being subject to revocation for any proper and sufficient cause. (March 12, 1897.)

Laws, 1899, chapter 3, article 1: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $30,000, to be divided or apportioned among the various educational institutions of the Territory of Oklahoma as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. To the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, the sum of $20,000, to be expended for building purposes under the direction of the board of regents of the said college. To the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston, the sum of $10,000, to be expended for building purposes under the direction of the board of regents of the said university.

SEC. 3. The Territorial auditor shall draw warrants upon properly authenticated vouchers for such amounts thereof as may be by him found due upon auditing the respective claims therefor, in favor of the persons to whom such claims are allowed, upon the Territorial treasury.

SEC. 4. The Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater shall hereafter receive, annually, nine-tenths of the money granted to the Territory of Oklahoma for the more complete endowment and support of its colleges for the benefit of agricultural and mechanical arts, as provided in an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, and the university located at Langston shall receive the residue of said money granted, to be received and paid out as provided by this act.

SEC. 5. For the further support of the university at Langston there is hereby appropriated out of the balance of the Morrill fund, to the credit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, on November 30, 1898, the sum of $15,000.

SEC. 6. The treasurer of the Territory of Oklahoma shall, upon the receipt of the money granted by said act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, apportion said money as required by this act between the aforesaid institutions. The said treasurer shall pay to each of said institutions its proportion as provided by this act, upon the order of the Territorial auditor, and take receipt for the same.

SEC. 7. The passage of this act and the execution in good faith of the provisions of the same shall be deemed to all intents and purposes a full and complete assent on the part of the Territory of Oklahoma to the act of Congress granting said money for the purposes aforesaid, as required by section 2 of said act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, with all the conditions and limitations imposed by said last recited act of Congress upon the Territory of Oklahoma; and the Territory of Oklahoma pledges its faith and credit that it will on its part carry out and execute said conditions and limitations. (March 10, 1899.)

Laws, 1899, article 2: SEC. 12. [Appropriates] For the expenses of the board of regents of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, of the normal schools, and of the Territorial university for the years 1899 and 1909, the sum of $300 per annum for each board: Provided, Any officer being a member of said board ex officio shall receive no per diem.

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Laws, 1899, chapter 28, article 4: SECTION 1 [as amended March 16, 1903]. The rate of general Territorial tax shall not be less than one-half mill or more than 3 mills on the dollar valuation, and in addition it shall be the duty of the Territorial board of equalization to make for the support of the Agricultural and Mechanical School at Stillwater a levy sufficient to raise the amount of $12.000 for each of the years 1903 and 1904; for the Agricultural and Normal University at Langston, a levy sufficient to raise the sum of $10,000 for each of the years 1903 and 1904: * * *Provided, That all funds collected under the provisions of this act for the benefit of the Territorial educational institutions be, and the same is [are] hereby, appropriated to the purpose for which it is [they are] collected; and any amount raised under the provisions of this section in excess of the actual needs of any of the institutions mentioned herein shall be returned to the Territorial treasurer and credited to the general school fund of the Territory.

Laws, 1899, chapter 25, article 1: SECTION 1 [as amended March 16, 1903]. The board of school land commissioners, immediately after the passage and approval of this act, and once every six months thereafter, shall apportion the funds on hand derived from the leasing of section 13, reserved for university, agricultural college, and normal school purposes, in the following manner, to wit: One-seventh of the total amount for the use and benefit of the University of Oklahoma at Norman, one-seventh of the total amount for the use and benefit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater, one-seventh of the total amount for the use and benefit of the Territorial Normal School at Edmond, one-seventh of the total amount for the use and benefit of the Northwestern Normal School at Alva, one-seventh of the total amount for the use of the Southwestern Normal School at Weatherford, one-seventh of the total amount for the use and benefit of the University Preparatory School at Tonkawa, one-seventh of the total amount for the use of the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston. The money thus apportioned for the purposes aforesaid shall be paid to the proper officer designated to receive money in the several acts or parts of acts establishing these institutions, to be expended under the same conditions and restrictions as other funds for the support of these institutions. (March 16, 1903.)

Laws. 1901, chapter 31. article 1: SECTION 1. The board of regents of the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston is hereby authorized to contract under the terms of this act for the construction of an assembly hall and three additional class rooms, the same to be an addition to the assembly building already constructed, and a sum not exceeding 35 per cent of the amount realized from the tax levy hereinafter provided for shall be expended for such purposes; a sum not exceeding 25 per cent of the amount realized from such levy shall be expended in constructing a dormitory for boys, and a sum not exceeding 5 per cent of the amount realized from such levy shall be expended in the construction of a residence for the president of said university at some suitable place on the grounds belonging to said university, and the remaining 35 per cent of the sum realized from said levy shall be expended in paying off deficiencies unpaid on June 30, 1991, and in payment of salaries for instructors, incidental expenses, and the purchase of necessary stock for the equipment of said university, and in constructing a necessary system of waterworks therefor. The sums provided for the construction of the buildings mentioned shall also cover the installation of heating and lighting systems and of necessary furniture therefor; and any sums not used for the above-mentioned purposes shall be, and they are hereby, appropriated for such purposes as the board of regents of said university may determine: Provided, That such board shall not have power to contract for buildings or other things authorized by this act to an amount exceeding in the aggregate the amount to be levied, based upon the last assessment of the taxable property of said Territory for county and Territorial purposes, which shall precede the making of such contracts: And provided further, That the total sum expended for the buildings and all other purposes mentioned in this act shall not in any case exceed in amount $32.000.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of paying for the buildings provided for herein there is hereby levied upon all taxable property of the Territory a tax of three-tenths mill on the dollar for the year 1901, and a tax of two-tenths mill on the dollar for the year 1902, the same to be levied upon the property of the Territory for the years 1901 and 1902. The fund derived from such taxes shall be known as the "Colored Agricultural and Normal University building fund," and shall be available and used by the board of regents only for the purpose of constructing such buildings and for the other purposes mentioned in section 1 of this act; and all funds arising from said tax levy under the provisions of this act are hereby appropriated to said purposes. (March 8, 1901.)

Laws, 1901, chapter 31, article 3: SECTION 1. The board of regents of the Agri

cultural and Mechanical College and Experiment Station of Oklahoma Territory at Stillwater is hereby authorized to contract, under the terms of this act, for the construction of an assembly hall and quarters for the departments of botany and entomology, the same to be an addition to the library building already constructed, and a sum not exceeding 50 per cent of the amount realized from the tax levy hereinafter provided for shall be expended for such purpose; a sum not exceeding 30 per cent of the amount realized from such levy shall be expended in constructing an engineering building; and a sum not exceeding 10 per cent of the amount realized from such levy shall be expended in the construction of a smokestack and a boiler house and in centralizing the heating system; and a sum not exceeding 10 per cent of the amount realized from said levy shall be expended in the construction of a barn on the college farm. The sums provided for the construction of the buildings mentioned shall also cover the installation of heating and lighting systems and of necessary furniture: Provided, That such board shall not have power to contract for buildings or other things authorized by this act to an amount exceeding in the aggregate the amount to be levied, based upon the last assessment of taxable property of said Territory for county and Territorial purposes which shall precede the making of such contracts: And provided further, That the total amount expended for buildings and all other purposes authorized by this act shall not in any case exceed the sum of $46,000: And provided further, That any casual balance that may remain unexpended shall be used for the repair of existing buildings owned by the college and for the construction of fences on the college farm.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of paying for the buildings provided for herein there is hereby levied upon all taxable property of the Territory a tax of three-tenths of 1 mill on the dollar for the year 1901, and a tax of four-tenths of 1 mill on the dollar for the year 1902. The fund derived from such taxes shall be known as the "Agricultural and Mechanical College building fund," and shall be available and used by the board of regents only for the purpose of constructing such buildings and for the other purposes mentioned in section 1 of this act; and all funds arising from said tax levy under the provisions of this act are hereby appropriated to said purposes. (March 8, 1901.)

OREGON.

Laws, 1868: SECTION 1. J. F. Miller, J. H. Douthit, and J. C. Avery are hereby constituted a board of commissioners, with power (1) to locate all the lands to which this State is entitled by act of Congress for the purpose of establishing an agricultural college, and as soon as such locations are made to report the same to the secretary of state; (2) to take into consideration the further organization and perfecting of a plan for the permanent establishment of such college, in accordance with the requirements of the act of Congress making such donations, and report the same to the governor by August 1, 1870; (3) to fill all vacancies in the college by appointment that may occur in any senatorial district under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. That until other provisions are made the Corvallis College is hereby designated and adopted as the agricultural college, in which all students sent under the provisions of this act shall be instructed in all the arts, sciences, and other studies, in accordance with the requirements of the act of Congress making such donation.

SEC. 3. Each State senator is hereby authorized and empowered to select one student, not less than 16 years of age, who shall be received by the faculty of said college and instructed by them in the manner provided in this act for the space of two years, unless such student shall be discharged for misconduct: Provided, however, That this act shall not be binding until the trustees of said college shall adopt a resolution and file a certified copy thereof with the secretary of state, assenting to and agreeing on their part to faithfully carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. Upon the certificate of the president of the Corvallis College that any student so appointed is in attendance at the school it shall be the duty of the secretary of state at the middle of each quarter to draw his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of the said college for the sum of $11.25 for each student so attending. And it shall be the duty of the State treasurer to pay such warrants out of any funds in his hands not otherwise appropriated, and a separate account of such funds shall be kept and designated the "agricultural college funds."

SEC. 5. All funds paid out in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing

sections, with interest thereon at 10 per cent per annum, shall be refunded to the State treasurer from the first interest that shall accrue from the proceeds of the sale of any lands located for said college.

SEC. 6. The board of commissioners hereby created shall make all the reports required by law, and shall each receive a salary of $5 per day for the number of days actually employed, to be paid upon the sworn statement of such commissioner. (October 27, 1868.)

Laws, 1870: SECTION 1. Corvallis College, in Benton County, is hereby designated and permanently adopted as the agricultural college of the State of Oregon, in which all students sent under the provisions of law shall be instructed in accordance with the requirements of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, granting public lands to the several States and Territories which might provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and the acts amendatory thereof. SEC. 2. The following persons, to wit, J. C. Avery. L. F. Grover, and N. H. Cranor, are hereby constituted a board of commissioners to propose a plan for the instruction and education of the students in said agricultural college, and to prepare rules, regulations, and by-laws for the government of the same, all of which shall be submitted to the legislative assembly at its next regular session for its adoption or rejection, and in the meantime the said college shall be governed by and un ler the provisions of the act of the legislative assembly approved October 27, 1868, in relation to said college.

SEC. 3. The board of trustees of Corvallis College shall, by resolution, accept the provisions of this act and agree to be bound by the same within thirty days after its passage, and cause a copy of said resolution to be filed with the secretary of state, and upon their failure to do so they shall be deemed to have rejected its provisions. (October 21, 1870.)

Laws, 1872: SECTION 1. Each State senator is hereby authorized and empowered to select two students not less than 16 years of age, who shall be received by the faculty of the agricultural college of this State and instructed by them according to the course of instruction adopted in said agricultural college for the term of four years each.

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SEC. 3. There shall be. and hereby is, appropriated, out of the general fund in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, annually the sum of $5,000, to be devoted to the general support of the agricultural college of the State of Oregon under the direction of the regents thereof: Provided, That no charge shall be made for the tuition of any students appointed in accordance with law. The funds herein provided for to be disbursed shall be drawn and paid out in the same manner as has been heretofore provided for by law for the payment of funds from the treasury disbursed for the support of said institution.

SEC. 5. All funds paid out in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing sections, with interest thereon at 10 per cent per annum, shall be refunded to the State treasurer from the first interest that shall accrue from the proceeds of the sale of any lands located for said college not already appropriated for a similar purpose. (October 15, 1872.)

Laws, 1872: SECTION 1. Upon final approval of the selections of the agricultural college lands of this State held under the several acts of Congress relating thereto the board of school-land commissioners shall be. and they are hereby, authorized to sell and dispose of said lands for not less than $2.50 per acre in currency.

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SEC. 5. All moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid shall be loaned by said commissioners at a rate of interest not less than 10 per cent per annum, payable semiannually in advance, to be secured by mortgage on real property in this State, free from all incumbrance, of not less than three times the value of said loan, and the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, and the interest of which shall be paid into the State treasury, to be placed to the credit of the agricultural college fund. (October 28, 1872.)

Laws, 1878: SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act [approved October 15, 1872, above] be amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. There shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of the general fund in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, annually the sum of $500, also the interest hereafter annually accruing on the fund arising from the sale of agricultural college lands, to be devoted to the general support of the agricultural college of the State of Oregon under the direction of the regents thereof: Provided, That no charge shall be made for the tuition of any students appointed in accordance with law. The funds herein provided for to be disbursed shall be drawn and paid out in the same manner as has been heretofore provided for by law for the payment of funds from the treasury disbursed for the support of said institution: Provided,