Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, and the principal of the institution shall each be ex officio a member of the board of trustees, and they, with [nine others named] shall constitute the first board of trustees, which said trustees and their successors in office are hereby erected and declared to be a body politic and corporate in law, with perpetual succession, by the name, style, and title of the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, by which name and title the said trustees and their successors shall be able and capable in law to take by gift, grant, sale, or conveyance, by bequest, devise, or otherwise, any estate in any lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, chattels, or effects, and at pleasure to alien or otherwise dispose of the same to and for the uses and purposes of the said institution: Provided, however, That the annual income of the said estate so held shall at no time exceed $25,000, and the said corporation shall by the same name have power to sue and be sued and generally to do and transact all and every business touching or concerning the premises, or which shall be necessarily incidental thereto, and to hold, enjoy, and exercise all such powers, authorities, and jurisdiction as are customary in the colleges within this Commonwealth.

SEC. 4. The same trustees shall cause to be made a seal, with such devices as they may think proper, and by and with which all the deeds, diplomas, certificates, and acts of the institution shall be authenticated, and they may at their pleasure

alter the same.

SEC. 5. At the first meeting of the board of trustees the nine named who are not ex officio members shall by themselves and by lot be divided into three classes of three each, numbered 1, 2, and 3. The appointment hereby made of class No. 1 shall terminate on the first Monday of October, 1856; No. 2 on the first Monday of October, 1857, and No. 3 on the first Monday of October, 1858; and upon the termination of the office of such directors, to wit, on the first Monday of October in every year, an election shall be held at the institution to supply their place, and such election shall be determined by the votes of the members of the executive committee of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society and the votes of three representatives duly chosen by each county agricultural society in this Commonwealth which shall have been organized at least three months preceding the time of election, and it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to appoint two of their number as judges, to hold the said election, to receive and count the votes and return the same to the board of trustees, with their certificate of the number of votes cast and for whom, whereupon the said board shall determine who have received the highest number of votes and who are thereby elected.

SEC. 6. On the second Thursday of June after the passage of this act the board of trustees who are hereby appointed shall meet at Harrisburg and proceed to the organization of the institution and selection of the most eligible site within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for its location, where they shall purchase or obtain by gift, grant, or otherwise, a tract of land containing at least 200 acres and not exceeding 2,000 acres, upon which they shall procure such improvements and alterations to be made as will make it an institution properly adapted to the instruction of youth in the art of farming, according to the meaning and design of this act. They shall select and choose a principal for the said institution, who, with such scientific attainments and capacity to teach as the board shall deem necessary, shall be a good, practical farmer; he, with such other persons as shall from time to time be employed as teachers, shall compose the faculty, under whose control the immediate management of the institution and the instruction of all the youth committed to its care shall be, subject, however, to the revision and all orders of the board of trustees. There shall be a quarterly meeting of the board of trustees at the institution and as much oftener as shall be necessary and they shall determine. The board shall have power to pass all such by-laws, ordinances, and rules as the good government of the institution shall require, and therein to prescribe what shall be taught to and what labor performed by the pupils and generally to do and perform all such administrative acts as are usually performed by and within the appropriate duty of a board of trustees, and shall, by a secretary of their appointment, keep a minute of the proceedings and action of the board.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees, as soon and as often as the exigencies of the institution shall require, in addition to the principal, to employ such other professors, teachers, or tutors, as shall be qualified to impart to pupils under their charge a knowledge of the English language, grammar, geography, history, mathematics, chemistry, and such other branches of the natural and exact sciences as will conduce to the proper education of a farmer; the pupils shall themselves, at such proper times and seasons as shall be prescribed by the board of trustees, perform all the labor necessary in the cultivation of the farm, and shall thus be instructed and taught all things necessary to be known by a farmer, it

being the design and intention of this act to establish an institution in which youth may be so educated as to fit them for the occupation of a farmer.

SEC. 8. The board of trustees shall annually elect a treasurer, who shall receive and disburse the funds of the institution, and perform such other duties as shall be required of him, and from whom they shall take such security for the faithful performance of his duty as necessity shall require; and it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees, annually, on or before the 1st of December, to make out a full and detailed account of the operations of the institution for the preceding year and an account of all its receipts and disbursements, and report the same to the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, who shall embody said report in the annual report which by existing laws the said society is bound to make and transmit to the legislature on or before the first Monday of January of each and every year.

SEC. 9. It shall be lawful for the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society to appropriate out of their funds to the object of this act a sum not exceeding $10.000 whenever the same shall be required, and to make such further appropriation, annually, out of their funds as will aid in the prosecution of this object, and it will be the duty and privilege of the said society, at such times as they shall deem expedient by their committees, officers, or otherwise, to visit the said institution and examine into the details of its management. (February 22, 1855.)

[The act of February 22, 1855, was amended by the court of common pleas of Center County, Pa., October 22, 1875, as follows:

1. That the time for holding the annual election for and annual meeting of the trustees of the institution be fixed for the Wednesday next preceding the Friday immediately preceding the 4th day of July in each and every year.

2. That the number of trustees of said institution be fixed at 23 instead of 13, and that the said board of trustees be constituted as follows: The governor, the secretary of the Commonwealth, the secretary of internal affairs, the adjutant-general, the superintendent of public instruction, the president of the State agricultural society, the president of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, and the president of the institution shall be ex officio members of the board. The remaining members-to wit, 15-shall be elected in manner following, to wit: Three by the alumni of the institution and the remaining 12 by a body of electors composed of the execu tive committee of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, the managers of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, 3 representatives duly chosen by each county agricultural society in this Commonwealth which shall have been organized at least three months preceding the time of election, and 3 representatives duly chosen by each association, not exceeding 1 in each county of the Commonwealth, which shall have for its principal object the promotion and encouragement of the mining and manufacturing interests of the Commonwealth and the mechanic and useful arts, and which shall in like manner have been organized at least three months preceding the time of election.

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5. That so much of the seventh section of the act of the assembly approved February 22, 1855, as provides that the pupils shall themselves, at such proper times and seasons as shall be prescribed by the board of trustees, perform all the labor necessary in the cultivation of the farm, and shall thus be instructed and taught all things necessary to be known by a farmer, it being the design and intention of this act to establish an institution in which youth may be so educated as to fit them for the occupation of a farmer," be so changed and modified as to require the students of the said institution to perform so much labor as shall from time to time be prescribed by the board of trustees and shall best carry out the design of the institution in promoting the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."--From report of committee of the legislature to investigate the affairs of the Pennsylvania State College, 1883.]

Laws, 1857, No. 658: SECTION 1. The sum of $25,000 be, and is hereby, appropriated to the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the admissions to said school from the several counties shall be in proportion to their number of taxables, respectively, if such number shall apply.

SEC. 2. The further sum of $25,000 be, and is hereby, appropriated to said institution, to be paid as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 3. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the governor that said high school shall have received from some other source or sources $1,000 or upward, the State treasurer shall pay to said school an equal sum, independent of the appropriation made in the first section, and so on until a sum not exceeding $25,000, in addition to the preceding appropriation, shall have been appropriated to said school: Provided, That the said sum of $25,000 shall be subscribed within three years from the passage of this act. [Time extended to May 20, 1862, by act approved April 3, 1860.]

SEC. 5. There shall be established in connection with the institution an office where correct and perfect analysis shall be made, without charge, of all soils and manures which shall be sent by citizens of this Commonwealth for that purpose and a correct report returned of the result of said analysis, accompanied with such information as may be useful in the case.

SEC. 6. The said corporation shall furnish reports of the result of all experi

ments made with trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, soils, and the breeding and rearing of stock to at least one newspaper in each county in the Commonwealth for publication, the same to be furnished monthly or immediately after the results of the investigations are known. (May 20, 1857.)

Laws, 1859, No. 165: SECTION 1. At all future meetings of the board of trustees of the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania five members thereof shall constitute a quorum competent for the transaction of business.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for the court of quarter sessions of Center County to grant a license to any person or persons for the sale of ardent spirits or malt liquors at any place within 2 miles of the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, located in the said county.

SEC. 3. The superintendent of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital be, and he is hereby, directed to deliver to the trustees of the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, to be arranged for exhibition and use in the museum of the said school, the cabinets of mineralogical and geological specimens belonging to the State, which were placed in the care of the said superintendent by the secretary of the Commonwealth, in compliance with a resolution approved February 15, 1855. (March 17, 1859.)

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Laws, 1861, No. 367: SECTION 1. [Appropriates $49,900 for building purposes.] Laws, 1863, No. 227: SECTION 1. The act of the Congress of the United States passed July 2, 1862, *be, and the same is hereby, accepted by the State of Pennsylvania, with all its provisions and conditions, and the faith of the State is hereby pledged to carry the same into effect.

SEC. 2. The surveyor-general of the State of Pennsylvania is hereby authorized and required to do every act and thing necessary to entitle this State to its distributive share of land scrip, under the provisions of the said act of Congress, and when the said scrip is received by him to dispose of the same under such regulations as the board of commissioners, hereafter appointed by this act, shall prescribe. SEC. 3. The governor, auditor-general, and the surveyor-general are hereby constituted a board of commissioners, with full power and authority to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the manner in which the surveyor-general aforesaid shall dispose of the said land scrip, the investment of the proceeds thereof in the State stocks of this State, and apply interest arising therefrom as herein directed, and in general to do all and every act or acts necessary to carry into full effect the said act of Congress: Provided, That no investment shall be made in any other stocks than those of the United States or of this Commonwealth.

SEC. 4. Until otherwise ordered by the legislature of Pennsylvania, the annual interest accruing from any investment of the funds acquired under the said act of Congress is hereby appropriated, and the said commissioners are directed to pay the same to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, for the endowment, support, and maintenance of the said institution, which college is now in full and successful operation, and where the leading object is, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.

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SEC. 5. The said Agricultural College of Pennsylvania shall, on or before the 1st day of February of each year, make report to the legislature of the receipts and expenditures of said institution for the preceding year. (April 1, 1863.) Laws, 1866, No. 88: SECTION 1. The third section of the act passed April 1, 1863 [above], shall be so construed as to authorize the governor, auditor-general, and surveyor-general as commissioners, in the performance of the duties devolved upon them by the said act, to direct the payment of the expenses of disposing of the said land scrip out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That no more than one-third of the distributive shares of the said land scrip donated to this State shall be sold under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. The board of trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania be, and they are hereby, authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $80,000, at a rate of interest not exceeding 7 per cent, and taxes, with which to pay and consolidate all the debts of the institution, and to secure the same by a mortgage upon the property thereof. (April 11, 1866.)

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Laws, 1867, No. 9: SECTION 1. The proviso to the first section of the act approved April 11, 1866 [above], be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. 2. The one-tenth part of the entire proceeds of the lands donated by Congress to the State of Pennsylvania by the act of July 2, 1862, in trust, and accepted by the act of April 1, 1863, to which this is a supplement, be, and is hereby, appropriated, and the commissioners under the said act of April [1], 1863, are directed to pay the same to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, to be expended in the purchase of lands for experimental farms.

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SEC. 3. The interest and income of the entire residue of the proceeds of the said lands be, and are hereby, appropriated, and the commissioners under the said act are also hereby directed to pay the same, as it shall accrue, to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, for the endowment, support, and maintenance thereof, on condition that the trustees establish, conduct, and maintain in connection with the college three experimental farms; one near the college, under the immediate supervision of the professor of agriculture in the institution, another east, and the other west, upon lands of diversified quality, under the immediate supervision, respectively, of an assistant professor of agriculture. (February 19, 1867.)

Laws, 1872, No. 31: SECTION 1. The surveyor-general be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to sell all the present bonds held by him in trust for the agricultural college land-scrip fund and pay the proceeds of the sale of the same to the State treasurer for the use of the sinking-fund commissioners.

SEC. 2. The governor, auditor-general, and State treasurer are authorized to issue a registered bond of this Commonwealth for the sum of $500,000, payable to the agricultural college land-scrip fund of Pennsylvania, after fifty years from February 1, 1872, with interest on the same at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. to be paid semiannually on the 1st of February and August of each year, and deliver the said bond to the State treasurer for the uses and purposes declared by law.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State treasurer to hold said bond in trust for the agricultural college land-serip fund of Pennsylvania and to pay the interest accruing thereon semiannually to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania according to the several acts of assembly in relation thereto.

SEC. 4. The board of commissioners for the sale of agricultural college land scrip be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and the surveyor-general is directed to place in the hands of the State treasurer the book of accounts and vouchers relating to the agricultural college land-scrip fund now in his custody. (April 3, 1872.)

Laws, 1878, No. 219: SECTION 1. [Appropriates $80,000 to pay off mortgage on the property of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania.]

SEC. 3. The State treasurer shall not disburse any of the moneys herein appropriated until satisfactory proof has been made to him that the following reductions have been made in the salaries of all officers and employees in said institution, namely, 10 per cent on all salaries between $800 and $1,500 and 15 per cent on all salaries over $1,500. (June 12, 1878.)

Laws, 1887, No. 56: SECTION 1. The trustees of the said the Pennsylvania State College, are hereby authorized to sell the farms commonly known as the eastern and western experimental farms, or either of them, at the highest price at which they can be sold, at public or private sale, as a whole or in parcels, after at least sixty days' notice of such sale being given weekly in two of the newspapers published in the county where such farm is located. The proceeds of such sale shall be paid by said trustees into the State treasury, with satisfactory evidence to the governor and treasurer that such sale was conducted in good faith, according to the requirements of this act, and shall there be held as a special fund, to be invested in the bonds of the State, or otherwise, the interest on which, at 6 per cent per annum, shall be paid by the State treasurer, in equal quarterly installments, on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October in each and every year, to the said trustees of the State College, to be used by them for the sole and exclusive purpose of maintaining a mechanical workshop and chemical laboratories, and of conducting educational and scientific experiments on the experimental farm located at the State College, and laboratory tests and investigations connected therewith, and the principal of said proceeds is hereby inviolably appropriated and set apart as and for the uses herein prescribed: Provided, That before any portion of the income thereof shall be paid to the said trustees they shall execute and file with the secretary of the Commonwealth an agreement to expend the whole of such income in the manner and for the purposes herein designated, and shall annually make to the governor a full statement of their income and expenditures under this head: And provided further, That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to release the said trustees from the obligation to maintain a well-equipped experimental farm near the college, as now required by law, or to impair or modify any other obligation or agreement now existing between the State of Pennsylvania and said State College, except as herein expressly provided. (May 13, 1887.)

Laws, 1887, No. 223: SECTION 1. [Appropriates $68.000 for buildings, $22,500 for apparatus, books, and equipment, and $9,500 for repairs, etc.]

SEC. 2. [Appropriates $3,000 per annum for four years for the agricultural experiment station.] (June 3, 1887.)

Laws, 1889, No. 52: SECTION 1. The assent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby given to the said act of Congress approved March 3 [2], 1887, with all its provisions and conditions, and the Pennsylvania State College is hereby designated as the proper institution, under the provisions of said act of February 19, 1867 [of the legislature of Pennsylvania]. to receive all appropriations made or to be made by Congress for the purpose of carrying into effect said act er any supplement or supplements thereto. (April 25, 1889.)

Laws, 1889. No. 312: SECTION 1. [Appropriates $95,500 for buildings, $18,700 for apparatus and equipment, and $12.800 for repairs, etc.] (May 25, 1889.)

Laws, 1891, No. 67: SECTION 1. The assent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby given to said act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, with all its provisions and conditions, and the Pennsylvania State College is hereby designated as the proper institution, under the provisions of said act of February 19, 1867 [of the legislature of Pennsylvania], to receive all appropriations made or to be made by Congress for the purpose of carrying into effect said act or any supplement or supplements thereto.

SEC. 2. The State treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to record in his office the receipt of any and all appropriations received from the United States under said act of Congress, and to transfer the same immediately to the treasurer of the Pennsylvania State College, as required by said act approved August 30, 1890.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and the secretary of the Commonwealth is hereby directed to forward one certified copy of this act to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and one to the United States Secretary of the Interior. (May 20, 1891.)

Laws, 1891, No. 291: [Appropriates $114,500 for buildings, $19.000 for apparatus and equipment, and $17,000 for repairs, etc.] (June 19, 1891.)

Laws, 1893, No. 243: [Appropriates $53,000 for maintenance, $37,500 for equipment, and $20,220 for repairs, etc.] (June 3, 1893.)

Laws, 1893, No. 239: SECTION 1. The secretary of the State board of agriculture shall be ex officio a member of the board of agriculture and of the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania State College. (June 2, 1893.)

Laws, 1895, No. 440: [Appropriates $110.006.73 for buildings, $52,000 for maintenance, $20.500 for apparatus and equipment, and $29,755.50 for repairs, etc.] (July 3, 1895.)

Laws, 1897, No. 353: [Appropriates $63,200 for maintenance, $13.250 for apparatus and equipment, and $10.882.50 for repairs, etc.] (July 22, 1897.)

Laws, 1899, No. 319: [Appropriates $39,250 for maintenance, $12,000 for fuel, and $1,051.90 for insurance.] (May 13, 1899.)

Laws. 1901, No. 503: [Appropriates $15,000 for fuel, $58,750 for maintenance, $10,707.74 for repairs, etc., and $500 for furniture.] (July 18, 1901.) Laws, 1903, No. 432: [Appropriates $151,805.55.] (May 15, 1903.)

RHODE ISLAND.

Acts and resolves, January session, 1863, Public resolution No. 2: Resolved, the senate concurring with the house in the passage hereof, That the general assembly of the State of Rhode Island does hereby express its acceptance in behalf of the State of the benefit of the provisions of Chapter CXXX of the Statutes of the United States passed at the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress and approved July 2, 1862, donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts upon the terms and conditions in the said act contained and set forth, and that the faith of the State be, and is hereby, pledged to the United States that upon the receipt of the scrip provided to be issued under the said act of Congress it will faithfully apply the proceeds thereof to the objects and in the manner prescribed by this act.

Resolved. That his excellency the governor be, and he hereby is, requested to notify the President of the United States without delay of the accepting by the legislature of this State of the donation of scrip for 120,000 acres of the public lands of the United States (that quantity being 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress from this State), made by the provisions of Chapter CXXX of the Statutes of the United States approved July 2, 1862, * * upon the terms and conditions in the said act contained and set forth, and to furnish at the same time a copy of said notification to the Secretary of the Interior.

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