The auditors shall promptly return such blanks to the board, filled in accordance with such instructions.

3. They shall investigate all subjects relating to the improvement of the agricultural interests of the State, the inducement of immigration thereto, and the introduction of foreign capital therein, as they may deem expedient.

4. They shall have the right to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations for the guidance of the veterinarian of said college or his assistant, if one shall be appointed, in the treatment of horses, mules, cattle, hogs, or other live stock affected with any dangerous or contagious disease.

5. The said board shall have the power to adopt rules and regulations consistent with the laws of this State and of the United States, to prevent the introduction into this State of any live stock that is affected with any contagious disease, the tendency of which is to cause the death of said live stock.

6. They shall have power, in case of contagious disease among any kind of stock or animals, either to establish rules of quarantine or to have the infected animals killed and burned.

7. Said board, or a committee thereof appointed by them, shall supervise and enforce the execution of all laws respecting the sale of commercial fertilizers and seeds within the State, and any other duties by this chapter devolved upon them. 8. They shall appoint a special inspector or inspectors of fertilizers, and such other persons as they may deem necessary for carrying out the duties of the department of agriculture hereby devolved upon them, and fix their compensation. 9. They shall collect samples of any commercial fertilizers offered for sale in this State, and cause the same to be analyzed. Such samples must be taken from at least 10 per cent of the lot analyzed.

10. They shall prepare and keep in their department books of registry, in which any person may cause to be entered any tract or lot of land which he may desire to sell, stating the terms of sale. And such person may file also any plat or other descriptive paper relating to such lands as he may think proper. They shall also keep books in which shall be entered the names of persons desiring employment as laborers. The registry fee for each tract of land, or for each person seeking employment, shall be $1. The books shall be open to inspection free of charge.

11. They shall communicate and cooperate with the Commissioner [Secretary] of Agriculture of the United States, and shall receive from him seeds, plants, documents, and information, and shall distribute the same as may seem to the best advantage.

12. They shall have power to hold agricultural conventions composed of delegates from each county in the State, to be apportioned to each county and elected in such manner as the board may provide; and to conduct farmers' institutes at such times and places as may appear expedient; and they are authorized to use such parts of the funds under their control as may be necessary to meet the expense of conducting such conventions and institutes, but no compensation, per diem, or mileage shall be paid to the delegates of such conventions.

SEC. 1314. The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad between the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina and Calhoun station, on the line of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway, with all the rights, powers, duties, and privileges that are conferred and imposed by the laws of the State upon railroad companies. The said Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, for the purpose of the construction of said railroad, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges (and be subject to all the liabilities of railroad corporations) embraced in what is called the "general railroad law" and acts amendatory thereof, as well as any acts now existing or hereafter to be passed regulating the duties, privileges, and rights of railroad companies. (February 19, 1900.)

SEC. 1315. After construction of said railroad the said Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, for the purpose of operating the same, is empowered to lease, in any lawful manner, the said railroad to any railroad company upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon, or may enter into any agreement with any railroad company for the operation of the same. (February 19, 1900.) SEC. 1316. The said Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina is authorized to construct and maintain tramways, macadam roads, electric roads, and such other highways within the incorporation as the board of trustees may deem expedient for the improvement and development of the corporation, and to this end shall have all the powers, privileges, and rights conferred by sections 1314 and 1315. (February 19, 1900.)

SEC. 1317. The veterinarian of said college shall have the right to visit any section of this State where contagious diseases among animals is [are] believed to

exist and shall determine, under the rules and regulations of said board, whether such affected animals are worthy of remedial treatment or should be destroyed. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to hinder or obstruct said veterinarian or his assistant in the enjoyment of the rights given by this section or in the discharge of the duties prescribed by the next succeeding section. (February 19, 1901.)

SEC. 1318. When two or more reputable citizens of any county in this State shall notify said veterinarian that any animals in their county are affected with a contagious disease the tendency of which is to cause the death of such animals, he shall investigate the same or cause an investigation thereof to be made; and for such purpose he or his assistant shall have the right to go upon any premises on which such affected animals are or where they are supposed to be. Said veterinarian shall have the right to treat such affected animals at the expense of the owner or owners of the same or shall have the right to cause the same destroyed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the said board. No compensation shall be paid to the owner or owners of any animals destroyed under the provisions of this section. The necessary expenses incurred by the veterinarian or his assistant in the discharge of the duties prescribed in this chapter shall he paid from the funds of Clemson College, (February 19, 1901.)

SEC. 1319. All the privilege tax on fertilizers heretofore required to be paid to the commissioner of agriculture shall in the future be paid to the treasurer of the State, subject to the order of the board of trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina; and so much of the money so received as shall be necessary to defray the expenses of the board in performing the duties now by this chapter devolved upon them shall be thus used, and the balance shall go to the said college for its erection and maintenance. (December 24, 1890.)

SEC. 1320. A municipal corporation is hereby created known as Clemson College, the limits of which shall consist of all the lands belonging to the said college and cover all the territory included in a circle formed with the college building as a center with a radius of 5 miles, thus making the diameter of the circle 10 miles, within which boundaries the jurisdiction of the college shall extend. No dispensary shall ever be located at Calhoun. (December 24, 1894; February 20, 1901.) SEC. 1321. (1) The board of trustees of Clemson College and their successors in office shall have perpetual control and direct the affairs of said corporation. (2) The said board, by a majority vote, shall have the power, and it is made their duty, to recommend a suitable person as police magistrate, who shall be commissioned by the governor, and who shall exercise all the powers of a magistrate and of a city recorder in punishing offenses against the law or against the ordinances of the said board of trustees; but said magistrate shall not have jurisdiction in Pickens County. The said board of trustees shall have authority, and it shall be their duty, to make such rules for the maintenance of order and provide such punishments within the jurisdiction of a magistrate by fine or imprisonment, or both, as will keep the territory within their jurisdiction free from nuisances and enforce the police regulations of the State. (December 24, 1891; February 20, 1901.)

SEC. 1322. The board of trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College are authorized and empowered to make such by-laws as they deem proper to license or prohibit the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise of any kind whatever on the grounds belonging to the said college as are not repugnant to the laws of the State. (December 24, 1892.)

SEC. 1323. The said board shall have authority to appoint one or more special constables, who shall exercise all the power of a State constable or of a municipal policeman to enforce obedience to its ordinances and to the laws of the State. (December 24, 1894.)

SEC. 1324. Nothing contained in sections 1320, 1821, and 1322 shall give said board of trustees the right to levy or to collect any tax. (December 24, 1894.) Src. 1325. A report of all their proceedings under this chapter shall be made annually by the board to the general assembly. (December 23, 1879.)

Laws, 1902, No. 545: SECTION 1. On and after the approval of this act by the governor the authorities of Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College are hereby authorized and required to detail one of its scientific agriculturists to pay frequent visits to the coast section of the State, and to examine the soils, present methods of cultivation, fertilization, irrigation, etc., and to make practical tests, on some selected section, of sea-island cotton, rice, and truck farms, with various varieties of seeds, and to follow the same up carefully during the preparation of the land, planting of seed, and cultivation and harvesting of same, and also to examine into the diseases of cotton, rice, truck, etc., which have caused much trouble and loss in that section.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the planters and farmers of the section so visited

to render hearty assistance and cooperation in every way in their power to the gentleman detailed under the provisions of section 1 of this act. (February 25, 1902.)

Laws, 1903, No. 16: SECTION 1. On or before April 1, 1901, and every two years thereafter, the board of trustees of Clemson College shall designate three members of the said board, who shall constitute and be known as the State board of entomology, and who shall be charged especially with the execution of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. The said board is hereby authorized and empowered to make such rules and establish such regulations consistent with the laws of this State and of the United States for the government of the inspection, certification, sale, transportation, and introduction of trees, plants, shrubs, cuttings, buds, vines, bulbs, or roots that the said board may deem necessary or advisable to prevent the introduction or dissemination of destructive insects and plant diseases.

SEC. 3. The said board shall have power to appoint an entomologist, who shall be a skilled horticulturist, and an assistant entomologist, if in their judgment it shall be impracticable for the entomologist so to be appointed to discharge the duties hereby devolved upon him; and such entomologist shall act as an inspector under the provisions of this act. And it shall be the duty of said board to promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with this act for the guidance of said entomologist and his assistant, if one shall be appointed, in the duties devolving upon him under the provisions hereof.

SEC. 4. The said board shall fix the salary of said entomologist and of his assistant, if one shall be appointed; the said salary shall be paid out of the funds now provided by law for the uses of Clemson College. And, in addition to said salaries, such expenses as the said board may allow for traveling and other incidental expenses of the entomologist and his assistant, and the issuing of reports or other publications, shall be paid out of the funds provided for the uses of Clenson College. (February 23, 1903. The remaining sections describe the duties and powers of the entomologist.)

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Constitution (1889), Article VIII: SECTION 1. The stability of a republican form of government depending on the morality and intelligence of the people it shall be the duty of the legislature to establish, and maintain a general and uniform system of public schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge and equally open to all, and to adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.

SEC. 7. All lands, money, or other property donated, granted, or received from the United States or any other source for a university, agricultural college, normal schools, or other educational or charitable institution or purpose, and the proceeds of all such lands and other property so received from any source shall be and remain perpetual funds, the interest and income of which, together with the rents of all such lands as may remain unsold, shall be inviolably appropriated and applied to the specific objects of the original grants or gifts. The principal of every such fund may be increased, but shall never be diminished, and the interest and income only shall be used. Every such fund shall be deemed a trust fund held by the State, and the State shall make good all losses therefrom that shall in any manner occur.

SEC. 11. The moneys of the permanent school and other educational funds shall be invested only in first mortgages upon good improved farm lands within this State, as hereinafter provided, or in bonds of school corporations within the State, or in bonds of the United States or of the State of South Dakota. The legislature shall provide by law the method of determining the amounts of said funds which shall be invested from time to time in such classes of securities, respectively, taking care to secure continuous investments as far as possible.

SEC. 13. All losses to the permanent school or other educational funds of this State which shall have been occasioned by the defalcation, negligence, mismanagement, or fraud of the agents or officers controlling and managing the same shall be audited by the proper authorities of the State. The amount so audited shall be a permanent funded debt against the State in favor of the fund sustaining the loss, upon which not less than 6 per cent of annual interest shall be paid. Article XIV: SEC. 3 (as amended 1896]. The State university, the agricultural college, the normal schools, and all other educational institutions that may be sus

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tained, either wholly or in part, by the State shall be under the control of a board of five members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate, under such rules and restrictions as the legislature shall provide. The legislature may increase the number of members to nine.

Laws of the Territory of Dakota, 1881, chapter 3: SECTION 1 [as amended March 9, 1883]. An agricultural college for the Territory of Dakota is hereby located and established at the city of Brookings, Brookings County. The building for said college shall be erected and constructed upon the land now owned by the Territory within the limits of said city of Brookings. The purpose of said college shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in such branches as may be prescribed by the board of regents hereinafter provided for.

Ibid., 1883, chapter 3: SECTION 1. For the purpose of providing a fund to erect and construct an agricultural college the Territorial treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made his duty, to prepare for issue $25,000 of Territorial bonds. Said bonds shall be dated on the day of the execution and delivery thereof, shall be due in twenty years from and after their date, and shall be payable at the option of the Territory at any time after ten years from their date. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum. *

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SEC. 4. For the purpose of the prompt payment of the principal and interest of the bonds herein provided for, there shall be levied annually by the Territorial board of equalization at the time the other taxes are levied, and collected in the same manner as other Territorial taxes are collected, such a tax as shall be sufficient to pay such interest and the exchange thereon; and after nine years from the date of said bonds, if no other provision shall have been made for the payment of the principal of the same, the said board of equalization, or any other officer or officers then empowered to perform the duties now performed by said Territorial board of equalization, shall levy such sinking-fund tax annually as shall be sufficient to retire and pay said bonds at their maturity.

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SEC. 9. The total cost of said agricultural college building, including fixtures, shall not exceed $20,000.

SEC. 18. That part of the Territory of Dakota in which the agricultural college is situated shall, on the division of the Territory, assume all debts incurred and then existing on account of the erection, construction, and equipment of said agricultural college and agricultural college farm. (February 27, 1883.)

Ibid., 1885, chapter 22: SEC. 3. For the purpose of providing funds to finish the agricultural college at Brookings, Dak., and build a boarding house, and furnish the same, and put in steam heating, the Territorial treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made his duty, to prepare for issue $20,000 of Territorial

bonds.

SEC. 4. Said bonds shall be dated on the day of the execution and delivery thereof, shall be due in twenty years from and after their date, and shall be payable at the option of the Territory at any time after ten years from their date. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum.

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SEC. 7. [Provides for tax levy similar to that provided in Laws, 1883, chapter 3, sec. 4.]

Ibid., 1887, chapter 4: SECTION 1. For the purpose of providing funds to purchase an experimental farm, farm buildings, live stock, and to erect and furnish building for assembly hall, workshops, laboratory, and dormitory for young men, for the Dakota Agricultural College and Experimental Station at Brookings, Dak., the Territorial treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made his duty, to prepare for issue $54.000 of Territorial bonds, in denominations of $500 each, running for a term of twenty years, bearing interest not to exceed 5 per cent per annum.

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SEC. 3. [Provides for a tax levy similar to that provided in Laws, 1883, chapter 3, sec. 4.]

SEC. 9. The cost of the building for shops, laboratory, and dormitory for young men, including furnishing with necessary furniture and steam heating, shall not exceed the sum of $30,000. The cost of the farm lands for the experimental station shall not exceed the sum of $25 per acre, and they shall be adjacent to the lands already owned by the Territory, and comprising said agricultural college farm: And provided further, That whenever the funds arising from the sale of the Congressional grant of lands for the Dakota Agricultural College shall become available the Territory shall be reimbursed therefrom for all funds invested in said experimental farm lands, together with the interest thereon, from the date of the issue of said bonds. (March 10, 1887.)

Ibid., 1887, chapter 6: SECTION 7. The agricultural college established by chapter 3 of the session laws of 1881 shall be known by the name of the Dakota Agricultural College. The design of the institution is to afford practical instruction in

agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith, and also the sciences which bear directly upon all industrial arts and pursuits. The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, political, rural, and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanic arts to practical agriculture in the field.

SEC. 8. 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. 9. The board of regents shall fix the salaries of the president, teachers, instructors, and other employees, and prescribe their respective duties. The board may remove the president or subordinate officers and supply all vacancies. SEC. 10. The faculty shall consist of the president, teachers, and instructors, and shall pass all needful rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the college, regulating the routine of labor, study, meals, and the duties and exercises and all such rules and regulations as are necessary to the preservation of morals, decorum, and health.

SEC. 11. 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. 12. The president of the college and the president of the 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. 13. 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. 17. There is hereby established an agricultural experiment station in connection with the Agricultural College of Dakota, and under the direction of the board of regents of said college, for the purpose of conducting experiments in agriculture, according to the terms of section 1 of an act of Congress approved March 3 [2], 1887.

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SEC. 18. The assent of the legislature of Dakota 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 experiment station in accordance with section 1 of said last-mentioned act, and assent is hereby given to carry out all and singular the provisions of said act. (March 11, 1887.) Laws of South Dakota, 1891, chapter 38: SECTION 1. The name of the agricultural college at Brookings, S. Dak., is hereby changed from the Agricultural College of Dakota to the Agricultural College of South Dakota. (March 5, 1891.) Ibid., 1891, chapter 3: SECTION 1. The Congressional grants of money for the further endowment and maintenance of agricultural colleges, known as the Morrill Act, and approved August 30, 1890, be accepted for the Agricultural College of South Dakota under the conditions and limitations of that act, and the treasurer of the board having control of the agricultural college is designated as the proper person to whom such funds are to be paid by the United States authorities, said treasurer giving good and sufficient bonds for the safe custody of said funds. (March 7, 1891.)

Ibid., 1897, chapter 58: SECTION 1. As soon as practicable after the passage of this act and before March 1, 1897, the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint five persons of probity and wisdom from among the best and the best-known citizens, residents of different portions of the State, none of whom shall reside in the counties in which any of the State educational institutions are located, who shall constitute a board to be designated the regents of education: Provided, That in all appointments to the regency of education the persons selected shall be of the different political parties existing at the time such appointments are made.

SEC. 2. One of the persons so appointed shall hold office until January 1, 1899, and two until January 1, 1901, and two until January 1, 1903, as the governor shall indicate in his nomination, and all full appointments at and after the expiration of any of these terms shall be for six years, it being the intention of this act that all expirations of these terms shall occur on the 1st day of January of each odd or legislative year, or as soon thereafter as their successors are chosen and qualified: