the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and there is hereby established at said college in connection therewith, and under its direction, a department to be known and designated as the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station.

SEC. 2. The act of the legislature of this State, approved March 3, 1885, establishing the Maine Fertilizer Control and Agricultural Experiment Station, is hereby repealed, this repeal to take effect October 1, 1887.

SEC. 3. All apparatus, chemicals, and other property belonging to said station, and the unexpended balance of money in the State treasury appropriated by the State to said station for the year 1887, shall, on October 1, 1887, be transferred and paid to and become the property of the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and the treasurer thereof shall receipt for the property so transferred by the board of managers of said experiment station and the unexpended balance so paid over by the treasurer of State. (Approved March 16, 1887.) Ibid., 1887, Resolves, chapter 54: Appropriates $34.600 for two years, $25,000 to be for the erection of a building for the departments of natural history and agriculture, and the remaining part for current purposes.

Acts and Resolves, 1887, chapter 105: That the treasurer of State be authorized and directed to receive from the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, situated in Orono, in the county of Penobscot, in trust, the sum of $100,000, bequeathed to said college by Hon. Abner Coburn; and said treasurer shall apply the same in payment of the debt of the State of Maine, and shall issue to said college an unnegotiable registered bond for the sum of $100,000, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, payable semiannually on the first days of January and July in each year, at the treasurer's office. Said bond shall be payable in thirty years from the first day of July, in 1887, and shall be signed by the treasurer, countersigned by the governor, attested by the secretary of state, and the State treasurer and his successors in office shall pay to the treasurer of said college the interest on said bond from the time he receives said sum until the maturity of the bond. (Approved March 16, 1887.)

Acts and Resolves, 1891, Resolves, chapter 43: Appropriates $24,500 for 1891 and 1892.

Acts and Resolves, 1893, Resolves, chapter 178: Appropriates $12,000 for 1893 and 1894.

Acts and Resolves, 1897, Resolves, chapter 215: That in order to defray the current expenses of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, there be appropriated to the trustees of said college, for the year 1897, and for each year thereafter for the term of ten years, the sum of $20,000. Resolved that the said trustees are hereby directed to charge all students a reasonable tuition, but they may abate said tuition to such worthy pupils, resident in the State, as may be financially unable to pay the same. (Approved March 20, 1897.)

Acts of 1897, chapter 551: SECTION 1. The name of the corporation known as the trustees of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts is hereby changed to the University of Maine, and the said University of Maine shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, property, duties, and responsibilities which belong or have belonged to the said trustees.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on some day in June, 1897, to be fixed by said trustees. (Approved March 26, 1897.)

Ibid., chapter 547: SECTION 1. Graduates of the State college shall enjoy before State boards and in the practice of any profession or the pursuit of any calling for which they may be prepared, rights, privileges, and exemptions equal to those granted to the graduates of any other institutions within or without the State. (Approved March 26, 1897.)

Ibid., chapter 550: The trustees of the Maine State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts shall receive $2 a day for their regular visits at said institution and the same sum for every 20 miles travel. (Approved March 26, 1897.)

MARYLAND.

Declaration of Rights, article 43: That the legislature ought to encourage the diffusion of knowledge and virtue, the extension of a judicious system of general education, the promotion of literature, the arts, sciences, agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, and the general melioration of the condition of the people. Laws, 1856, chapter 97 [amended by laws of 1866, chapter 53]: Whereas it hath been represented to the legislature that certain wise and virtuous citizens are desirous of instituting and establishing in some convenient locality within this

State an agricultural college and model farm, in which the youthful student may especially be instructed in those arts and sciences indispensable to successful agricultural pursuits; and whereas it doth appear to this legislature that while the wise and learned in the present age have cultivated with laudable industry and applied with admirable success the arts and sciences to other pursuits, the most necessary, useful, and honorable pursuits of agriculturists have so far been most lamentably neglected; and whereas it is the province and duty of the legislature to encourage and aid the philanthropic and patriotic citizens in their efforts to disseminate useful knowledge by establishing an agricultural college and model farm, which shall in addition to the usual course of scholastic learning particularly indoctrinate the youth of Maryland theoretically and practically in those arts and sciences, which with good manners and morals shall enable them to subdue the earth and elevate the State to the lofty position its advantages in soil, climate, etc., and the moral and mental capacities of its citizens entitle it to attain; therefore,

SECTION 1. James T. Earle and [eight others are named] are appointed commissioners, by whom or under whose direction subscriptions may be solicited and obtained to the stock of the Maryland Agricultural College, and they are hereby authorized to take, hold, and dispose of, as hereinafter provided for, voluntary subscriptions to the amount not exceeding $500,000, in shares of $25 each.

SEC. 2. As soon as at least 2,000 shares of stock aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, be subscribed for, the subscribers aforesaid, their successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby made and declared to be incorporated into a company by the name and style of the Maryland Agricultural College," and by that name be capable in law of suing and being sued, etc., to use a corporate seal, and to do and cause to be done all things necessary for the attainment of the object aforesaid.

SEC. 3. [As soon as the provisions of section 2 have been complied with and one half of subscription paid in cash and the other secured a meeting of the stockholders must be called, which assemblage must elect 22 trustees, one from each county and one from the city of Baltimore, any five of whom shall constitute a quorum capable of transacting business.]

SEC. 4. [The first board of trustees were to hold office five years, but subsequently elected trustees were to serve for two years.] (Repealed by law of 1868, chap. 97. q. v.)

SEC. 5. Board had full power to appoint professors and teachers in the college, prescribe their duties, salaries, and fix and determine the duties, wages, cost, and charge of all other officers and servants, tuition and board of students, course of study, vacations, examinations, exhibitions, and control and manage all persons and things in and belonging to the college and conducive to the successful operation of the college and model farm.]

SEC. 6. [Board shall cause to be made annually on the model farm "a series of experiments upon the cultivation of cereal and other plants adapted to the latitude and climate of Maryland and cause to be carefully noticed upon the records of said institution the character of said experiments, the kind of soil upon which they were undertaken, the system of cultivation adopted, the state of the atmosphere and other particulars which may be necessary to a fair and complete understanding of the results of said experiments, and they shall also require the instructor of chemistry, as far as may be consistent with his other duties in said institution, to carefully analyze all specimens of soil that may be submitted to him by any citizen of this State, free of charge, and specially furnish the applicant with an accurate statement of the result."]

SEC. 7. [The trustees have care, control, and management of all the real and personal property and money of the said company, and shall appoint a register and cause to be registered in a book to be kept for that purpose all the acts, etc., of the trustees. They meet four times or more a year at the college and shall make a report to the legislature.]

SEC. 8. Declares that when the forementioned provisions have been complied with and not fewer than 50 acres for the model farm have been purchased and the college and farm buildings erected. "the said stockholders under the name and style of the Maryland Agricultural College shall be entitled from the treasury of the State of Maryland to the annual sum of $6,000, which said annual sum of $6,000 is hereby appropriated out of any unappropriated money in the treasury as an annual endowment of the said Maryland Agricultural College, and shall by the board of trustees hereinbefore mentioned be applied to the payment of salaries of professors and such other purposes as shall promote the welfare and success of the said agricultural college, and upon notice being given in writing by the said Maryland Agricultural College, that the subscriptions aforesaid have been bona fide rue and a board of trustees duly appointed, and the lands for said model

farm have been purchased and the necessary buildings erected thereon, to the comptroller of the treasury, he shall forthwith, if at any time before the 1st day of February, 1858, said report is made, issue his warrant to the treasurer, and the treasurer shall pay to the said board of trustees or their order then, and annually thereafter, the said sum of $6.000 above appropriated.“]

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SEC. 9. [Forbids stockholders and trustees to issue any promissory obligation or use or attempt to use any banking privileges whatsoever."]

SEC. 10. [Repeals charter if provisions of section 3 are not complied with by February 1, 1858.]

Szc. 11. [Right to annul annual grant of $6,000 and “make void all and every part of the incorporation aforesaid and all rights, privileges, and immunities hereinbefore mentioned."]

SEC. 12. [Declares subscribers shall receive back their subscription in case of no incorporation by failure to secure 2,000 shares.]

SEC. 13. [Arranges for the annual meeting of the stockholders. Repealed by law of 1868, chap. 320, q. v.] (Passed March 6, 1856.)

Laws, 1858, chapter 265 [amended by laws of 1866, chapter 53]: Whereas it is represented to the legislature that the interests of the Maryland Agricultural College will be greatly advanced by the probable increase in the number of subscribers to the stock thereof by reducing the amount of subscription to the shares or stock in the same, thereby diffusing more wide and general interest among the agriculturists of the State; and also by granting to the District of Columbia a trustee for the management of said institution in view of the proximity of its location and site to said District, and the great interest already manifested by large subscriptions to its stock by the inhabitants of that district; and whereas it is also represented that the original act incorporating said institution contains no provisions for filling vacancies occurring in the board of trustees recently elected, without a general call or meeting of stockholders; therefore, etc.

SEC. 2. [Relates that there shall be three trustees at large, one from the eastern shore and one from the western shore and also a trustee from the District of Columbia.]

SEC. 4. [Relates that honorary members may be chosen by the board from among the citizens of other States.] (Passed March 10, 1858.)

Laws, 1864, chapter 90: SECTION I. That the following sections relating to colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts be added to the article "Schools," of the Code of Public General Laws entitled "An act assenting to the provisions of the act of Congress donating lands to the several States and Territories for the benefit of education."

SEC. 17. The State of Maryland hereby declares its acceptance of the provisions of an act passed by the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts." approved July 2, 1862; and the governor is hereby authorized to give such notice of the said acceptance as may be proper.

SEC. 18. The comptroller of the treasury is hereby authorized to receive from the proper authorities of the United States the land scrip to be issued for the lands granted to this State by the said act of Congress, and to give all necessary receipts and acknowledgments for the scrip which may be received by him.

SEC. 19. The said comptroller is hereby authorized, by and with the approval and concurrence of the governor and treasurer of the State, from time to time as he may deem proper, to sell such land scrip, or any part thereof, for cash, or for stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than 5 per cent upon the par value of said stocks, and to execute all necessary and proper transfers thereof; but no scrip shall be transferred and delivered to any purchaser thereof until the same shall have been fully paid for, or until payment shall have been fully secured by collaterals of such stocks as above specified.

SEC. 20. The comptroller shall make all such arrangements, employ such agents and adopt such measures in all respects as he may deem most expedient for effecting a judicious sale of the said land scrip; and the treasurer, on the warrant of the Comptroller, shall from time to time pay out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, all the expenses of management and superintendence, and taxes, if any, for the selection of said lands previous to their sale, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, and of all incidental matters connected with or arising out of the management and sale of said lands, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes mentioned in said act of Congress.

SEC. 21. The moneys which may be received in the sale of said land or scrip shall from time to time, and as often as there shall be a sufficient accumulation for that purpose, be invested by the comptroller in stocks of the United States, or of this State or some other safe stocks yielding not less than 5 per cent per annum on the par value of said stocks, and the money so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, except as provided for in and by said act of Congress.

SEC. 22. The comptroller shall keep separate books of accounts in his office of all matters relating to the said land scrip and lands, and the care, management, sale, and disposition thereof, and of the investment of the moneys derived from the sale of the said lands and land scrip, and of the manner in which the income of the said fund may be disposed of, pursuant to an act of the legislature hereafter to be passed authorizing the application thereof in conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress aforesaid.

SEC. 23. The comptroller, in his annual report to the legislature, shall state the condition and amount of said fund, the expenditures on account thereof, and all his proceedings and acts in regard thereto.

SEC. 24. All moneys received by the comptroller under the provisions of this act shall be forthwith deposited by him in the treasury of the State as a trust fund, with which a special office and bank account shall be kept by the treasurer so that the said moneys shall not be intermingled with the ordinary funds of the State; and the said moneys shall be paid out by the treasurer from time to time, on the warrant of the comptroller, when required by him for the purpose of being invested as herein before mentioned. (Passed February 17, 1864.)

Laws, 1865, chapter 178: SECTION 1. After the comptroller shall have sold the said scrip and invested the proceeds thereof as provided by the act of the general assembly, passed in 1864, the annual interest or income of said investment shall be regularly paid by him without diminution to the Maryland Agricultural College, and the leading object of said college shall be, 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, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life, and the money so to be received by the said college shall be applied to the objects enumerated in the said act of Congress and to no other purposes whatever, and the said college shall in all respects comply with the several requirements of the said act as to making and recording experiments and reporting the same as therein prescribed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or preclude the general assembly, at any time hereafter, from making any other disposition of said funds, not inconsistent with the act of Congress making said donation.

SEC. 2. From and after the passage of this act the State board of education shall be ex-officio members of the board of trustees of the said college. (Passed March 22, 1865.)

Laws, 1866, chapter 53 [amended in Sec. 4, see laws of 1880, chapter 231; also laws of 1888, chapter 53]: SECTION 1. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College the sum of $45,000, the said sum to be payable in three annual installments of $15,000 each, the first of said installments to be paid on the 1st day of April, 1866, and the balance in two equal installments on the 1st day of April, 1867, and the 1st day of April, 1868, respectively, the said amount of $45,000 to be appropriated by the trustees to the liquidation of the present indebtedness of the said college and the purchase of furniture and apparatus for the said college: Provided, The trustees of the said Maryland Agricultural College shall, on or before the 1st day of April, 1866, make, by a good and valid title, the State of Maryland equal joint owner of the property of every kind and description, real, personal, and mixed, now owned by the said college.

SEC. 2. Upon the acceptance of this act by the majority of the stockholders, at a meeting to be called and held in pursuance of the act of incorporation, the trustees of said college are hereby authorized and fully empowered to make, by a good and valid title, the State of Maryland equal joint owner in all the property of every kind and description, both real, personal, and mixed, now owned by the said Maryland Agricultural College.

SEC. 3. So much of the third section of the act of 1856 and the second section of of the act of 1858, which requires the board of trustees to consist of 22 trustees, 1 from each county, and 1 from the city of Baltimore, and authorizes the appointment of a trustee from the District of Columbia and 1 from the eastern shore and 1 from the western shore, for the State at large, is repealed.

SEC. 4. The board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College shall, on and after the 1st day of March, 1866, be composed of 11 trustees, 4 of whom shall be members of the State board of education, to représent the State's interest as joint owner, and the other 7 shall be elected by a majority of the private stockholders in the manner now provided by law, 6 of whom shall be residents of the State of Maryland, and 1 of the District of Columbia.

SEC. 5. The said board of trustees hereinbefore provided for shall possess the same and like powers and authority with the trustees authorized to be appointed by the original acts to which this is amendatory.

SEC. 6. The said board of trustees shall have power and authority to appoint and select visitors for said institution, 1 from each county and 2 from the city of Baltimore, with authority to attend the meetings of said trustees, but without the right of voting in the management of the said Maryland Agricultural College.

SEC. 7. A sum of money not exceeding 10 per cent upon the amount received by this State, under the provisions of the act of Congress of 1862, which is authorized to be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, is hereby expressly reserved and set apart, to be paid into the treasury of the State to reimburse the said State in part for the amount appropriated to the said Maryland Agricultural College by this act; and that so much of the act of 1865 as is inconsistent with this section of this act is repealed. (Passed February 7, 1866.)

Laws, 1868, chapter 320: SECTION 1. Sections 4 and 13 of the act of assembly, passed 1856, chapter 97, are hereby repealed and the following sections enacted in lieu thereof: SECTION 4. The president of the Senate shall be, ex-officio, a member of the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College, in the place which the lieutenant-governor formerly held in the said board.

"SEC. 13. A general meeting of the stockholders of the Maryland Agricultural College shall be held annually, on the second Wednesday of April, in the city of Baltimore, at such special hour and place as the president of the existing board of trustees may appoint, and one week's notice of such meeting shall be published in two of the daily newspapers of Baltimore, and that a meeting may be called at any time and at any convenient place during the interval between the said annual meetings by the president and trustees, or a majority of them, or by the stockholders owning at least one-fourth of the whole amount of stock subscribed, upon giving thirty days public notice of the time and place of holding the same, by advertisement published in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the State; and at all meetings of said stockholders one-fourth in value of said stockholders being present in person or by written proxy shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business; and that if less than such quorum shall be present at any such meeting said meeting may adjourn from time to time until a quorum is obtained, and that all general meetings of the stockholders where such a quorum is present a majority in value of the stockholders present in person or by written proxy may fill any vacancy that may occur in the board of trustees which can be lawfully filled by the stockholders, and may remove from office any president or any of the trustees elected by the stockholders, and may appoint others in their stead." (Approved March 30, 1868.)

Laws, 1870, chapter 183: SECTION 1. The adjutant-general is authorized to furnish for the use of the Maryland Agricultural College 100 Austrian muskets, in the armory at Annapolis, or such other suitable arms as may now be in the armory, with accoutrements complete, and the necessary number of officers' swords and belts.

SEC. 2. The trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College shall, upon the receipt of said arms and accoutrements, execute to the State of Maryland a good and sufficient bond for the amount of the value of said arms and accoutrements for their safe keeping and return to the adjutant-general whenever required by the legislature so to do. (Approved March 31, 1870.)

Laws, 1872, chapter 415: Whereas the legislature of Maryland by act of assembly, 1864, formally accepted the provisions of the act of Congress donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts; and whereas section 20 of said act of assembly, in accordance with the requirements and almost in the words of said act of Congress, directs the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, to pay all expenses of the management, superintendence, and taxes for, and all the incidentals connected with or arising out of the management of said lands, so that the entire proceeds of sale shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes mentioned in the act of Congress, and as expressly required by that act; and whereas by act of assembly, 1865, the whole annual income from the fund ED 1903-4