properly certified and prepared which may be furnished to him by farmers and other purchasers for use free of charge, and shall give a certificate thereof.

SEC. 2070. The certificate of analysis of the State chemist shall be evidence of the percentage of valuable elements in any fertilizer analyzed by him.

SEC. 2071. The State chemist shall have prepared a sufficient number of tags, of suitable material and form, with proper fastenings for attaching to packages, and having printed thereon the word "guaranteed," with the year of sale, number of the tag, and a facsimile of his signature. Any person who shall counterfeit a fertilizer tag, or who shall use one not sold to him by the State chemist, or who shall use one a second time, shall be guilty of forgery.

SEC. 2072. The State chemist shall charge and collect for the analysis of each brand of fertilizer the sum of $15, and for enough tags for one ton of fertilizer 30 cents.

SEC. 2073. The fees received by the State chemist shall be deposited with the treasurer of the agricultural and mechanical college, and shall be expended under the direction of the board of trustees in defraying the expenses of analyzing fertilizers, the preparation of tags, and otherwise, as the board shall allow or direct. SEC. 2074. The certificate of the State chemist shall be good for one year, if no fraud or deception be practiced in obtaining it, and an analysis of each brand of fertilizer must be made every year or season.

SEC. 2075. The State chemist shall record in a suitable book the result of every analysis of a fertilizer made by him.

Laws, 1892, chapter 45: SECTION 1. The State of Mississippi hereby accepts the provisions of act of Congress entitled "An act to apply a portion of the [proceeds of the] public lands to the more complete endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, established under provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862," which act was approved August 30, 1890. SEC. 2. The money received by this State under the aforesaid act shall be expended under the direction of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of this State, situated near Starkville, for whites, and the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, situated near Rodney, for colored; and the funds received under aforesaid act shall be divided between aforesaid agricultural colleges for white and colored in the proportion that the whole number of educable children in the State of each race bears to the whole number of educable children of both races. (Approved March 30, 1892.)

Laws, 1894, chapter 12: Appropriates to Agricultural and Mechanical College $22,500 for 1894 and the same amount for 1895, and provides further, "that the interest on the agricultural land-scrip fund belonging to said college be paid in addition to the above sums, provided that the president, professors, officers, and employees shall receive as salary or compensation from the State 10 per cent less than the amounts paid them by the State for the year 1893."

Ibid., 1894, chapter 14: Appropriates to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College $7,000 for the year 1894 and the same amount for the year 1895, also $1,500 for repairs, "provided that the amounts shall include interest on the agricultural land-scrip fund for each year."

Laws, 1896, chapter 115: SECTION 1. That the State superintendent of education be, and is hereby, made a trustee ex officio of the State University, the Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Industrial Institute and College, the State Normal School, and Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. And he shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as other trustees of said institutions of learning. (Approved March 23, 1896.)

Laws, 1896, chapter 13: [Appropriates to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College for the year 1896: Building, $7,000; repairs, $1,000; insurance for three years. $1.505. For 1897: Three cottages, $3,000; repairs, $1,000.]

Ibid., 1896: [Appropriates to Agricultural and Mechanical College $22,500 for the year 1896 and the same amount for 1897, in addition to the interest on the agricultural land-scrip fund; also, for repairs, $5,000.]

Ibid., 1896, chapter 42: That the State treasurer be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to have prepared without delay bonds of the State of Mississippi in an amount equal to the agricultural college fund now in the State treasury, maturing on the 1st day of January, 1896, and which now bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum. Said bonds to be issued in denominations of $1,000, and shall be signed by the governor and countersigned by the treasurer. All the bonds and other evidences of State indebtedness now in the treasury on account of the said agricultural college fund, amounting to $212,150, shall be immediately canceled and destroyed, and a record kept by the treasurer of the bonds so destroyed, and said treasurer shall report the facts to the legislature of 1898, and the bonds provided for in this section shall be substituted therefor.

SEC. 2. That said bonds. as herein provided for, shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum as now fixed by law, from January 1, 1896, and shall mature on January 1, 1928: Provided, The State reserves the right to take up and retire said bonds after January 1, 1900.

Ibid., 1896, chapter 113: Section 20 of the annotated code of Mississippi is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Tuition shall be free in all branches to students of this State for five years.

SEC. 2. Section 24 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The superintendent of each county, after due notice published, with the consent of the board of supervisors, shall give certificates of selection to the number of students to which the county is entitied, and this in addition to those already in the college, if any, and this selection of new students shall be made by drawing.

Ibid., 1898, chapter 15: [Appropriates to Agricultural and Mechanical College $20.500 and the interest on the agricultural land-scrip fund, $5.914.50, for 1898; also the same amounts for 1899, and $4,090 for repairs, etc.] Ibid., 1898, chapter 16: [Appropriates to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College for 1898, $12,000 and $6,814.50 as interest on agricultural land-scrip fund; for 1899, $9,000 and the interest, $6,814.50, on the agricultural land-scrip fund.] Ibid., 1898, chapter 46: SECTION 1. The grant of land to the State for the benefit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi and the Agricultural and Mechanical College for colored persons of Mississippi, by an act of Congress of the United States, approved February 20, 1895, entitled "An act for the encouragement of education in the State of Mississippi," the same being the one hundred and sixth chapter of the United States Statutes at Large, of the third session of the Fiftythird Congress, volume 28, is hereby accepted.

[The act of Congress referred to reads as follows: The governor of the State of Mississippi is hereby authorized to select out of the unoccupied and uninhabited lands of the United States within the said State, 45.089 acres of land, in legal subdivisions, being a total equivalent to two townships, and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall forthwith, upon the receipt of said certificate, issue to the State of Mississippi patents for said lands: Provided, That the proceeds of one township of said lands, when sold or leased shall forever remain a fund for the use of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of said State; and the proceeds of one of said townships of land, when sold or leased, shall forever remain a fund for the use of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for colored persons established and maintained by said State.

SEC. 2. In making said selection the governor of said State of Mississippi shall designate the lands for the Agricultural and Mechanical College and the lands for the Agricultural and Mechanical College for colored pervous,j

SEC. 2. The State land commissioner shall record in his office the patents and lists of said lands issued to the State by the United States, said lists to be recorded in a tract book; and his certified transcript of the records thereof shall be competent evidence in any court or legal proceedings in this State; and when so recorded the patent and list of the Agricultural and Mechanical College lands shall be turned over to its trustees, and the patent and list of the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College lands shall be turned over to its trustees.

SEC. 3. The board of trustees of said Agricultural and Mechanical College are hereby authorized to sell said lands patented to the State for its use under said act of Congress, or any part thereof, for cash, as in their judgment is for the best interest of said college; or to lease the same for a period not exceeding thirty years, or to sell or dispose of the timber thereon to the best advantage of said college; and the proceeds of all such sales or leases of said lands or sales of said timber, made under this act shall be paid into the State treasury and shall there be credited to said Agricultural and Mechanical College, and shall there forever remain a fund for the use of said college, and the interest to be paid to it by the State, all under and in accordance with section 212 of the State constitution. And the board of trustees of the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College shall have like authority as to the lands patented to the State under said act of Congress for the benefit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for colored persons, and the proceeds of said lands or the timber thereon shall be paid into the State treasury for the use of said college, under and in accordance with said section of the State constitution.

SEC. 4. A patent in the usual form, signed by the land commissioner, countersigned by the governor and attested by the secretary of state, with the great seal of the State affixed, shall invest the purchaser or lessee of said lands or the purchaser of the timber or trees thereon with title, according to the terms of said patent; and such patent shall be executed upon the order of the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College as to the lands patented to the State by the United States for the benefit of said college under said act of Congress: and such patent shall be executed as to the lands patented to the State for the use of said Agricultural and Mechanical College for colored persons upon the order of the

board of trustees of said Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. And said land commissioner shall keep a record of each sale or lease made under this statute upon the tract book upon which the list of lands is recorded in each instance, respectively.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall apply to any and all lands that may be hereafter selected and located by the governor and patented to the State under said act of Congress.

Ibid., 1900, chapter 61: SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the Mississippi "Agricultural and Mechanical College, located at or near Starkville, are hereby authorized to establish a branch agricultural experiment station at some point in the State south of the tier of counties on the line of the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad, and in what is known as the piney woods region of the State. The said board of trustees are authorized to accept donations of lands, lumber, agricultural implements, fertilizers, money, notes or other obligations, or any property or thing that may be of use in establishing and operating said experiment station. SEC. 2. The station herein provided for shall be a tract of land of not less than 200 acres and shall only be located where suitable land is donated and conveyed to the trustees for that purpose, and if lands in excess of 200 acres are donated, the said board of trustees may, in their discretion, sell the same and apply the proceeds to the improvement of the land retained and used for said experiment station.

SEC. 3. In locating said station the said trustees shall consider the natural advantages, the health and convenience to a shipping point, and the amount proposed to be donated by any locality or localities, and all other matters that may be of material advantage in the working of the same.

Ibid., 1900, chapter 18: SECTION 1. A textile school is established in connection with the agricultural and mechanical college, where young men and women may be educated in the art of manufacturing textile fabrics and where they may acquire a practical as well as theoretical and scientific knowledge of the art of manufacturing textile fabrics, and especially those made from cotton, or cotton and wool combined, including dyeing, designing and drawing.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to cause to be erected the necessary building for the motive power and machinery of the factory building, for the accommodation of not more than 100 pupils, and a dormitory building to accomodate a like number, and to supply the factory building with the necessary motive power of steam or electricity, in their discretion, and all other necessary machinery and appliances for manufacturing cotton and such other fabrics as may be agreed upon by the faculty and approved by the trustees, and also for dyeing, having in view the purpose of this act as defined in the first section thereof, and especially that relating to the manufacture of cotton fabrics.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees when said buildings have been erected and equipped as provided for in this act to elect a competent and efficient director of the textile school, who shall become thereby a member of the faculty of the said agricultural and mechanical college, and shall receive such salary as may be fixed by the board of trustees. They shall likewise employ or authorize the employment of such assistants in the various departments thereof as may be necessary to the thorough and efficient training and instruction of the students. The course of study shall be prescribed by the faculty, with the approval of the board of trustees, and shall embrace carding, spinning, weaving, dyeing, harmony of colors, designing, drawing, fabric analysis and calculations, and such other branches as may be prescribed. There shall be a special course on the manufacture of cotton fabrics alone.

SEC. 4. No pupil shall be admitted to the textile school who is under 15 years of age: and each pupil applying for admission shall be examined under rules to be prescribed by the faculty as to character, intelligence, and learning, and they shall be governed by the rules and regulations prescribed for the government of said college, the trustees of which shall also fix and regulate the fees, cost, and term of course of said textile department.

SEC 5. The raw material to be manufactured in the course of study shall be purchased by the president of the faculty, or under his direction, provided that raised on the college farm shall be insufficient in quantity or quality. The fabrics mannfactured by the school shall be sold by the president of the faculty, and the proceeds thereof and also all tuition fees shall be paid into the college treasury to the credit of the textile school, and full reports made thereof annually to the board of trustees.

SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall have authority to grant diplomas and certificates of proficiency upon the recommendation of the director of the textile school and a majority of the faculty.

SEC. 7. The sum of $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the board of trustees to carry out the provisions of this act. The said sum herein appropriated may be drawn from the State treasury upon the warrant of the auditor of public accounts, issued upon the written request of the president of said college, approved by the governor.

Ibid., chapter 17: [Appropriates to agricultural and mechanical college $25,719 for the year 1900 and a like sum for the year 1901, in addition to the annual interest on the agricultural land-scrip fund, for new buildings, etc., and $1,000 for farmers' institutes.]

Ibid., chapter 19: [Appropriates to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College $8,000 for the year 1900 and a like sum for 1901, in addition to interest on agricultural land-scrip fund; also $5,850 for repairs, etc. In addition for each year the interest on $96,296.27, the proceeds of sale of college lands, chapter 46, acts 1898, $5,777.77.]

Ibid., chapter 57: The board of control is hereby directed, subject to the approval of the governor, to purchase an artesian well-bering outfit, out of any money in the hands of said board, not to exceed $1,500, and that said outfit shall be used to sink wells on the farms now belonging to or to become the property of the State, and on rented farms, provided the owners shall pay for the same, or upon the farms of any citizen where the board is paid for the service by the citizen, when not otherwise needed by the State, and that the boards of trustees of the several State institutions, and especially of the lunatic asylum at Jackson, the State university at Oxford, the agricultural and mechanical college at Starkville, etc., are hereby authorized to contract immediately and pay out of their several appropriations, with the board of control, for the boring of such wells, at actual cost of the labor and material, but no cost for the use of the outfit, subject to the approval of the governor, for the sinking of wells at these several instutions.

Ibid., 1902, chapter 21: [Appropriates to agricultural and mechanical college $48.272.41, as support fund for 1902, and a like amount for 1903; appropriates also $56,500 for buildings; $23,230 for additional equipment; $3,000 for farmers' institutes; $2,000 for student labor account, and $100 for Y. M. C. A.]

Ibid., 1902, chapter 20: [Appropriates $26,320.14 for the purpose of reimbursing the trustees of the agricultural college for the excess of money spent by them in building and equipping the textile school."]

Ibid., 1902, chapter 20: [Appropriates to the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College $8,000, as support fund and $750 for repair of buildings for each of the years 1902 and 1903. Appropriates for 1902: For insurance, $2,250; for purchase of stock, $500; for completing and equipping new dormitory, $13,000; for shops and machinery and tools, $10,000.]

MISSOURI.

Constitution (1875), ARTICLE XI: SEC. 5. The general assembly shall, whenever the public school fund will permit and the actual necessity of the same may require, aid and maintain the State university, now established, with its present departments. The government of the State university shall be vested in a board of curators, to consist of nine members, to be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate.

SEC. 11. Neither the general assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporation shall ever make an appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever anything in aid of any religious creed, church, or sectarian purpose, or help to support or sustain any private or public school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other institution of learning controlled by any religious creed, church, or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of personal property or real estate ever be made by the State, or any county, city, town, or other municipal corporation for any religious creed, church, or sectarian purpose whatever.

[The following matter is taken, unless otherwise specified, from "The Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, 1899, Revised and Promulgated by the 40th General Assembly," 2 vols., Jefferson City, Mo.]

SEC. 10465. A university is hereby instituted in this State, the government whereof shall be vested in a board of curators.

SEC. 10466. The university is hereby incorporated and created a body politic, and shall be known by the name of The Curators of the University of the State of Missouri, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts; to make and use a common seal, and

to alter the same at pleasure; to take, purchase, and to sell, convey, and otherwise dispose of lands and chattels: Provided, That the curators shall not have power to sell or convey any land contained within the university campus.

SEC. 10467. The board of curators of the University of the State of Missouri shall hereafter consist of nine members, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, That not more than one person shall be appointed upon said board from the same Congressional district, and no person shall be appointed a curator who shall not have attained the age of 21 years, or who shall not be a citizen of the United States, and who shall not have been a resident of the State of Missouri two years next prior to his appointment. Not more than 5 curators shall belong to any one political party.

SEC. 10468. The term of service of the curators shall be six years, the terms of three expiring every two years, the first expiring occurring on the first day of January, 1901, and succeeding expirations of three members every two years thereafter. Said curators while attending the meetings of the board shall receive their actual expenses, which shall be paid out of the ordinary revenues of the university. SEC. 10469. The board of curators shall appoint annually three of their number to act as an executive board, who shall meet each month, for the purpose of auditing claims and attending to such other business as may be intrusted to them by the board of curators not inconsistent with this article. The members of the executive board shall receive $5 per day for each day they shall attend the monthly meetings, together with their actual expenses, to be paid as the expenses of the curators are paid. Said executive board shall be subject to change or removal at pleasure of the board of curators. The board of curators shall also appoint annually three of their number to act as an executive committee of the school of mines and metallurgy, with like powers and compensation as those of the executive board at Columbia. Said executive committee shall also be subject to change or removal at pleasure of the board of curators.

SEC. 10470. The governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, fill all vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of office of any curator, and he shall also fill all vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or removal, which may occur while the general assembly is not in session; but all such appointees shall continue in office only until the meeting of the general assembly next thereafter, and until their successors be appointed and qualified. All vacancies which may exist at or during the meeting of the biennial sessions of the general assembly, caused by death, resignation, or removal shall be filled in like manner as those created by the expiration of official terms, and shall be only for the unexpired time of the party whose vacancy is thereby filled.

SEC. 10471. All appointments to fill vacancies, except such as may be made to fill out unexpired terms, shall be for the term of six years, and until the successors of such appointees shall be appointed and qualified.

SEC. 10472. At all meetings of the board of curators seven members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 10473. The curators shall have power to appoint and remove, at discretion, the president, professors, instructors, and other employees of the university; to define and assign their powers and duties, and to fix their compensation.

SEC. 10474. The president and treasurer of the university, residing at Columbia, and the treasurer of the School of Mines and Metallurgy, residing at Rolla, shall, at each annual meeting of the board, prepare and submit to the board a carefully prepared statement of the probable amount of income, as near as may be, of the university and all its departments for the year following, and the curators shall thereupon make an estimate of the probable expenses of the institution and each of its departments for the ensuing year, based upon the statements above mentioned, and make the necessary appropriations to meet said expenses for the current year; and in no instance shall the board of curators create any indebtedness in any one year above what they can pay out of the annual income of said year.

SEC. 10475. The curators shall cause to be made annually a careful and complete inventory and appraisement of all property, real and personal, belonging to the university in every department thereof; and in order to preserve said property from waste or injury it shall be the duty of the board to prescribe such rules and regulations as shall secure a careful inspection of said property and comparison of the same with prior inventories.

SEC. 10476. No person who is related by blood or marriage to any member of the board of curators of the university shall be appointed to any position in the university as officer, member of any faculty, or employee.

SEC. 10477. There shall be two regular meetings of said board of curators in each year, to be holden in the university edifice, or in the town of Columbia. The