honorary de

certificates

on examina

§ II General examinations, credentials and degrees. The Re- May confer gents may confer by diploma under their seal such honorary degrees grees, and as they may deem proper, and may establish examinations as to and degrees attainments in learning, and may award and confer suitable cer- tion tificates, diplomas and degrees on persons who satisfactorily meet the requirements prescribed.

academic

and college

§ 12 Academic examinations. The Regents shall establish in the Standards for academies of the University, examinations in studies furnishing a graduation suitable standard of graduation from academies and of admission admission to colleges, and certificates or diplomas shall be conferred by the Regents on students who satisfactorily pass such examinations.

for Fees limited the demic and $5

to $1 for aca

§ 13 Admission and fees. Any person shall be admitted to these Open to all examinations who shall conform to the rules and pay the fees prescribed by the Regents, and said fees shall not exceed $1 each academic branch, or $5 for each higher branch in which candidate is examined; and all fees received may be used by the branches Regents for expenses of examinations.

for higher

cooperate in

extension

§ 14 Extension of educational facilities. The Regents may co- Regents may operate with other agencies in bringing within the reach of the educational people at large increased educational opportunities and facilities, by stimulating interest, recommending methods, designating suitable teachers and lecturers, lending necessary books and apparatus, conducting examinations and granting credentials and otherwise aiding such work. No money appropriated by the State not to state for this work shall be expended in paying for services or expenses or expenses of teachers or lecturers.

pay teachers'

fees

literary prop

State Library;

§ 15 State Library; how constituted. All books, pamphlets, All state manuscripts, records, archives and maps, and all other property erty part of appropriate to a general library, if owned by the state and not exceptions placed in other custody by law, shall be in charge of the Regents and constitute the State Library.

records more

"on file" are

§ 16 Manuscripts and records "on file." Manuscript or printed Ms and papers of the Legislature, usually termed "on file," and which than 5 years shall have been on file more than five years in custody of the part of State Library Senate and Assembly clerks, and all public records of the state not placed in other custody by a specific law shall be part of the State Library and shall be kept in rooms assigned and suitably arranged for that purpose by the trustees of the Capitol. The To be made Regents shall cause such papers and records to be so classified and able arranged that they can be easily found. No paper or record shall be removed from such files except on a resolution of the Senate

easily avail

To be re

moved only

and Assembly withdrawing them for a temporary purpose, and in by Senate and case of such removal a description of the paper or record and the

Assembly

resolution

Library to be open at least

name of the person removing the same shall be entered in a book provided for that purpose, with the date of its delivery and return. § 17 Use. The State Library shall be kept open not less than 8 hours daily eight hours every week day in the year, and members of the Legislature, judges of the Court of Appeals, justices of the Supreme Court, and heads of state departments may borrow from the library books for use in Aibany, but shall be subject to such restrictions and penalties as may be prescribed by the Regents for the safety or greater usefulness of the library. Others shall be entitled to use or borrow books from the library only on such conditions as the Regents shall prescribe.

State officers may borrow

Other bor

rowers

$15,000 annually for books

Charge of cer

tain state publications

Duplicate dep't in State Library

Laws of 1891, ch.377, §1, makes the first appropriation for the state medical library and §2 embodies the conditions of the gift by the Albany Medical College of its library, as follows:

§2 The said medical library shall be a part of the New York State Library under the same government and regulations and shall be open for consultation to every citizen of the state at all hours when the state law library is open and shall be available for borrowing books to every accredited physician residing in the State of New York, who shall conform to the rules made by the Regents for insuring proper protection and the largest usefulness to the people of the said medical library.

§ 18 Book appropriation. The Treasurer shall pay annually to the Regents, on warrant of the Comptroller, $15,000 for books, serials and binding for the State Library.

§ 19 Duplicate department. The Regents shall have charge of the preparation, publication and distribution, whether by sale, exchange or gift, of the colonial history, natural history, and all. other state publications not otherwise assigned by law. To guard against waste or destruction of state publications, and to provide for completion of sets to be permanently preserved in American and foreign libraries, the Regents shall maintain a duplicate department to which each state department, bureau, board or commission shall send not less than five copies of each of its publications when issued, and after completing its distribution, any remaining copies which it no longer requires. The above, with any other publications not needed in the State Library, shall be the duplicate department, and rules for sale, exchange Receipts to be or distribution from it shall be fixed by the Regents, who shall use all receipts from such exchanges or sales for expenses and for increasing the State Library. [As amended by laws of 1895, ch.859, §19 and 1901, ch.507, §14]

used for li

brary

other ar

transferred to

§ 20 Transfers from state officers. The librarian of any library Books, papers owned by the state, or the officer in charge of any state depart-ticles may be ment, bureau, board, commission or other office, may, with the State Library approval of the Regents, transfer to the permanent custody of the State Library or Museum any books, papers, maps, manuscripts, specimens or other articles which, because of being duplicates or for other reasons, will in his judgment be more useful to the state in the State Library or Museum than if retained in his keeping.

clude sum

ports of other libraries

§ 21 Other libraries owned by the state. The report of the State Library State Library to the Legislature shall include a statement of the total report to innumber of volumes or pamphlets, the number added during the marized re year, with a summary of operations and conditions, and any needed recommendations for safety or usefulness for each of the other libraries owned by the state, the custodian of which shall furnish such information or facilities for inspection as the Regents may require for making this report. Each of these libraries shall be under the sole control now provided by law, but for the annual report of the total number of books owned by or bought each year by the state, it shall be considered as a branch of the State Library and shall be entitled to any facilities for ex- Such libraries change of duplicates, interlibrary loans or other privileges prop- privileges of erly accorded to a branch.

to have all

branches

scientific offi

to

general mu

seum

§ 22 State Museum; how constituted. All scientific specimens Includes work and collections, works of art, objects of historic interest and simi- of all state lar property appropriate to a general museum, if owned by the cers state and not placed in other custody by a specific law, shall con- Includes state stitute the State Museum, and one of its officers shall annually in- property ap spect all such property not kept in the State Museum rooms, and the annual report of the museum to the Legislature shall include summaries of such property, with its location, and any needed recommendations as to its safety or usefulness. Unless otherwise provided by law, the State Museum shall include the work of the Exceptions State Geologist and Paleontologist, the State Botanist and the Summarized State Entomologist, who, with their assistants, shall be included in reports the scientific staff of the State Museum. [As amended by laws of 1896, ch.493, §1]

§2 The executive committee of the New York State Agricultural Society may have the free use of said cabinets of natural history, and all the specimens therein deposited, at any and all times, for such purpose as such committee shall desire, subject to the direction and regulations of the Regents of the University; provided that such committee shall not remove said cabinets, or any of the specimens therein deposited, from the rooms in which they shall be deposited by the Regents of the University.

Collections during official term belong to museum

University includes all incorporated

institutions for higher education

§ 23 Collections made by the staff. Any scientific collection made by a member of the museum staff during his term of office shall, unless otherwise authorized by resolution of the Regents, belong to the state and form part of the State Museum.

§ 24 Institutions in the University. The institutions of the University shall include all institutions of higher education which are now or may hereafter be incorporated in this state, and such other libraries, museums or other institutions for higher education as may, in conformity with the ordinances of the Regents, after official inspection, be admitted to or incorporated by the Regents may University. The Regents may exclude from such membership any institution failing to comply with law or with any ordinance or rule of the University.

exclude from membership

Institutions to be inspected and to report annually under oath

charter or

§ 25 Visitation and reports. The Regents or their committees or officers shall visit, examine into and inspect the condition and operation of every institution and department in the University, and require of each an annual report verified by oath of its presiding officer, and giving information concerning trustees, faculty, students, instruction, equipment, methods, and operations, with such other information and in such form as may be prescribed by the Regents who shall annually report to the Legislature the condition of the University and of each of its institutions and departments, with any further information or recommendations which they shall deem it desirable to submit; and such parts of their report as they shall deem necessary for use in advance of the annual volume, may be printed by the state printer as Suspension of bulletins. For refusal or continued neglect on the part of any rights for neg- institution in the University to make the report required by this section, or for violation of any law, the Regents may suspend the charter or any of the rights and privileges of such institution. 1§ 26 Apportionment of state money. The Treasurer shall pay annually, on warrant of the Comptroller, $12,000 from the income of the literature fund, $34,000 from the income of the United States deposit fund, and $60,000 from the general fund, according to an apportionment to be made for the benefit of the academies. of the University by the Regents in accordance with their rules, and authenticated by their seal, provided that the said $60,000 from the general fund shall be used only for academic departments of union schools, and that no academy shall share in such portionment apportionment unless the Regents shall be satisfied by personal inspection by one of their officers, the necessary expenses of which

lect to report

Academic

und of

$106,000 ap

propriated annually

Restriction

Conditions of sharing in ap

1Superseded by laws of 1905, chapter 699.

inspection may be paid out of said money, that it has suitable provision for buildings, furniture, apparatus, library and collections, and has complied with all their requirements; and provided that books, apparatus, scientific collections or other educational equipment furnished by the state or bought with money apportioned from state funds shall be subject to return to the Regents whenever the charter of the school shall be revoked or it shall discontinue its educational operations.

Capital of literature and United States deposit funds must be kept inviolate; revenue of the literature fund must be applied to support of academies; no state funds to be paid to any institution of learning, "wholly or in part under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine is taught," [3, Constitution, art.9, 83-4; L. 1873, ch.642, §7. Literature fund, and how invested, R. S. pt1, ch.9, tit.3, §1-2. L. 1895, ch. 341, provided for an ad-litional $100 to each school of academic grade, and for increasing the fund each year to keep pace with growth in number of schools and students. L. 1901, ch.498, fixed at $350,000 the total annual grants to academic schools. For establishment and regulation of academic departments of union schools, see Consolidated school law, 1894, ch.556, tit.8, §15, sub.§10; §26-27, 35. For other details as to such expenditures, see L. 1873, ch.642.

Grants subject to return

incorporate

tional institu

ciation

§ 27 Charters. The Regents may, by an instrument under their Regents may seal and recorded in their office, incorporate any university, col- any educa lege, academy, library, museum, or other institution or associa- tion or assotion for the promotion of science, literature, art, history or other department of knowledge, under such name, with such number of trustees or other managers, and with such powers, privileges and duties, and subject to such limitations and restrictions in all respects as the Regents may prescribe in conformity to law. [As amended by laws of 1895, ch.859, §2]

See also p.30, Constitution, art.8, §1; p.30, Membership corporations law, 1895, ch.559, art.2, §30, repealing all powers to incorporate scientific, literary and similar institutions or associations except by the Regents under this section.

An academy incorporated for the promotion of literature and authorized to educate males and females, may establish separate departments for each, and, under laws of 1840, ch.318, and laws of 1841, ch.261, take and hold real estate in trust to be used for the benefit of either department. [Adams v. Perry, 43 N. Y. 487]

provisional

§ 28 Provisional charters. On evidence satisfactory to the Re- Limitations of gents that the conditions for an absolute charter will be met charters within a prescribed time, they may grant a provisional charter which shall be replaced by an absolute charter when the conditions have been fully met; otherwise, after the specified time, on notice from the Regents to this effect, the provisional charter shall