RHODE ISLAND.

RESOLUTIONS ASSIGNING TO BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE LAND SCRIP GRANTED BY THE UNITED STATES TO THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor, be, and hereby is, authorized and appointed on the part of the state, to transfer, assign and set over to the corporation of Brown University, in the city of Providence, the scrip now in the possession of the governor, or which may hereafter come in his possession from the government of the United States, under and by virtue of a resolution passed by this general assembly, at its present session, upon receiving from the said corporation or its duly authorized agent, the following stipulations; which stipulations shall be as and for a perpetual agreement, by and between said corporation and state as aforesaid, and shall be in form substantially as follows, that is to say: said corporation does hereby agree

1. To provide a college or department in said university, the leading object whereof shall be, without excluding other scientific and classic studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, in such manner as hereinafter stated, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.

2. To locate without unnecessary delay, and at their best discretion, the said scrip upon some of the public lands of the United States, properly open to be located upon, and from time to time to sell and dispose of the lands so to be located upon, so that the largest price can be obtained for the same.

3. To invest and to keep invested the proceeds of the said sales in stocks or securities of the United States or of this state; but if this should be impracticable, so that an income therefrom of at least five per centum per annum upon their par value could not be realized, then to invest such proceeds in some other safe stocks (the safety of which other stocks the university shall guarantee,) upon which an income of at least five per centum, as aforesaid, can be realized.

4. To pay all expenses of locating and selling said lands, and all taxes which may be assessed thereon, or upon the proceeds thereon.

5. To apply faithfully the income arising from the avails of the sales of said lands in endowing, maintaining and supporting a college in said university as aforesaid, for the objects as aforesaid, so that no portion of said proceeds or income therefrom shall be used in the erection, preservation, purchase, or repairing of any building or buildings, for the college or other purposes: provided, however, that a portion of said proceeds of said sales, not exceeding one-tenth part thereof, may, at the discretion of the corporation be expended according to said act of congress, in the purchase of lands for sites, or an experimental farm, whenever said corporation shall so determine.

6. To educate scholars, each at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, to the extent of the entire annual income from said proceeds, subject to the proviso as aforesaid; the governor and secretary of state, to have the right on or before commencement day of each year, and in conjunction with the president of the university, to nominate candidates for vacancies occurring in said college or department as aforesaid, at the beginning of each collegiate year; and students admittted to said college, and pursuing studies therein by virtue of said fund, are not to be excluded from the regular scientific and classic studies of said university, in entering and remaining thereat; and are to be graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy or Bachelor of Arts, or are to receive a certificate for a partial course, according as the case may be.

7. To assume upon itself all the responsibilities and duties which are imposed upon the state by the said act of congress; and also all the duties imposed upon colleges endowed under the provisions of said act, and to be entitled to all the privileges and immunities conferred thereby upon the state, and upon institutions endowed thereunder.

8. To make to the governor of the state an annual report, a copy of which shall be communicated to the general assembly, of all lands located and sold, until the whole is disposed of, the amount received for the same and how invested, and of the appropriations made of the proceeds therefrom, and stating the number of the students to whom the same has been applied, and of all the matters prescribed by said act of congress as aforesaid.

RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE NOMINATION OF STATE BENEFICIARIES TO BE EDUCATED AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.

RESOLVED: That the senators and representatives from the several towns in the general assembly for the time being, are constituted a board of commissioners, whose duty it shall be during the January session in each year, to present to the governor and secretary of state, the names of worthy young men from the several towns, to be educated as state beneficiaries in Brown University, according to the act of congress donating land to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. And the said commissioners are hereby instructed, after one candidate has been presented from each town in the state, (the order of the towns to be determined by lot,) to select the candidates as far as may be from the several towns in the ratio of their representation in the house of representatives, and from that class of persons who otherwise would not have the means of providing themselves with the like benefits; and that the governor and secretary of state be, and they are hereby, instructed to select candidates from the names presented, in such manner as that whenever for any reason any town shall not have received its just quota of those admitted to said university, such towns shall, in the nomination of subsequent candidates, have priority over those towns which have received their full quota.

VERMONT.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE VERMONT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

(Approved November 22, 1864.)

SECTION 1. Justin S. Morrill, Edwin Hammond, Roderick Richardson, Elijah Cleaveland, Seneca M. Dorr, Horace Herrick, Peter T. Washburn, Orville G. Wheeler, Treno W. Park, Lemuel H. Tabor, Horace Fairbanks, Samuel H. Stevens, George G. Benedict, Frederick Holbrook, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Vermont Agricultural College, the leading object of which 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, to be located as hereinafter provided; and they and their successors, and such as shall be duly elected trustees and members of said corporation, shall be and remain a body corporate by that name forever. The above named corporators shall be called together for their first meeting by the Governor, at such time and place as he shall select, and shall then be divided by lot into three classes; the first class, consisting of five members, shall vacate their office at the end of two years from the time of their election; the second class, consisting of five members, shall vacate their office at the end of four years from the time of their election; and the third class, consisting of four members, shall vacate their office at the end of six years from the time of their election; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature, at the expiration of the term of office of any of the above named corporators, to elect a person to supply the vacancy, whose term of office shall continue six years. And for the orderly conducting of the business of said corporation, the said trustees shall have power and authority, from time to time, as occasion may require, to elect a president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers of said corporation as may be found necessary, and to declare the duties and tenures of their respective offices; and whenever vacancies shall occur in the board of trustees, the legislature shall fill the same. Provided, that the number of members shall never be greater than fourteen, exclusive of the governor of the State and the president of the faculty, each of whom shall be, ex-officio, a member of said corporation. Provided, further, that all future elections or appointments to said board of trustees shall be made with special reference to preventing any religious denominational preponderance in said board.

§ 2. The said corporation shall have power to determine at what times and places their meetings shall be holden, and the manner of notifying the trustees to convene at such meetings; and also, from time to time, to elect a president of said college, and such professors, instructors and other officers of said college, as they shall judge most for the interest thereof; and to determine the duties, salaries, responsibilities and tenures of their several offices. And said corpora

tion are further empowered to purchase or erect and keep in repair such houses and other buildings as they shall judge necessary for said college; and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders and by-laws, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State, with reasonable penalties, for the good government of said college, and for the regulation of their own body; and also to determine and regulate the course of instruction in said college, and to confer such appropriate degrees as they may determine and prescribe. Provided, that no corporate business shall be transacted at any meeting, unless one half at least of the trustees are present.

§3. The said corporation may have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at pleasure; and said corporation may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal or mixed, and may take and hold in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other estate, real or personal."

§ 4. The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and personal, of which the said corporation shall be seized and possessed, shall be appropriated to the use of said college, in such manner as shall most effectually promote the objects declared in the first section of this act, and as may be recommended from time to time by said corporation.

§ 5. The legislature of this State may grant any further powers to, or alter, limit, annul or restrain any of the powers vested by this act in said corporation, as shall be found necessary to promote the best interest of said college, and may appoint overseers or visitors of said college, with all necessary powers for the better aid, preservation and government thereof; and the said corporation shall make an annual report of its condition, financial and otherwise, to the legislature at the opening of its session.

6. The board of trustees shall determine the location of said college, in some suitable place within this State, and may, in their discretion, purchase or obtain by gift, grant or otherwise, in connection therewith, a tract of land containing at least one hundred acres, to be used as an experimental farm, or otherwise, so as best to promote the objects of the institution. And they may also, in their discretion, make such provision for the manual labor of the students on said farm, as they shall deem reasonable.

§ 7. One-tenth of all the moneys which may be received by the State treasurer from the sale of land scrip, by virtue of the provisions of the one hundred and thirtieth chapter of the acts of the thirty-seventh Congress, at the second session thereof, approved July 2, A.D. 1862, and of the laws of this State, shall be paid to said college, and appropriated towards the purchase of said site or farm. Provided, said trustees shall determine to procure such farm; and provided further, that the said college shall first secure, by valid subscription or otherwise, the further sum of not less than one hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings thereon, providing libraries and apparatus, and defraying the necessary expenses of the college; and upon satisfactory evidence that this proviso has been complied with, the governor is authorized, from time to time, to draw his warrants therefor.

§ 8. When the said college shall have been duly organized, located and established, as, and for the purposes specified in this act, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer each year, on the warrant of the governor, the

annual interest or income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the act of Congress named in the seventh section of this act, and the laws of this State accepting the provisious thereof and relating to the

same.

§ 9. In the event of a dissolution of said corporation by its voluntary act, at any time, the real and personal property belonging to the corporation shall revert and belong to the State, to be held by the same and be disposed of as it may see fit, in the advancement of education in agriculture and the mechanic The legislature shall have authority, at any time, to withhold the portion of the interest on income from said fund provided in this act, whenever the corporation shall cease or fail to maintain a college within the provisions and spirit of this act and the act of Congress before mentioned, or for any cause which they deem sufficient.

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§ 10. This act shall be in operation until said corporation shall have procured valid and solvent subscriptions, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, to be applied to the endowment or other uses of said college; and said corporation shall cease to exist on the 15th day of November, 1865, unless the foregoing subscription shall have been obtained.

§ 11. This act shall be under the control of all future legislatures, to alter, amend or repeal.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE UNIVERSITY of Vermont AND STATE AGRICULTURAL

COLLEGE.

(Approved November 9, 1865.)

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont : SECTION 1. The University of Vermont and the Vermont Agricultural College, with such other corporations as may hereafter become united therewith, are hereby united and constituted a body corporate, by the name of the "University of Vermont and State Agricultural College," for the purpose of carrying out the objects contemplated in their respective charters, and, as such, shall be and remain a body corporate forever, and as such may hold and convey real and personal estate, have a common seal, and have all the rights and powers incident to corporations.

§ 2. Each of the two institutions hereby united shall, on or before the fifteenth day of December next, elect by ballot nine of their number, who, with their successors, shall thereafter constitute its board of trustees, and likewise constitute a part of the board of trustees of the corporation hereby created, and the nine trustees of the said Agricultural College, so elected, shall be divided by lot into three classes: the first class, consisting of three members, shall vacate their office at the end of two years from their election; the second class, consisting of three members, shall vacate their office at the end of four years from the time of their election; and the third class, consisting of three members, shall vacate their office at the end of six years from the time of their election; and it shall be the duty of the legislature, at its session next preceding the time of the expiration of the terms of office of said trustees, to elect persons to supply such vacancies, whose terms of office shall continue six years, and it shall