§ 1032. Extent of farm and grounds; special constables. The farm and grounds occupied by said corporation, whereupon its buildings are erected, or shall be erected in such manner and to such extent as the trustees may from time to time direct and provide for, shall consist of not less than two hundred acres. For the protection of the grounds, farm buildings and property of the university, the supervisor of the town of Ithaca may appoint, upon the recommendation of the board of trustees of said Cornell university, not more than three suitable persons, as special constables, who shall have and exercise within the boundaries of such university grounds, the powers and duties of constables of towns, and whose compensation shall be regulated and paid by said board of trustees of the university.

§ 1033. Objects and powers of the corporation. The leading object of said corporation shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. But such other branches of science and knowledge may be embraced in the plan of instruction and investigation pertaining to the university as the trustees may deem useful and proper. Said university is authorized to establish faculties, departments and branches and carry on its work at any places in this state and to confer any and all literary, scientific, technical and professional degrees, and in testimony thereof award certificates and diplomas. Persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments.

§ 1034. Extent to which property may be held. The said corporation may take and hold real and personal property to such an amount as may be or become necessary for the proper conduct and support of the several departments of education heretofore established or hereafter to be established by its board of trustees, and such property real and personal as has been, or may hereafter be given to said corporation by gift, grant, devise or bequest in trust or otherwise, for the use and purposes permitted by its charter, and in cases of trusts so created, the several trust estates shall be kept distinct, and the interest or income shall be faithfully applied to the purposes of such trust, in accordance with the provisions of the act or instrument by which the respective trusts were created.

§ 1035. Trustees shall make reports; university subject to visitation of regents. The trustees of said university shall make all the reports and perform such other acts as may be necessary to conform to the act of congress entitled "An act donating public lands to the several states and territories. which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts" approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. The said university shall be subject to visitation of the regents of the university of the state of New York.

§ 1036. Restrictions on alienation of property. The said university grounds, farm, work-shops, fixtures, machinery, apparatus, cabinets and library, shall not be incumbered, aliened or otherwise disposed of by the said trustees, or by any other person, except on terms such as the legislature of the state of New York shall have approved, and any act of the said trustees, or that of any other person which shall have that effect, shall be void.

§ 1037. State scholarships in Cornell university. The several departments of study in Cornell university shall be open to applicants for admission thereto at the lowest rates of expense consistent with its welfare and efficiency, and without distinction as to rank, class, previous occupation or locality. But, with a view to equalize its advantages to all parts of the state, the institution shall receive students to the number of one each year from each assembly district in this state, to be selected as hereinafter provided, and shall give them instruction in any or in all the prescribed branches of study in any department of said institution, free of any tuition fee or of any incidental charges to be paid to said university, unless such incidental charges shall have been made to compensate for materials consumed by said students or for damages needlessly or purposely done by them to the property of said university. The said free instruction shall, moreover, be accorded to said students in consideration of their superior ability, and as a reward for superior scholarship in the academies and public schools of this state. Said students shall be selected as the legislature may from time to time direct, and until otherwise ordered as follows:

1. A competitive examination, under the direction of the education department, shall be held at the county court-house in each county of the state, upon the first Saturday in June, in each year, by the city superintendents and the school commissioners of the county.

2. None but pupils of at least sixteen years of age and of six months' standing in the common schools or academies of the state, during the year immediately preceding the examination, shall be eligible.

3. Such examination shall be upon subjects designated by the president of the university and upon question papers prepared under the direction of the commissioner of education.

4. The city superintendents and school commissioners of each county shall immediately after the close of the examination forward to the commissioner of education all answer papers submitted by candidates in such examination, all statements of candidates and a report of the names of candidates in such form as the commissioner of education shall require.

5. In case any candidate who may become entitled to a scholarship shall fail to claim the same, or shall fail to pass the entrance examination at such university, or shall die, resign, absent himself without leave, be expelled or, for any other reason, shall abandon his right to or vacate such scholarship either before or after entering thereupon, then the candidate certified to be next entitled in the same county shall become entitled to the same. In case any scholarship belonging to any county shall not be claimed. by any candidate resident in that county, the commissioner of education may fill the same by appointing thereto some candidate first entitled to a vacancy in some other county. In any such case, the president of the university shall at once notify the commissioner of education and that officer shall immediately notify the candidate next entitled to the vacant scholarship of his right to the

same.

6. Any state student who shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the president of the university that he requires leave of absence, for the purpose of earning funds with which to defray his living expenses *which in attendance, may, in the discretion of the president, be granted such leave of absence, and may be allowed a period not exceeding six years from the commencement thereof for the completion of his course at said university.

7. In certifying the qualifications of the candidates, preference shall be given, where other qualifications are equal, to the children of those who have died in the military or naval service of the United States.

8. Notices of the time and place of the examinations shall be given in all the schools having pupils eligible thereto, prior to

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the first day of January in each year, and shall be published once a week, for three weeks, in at least two newspapers in each county immediately prior to the holding of such examinations. The cost of publishing such notices and the necessary expenses of such examination shall be a charge upon each county, respectively, and shall be audited and paid by the board of supervisors thereof.

9. The commissioner of education shall attend to the giving and publishing of the notices hereinbefore provided for. He may, in his discretion, direct that the examination in any county may be held at some other time and place than that above specified, in which case it shall be held as directed by him. He shall keep full records in his department of all candidates attending such examinations and shall notify candidates of their rights under this chapter. He shall determine any controversies which may arise under the provisions of this chapter. He is hereby charged with the general supervision and direction of all matters in connection with the filling of such scholarships. Students enjoying the privileges of free scholarships shall, in common with the other students of said university, be subject to all the examinations, rules and requirements of the board of trustees or faculty of said university, except as herein provided.

§ 1038. New York state veterinary college. 1. The state veterinary college, established by chapter one hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, shall continue to be known as the New York state veterinary college. The object of said veterinary college shall be: To conduct investigations as to the nature, prevention and cure of all diseases of animals, including such as are communicable to man and such as cause epizootics among live stock; to investigate the economical questions which will contribute to the more profitable breeding, rearing and utilization of animals; to produce reliable standard preparations of toxins, antitoxins and other products to be used in the diagnosis, prevention and cure of diseases and in the conducting of sanitary work by approved modern methods; and to give instruction in the normal structure and function of the animal body, in the pathology, prevention and treatment of animal diseases, and in all matters pertaining to sanitary science as applied to live stock and correlatively to the human family.

2. All buildings, furniture, apparatus and other property heretofore or hereafter erected or furnished by the state for such veterinary college shall be and remain the property of the state.

The Cornell university shall have the custody and control of said property, and shall, with whatever state moneys may be received for the purpose, administer the said veterinary college, with authority to appoint investigators, teachers and other officers, to lay out lines of investigation, to prescribe the requirements for admission and the course of study and with such other power and authority as may be necessary and proper for the due administration of such veterinary college.

3. Said university shall receive no income, profit or compensation therefor, but all moneys received from state appropriations for the said veterinary college or derived from other sources in the course of the administration thereof, shall be kept by said university in a separate fund from the moneys of the university, and shall be used exclusively for said New York state veterinary college. Such moneys as may be appropriated to be paid to the Cornell university by the state in any year, to be expended by said university in the administration of said veterinary college, shall be payable to the treasurer of Cornell university in three equal payments to be made on the first day of October, the first day of January, and the first day of April in such year, and within thirty days after the expiration of the period for which each instalment is received the said university shall furnish the comptroller of the state of New York satisfactory vouchers for the expenditure of such instalment.

4. The said university shall expend such moneys and use such property of the state in administering said veterinary college, and shall report to the governor during the month of January in each year, a detailed statement of such expenditures and of the general operations of the said veterinary college.

5. No tuition fee shall be required of a student pursuing the regular veterinary course, who for a year or more immediately preceding his admission to said veterinary college shall have been a resident of this state. The tuition fees charged to other students. and all other fees and charges in said veterinary college shall be fixed by Cornell university, and the moneys so received shall be expended for the current expenses of the said veterinary college.

§ 1039. New York state college of agriculture. The state college of agriculture, established by chapter six hundred and fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred and four, shall continue to be known as the New York state college of agriculture at Cornell university. The object of said college of agriculture