education and inability to provide his or her own means therefor, donate to such student all text-books he or she may need, and by a two-thirds vote may appropriate money to pay other expenses for such student, provided such student will render an immediate equivalent in personal service for such appropriation or give a sufficient obligation that he or she will reimburse the regents within five years. SEC. 5221. No person shall because of age, sex, color, or nationality be deprived of the privileges of this institution. Provision shall be made for the education of females apart from male students in separate apartments or buildings: Provided, That persons of different sexes of the same proficiency of study may attend the regular college lectures together.

SEC. 5222. The regents shall provide a rule for attendance upon the agricultural college and civil engineering and scientific courses by persons whose employments are such as to allow of their pursuit of study only a portion of the year.

SEC. 5223. The board of regents shall, at least ten days prior to the meeting of each regular session of the legislature, transmit to the governor, to accompany his message, a printed report of all their doings since their last report, giving in detail all receipts and expenditures of money and furnishing an estimate of future income and expenses, a catalogue of professors, officers, and students for the year, with such other information and recommendations as will apprise the legislature fully of the conditions and wants of the university.

SEC. 5224. The several funds for the support of the university shall be constituted and designated as follows: (1) The permanent endowment fund; (2) the temporary university fund; (3) the university cash fund; (4) the United States "Morrill fund;" (5) the United States experiment station fund. The permanent endowment fund shall be kept in two accounts: In the first account, all moneys derived as principal from the sale of lands donated to the State by the United States (to establish and endow a State university) under the act of Congress of April 19, 1864; in the second account, all moneys derived as principal from the sales of lands donated to the State by the United States to provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts by an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862. All moneys acquired by the university by donation or bequest (including money derived as principal from the sale of lands or other property so acquired), where no particular object or purpose is specified by the donor or devisor, shall belong to either one of the two accounts of said permanent funds, as the board of regents may determine and order. Donations or bequests made for the benefit of the university (including moneys derived as principal from the sale of lands or other property so acquired) with particular objects or uses specified, and the interest or income of which only is to be used, shall belong to either of the said two accounts of the permanent fund, as the board of regents may determine and order. The interest and income of donations made without special objects or uses specified may be used and applied by the board of regents to any needs of the university. The interest and income of donations made with particular objects and uses specified shall be applied by the board of regents to such particular objects and uses only. All moneys belonging to the permanent university fund shall be invested in the manner now provided by law for the investment of the permanent school fund of the State, in the same kind of securities and by the same officers charged with that duty by law. The permanent endowment fund shall never be appropriated by the legislature nor be expended for any purpose whatsoever. The temporary university fund shall consist of the proceeds of the investments of the permanent fund; of the rental of the university and agricultural college lands leased, and the interest upon deferred payments on sales of the lands aforesaid; of the rentals or income of lands or other property donated without particular objects or uses being specified, and a tax of 1 mill upon the dollar of valuation of the grand assessment roll of the State, which tax shall be levied in the year 1899 and annually thereafter. All moneys accruing to this fund are hereby appropriated for the maintenance of the university, including buildings and permanent improvements, and the same may be applied by the board of regents to any and all university needs except the income from donations made for particular purposes, which income shall be used and applied as hereinbefore specified only. The university cash fund shall consist of the matriculation and diploma fees, registration fees, laboratory fees, tuition fees, summer "session" or school fees, and all other moneys or fees collected from students by the authority of the board of regents for university purposes. To this fund shall belong also all moneys received from sales of live stock, farm products, dairy school products, or other like income from the experiment-station farm. The moneys acerning to this fund shall be used for the following purposes exclusively: The matriculation and diploma fees, for the purchase of books for the university libraries; the registration and summer school fees, to assist the maintenance of

the summer school, school of agriculture, or other special schools; the laboratory fees, for laboratory expenses and the purchase of laboratory apparatus and supplies; the tuition fees, for instruction in and expenses of the various colleges or schools for which the same are collected; the income from the farm, for the general expense and up keep of the farm, its stock and equipment, farm labor, and minor repairs to farm property. All moneys acerning to the university cash fund are hereby appropriated to the specific uses hereinbefore mentioned, and shall at all times be subject to the orders of the board of regents accordingly: Provided, That no warrant shall be issued against said fund unless there is money in the hands of the State treasurer sufficient to pay the same. The board of regents shall cause all moneys which are received by its authority at the university from students thereof for any purpose mentioned in this chapter, also all moneys received at the university by the authority of said board from sales of farm products, stock, or other property, to be paid over from time to time as the same are received to the State treasurer, to be placed to the credit of the proper fund: Provided, That the said board of regents may retain in its possession until the close of the summer school in each year a sufficient sum out of said moneys to make settlement with students having money on deposit for expenses in the various laboratories, to make equitable adjustment with students who, having paid tuition or other fees in advance, may be necessarily called away from the institution for an indefinite period, and to provide against other like contingencies. The said board of regents may require its secretary, in addition to his other duties, to perform all acts necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section relating to the university cash fund and the moneys belonging thereto. The United States Morrill fund" shall consist of all moneys appropriated by the United States to this State for its university to aid instruction and to furnish the facilities for instruction in certain branches in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890. The said fund shall be applied exclusively to the uses and purposes prescribed by the act or acts of Congress relating thereto, and said fund is hereby appropriated accordingly, and shall at [all] times be subject to the orders of the board of regents for the purpose specified by act of Congress only. The agricultural experiment station fund shall consist of all moneys which may come into the possession of the State treasurer on and after July 1, 1899, accruing under an act of Congress approved March 2, 1887, entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and the acts supplementary thereto;" also all moneys which may hereafter be received by virtue of any act of Congress supplemental to said agricultural experiment station act and for the same purposes. The said experiment station fund is hereby appropriated to be applied exclusively to the uses and objects designated by the said act or acts of Congress relating thereto, and the same shall at all times be subject to the orders of the board of regents for expenditure for said uses only. The State treasurer shall be the custodian of all the funds of the university. Disbursements from the four funds last named herein shall be made in accordance with the provisions of law relating to the disbursement of university funds in the hands of the State treasurer as provided by law.

SEC. 5226. The regents shall meet at least twice in each year at the university building. They shall receive for their services no compensation, but they may be reimbursed their actual expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.

SEC. 5227. No superstructural work upon any building for the university shall be commenced until the designs and plans therefor shall have been submitted to the board of regents by the commissioners for public buildings, and the architect thereof shall be required, before allowing any such superstructure to be erected, to make such alterations in the plans and specifications as may be directed by a majority of the regents.

SEC. 5228. The regents shall have power to enact laws for the government of the university; to elect a chancellor and the prescribed number of professors and tutors, and a steward; to prescribe the duties of all the professors and officers, and to fix the compensation. They shall have power to remove the chancellor, and any professor or tutor, when the interests of the university shall require it. SEC. 5229. The office of the treasurer of the university is hereby abolished, and the State treasurer is made custodian of the funds, to whom the present treasurer of the university shall turn over, within sixty days, all moneys, securities, books, and papers pertaining to that office.

SEC. 5230. Disbursements from the university fund shall be made by the State treasurer upon warrants drawn by the auditor, who shall issue warrants upon

certificates issued by the board of regents, signed by the secretary and president. All money accruing to the university fund is hereby appropriated to the use of the State university.

Sec. 5232. All male students now attending or who may hereafter attend the University of Nebraska, and who are required by the rules and regulations that are or may be established by the board of regents of the university for the government of the military department to attend upon the studies or other exercises of said department, shall be organized under the form of the battalion into a body which shall be known and styled the "university cadets.”

SEC. 5233. The officers of the cadet battalion for duty at and while in attendance upon the university shall be appointed by the commandant in charge of the department, by detail of the General Government, and they shall be directly responsible to him in the discharge of all their duties as such officers.

SEC. 5234. All persons holding appointments under the commandant of the military department of the university as officers of the cadet battalion at the time of their graduation from the university, between and including the ranks of second lieutenant and colonel, shall be certified with their proper rank to the governor of the State by the military officer in charge and the chancellor of the university, and thereupon the governor is authorized and directed to issue his commission in due form to all such persons so certified to him. All persons so commissioned by the governor shall hold their commissions as retired officers of the university cadets, liable to be called into service by the governor in case of invasion, insurrection, or rebellion, in the same manner as the State militia.

SEC. 5235. The adjutant-general of the State shall issue such arms, munitions, accouterments, tents, and equipments for the temporary or permanent use of the university cadets as the board of regents may require and the governor approve. All property so issued and not intended merely for temporary use, or for consumption or expenditure, shall be receipted for to the adjutant-general by the chancellor or other proper officer of the university, and the same shall be subject to return upon demand of the adjutant-general whenever the necessities of this State require.

SEC. 5236. The selection of officers of the university cadet battalion for duty during the attendance upon the institution shall be made upon a basis involving both scholarship and capacity and fitness for command, and according to such rules and regulations as the board of regents may prescribe. The board of regents shall make all needful rules and regulations to carry into effect the purposes of this act consistent with the constitution and laws of the State.

SEC. 5237. The commandant or officer in charge of the military department of the university shall make quarterly reports to the adjutant-general of the State, showing the number, organization, discipline, and equipment of the university cadets.

SEC. 5238. Whereas the Forty-ninth Congress of the United States, at its second ression, passed an act commonly known as the "Hatch bill," to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act of July 2, 1862, and the acts supplementary thereto; and whereas said act of Congress provides among other things that it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds: the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of foods for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese, and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories; and whereas the said act of Congress declares that a leading object of the establishment of the said experiment stations is to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, and prescribes methods to this end, and also conditions and relations which are to be maintained between the United States and the institutions of learning established in the several States, and which are organized under the land-grant of 1862; and provides further that the grants

of money authorized by the said act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants; and whereas the University of Nebraska, in the State of Nebraska, has established and maintained a college or department of agriculture, known and designated as the "industrial college," in accordance with the provisions of said land grant of 1862; and whereas the act of the Forty-ninth Congress appropriates to this State the sum of $15,000 per annum for the purposes and upon the conditions therein set forth, the same to be paid to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing board of said college to receive the same; and whereas the governor of this State has presented to the legislature his special message, with recommendations relating to the subject-matter hereof: Therefore,

SEC. 5239. That full and complete acceptance, ratification, and assent is hereby made and given by the State of Nebraska to all of the provisions, terms, grants, and conditions and purposes of the grant made and prescribed by the said act of the Congress of the United States to establish agricultural experiment stations in the several States.

SEC. 5240. Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States approved August 30, 1890, there is appropriated to this State, for the use and benefit and the more complete endowment and support of the educational institution therein described, the sum of $15,000 for the year ending June 30, 1890, $16,000 for the year ending June 30, 1891, and so on until the sum of $25,000 is reached, at which lastnamed amount said Congressional appropriation is thereafter to remain fixed annually; and whereas it is provided by said act of Congress that the money thereby appropriated shall be applied to the more complete endowment and maintenance in the several States and Territories of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, which now are or may be hereafter established in accordance with an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862 (wherein no distinction on account of race or color is made in the admission of students), and that said money shall be applied only to instruction in agriculture. the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life and to the facilities for such instruction;" and whereas it is provided by said act of Congress that "no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings," and that if said moneys be diminished or lost they shall be replaced by the State or Territory to which they belong, and that the grants of money authorized by said act of Congress are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants (or upon the assent of the governor thereof during the recess of the legislature); and whereas it is provided by said act of Congress that the moneys thereby appropriated shall be paid from time to time to the State or Territorial treasurer or other officer who may be designated by law to receive the same, who shall, upon the order of the trustees of the college described in said act, immediately pay the same over to the treasurer of the educational institution entitled to receive the same, and whereas the college of agriculture and the mechanic arts (now designated by law as the industrial college) of the University of Nebraska is the college now existing in this State organized under the provisions of the act of Congress of 1862, and thereby entitled to receive the moneys appropriated by the said act of Congress of August 30, 1890; and whereas the treasurer of the State of Nebraska has received the sum of $15,000, the first installment of money appropriated under the said act of Congress last named, in pursuance of the assent of the governor: Therefore,

SEC. 5241. That full and complete acceptance, ratification, and assent is hereby made and given by the State of Nebraska to all and every one of the grants, purposes, terms, and conditions set forth in an act of the Congress of the United States approved August 30, 1890.

SEC. 5242. That all moneys that now are or may hereafter be received by the State treasurer or other State officer, in pursuance and by virtue of the said act of Congress, are hereby specifically appropriated and set apart solely for the more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of the college for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now existing in this State under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and designated by law as the industrial college of the University of Nebraska, and all of said moneys shall be immediately paid over by said treasurer to the authorities of said college, hereinafter designated, without further warrant or authority than is contained herein.

SEC. 5243. That for all intents and purposes of this act and of the said act of Congress, and to carry the latter into full effect in this State, the board of regents of the University of Nebraska shall be the trustees of the college," described in

the said act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, and referred to in the title of this act, and such fiscal officer as the said board of regents may name and designate and appoint to receive and disburse said moneys under their orders shall, for all intents and purposes of this act and of the said act of Congress last mentioned, be the treasurer of the said college, and to this officer the State treasurer shall immediately pay over, upon the order of the said board of regents, all moneys which are now in his hands, or which may be hereafter received by virtue of the said act of Congress for the use and benefit of said college. The said board of regents are hereby authorized and empowered to make such orders and regulations for the security, control, management, and disbursement of the said moneys as to them shall seem wise and proper and for the best interests of the college.

SEC. 5244. That all moneys that may be received by the State treasurer, or other State officer, in pursuance and by virtue of an act of the Congress of the United States approved August 30, 1890, shall be immediately upon the receipt thereof paid over by said treasurer, or other officer, to the officer authorized to receive the same by the board of regents of the University of Nebraska, without further warrant or authority than is herein contained, in accordance with an act of the legislature of the State.

SEC. 21. That for the furtherance and promotion of the agricultural and horticultural interests of this State two experiment stations shall be established, one at or near Culbertson, Hitchcock County, and one at or near Ogalalla, Keith County, which stations shall be under the control and management of the State board of agriculture.

[The other sections of this act relate to the organization and object of these stations.]

SEC. 720. The secretary of the board of regents of the State university shall give bond, with penalties, for $10,000.

SEC. 4955. The State university and State agricultural college shall be united as one educational institution, and shall be located upon a reservation selected by said commissioners in said "Lincoln," and the necessary buildings shall be erected thereon as soon as funds can be secured by the sale of lands donated to the State for that purpose or from other sources.

NEVADA.

Constitution, Article XI: SEC. 4. The legislature shall provide for the establishment of a State university, which shall embrace departments for agriculture, mechanic arts, and mining, to be controlled by a board of regents, whose duties shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 5. The legislature shall have power to establish normal schools and such different grades of schools, from the primary department to the university, as in their discretion they may deem necessary, and all professors in said university or teachers in said schools, of whatever grade, shall be required to take and subscribe to the oath prescribed by this constitution. No professor or teacher who fails to comply with the provisions of any law framed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be entitled to receive any portion of the public moneys set apart for school purposes.

SEC. 6. The legislature shall provide a special tax, which shall not exceed 2 mills on the dollar of all taxable property in the State, in addition to the other means provided for the support and maintenance of said university and common schools. SEC. 7. The governor, secretary of state, and superintendent of public instruction shall for the first four years and until their successors are elected and qualified constitute a board of regents to control and manage the affairs of the university and the funds of the same, under such regulations as may be provided by law. But the legislature shall at its regular session next preceding the expiration of the term of office of said board of regents provide for the clection of a new board of regents and define their duties.

SEC. 8. The board of regents shall, from the interest accruing from the first funds which come under their control, immediately organize and maintain the said mining department in such manner as to make it most effective and useful, provided, that all the proceeds of the public lands donated by act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, for a college for the benefit of agriculture, the mechanic arts, and including military tactics shall be invested by the said board of regents in a separate fund, to be appropriated exclusively for the benefit of the first-named departments to the university, as set forth in section 4 above; and the legislature