but their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties, the account for which shall be verified on oath, shall be paid by the State treasurer on the warrant of the State auditor, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2083. The board shall establish in the college an adequate number of professorships of the sciences related to agriculture and the mechanical arts. Such professorships shall be filled by able and competent professors, aided by such assistants. tutors, and other instructors as shall from time to time be necessary. SEC. 2084. The president of the trustees, the professors, and such assistants as may be designated by the board shall constitute the faculty of the college. The titles of such assistants shall be determined by the board. The president of the faculty shall be ex officio a member of the State board of education.

SEC. 2085. Any professor, instructor, officer, or employee of the college shall be removable at the pleasure of the board.

SEC. 2086. In the appointments of professors, instructors, and other officers and assistants of said college, and in prescribing the studies and exercises thereof, and in every part of the management and government thereof, no partiality or preference shall be shown by the board to one sect or religious denomination over another, nor shall anything sectarian be taught therein. Persons engaged in conducting, governing, managing, or controlling the college in any of its parts and its studies and exercises shall faithfully and impartially carry out the provisions of this section for the common good.

SEC. 2087. The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, technology, political, rural, and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanical arts to practical agriculture.

SEC. 2088. A full course of study in the institution shall be of not less than four years. The board may institute a winter course of lectures for others than students of the institution, under necessary rules and regulations.

SEC. 2089. The academical year shall consist of not less than nine calendar months, and it may be divided into such terms by the board as in its judgment will best secure the objects for which the college was founded.

SEC. 2090. No student shall be admitted to the institution who shall not have attained the age of 15 years and who shall not have passed a satisfactory examination in arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, spelling, and penmanship.

SEC. 2091. The board of trustees shall, with the advice of the faculty, prescribe the books to be used in the institution and confer for similar or equal attainments degrees and testimonials similar to those conferred by agricultural colleges elsewhere.

SEC. 2092. In connection with the college there shall be established an agricultural experiment station to conduct original researches into the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they may be severally subject, with the remedies therefor; the chemical compositions of useful plants at different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative croppings as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacities of new plants or trees for acclimation in the State; the analysis of soils and waters; the chemical compositions of manures, natural and artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and values of grasses and forage plants; the compositions and digestibility of the different kinds of feed for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; the best methods of irrigation, with experiments designed to show the amount of water and number of waterings needed on different soils to produce the most abundant crops, and such other researches and experiments as bear directly on the agricultural industry of the State of Utah. The agricultural station shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress passed March 2, 1887.

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SEC. 2093. The board shall take charge of the agricultural experiment station, purchase suitable lands, erect needed buildings, and appoint necessary officers and assistants to conduct the experiments mentioned in section 2092. It shall cause bulletins and reports of the work at such station to be published and mailed, as required in the act of Congress aforementioned.

SEC. 2004. The governor is hereby authorized to make application to the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain any appropriation made by Congress in pursuance of the act above mentioned or of other acts supplementary thereto. Whenever the college and agricultural experiment station shall be entitled to any money

under the aforesaid or a similar act, the board of trustees shall execute and file with the Secretary of the Treasury an agreement to expend the money received for the sole and exclusive purpose expressed in such act and in the manner therein directed and to maintain a farm of at least 25 acres in connection with the agricultural college. The board shall also execute and file with the said Secretary its bond, in the penal sum of $15,000, with two sufficient sureties approved by the State auditor, conditioned for the faithful performance of the agreement.

SEC. 2095. The board of trustees, with the advice of the faculty of the college, are hereby authorized and required to hold institutes for the instruction of the citizens of the State in various branches of agriculture. Such an institute shall be held in each county at least once during each school year and at a particular time and place designated by the board and faculty. The board shall make rules and regulations for organizing and conducting the institutes, and it may employ an agent or agents to perform the requisite work in connection with the faculty of the college. Courses of instruction at the institutes shall be so arranged as to present to those in attendance the results of the most recent investigations in theoretical and practical agriculture

SEC. 2096. It shall be the duty of those conducting institutes to encourage and assist in the organization of local agricultural societies. At the close of each season's institute work the board shall cause to be published in book or pa phlet form, for free distribution to the farmers of the State, an annual report of such work and of the leading papers presented to and of the discussions at the institute meetings of the State.

SEC. 2097. It shall be the duty of the professor in charge of the dairy department of the college to visit and inspect as many as possible of the cheese and butter factories of the State each year and make a report thereof, to be printed as provided in section 2096.

SEC. 2098. For the institute purposes here mentioned the board may use such sum as it may deem proper, not exceeding $1,500 in any one year, and this amount is hereby annually appropriated for that purpose out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Laws, 1899, chapter 29: SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the Utah Art Institute, through its art lectureship committee, to prepare annually a course of lectures on subjects of art, which shall be delivered in whole or in part before the students of the agricultural college. It shall be the duty of the art lectureship committee to advise with officers of State educational institutions and superintendents of public schools as to courses in drawing, design, and art, with a view to creating a stronger art influence in State educational institutions. (March 9, 1899.)

Laws, 1899, chapter 75: SECTION 1. The object of this act is the establishment and maintenance of a regular winter course of studies for students at the Agricultural College of Utah, which course shall include studies relating to agriculture and mechanical arts and such other scientific and classical studies as the board of trustees and faculty may prescribe, and the board of trustees is hereby empowered and directed to establish such course.

SEC. 2. The special year of this course shall consist of five calendar months, beginning on or about November 1 of each year. (March 16, 1899.)

Laws, 1903, chapter 41: SECTION 1. In order to investigate and demonstrate the conditions under which useful plants may be grown on the dry or arid or nonirrigated lands of the State of Utah, and to determine the kind of plants best adapted for growth on these lands, there shall be established five experimental farms or as many more as may be maintained by the appropriation designated in section 7.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of those having said experimental farms in charge to secure seeds from this and other countries of the world of plants that are thought suitable for growth on dry lands, and to observe and record the growth, yield, and composition of the plants grown from seed so secured; to investigate and determine the methods of soil treatment by which the soil water is best conserved to investigate the possibilities of grazing on dry lands which have been seeded to different crops, and to undertake such other experiments and demonstrations as may be deemed advisable, having in view the reclamation of the dry or arid lands of the State.

SEC. 3. Not more than one of said experimental farms shall be located in one county. The said experimental farms shall be located in districts where there are large areas of dry land that may not in the near future be brought under irrigation, and the locations of said experimental farms shall be selected under the direction of the board of trustees of the Agricultural College of Utah.

SEC. 4. The actual work of experimentation and demonstration on said experi

mental farms shall be under the direction of the agricultural experiment station of the State agricultural college. The officers of the said State experiment station, after having made selection of the location of the said experimental farms, are hereby authorized and required to proceed to carry out the provisions of this

act.

SEC. 5. The State experiment station shall prepare and publish, or cause to be prepared and published, full and complete annual reports of the work accomplished on said experimental farms; an edition of not less than 6,000 copies shall be published annually and distributed free of charge to all State and county officials, newspapers, and interested citizens.

SEC. 6. These experimental farms shall be maintained for a period of not less than five years from the date of the passage of this act.

SEC. 7. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of $12,500 is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the State auditor shall draw his warrant on the State treasurer upon request in writing by the secretary of the board of trustees of the Agricultural College of Utah.

SEC. 8. Whenever the trustees of the agricultural college desire to establish an experimental farm in any county, they shall, as a condition precedent, apply to the commissioners of such county to provide them with the gratuitous use of the required lands for the time needed, and upon the commissioners furnishing a requisite lease on suitable land the said trustees may establish such farm. (March 6, 1903.)

VERMONT.

Acts and Resolves, 1862, joint resolution No. 46: The State of Vermont does hereby accept the benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled 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 2, 1862, and will observe and comply with all the requirements of said act. (October 29, 1862.)

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Acts and Resolves, 1862, public act No. 17: SECTION 1. Homer E. Royce and John B. Page are hereby appointed agents in the name and behalf of the State of Vermont to obtain and receive from the United States Government all land scrip to which said State may become entitled under an act of the Congress of the United States approved July 2, 1862.

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SEC. 2. The aforesaid agents are hereby authorized and required to make such examination of the public lands as are subject to private entry, and procure such information in relation to the same as they may judge will be useful in the disposal and location of the scrip mentioned in the first section of this act, and they. are authorized to sell or assign the same, or any part thereof, upon such terms and conditions as they shall deem will be most advantageous to this State: Provided, The governor of the State shall approve of all such sales or assignments. Sic. 3. The agents appointed by this act shall hold their appointment for one year and until their successors shall be appointed, and before entering upon the duties of their appointment each shall give his bond with good and sufficient surety or sureties to the State of Vermont in the sum of $50,000, the said bond to be approved by the governor and deposited with the secretary of state, and to be in such form as he shall direct and conditioned for the return to the treasury of the State of all scrip, money, or other securities obtained or received for the benefit of this State and for the faithful performance of all the duties of their office. SEC. 4. Said agents shall make an annual report to the governor of the State of all their doings under this act.

SEC. 5. The governor of the State is hereby authorized to receive proposals for such donations of land, buildings, and funds as may be tendered from any part of the State, or from any person or persons, for the purpose of establishing a college according to the provisions of the act of Congress heretofore mentioned, and report the same to the next legislature.

Szc. 7. All moneys derived from the sale of said lands or scrip mentioned in section 2 of this act shall be invested by the treasurer of the State in safe stocks yielding not less than 5 per cent upon the par value of said stocks, and the interest of the fund created by said stocks shall be appropriated for the purposes declared

in the said act of Congress: Provided, That said investments shall always be made with the approval of the governor of the State. (December 1, 1862.)

Acts and Resolves, 1864, public act No. 96: SECTION 1. Justin S. Morrill [and 13 others named], 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.

SEC. 8. When the said college shall have been 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 [of July 2, 1862] named in the seventh section of this act and the laws of this State accepting the provisions thereof and relating to the same. (November 22, 1864.)

Acts and Resolves, 1865, public act No. 83: 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.

SEC. 2. Each of the two institutions hereby united shall, on or before December 15 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 be the duty of the said nine trustees of the University of Vermont to elect successors to fill any vacancy which may occur among their number, and all the trustees so elected as is hereinbefore provided shall, ogether with his excellency the governor of the State, and the president, who hall be ex officio a member, constitute an entire board of trustees of the corporaion hereby created, who shall have the entire management and control of its property and affairs, and in all things relating thereto except in the elections to fill vacancies, as aforesaid, shall act together jointly as one entire board of trustees: Provided, 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.

SEC. 3. Said board of trustees, a majority of whom may constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, may confer such honors and degrees as are usually given in colleges and universities and any other appropriate degrees, and may from time to time, as occasion may require, elect a president, also a secretary, treasurer, librarian, professors, instructors, and any other necessary officers, and prescribe their duties, salaries, and term of office, and may make all necessary by-laws and regulations for the government of themselves and others connected with the institution not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and therein prescribe the terms of admission, rates of tuition, modes of study, and course of instruction, including any proper regulations for uniform, discipline, and military drill, as well as for experimental and practical instruction in the different branches of agricultural labor.

SEC. 4. Said board of trustees shall have the right to use, control, sell, or dispose of all the real estate and personal property now belonging to the University of Vermont, and belonging to any other institution at the time of its union, if such union shall be made with this corporation agreeably to this act, subject, however, to the payment of any debts of such institutions existing at the time of such union, and subject to any trusts, duties, and obligations connected therewith, and shall be entitled to receive and use, for the purposes aforesaid, the rents and uses of

any of the aforesaid lands, including the rents and uses of all such lands as have been heretofore reserved in any charter of land in this State for the use and benefit of any college, and may have the same rights in respect to said lands, and to any leases of the same, and to any rents arising therefrom that said institutions respectively now have, and may maintain suits in their own name, or in the name of such new corporation, to recover the same: Provided, That the right of all parties shall remain and the same defenses shall be had to such suits as if the same were brought in the name and as between the said original parties; and the corporation hereby created shall at all times assume, discharge, and perform all the debts, duties, trusts, and obligations which said several institutions were subject to at the time they became united in said new corporation by virtue of this act.

SEC. 5. There shall at all times be maintained in the institution hereby created such instruction in the various branches of learning as is contemplated in the several charters of each of the institutions hereby united, and more particularly including a four years' course of studies similar to such as are generally taught in other colleges, and not inferior to that recently taught in said University of Vermont, and in addition to that which is usually taught in other colleges the instruction in this institution shall include such enlarged facilities and extended scope and variety in the study of those branches which relate to military tactics, agriculture, and the mechanic arts as shall render the whole instruction in conformity with said act of Congress, as well as with the several charters aforesaid.

SEC. 6. Said trustees may, in their discretion, obtain by gift, grant, or otherwise, a tract of land which together with the land now owned by the University of Vermont shall amount to at least 100 acres, to be used as an experimental farm whereon they may make any desirable experiments in the breeding of stock, field culture, the analysis and adaptation of soils, and horticultural and botanical gardening, or either of them, as they may deem proper; and also for the purpose of military encampment, target firing, drill, and review; and said trustees may use, lease, or dispose of the same, as they may think proper, so as best to promote the objects of the institutions.

And in case said land shall be procured, as aforesaid, a sum not to exceed onetenth of the money which has been received by the State treasurer for the sale of land scrip, in pursuance of the act of Congress authorizing the same, shall be paid to said board of trustees for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, That no agricultural labor shall be required of students except by their voluntary agreement or consent.

SEC. 7. Whenever this corporation shall have been duly organized there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer annually, for the purpose herein mentioned, on the warrant of the governor, the interest or the income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the act of Congress.

SEC. 8. The corporation hereby created shall make annual reports to the legislature of this State of their condition, financially and otherwise, and make and distribute the reports required by the act of Congress herein referred to; and the legislature may annually appoint a board of visitors, who may annually examine the affairs of said corporation.

Src. 9. The permanent location of the institution hereby created shall be in Burlington, in said State of Vermont, and the first meeting of the board of trustees shall be there held on November 15 next, at 7 o'clock p. m., or if such meeting shall not be held at that time it shall be held at such other time and place as the governor of this State may appoint, seasonable notice of said appointment having been first given to each of the trustees or corporators of the Vermont University and Vermont Agricultural College.

SEC. 10. The president and fellows of Middlebury College and the Norwich University, or either of them, may hereafter, with the assent and concurrence by vote of a majority of each of the nine trustees elected as aforesaid, and their successors, become incorporated and united with the corporation hereby created by vote of their said corporations at any meeting legally warned and holden, and by leaving for record in the office of the secretary of the State a true and attested copy of such vote or votes, and of all the proceedings of the meeting or meetings at which the votes aforesaid were passed, and causing the same to be recorded in said office. SEC. 11. If at any time the corporation hereby created shall fail substantially to carry out the provisions and requirements of this act, the supreme court of this State may, at any stated session there f, having first given due notice to said corporation, annul and vacate this charter, and in such case, or in case said corporation shall otherwise be diss lved, said supreme court may, on application, order and decree that the income thereafter to be derived from the proceeds of the sale of said land s rip, in the hands of the State treasurer as aforesaid, together with