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school fund, which together shall be known as the "current school fund.” to be apportioned as herein before provided, and the proceeds of fifteen-hundredths mills shall be for the support and maintenance of the University of Minnesota, and shall be added to the general university fund and be payable to the order of the board of regents.

SEC. 7975. There is hereby established a uniform system of accounting for public funds in the following-named institutions of the State of Minnesota, namely, the State university, etc.

SEC. 7976. It shall be the duty of the managing board of each of the State institutions mentioned in section 7975 to designate an accounting officer, whose duty it shall be to keep or supervise the financial accounts of the institution and to perform such other duties as shall be prescribed by law or by the said managing board. They shall also designate either the said accounting officer or some other officer of the institution to act as purchasing agent, whose duty it shall be to purchase all goods and supplies needed for the institution, under such rules and regulations as the said managing board shall prescribe.

SEC. 7977. It shall be the duty of the managing board of each of the institutions named in section 7975, within three months after the passage of this act, to appoint an institution treasurer, which treasurer shall be either some trustworthy person residing in the city or village at which the institution is located, or some solvent national or State bank in said city or village [except the "Soldiers' Home"]. The said treasurer shall give bonds in such sum as the managing board shall require, to be approved by said managing board and to be subject to the approval of the public examiner. It shall be the duty of the said treasurer to hold and safely keep all public funds belonging to the said institution which may come into said treasury from any source, and to pay out the same only on written orders signed by the accounting officer of the institution and countersigned by a member of the managing board, who shall have been authorized by vote of the board to sign such orders.

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SEC. 7979. (b) It shall be the duty of the accounting officer of each institution at the close of each month, or oftener, to pay over to the institution treasurer all institution funds which may have come into his hands from sales of public property, board of inmates, labor of inmates, or from other sources, and at the close of each fiscal quarter to draw an order on the institution treasurer in favor of the State treasurer for the amount of all such miscellaneous receipts, and at the same time to forward to the State auditor a statement of the amount of the same and the sources from which they have arisen. (c) It shall be the duty of the State auditor upon receiving such statement to place in the hands of the State treasurer a draft for the amount upon the institution treasurer, specifying the fund to which the same is to be credited, and upon payment of such draft to place the amount so received to the credit of said institution, adding it to any appropriations that may have been previously made by the legislature for the said institution, distributing it to the several appropriations from which it may have arisen or to the current expense appropriation, according to his discretion.

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SEC. 7980. It shall be the duty of the accounting officer of each institution referred to above to prepare a duplicate monthly pay roll or pay rolls, showing the services rendered * by each officer and employee of the institution, which pay roll shall contain the receipt of said officers and employees for the orders issued to them in payment for their services. Services rendered or labor performed by persons other than officers and employees shall be accounted for on proper vouchers made. The said accounting officer shall require all persons selling goods or supplies to the institution to furnish with such goods when delivered bills or invoices in duplicate, and he may require persons who furnish goods at intervals during the month to furnish also a detailed statement in duplicate at the close of the month. The said bills and invoices shall, whenever practicable, be made upon the billheads or blanks used by such persons in their business: Provided, That in cases where it is not convenient for the seller to furnish such bills or invoices, the accounting officer may make out such bills or invoices on blanks to be provided by the institution.

General Laws, 1895, chapter 181: SECTION 1. The teachers' university certificate issued by the University of Minnesota to graduates of the department of pedagogy in said university shall be valid as a certificate of the first grade to teach in the public schools of the State of Minnesota for a period of two years from date of graduation.

SEC. 2. At the expiration of two years of actual teaching the certificate of such graduate may be indorsed by the president of the university and the superintendent of public instruction upon satisfactory evidence that such service has been successful, and such indorsement shall make said certificate a permanent certificate of

qualification: Provided, That said indorsement may be canceled and its legal effect annulled by the superintendent of public instruction upon satisfactory evidence of disqualification. (Approved April 11, 1895.)

Ibid., 1895, chapter 366: Appropriates $60,000 for "the deficiencies which have occurred in the current expenses of this institution" for 1893, 1894, and 1895. Ibid., 1897, chapter 75: SECTION 1. Section 3768 [above] is amended to read as follows: "There shall be levied annually upon the taxable property of the State a tax of 1.23 mills, to be known as the State school tax,' which shall be collected as other taxes are collected, of which the proceeds of 1 mill shall be added to the general school fund, which together shall be known as the current school fund,' to be apportioned as herein before provided, and the proceeds of 0.23 mill shall be for the support and maintenance of the University of Minnesota, and shall be added to the general university fund and be payable to the order of the board of regents." (Approved March 26, 1897.)

Ibid., 1897, chapter 155: SEC. 4. [Appropriates for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1897: For campus improvements, $2,500; equipment for mechanical and electrical engineering department, $12,000.]

SEC. 5. [Appropriates for the year ending July 31, 1898: Equipment of medical building, $13,000; books, $6,000. School of agriculture: Heating and lighting, $18,000; dormitory for girls, $25,000; expenses incident to establishing coeducation, $3.000.]

SEC. 6. [Appropriates for year ending July 31, 1899: For books, $6,000; expenses incident to establishing coeducation in the school of agriculture, $4,000.]

Ibid., 1899, chapter 20: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 181 of the general laws of 1895 be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: “SECTION 1. The teachers' university certificate issued by the University of Minnesota to graduates of the department of pedagogy in said university shall be valid as a certificate of the first grade to teach in the public schools of the State of Minnesota for a period of two years from its date." (Approved February 25, 1899.)

Ibid., 1899, chapter 283: SEC. 5. [Appropriates to State university for year ending July 31, 1899, $5,000 for repairs. For year ending July 31, 1900: Repairs, $7,000: anatomical building, $15,000; clinical building, $15,000; books, $7,000. For year ending July 31, 1901: Repairs, $5,000; books, $7,000; physical laboratory, $25,000; alteration of buildings, $40,000.]

SEC. 6. [Appropriates to school of agriculture for the year ending July 31, 1900: Heating plant, $10,000; horticultural hall and physical laboratory, $35,000.]

Ibid., 1901, chapter 25: Sections 1 and 2 of chapter 345 of general laws of 1899 [omitted here as surplusage in view of what follows and its minor relevancy to this inquiry] be amended so as to read as follows: "SECTION 1. Any person who, being at the time a resident of the State of Minnesota, enlisted in the Army of the United States during the late war between the United States and the Kingdom of Spain, or who has been a resident of the State of Minnesota for the past fifteen years and is a veteran of the late civil war, and who was honorably discharged therefrom, shall, upon complying with all other requirements for admission, be entitled to pursue any course or courses in the University of Minnesota without expense for tuition."

SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota to accept in any college, school, or department thereof, any student who comes within the definition of section 1 of this act, without any charge to said student for tuition, and to refund to any student who may come under the provisions of this act any money which he has paid in as tuition since his discharge. (Approved March 8, 1901.)

Ibid., 1901, chapter 66: The board of regents of the University of Minnesota, as a body corporate under the name University of Minnesota, is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to accept, in trust or otherwise, any gift, grant, bequest, or devise of property, real or personal or mixed, for educational purposes, and to hold, manage, invest, and dispose of the same and the proceeds thereof and the income therefrom, in accordance with the terms and conditions of such gift, grant, bequest, or devise, and of the acceptance thereof, any law of the State of Minnesota to the contrary notwithstanding. (Approved March 16, 1901.)

Ibid., 1901, chapter 170: SECTION 1. Any person resident of the State of Minnesota who has already graduated or may graduate from the department known as the school for the blind, connected with the Minnesota Institute for Defectives (located at Faribault, Minn., or elsewhere in said State), shall, upon complying with all other requirements, be entitled to pursue any course or courses in the University of Minnesota without expense for tuition.

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SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota to receive into any college, school, or department thereof, and to furnish to him or her training and education in any such college, school, or department, any student who comes within the definition of section 1 of this act without any charge to said student for tuition.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. (Approved April 9, 1901.)

Ibid., 1901, chapter 122: SECTION 1. The governor shall, prior to the adjournment of this session of the legislature, appoint, by and with the consent of the Senate. three electors of the State as members of a board to be known as a board of control of State institutions." Said members shall hold office, as designated by the governor, for two, four, and six years, respectively. Subsequent appointments shall be made as above provided, and, except to fill vacancies, shall be for a period of six years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The board shall at all times be subject to the above limitations and restrictions. The chairman of the board for each biennial period shall be the member whose term first expires, and each member thereof shall receive a salary of $3,500 per annum. The governor may remove any member of the board for malfeasance or nonfeasance in office, or for any cause that renders him ineligible to appointment or incapable or unfit to discharge the duties of his office, and his removal when so made shall be final. When for any cause a vacancy occurs, the governor shall appoint an elector to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term, subject, however, to the action of the senate when next in session. SEC. 18.

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*The board of control shall have and exercise full authority in all financial matters of the State university, the State normal schools, the State public school, the schools for the deaf and the blind. The said board of control shall disburse all public moneys of the several institutions named, and shall have the same authority in the expenditure of the public moneys appropriated therefor, as in the other institutions named in this bill, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, and such board shall appoint a purchasing and disbursing officer or officers for such institutions. Said board of control shall also have supervision of the construction of all buildings and betterments erected at the cost of this State, but shall cooperate with the local boards of the different institutions in the preparation of plans and specifications therefor. Such board of control, however, shall not have control or authority to disburse any private donations or bequests made by gift or devise by any private individual to any educational institution of this State, but said private gifts or donations or bequests shall, unless otherwise directed by the terms of such gift or bequest, be applied by such various boards of the said educational institutions to the use proposed by the terms of the gift. But the various boards now in charge of the several educational institutions shall have and retain the exclusive control of the general educational policy of said institution, of the courses of study, the number of teachers necessary to be employed, and the salaries to be paid; and such various boards shall have the exclusive right to employ or dismiss the teachers and others engaged in carrying on the functions of said institutions and shall also have the exclusive control of the grounds, buildings, and other public property of their several institutions, and of all other matters connected with said institutions, except as herein specifically reserved to said board of control. All contracts with employees of said educational institutions and a concise statement of all supplies needed shall be reported by the board in charge of said several institutions to the said board of control, and provision shall be made by said board of control, by suitable rules, for the payinent of the salaries of such employees, and any expenses incurred by the members of said local board for the purchase of all necessary supplies by such purchasing agent to be appointed as herein provided, as in the case of the other public institutions of this State. (Approved April 2, 1901.)

Ibid., 1901, chapter 381: SEC. 2. [Appropriates "For use by the department of agriculture of the University of Minnesota in preparing, printing, and distributing such leaflets, charts, and other lesson helps as will aid and encourage the teachers and pupils in rural schools in the study of agricultural, home economies, and rural life generally" the sum of $2,000 for each of the fiscal years ending July 31, 1902, and July 31, 1903.]

Sic. 8. [Appropriates to the University of Minnesota for the year ending July 31, 1901: Buildings and equipment, $17.600; artesian well, $3.500. For the year ending July 31, 1902: Buildings and equipment. $110.000: repairs, $10,250; library, $7.500; boilers, $8.200; additional current expenses, $35,000. For the year ending July 31, 1903: Building and equipment, $17,500; repairs, $8,000; library, $7,500; additional current expenses, $35,000.]

SEC. 9. [Appropriates for the school of agriculture for the year ending July 31, 1902: Buildings and equipment. $53,500. For the year ending July 31, 1903: Buildings and equipment, $25,000.]

MISSISSIPPI.

Constitution (1890), article 8: SEC. 201. It shall be the duty of the legislature to encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement by establishing a uniform system of free public schools, by taxation or otherwise, for all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years, and, as soon as practicable, to establish schools of higher grade. SEC. 208. No religious or other sect or sects shall control any part of the school or other educational funds of this State: nor shall any funds be appropriated toward the support of any sectarian school or to any school that at the time of receiving such appropriation is not conducted as a free school.

SEC. 213. The State having received and appropriated the land donated to it for the support of agricultural and mechanical colleges by the United States, and having, in furtherance of the beneficent design of Congress in granting said land, established the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi and the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, it is the duty of the State to sacredly carry out the conditions of the act of Congress upon the subject, approved July 2, 1862, and the legislature shall preserve intact the endowments to and support said colleges.

The following matter is taken from The Annotated Code of the General Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi, prepared by R. H. Thompson, Geo. E. Dillard, and R. B. Campbell, Nashville, Tenn., 18.]

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SEC. 11. The college as incorporated by an act of the legislature, approved Febrnary 28, 1878, by the name of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi," and established in pursuance of that act, shall continue to exist as a body politic and corporate by the name of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College," with all its property and the franchises, rights, powers, and privileges conferred on it by law, or properly incident to such a body and necessary to accomplish the purpose of its creation; and may receive and hold all real and personal property conveyed to it for such purpose.

SEC. 12. The government of said college shall be in a board of nine trustees, a majority of whom shall be practical agriculturists or mechanics, appointed by the governor of the State by and with the advice and consent of the senate, who shall continue in office for six years, and until successors are appointed; and the trustees shall be ineligible to succeed themselves more than once.

SEC. 13. The present trustees shall continue according to their terms, and until successors shall be appointed. As the terms of said trustees shall expire their successors shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. They shall hold for six years, and until their successors shall be appointed.

SEC. 14. In case of vacancies in the board of trustees during a period when the senate is not in session, the governor may make appointments to fill the vacancies until the senate shall meet, and, thereafter, during the session of the senate until successors shall be appointed.

SEC. 15. A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SFC. 16. The governor of the State, by virtue of his office, shall be the president of the board of trustees, but in his absence a president pro tempore may be appointed by the board.

SEC. 17. The trustees may receive their actual expenses incurred in attending any of the meetings of the board, to be paid out of any money belonging to the college. SEC. 18. The board of trustees shall possess all the power necessary and proper for the accomplishment of the purpose of the trust reposed in it, viz: The establishment and maintenance of a first-class institution, at which the white youth of the State may acquire a common school education, and a scientific and practical knowledge of agriculture, horticulture, and the mechanic arts, and such other subjects of knowledge as may be suitable and embraced in the course of study and practice prescribed by authority of the board of trustees; and it may adopt all such by-laws and regulations as it may deem expedient for this purpose not repugnant to the constitution and laws nor inconsistent with the object for which said college is established; and it shall do whatever is necessary for the successful operation of said college according to the purpose of its establishment.

SEC. 19. The interest arising from the proceeds of the fund known as the "Agricultural land scrip fund" is appropriated and devoted, to the extent of one-half of it, to said college, and may be drawn from the treasury upon warrant of the auditor, to be issued upon the requisitions of the treasurer from time to time as such interest may accrue and be wanted for the use of the college.

SEC. 20. Tuition shall be free in all branches to students of the State for four years to each and not longer, and the trustees shall fix the amount of tuition to be paid by students of this State after four years of free tuition and by students from other States or countries. (Amended by laws, 1896, chap. 113, q. v.)

SEC. 21. The privilege of rooming in the dormitories belongs to the free students, and to the due quota of students from each county in preference to all others. SEC. 22. The right belongs to each county to have a number of students admitted proportionate to its number of white educable males compared with the whole number in the State.

SEC. 23. The apportionment shall be made and announced by the president of the college annually and communicated to the superintendents of education of the counties.

SEC. 25. The certificate of selection shall be attested by the clerk of the board of supervisors, under its seal, and shall entitle the holder to admission into the college with all its privileges to pursue all its industrial branches selected, and to enter the subclass or class for which he is fitted.

SEC. 26. The board of trustees shall cause to be reported biennially to the legislature, during the first week of every regular and special, not extraordinary, session thereof, how the money appropriated to the college has been expended, showing the salaries paid to all professors and employees, and generally each and every item of expense; and if any property belonging to the State or the college is used for profit, the reports shall show the expenses incurred in managing the property and the amount received therefrom.

SEC. 27. The money received by this State under act of Congress entitled “An act to establish agricultural experiment stations," etc., approved March 2, 1887, and the provisions of which were accepted by this State by act approved January 31, 1888, and assigned to said college, shall be expended under its direction, and the agricultural experiment station for this State is established at and with said college, and the board of trustees shall have full control thereof.

SEC. 28. The Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi, created by an act approved February 28, 1878, for the education of the colored youth of the State, shall continue as a body politic and corporate for that purpose.

SEC. 29. Except as stated to the contrary in the next section, all the provisions of the chapter entitled "Agricultural and mechanical college" shall be applicable, the necessary changes being made, to the "Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College," which shall be entitled to receive for its support one-half of the interest on the fund, the other half of which is devoted to the agricultural and mechanical college.

SEC. 30. The sections of the chapter relating to the "agricultural and mechanical college" [secs. 20-25, and 27] on the subject of the number of students entitled to free tuition therein, and on the subject of apportioning the same among the several counties of the State, and dormitory privileges, and on the subject of the agricultural experiment station, shall not apply to Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College.

SEC. 2065. The term "fertilizer," as used herein, includes all substances, chemicals, and compounds commonly known as commercial fertilizers, and all manures, except animal excrement, cotton seed, and unmixed cotton-seed products, whether natural or artificial products.

SEC. 2066. The professor of chemistry at the agricultural and mechanical college is State chemist, and all fertilizers shall be analyzed by him; and his certificate of analysis, stating the percentage therein of nitrogen in an available form, of potash soluble in water, and of phosphoric acid in an available form, soluble or reverted, and of insoluble phosphoric acid, shall be posted, and kept posted in a conspicuous manner at every place where fertilizers are sold.

SEC. 2068. Before offering any fertilizer for sale the manufacturer, producer, or seller shall furnish to the State chemist a certificate of the manufacturer or producer, showing the component parts thereof, and a fair sample of it, not less than one pound, sealed up in a glass jar; and the chemist shall analyze it and give his certificate thereof, and shall furnish the necessary number of tags. He shall also from time to time secure samples from packages offered for sale or sold, analyze the same, and record the analyses.

SEC. 2069. The State chemist shall also analyze all fair samples of fertilizers

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