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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, DECEMBER, 1853,

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HORATIO SEYMOUR, GOVERNOR, ex-officio.

SANFORD E. CHURCH, LT. GOVERNOR, ex-officio.
HENRY S. RANDALL, SECRETARY OF STATE, ex-officio.

JOHN GREIG.

GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, LL.D.

GERRIT Y. LANSING.

ERASTUS CORNING.

PROSPER M. WETMORE.

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MEETINGS OF THE REGENTS.

The first or annual meeting is according to law, held on the evening of the second Thursday in January, at the Senate Chamber in the Capitol.

The meetings continue to be held during the session of the Legislature, and as often as the nature of the business before the Board demands. They are adjourned from week to week.

It is, therefore, recommended to Academies to make all their communications

in due season. Applications for money to purchase books and apparatus should be sent in before the middle of February, and for all other purposes, before the middle of March. The Board usually adjourns about the 10th of April.

Special meetings can only be held, after ten days' notice has been given of the same in the State Paper. They are but seldom called, except for the consideration of matters referred to the Regents by the Legislature. There is, however, a standing order requiring a special meeting to be held on some day in October of each year.

CONTENTS.

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INSTRUCTIONS, &c.

I. Revised Statutes of the State of New-York, relative to Public Instruction in Colleges, Academies, and Select Schools.

(From the third edition, published in 1846.)

CHAP. XV., TITLE I.

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THIS STATE, AND OF THE FOUNDATION AND GOVERN. MENT OF COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, AND SELECT SCHOOLS.

ARTICLE FIRST.

Of the organization and powers of the board of regents.

SEC. 1. University instituted; government vested in regents.

2. Name and corporate powers.

3. Number of regents; who members ex officio.

4. How appointed; how removed.

5. Vacancies; how supplied.

6. Officers; who; how chosen; tenure of office.

7. Who to preside; president has casting vote.

8. To be an annual meeting; time and place.

9. Place of other meetings; by whom appointed.

10. Number of regents a quorum; power to adjourn.

11. How meetings ordered and called.

12. Treasurer to keep account of monies received and paid.

13. Secretary to keep journal.

14. Regents may have access to, and take copies of papers,

15 Must visit colleges and academies, and report annually.

16. May make by-laws.

17. Grants must be applied to uses for which made.

18. Regents may confer degrees.

19. Their degree of M. D. to give authority to practice physic.

20. May grant certain honorary degrees.

21. May in certain cases supply vacancies in offices of president and principal.

22 & 23, Tenure of office of such person; powers, emoluments, &c.

24. Regents have control of income of literature fund; application thereof.†

25 & 26. How distribution thereof to be regulated.

27. 12,000 dollars of income to be annually divided.

28 to 30. Excess applied in purchase of books, educating teachers, &c.

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