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4641. Powers and duties of board of regents.

SEC. 3. The powers and duties of the board of regents are as follows: First-To prescribe rules for their own government, and for the government of the university.

Second-To prescribe rules for the reports of officers and teachers of the university.

Third-To prescribe the course of study, the time and standard of graduation and the commencement and duration of the terms, and the length of the vacations of the university.

Fourth-To prescribe the text-books, and provide apparatus and furniture for the use of pupils.

Fifth-To appoint a president of the university, who shall have a diploma from some recognized college of learning of good standing, or some state normal school, who has had at least five years of practical experience as an instructor, who is familiar with the modern methods of imparting instruction generally approved in the United States, and who shall be indorsed as to moral character and qualifications as an instructor by the president and faculty of three institutions of learning authorized by law to-confer degrees. Sixth-To prescribe the duties of the president, and fix his salary, and the salaries of all other teachers in the university.

Seventh-To require the president, under their direction, to establish and maintain training or model schools, and require the pupils of the university to teach and instruct classes therein.

Eighth-To control the expenditures of all moneys appropriated for the support and maintenance of the university, and all moneys received from any source whatsoever.

Ninth-To keep open to public inspection an account of receipts and expenditures.

Tenth-To annually report to the governor a statement of all their transactions, and of all other matters pertaining to the university.

Eleventh-To transmit with such report a copy of the president's annual

report.

Twelfth-To revoke any diploma by them granted, on receiving satisfactory evidence that the holder thereof is addicted to drunkenness, is guilty of gross immorality, or is reputably dishonest in his or her dealings; provided, that such person shall have at least thirty days' previous notice of such contemplated action, and shall, if he or she asks it, be heard in his or her own. defense.

4642. No compensation-Expenses-Clerk, qualifications, salary-Records public.

SEC. 4. The board of regents shall have the power to appoint a chairman, who shall receive no compensation therefor, nor shall any member of the board of regents receive any compensation for his services, except necessary expenses in attending meetings of the board. The board of regents may employ a clerk of said board, who shall receive a salary of twenty-five dollars per month, and who shall keep a full record of all proceedings of the board, which shall at all times be open to public inspection, and said clerk shall not be a teacher in said university.

4643. Quarterly and special meetings.

SEC. 5. The board must hold four regular meetings in each year, and may hold special meetings at the call of the chairman of the board.

4644. Annual report of president.

SEC. 6. The president of the university must make a detailed annual report

to the board of regents, with a catalogue of pupils, and such other particulars as the board may require or he may think useful.

4645. Academic degree, how issued-Normal school-Teachers' certificates-Reports to president-Cause for revocation-Diploma of graduation.

SEC. 7. Upon the recommendation of the president of the university, the board of regents shall issue to those who worthily complete the full course of study in the school of mines or in the school of agriculture, or in the school of liberal arts, or in any equivalent course that may hereafter be prescribed, a diploma of graduation, conferring the proper academic degree, from the Nevada state university; and no diploma bearing the distinctive title, "Nevada State University," shall be issued to anyone who has not completed the full course of study as above set forth. Upon the recommendation of the president of the university, the board of regents shall issue to those who worthily complete the full four years' course of study prescribed in the Nevada state normal school, a department of the state university, a diploma of graduation, and said diploma shall bear the heading, "The Nevada State Normal School," and to all persons receiving this diploma, the state board of education shall issue a state high-school certificate of the first grade, good for five years. To the holders of the above state high-school certificates of the first grade, the state board of education shall grant a life diploma when said graduates of the Nevada state normal school shall have completed at least five years of successful instruction in the public schools of Nevada, or of any other state. Upon the recommendation of the president of the university, the board of regents shall issue to those who worthily complete the three years' course of study prescribed in the Nevada state normal school, a grammar-grade diploma of graduation, and said diploma shall bear the heading, "Nevada State Normal School, Grammar Grade Diploma," and to all persons receiving this grammar-grade diploma, the state board of education shall grant à grammar-grade state certificate good for five years. The hoard of regents may require said normal-school graduates, before granting the diplomas herein provided for, to sign the following obligation: "I hereby agree to report to the president of the university by letter at least twice a year for three years after my graduation and once a year thereafter, so long as I continue in the profession of teaching, and when I shall leave the profession I will report the fact to him with the cause therefor. A failure to make such reports may be considered sufficient cause for the revocation of my diploma." And further, it is hereby expressly provided that the graduates of the Nevada state normal school for the year 1895 shall receive their diplomas and state certificates according to the act of March 19, 1891, hereby amended. Upon the recommendation of the president of the university the board of regents shall issue to those who worthily complete the full course of study in any other department of the university, not equivalent to a regular university course, a diploma of graduation, but said diploma shall bear the name of the department from which it is issued, and in no case to bear the heading of the regular university diploma. As amended, Stats. 1891, 93; 1895, 89.

4646. President to manage affairs-Monthly statements to regentsEmploy assistants.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the president of the university to instruct in the university, and, under the direction of the board of regents, to manage all matters connected with the institution, to employ assistant teachers and servants, purchase supplies and make monthly statements to the board of regents of all receipts and expenditures, supported by vouchers.

4647. No discrimination as to students-Qualifications of.

SEC. 9. There shall be no discrimination in the admission of pupils on account of sex, race or color; but no person shall be admitted who is not of good moral character, and who has not arrived at the age of fifteen years, and passed such an examination as shall be prescribed by the board of regents, and no person under said age shall hereafter be taught in said. institution.

4648. Tuition free.

SEC. 10. Tuition shall be free.

4649. Superintendent of public instruction must visit quarterly and report to regents.

SEC. 11. The state superintendent of public instruction must visit the university at least every three months, inquire into its condition and management, and report to the board of regents quarter-yearly the condition of the institution, with such suggestions as he may deem proper.

4650. Board of examiners to pass upon expenses.

SEC. 12. All expenses incurred, of every name and nature, involving the payment of money by or under the direction of the board of regents of the university, shall be passed upon by the board of examiners, as other accounts against the state, and be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the university.

Board of examiners, secs. 4455–4464.

An Act to provide for the election of the board of regents, to fix their term of office and prescribe their duties.

Approved March 5, 1869, 134

[Sections 1, 2, 3 and 5 of this act repealed, Stats. 1887, 45.]

4651. Regents not to be interested in contracts-Penalty.

SEC. 4. No member of said board shall be interested, directly or indirectly, as principal, copartner, agent, or otherwise, in any contract or expenditure created by the board, or in the profits or results thereof. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months.

See secs. 2827, 6331.

Cited, State ex rel. Mack v. Torreyson, 21 Nev. 52 (34 P. 879), under sec. 359, ante; same, 21 Nev. 518-525.

An Act to locate the state university, and to provide for the control and maintenance of the same.

4652. Location at Reno.

Approved March 7, 1873, 166

SECTION 1. The state university, as described in section 4 of article 11 of the constitution of this state, is hereby located at the town of Reno, Washoe County, State of Nevada.

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[Secs. 2 and 3 of original act repealed by Stats. 1887.]

4653. Irreducible university fund created-Land grant, sale of.

SEC. 4. Immediate selection and sale of the seventy-two sections of land. granted this state by act of Congress, approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the establishment and maintenance of a university, is hereby ordered. The moneys arising from the sale of said lands shall be

and constitute a fund to be known as the irreducible university fund. Whenever there shall be a sum in said fund sufficient for investment the board of regents shall direct the state treasurer to negotiate for investment of the same in United States securities, or in bonds of this state, at the lowest purchasable rates, and the board shall then draw their order upon the state controller, in favor of the state treasurer, for the amount to be invested. Said controller shall thereupon draw his warrant as directed, and the treasurer shall complete the purchase of the securities negotiated for by him in pursuance of this act. The interest derived from said fund, together with all moneys paid as interest on deferred installments on purchase of lands named in this act which may be sold under contract as provided in section 9 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection and sale of lands," etc.. approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be and constitute a fund to be known as the contingent university fund.

[Secs. 5, 6, original act, repealed by Stats. 1887, 42.]

4654. Permanent establishment of-Effect of removal.

SEC. 7. In consideration of the conveyance of lands having thereon a building as provided in this act, the state university, designed ultimately to embrace departments of agriculture, mechanic arts, and mining, shall be considered permanently established as herein provided, and if removed for any cause, title to the property named shall revert to the people donating the same. 4655. Acts of Congress in aid of agricultural colleges and establishing agricultural experiment stations:

An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several states under the provisions of un act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.

Approved March 2, 1887

Section 1-Agricultural experiment stations-Division of appropriation. That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practica information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges or agricultural department of colleges in each state or territory established, or which may hereafter be established. in accordance with the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred an sixty-two, 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," or any of the supplements to said act, a department to be known and designated as an "agricultural experiment station"; provided, that in any state or territory in which two such colleges have been or may be so established the appropriation hereinafter made to such state of territory shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the legislature of such state or territory shall otherwise direct.

Sec. 2 Scope of researches. 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 food 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.

Sec. 3-Commissioner of agriculture to advise, etc.-Reports. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of the United States commissioner of agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act. It shal be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the state or territory in which it is located a full and detaile report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which

report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said commissioner of agriculture, and to the secretary of the treasury of the United States.

Sec. 4-Bulletins-To be post free. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be pubfished at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the states or territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the postmaster-general may from time to time prescribe.

Sec. 5 Appropriations to be made from sales of public lands-Buildings. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as herein before prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each state, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each territory entitled under the provisions of section 8 of this act, out of any money in the treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April. July, and October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; provided, however, that out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended.

Sec. 6-Only amount necessary to be apportioned. That whenever it shall appear to the secretary of the treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support.

Sec. 7-Legal status not affected. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the states or territories in which they are respectively located.

Sec. 8-Application to states having experiment stations. That in states having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate from said colleges, such states shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established by such states; and in case any state shall have established under the provisions of said act of July second, aforesaid, an agricultural department or experimental station, in connection with any university, college, or institu tion not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such state shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or school, which shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legislature of such state may apply in whole or in part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate agricultural college or school, and no legislature shall by contract express or implied disable itself from so doing. Sec. 9-Grants subject to state assent. That the grants of money authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several states and territories to the purposes of such grant; provided, that payment of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any state before the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly certified by to the secretary of the treasury.

Sec. 10-Federal government may withdraw assistance. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the treasury to any or all the states or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act. (1 Fed. Stats. Ann. 9; U. S. Stats. 1866-7, p. 440.)

An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof.

Approved March 16, 1906

Section 1-Agricultural experiment stations-Annual appropriation to states and territories for, increased-Amount of annual increase. That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each state and territory, for the more complete endowment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations now established or which may hereafter be established in accordance with the act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of five thousand dollars in addition to the sum named in said act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for five years by an additional sum of two thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each state and territory shall be thirty thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting original researches or experiments

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