SEC. 9. Women students attending said college as beneficiaries and appointees of counties or legislative districts shall have preference for accommodations in said woman's dormitory, and if the accommodations of said dormitory are not sufficient for all such appointees, then the proper authorities of said college shall decide, in some way fair and equitable, who shall be entitled to said accommodations, all counties being given equal representation as nearly as possible. If any rooms in said dormitory remain after all such appointees are accommodated, other female students may be allowed the use thereof, each county being given equal representation as nearly as possible. All rooms shall be assigned by lot three days after the session opens. Like rules and preferences shall be observed in regard to dormitory accommodations provided for men students at said college. All rooms shall be assigned by lot three days after the session opens.

SEC. 4527. The State normal school for colored persons, established by an act of the general assembly May 18, 1886, shall hereafter (i. e., after May 22, 1893) be under the control and supervision of a board of trustees, composed of the superintendent of public instruction, who shall be ex officio chairman of the board, and three intelligent and discreet persons, residents of Franklin County, to be appointed by the governor, subject to the approval of the senate, who are hereby constituted a body corporate, with power to sue, etc., and to hold in trust all funds and property now owned by said school or which may hereafter be provided for it, and shall be known and designated as The board of trustees of the Kentucky State Normal School for Colored Persons."

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SEC. 4528. There shall be maintained in said institution a department for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, and for said purpose said board shall be entitled to receive an equitable division of the moneys arising from the sale of public lands and appropriated to the State of Kentucky by an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890.

SEC. 4534. The sum of $3,000 shall be annually appropriated out of the State treasury to pay the teachers and defray other necessary expenses in the maintenance of said normal school, which amount, together with the sum received under the provisions of said act of Congress, shall be set apart and be known and held as the colored normal school fund. This fund shall be paid out of the State treasury only on the warrant of the auditor, drawn on the order of the board.

LOUISIANA.

Constitution (1898): ART. 255. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, founded upon the land grants of the United States to endow a seminary of learning and a college for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, now established and located in the city of Baton Rouge, is hereby recognized, and all revenues derived and to be derived from the seminary fund, the agricultural and mechanical college fund, and other funds or lands donated or to be donated by the United States to the State of Louisiana for the use of a seminary of learning or of a college for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts shall be appropriated exclusively to the maintenance and support of said Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the general assembly shall make such additional appropriations as may be necessary for its maintenance, support, and improvement, and for the establishment, in connection with said institution, of such additional scientific or literary departments as the public necessities and the well-being of the people of Louisiana may require: Provided, That the appropriation shall not exceed $15,000 per annum for its maintenance and support.

ART. 258. The debt due by the State to the seminary fund is hereby declared to be $136,000, being the proceeds of the sales of lands heretofore granted by the United States to this State for the use of a seminary of learning, and said amount shall be kept to the credit of said fund on the books of the auditor and treasurer of the State as a perpetual loan, and the State shall pay an annual interest of 4 per cent on said amount.

ART. 259. The debt due by the State to the agricultural and mechanical college fund is hereby declared to be the sum of $182,313.03, being the proceeds of the sale of lands and land scrip heretofore granted by the United States to this State for the use of a college for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, and said amount shall be kept to the credit of said fund on the books of the auditor and treasurer of the State as a perpetual loan, and the State shall pay an annual interest of 5 per cent on said amount.

ART. 260. The interest due on the free-school fund, the seminary fund, and the agricultural and mechanical college fund shall be paid out of any tax that may be levied and collected for the payment of the interest on the State debt.

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ART. 307. The board of agriculture and immigration shall consist of one member from each Congressional district [and] the governor of the State, the commissioner of agriculture and immigration, the president of the State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the vice-president of the board of supervisors of the State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the director of the State experimental stations shall be ex officio members of this board. The members of said board shall serve without compensation, except actual expenses incurred in attending the meetings.

[The following matter is taken from the Revised Laws of Louisiana, Compiled and Annotated by Solomon Wolff, of the New Orleans Bar. New Orleans, 1897.]

SEC. 593. An act of Congress of the United States, approved July 2, 1862, and the grant of land and land scrip thereby made, is hereby accepted on the part of the State of Louisiana.

SEC. 594. The said grant of land and land scrip is hereby accepted for the purposes and upon the conditions in said act of Congress specified, and the assent of the State of Louisiana to the several conditions and provisions in said act contained is hereby signified and expressed.

SEC. 595. The governor of the State, together with the chief justice of the supreme court and a commissioner to be duly appointed by them, are hereby appointed commissioners to receive from the Secretary of the Interior, or other officer of the United States, the land scrip to which the State of Louisiana is or may be entitled under the act of Congress aforesaid, and to sell and dispose of the same, and upon said sale being made by said commissioners, they are authorized to appoint one person to assign said land scrip in accordance with the rules of the Department of the Interior.

[The following matter is not incorporated as an integral part of the Revised Statutes proper, but as Acts of the Legislature.]

Act 145, 1876, page 18, of Acts of 1878: SECTION 1. The Louisiana State University, as now established and located at Alexandria, in the parish of Rapides, and the Louisiana State Agricultural and Mechanical College, as now established and located in the parish of St. Bernard, are hereby united and constituted into one and the same institution of learning, which shall hereafter be known and designated under the name and title of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and that said institution of learning, the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as hereby created, shall be established temporarily at Baton Rouge, in the parish of East Baton Rouge.

SEC. 2. All legal rights and privileges as granted by the Congress of the United States and the legislature of Louisiana, and all the legal obligations and requirements as imposed by Congressional and legislative enactments, and binding upon the two institutions of learning, respectively, which have been, in the preceding section of this act, united and constituted into one and the same institution of learning, shall be of full force and effect with and upon the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as herein before constituted and established, excepting such legal rights, privileges, obligations, and requirements as may be specifically repealed by the provisions of this act.

SEC. 3. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as herein before created, shall have for its object to become an institution of learning, in the broadest and highest sense, where literature, science, and all the arts may be taught; where the principles of truth and honor may be established, and a noble sense of personal and patriotic and religious duty inculcated; in fine, to fit the citizens to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

SEC. 4. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as hereinbefore created, shall provide general instruction and education in all the departments of literature, science, and art, and industrial and professional pursuits; and it shall provide special instruction for the purpose of agriculture, the mechanic arts, mining, military science and art, civil engineering, law, medicine, commerce, and navigation.

SEC. 5. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College as herein before created, constituted, and established shall be under the direction and control of fifteen supervisors, who shall be a body corporate, under the style and title of the board of supervisors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, with the right as such to use a common seal, and who shall be capable in law to receive all donations, subscriptions, and bequests in trust for said university and agricultural and mechanical college and to recover all debts which may become the property of said university and agricultural and mechanical college, and to sue and be sued in courts of justice, and in general to

do all acts for the benefit of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College which are incident to bodies corporate.

SEC. 6. The governor of the State shall be a member and ex officio president of the board of supervisors, and the State superintendent of public education and the president of the faculty of the university shall also be members ex officio of said board, and the twelve remaining members shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate: Provided, That at least six of the fifteen supervisors of the university shall have been students of the Louisiana State University or of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and shall have taken degrees and be titled graduates of one of said institutions. At least one member of said board of supervisors shall be appointed from the parish of East Baton Rouge. Whenever a vacancy occurs in said board for any cause the same shall be filled for the unexpired term. The terms of office of the present members of the board of supervisors as now constituted under appointments heretofore made shall in no manner be abridged, terminated, or affected by the provisions of this act, but whenever a vacancy shall hereafter occur for any cause in the board of supervisors, the same shall be filled by the appointment of a titled graduate of one of said institutions until at least six titled graduates aforesaid shall be members of said board of supervisors, and said board shall be thereafter so constituted and maintained (as amended by act 75, 1896, p. 107).

SEC. 7. Three of the twelve members of the board of supervisors to be appointed by the governor in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing section of this act shall be commissioned and hold their offices for one year, three for two years, three for three years, and three for four years. Their successors shall be appointed in like manner, and shall hold their offices for the full term of four years from the 1st day of January next succeeding their appointment, and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

SEC. 8. The member of the board of supervisors appointed for the parish of East Baton Rouge, in which, as hereinbefore provided, the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College has been temporarily established and located, shall be ex officio the vice-president of the board, to preside over the meetings of the board in the absence of the governor. Five members of the board of supervisors, including the president or vice-president, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business: Provided, That all the acts of said five members, at said such meeting, shall be submitted for ratification or rejection at the next meeting of the board of supervisors, when a majority of all the fourteen members of the board may be present.

SEC. 9. There shall be four regular stated meetings of the board of supervisors at the university in each and every year-one on the first Monday in April, another on the Monday before the close of the annual session of the university, which shall be July 4; another on Monday before the opening of the annual session of the university, which shall be October 5, and another on the first Monday in December. Special meetings of the board of supervisors shall be called in such manner and held at such other times and places as the governor of the State or the board of supervisors may determine.

SEC. 10. The board of supervisors shall, at their first meeting, elect a secretary, who shall record, attest, and preserve their proceedings, and a treasurer, who shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, and in such sum as shall be determined by the board: Provided, That the treasurer shall not be a member of the board of supervisors, nor a professor or other officer or other employee of the university: And provided further, That the treasurer shall never be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract for furnishing supplies or articles of any kind to the university, or have any business transactions with or on account of the university that tend directly or indirectly to his own personal profits; nor shall any money ever be paid to the treasurer in his personal capacity, or on account of the university, except what may be his salary or compensation as treasurer.

SEC. 11. The board of supervisors shall have power to engage a president and other professors and all other officers necessary for conducting the literary, scientific, military, and technical departments, and all the financial and civil concerns and interests of the university, and to remove and displace the same at pleasure; to fix and regulate the salaries of the professors and all other officers, and to determine all other changes, excepting that there shall be no fee for tuition or for the use of the library, apparatus, laboratory, cabinets, museum, workshop, experimental farm, or other educational appliances charged to any student or cadet; to establish rules for the good government and discipline of the students or cadets; to prescribe the duties of all officers, employees, servants, and others; to confer

diplomas, upon the recommendation of the president and faculty, on students for proficiency in any branch of literature or science or department of learning, and in general to make all rules and regulations which may be deemed necessary for the proper government of the university, and for promoting the objects for which it has been founded. But nothing in this act shall be construed as obligating the State to pay any debt contracted by the board of supervisors in case it should at any time exceed the appropriation made for the institution, nor shall any of the property of the university ever be seized and sold to pay any debt of the institution by virtue of any decree of court. The title to all property owned and held by the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College is hereby declared to vest in the State of Louisiana.

SEC. 12. There shall be maintained in the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as herein before constituted and established: (1) Schools of literature, including the languages of the principal nations of ancient and modern times, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, and elocution, history, ethics, metaphysics, and such other and special branches of learning as the board of supervisors may determine; (2) schools of science, including mathematics, astronomy, engineering, architecture, drawing, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, agriculture, mechanics, mining, navigation, and commerce, and such other special branches of learning as the board of supervisors may determine; (3) schools of the useful and fine arts and of military science and art; (4) schools of medicine and law; (5) such other schools as the board of supervisors may establish.

SEC. 13. The board of supervisors may affiliate with the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College any incorporated university or college or school of medicine, law, or other special course of instruction, upon such terms as may be deemed expedient; and such university, college, or school may retain the control of its own property, have its own board of trustees, faculties, and president, respectively; and the students of such universities, colleges, or schools recommended by the respective faculties thereof may receive from the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College the degrees of those universities, colleges, or schools, and the said students of said institutions of learning or special schools thus graduated shall rank as graduates of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors immediately after its organization to prescribe, in detail, the course of studies, both theoretical and practical, to be pursued at the university and agricultural and mechanical college, and to draw up a project of the system of instruction so adopted.

SEC. 15. The board of supervisors shall be charged with the purchase of all the necessary grounds and land for the purpose of the university and agricultural and mechanical college, and with the purchase or erection, or both, as may be necessary, of all requisite buildings, workshops, laboratories, and other fixtures and contrivances needed for the academic, military, industrial, or other departments of the university and agricultural and mechanical college, and with the purchase of all necessary supplies or articles for the use of the university and agricultural and mechanical college: Provided, That no member of the board of supervisors shall have any personal interest in any contract or purchase or sales or in any business transaction of any kind whatever for or on account of said university and agricultural and mechanical college; and said board of supervisors shall be charged with the care and preservation of all the buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of the university after they shall have been provided. SEC. 16. The board of supervisors are hereby empowered to lease as early as may be practicable and invest the proceeds thereof in the stocks of the State of Louisiana, or in the stocks of the United States, all the buildings and grounds and lands belonging to and held by the Louisiana State University, as it was established and located in the parish of Rapides prior to the passage of this act, and to sell or lease all the buildings and grounds and land belonging to and held by the Louisiana Agricultural and Mechanical College, as it was established and located in the parish of St. Bernard prior to the passage of this act; and said stocks or bonds shall be deposited for safe-keeping with the treasurer of the State.

SEC. 17. For the endowment, support, and maintenance of the Louisiana State University, as heretofore created, constituted, and established, there shall be and is hereby inviolably appropriated and placed at the disposal of the board of supervisors thereof, to be drawn from the State treasurer, upon the order of the president of the board, made upon the auditor of the State, countersigned by the secretary of the board, and payable to the order of the treasurer of the board of supervisors, all the interest and income derived and to be derived from the sales of all lands granted or that may hereafter be granted to the State of Louisiana by the United States for the use of a seminary of learning, and all the interest and

income of the fund derived or to be derived from the sales of all land and land scrip granted, or that may hereafter be granted to the State of Louisiana by virtue of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862; @ and all the interest and income of the funds to be derived from the lease of the buildings, grounds, and lands in the parish of Rapides and owned by or held for the use of the Louisiana State University, as it existed prior to the passage of this act; and from the sale or lease of the buildings, grounds, and lands in the parish of St. Bernard owned by or held for the use of the Louisiana Agricultural and Mechanical College, as it existed prior to the passage of this act; and all such gifts, grants, contributions, and other donations to the endowment thereof as may be derived from any and all sources.

SEC. 18. It is particularly enjoined upon the board of supervisors of this university and agricultural and mechanical college to make the training in those branches of study relating to agriculture and the mechanic arts as practical as possible, and to that end to provide the necessary workshops and laboratories, and to secure suitable land in the vicinity of the university and agricultural and mechanical college for an experimental farm. For the purchase of an experimental farm the board of supervisors is hereby authorized to expend a sum not exceeding the amount specified in the act of Congress herein before mentioned, viz, 10 per cent upon the amount received by the State as the proceeds of the sale of the lands and the land scrip donated by the General Government of the United States.

SEC. 19. Immediately after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the governor of the State to appoint the members of the board of supervisors, who shall convene within ten days after the passage of this act at Baton Rouge, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, for the purpose of electing the officers of the board and of organizing the university and agricultural and mechanical college, to the end that it may be in full and successful operation as early as possible.

SEC. 20. At the regular stated meeting in December of each and every year the board of supervisors shall, through the governor of the State, make a report in detail to the legislature, showing the true condition and wants of the university and agricultural and mechanical college, and recording any improvement and experiments made in agriculture and the mechanic arts, with their costs and results; the names of the professors and students; the amount of receipts and disbursements, together with the nature, costs, and results of all important scientific investigations and experiments in the useful arts, and such other matters, including State, industrial, and commercial statistics, and literary, historical, philological, philosophical discussions or essays as may be deemed important or useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted to all the other colleges which shall be endowed under the provisions of an act of Congress of July 2, 1862, as hereinbefore mentioned.

SEC. 21. The president of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College shall be the president of the faculty of professors thereof and executive head of the institution in all its departments. As such officer he shall have authority, subject to the board of supervisors, to give general direction to the practical affairs and scientific investigations of the university and agricultural and mechanical college, and in the recess of the board of supervisors to remove any employee or subordinate officer not a member of the faculty, and supply for the time any vacancies thus created; and so long as the interests of the institution require it he shall be charged with the duties of one of the professorships; and it shall be the duty of the president of the university and agricultural and mechanical college to make to the State superintendent of public instruction, on or before the first Monday in December in each year, and every year, a report in detail showing the progress and condition of the university, the names of the professors and students, the nature, costs, and results of all important investigations and experiments, and such other matters, including industrial, economical, philosophical, and educational statistics as he shall deem useful.

SEC. 22. The president of the university and agricultural and mechanical college shall be specially charged with the discipline of the university and agricultural and mechanical college, and be held responsible for the good order of the establishment, and especially for the conduct and behavior of the students or cadets. And it is hereby declared not to be the intent of this act to devolve in

a The funds granted to the State of Louisiana by an act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, are divided between the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Southern University (for colored students) on the basis of the school population of the two races.