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SEC. 15. (771). A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 16. (772). The governor of the state, by virtue of his office, shall be president of the board of trustees, but in his absence a president pro tempore may be appointed by the board.

SEC 17. (774). 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 (773). 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 (775). 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 requisition 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 the tuition to be paid by the students of this State after four years of free tuition, and by students from other States or countries.

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. 24. The superintendent of each county, after due notice published, shall examine, and, with the consent of the

board of supervisors, give certificates of selection to the number of students to which the county is entitled, and this in addition to those already in the college, if any.

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 sub-class or class for which he is fitted.

SEC. 26 (Laws 1884, p. 18). 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 employes, and generally each and every item of experse; 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 (Laws of 1888, p. 54). 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 experimental station for this State is established at and with said college, and the board of trustees shall have full control thereof.

OF THE

TRUSTEES, PRESIDENT AND OTHER OFFICERS

OF THE

MISSISSIPPI

Agricultural & Mechanical. College,

FOR THE

YEARS 1894-1896.

Published for the Information of the Legislature
and the Public.

JACKSON, MISS.:

CLARION-LEDGER PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT.

REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Hon. J. M. Stone, Governor, and Ex-Officio President of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi A. & M. College:

We have the honor to transmit to your Excellency reports of the president and faculty of the Agricultural & Mechanical College for the years 1894 and 1895.

To the full report of the President and his recommenda tions, the report of the Appraising Committee, and the reports of the heads of Departments, showing the needs of their respective departments, we call your special attention. A more thorough equipment in several departments is a pressing necessity to increase their efficiency and use. fulness, and to place them in better shape to meet the hopes and expectations of the people of the State.

The industries of the State are almost exclusively agricultural and mechanical, and the claim of so large a body of citizens, especially in this hour of unparalleled depression, constitutes the strongest possible appeal for the complete equipment of every department of the College tending thereby to the promotion of more enlightened and pros perous systems of agriculture and the mechanic arts.

The wisdom of the past liberal policy of the State in fostering the cause of industrial education is fully vindicated by new lines of industrial development, which have been successfully inaugurated at the College, the natural fruit and legitimate outgrowth of the educational system. Nowhere, more than in agriculture and mechanic arts is it true that "knowledge is power," and in this age of keen and active competition, if Mississippi would keep step with her sister States in industrial development, it can be accomplished only through a system of education which not only cultivates in the young men of the State a taste and fondness for industrial pursuits, but also thoroughly equips them for that knowledge and special training so necessary to suc

cess.

We commend the President and Faculty for their efficiency, carnestness and fidelity.

Very respectfully,

H. M. STREET,

W. B. MONTGOMERY,
A. F. FOX,

Executive Committee.

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