ture and Mechanic Arts of the University of the State of Missouri a chair of dairy husbandry.

SEC. 2. The board of curators of the university shall, as soon as possible after the taking effect of this act, fill this chair by the appointment of a well-recognized expert in all matters pertaining to dairying and dairy husbandry.

SEC. 3. The duties of the professor of dairy husbandry, provided for in the foregoing sections, shall be to give instructions in the practical details of the selection, breeding, feeding, and management of dairy herds, of the production of milk at the least cost, of the manufacture of butter, the different kinds of cheese, and the marketing of the same, to the farmers of the State by means of public lectures and practical demonstrations throughout the State, through the farmers' institutes, the public press, and the issuing of reports and bulletins on these subjects; also to give instructions in all these subjects and in creamery management to the students in the agricultural college of the university. It shall be the further duty of the professor of dairy husbandry to make such experiments in the breeding and feeding of dairy cattle, in the handling of milk, and in the manufacture of butter and cheese at the experiment station as may be deemed [advisable?] by the dairy interests of the State and that the board of curators may direct.

SEC. 4. [Appropriates $5,000.]

MONTANA.

Constitution, Article XI: SEC. 9. No religious or partisan test or qualification shall ever be required of any person as a condition of admission into any public educational institution of the State, either as teacher or student; nor shall attendance be required at any religious service whatever; nor shall any sectarian tenets be taught in any public educational institution of the State; nor shall any person be debarred admission to any of the collegiate departments of the university on account of sex.

SEC. 11. The general control and supervision of the State University and the various other State educational institutions shall be vested in a State board of education, whose powers and duties shall be prescribed and regulated by law. The said board shall consist of 11 members, the governor, State superintendent of public instruction, and attorney-general being members ex officio; the other eight members thereof shall be appointed by the governor, subject to the confirmation of the Senate, under the regulations and restrictions to be provided by law.

SEC. 12. The funds of the State University and of all other State institutions of learning, from whatever source accruing, shall forever remain inviolate and sacred to the purpose for which they were dedicated. The various funds shall be respectively invested under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and shall be guaranteed by the State against loss or diversion. The interest of said invested funds, together with the rents from leased lands or properties, shall be devoted to the maintenance and perpetuation of these respective institutions.

[The following matter is taken from "The Codes and Statutes of Montana in force July 1, 1895, as amended and adopted by the fourth legislative assembly, together with other laws continued in force, compiled by D. T. Wade, commissioner, annotated." 2 vols. Butte, Mont., 1895.]

SEC. 1620. The Agricultural College of Montana is established and located at and has for its object instruction and education in the English language, literature, and mathematics, civil and mechanical engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed by the State board of education, political, rural, and household economy, agriculture, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanical arts to practical agriculture in the field, and irrigation and the use of water for agricultural purposes. Such agricultural college may be connected with the State University, under such regulations as the State board of education may prescribe.

SEC. 1621. The control and supervision of such college is vested in the State board of education, which may prescribe all rules therefor.

SEC. 1622. The Agricultural College of the State of Montana is established and located at the city of Bozeman, or within 3 miles of the corporate limits of said city, upon such tract or tracts of land, conforming in the aggregate not less than 80 acres, and as much more as shall be selected by the State board of education, as hereinafter provided; and said college has for its leading objects and purposes, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military

tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the State board of education and any subordinate boards, by such State board appointed, may prescribe.

SEC. 1623. It shall be the duty of the State board of education, within ninety days from the date of the passage of this act, if then organized, but if not organized then within ninety days from the organization of the said board, to select the site for the definite and permanent location of said Agricultural College of Montana and agricultural experiment station, which site shall be at the city of Bozeman, or within 3 miles of the corporate limits of said city of Bozeman; and said State board of education shall at once take steps or proceedings for procuring the title to the tract or tracts of land so selected by them, and they may and are hereby empowered to enter into contracts, in the name of the State of Montana, for the purchase of said tract or tracts of land so selected, and may execute such obligations for the payment of the same as will mature when the probable income from the fund of said agricultural college and agricultural experiment station, or either of them, will pay for the same. The said State board of education are hereby authorized and empowered to accept, in the name of the State of Montana, such gifts of land and money as may be tendered to aid in the purchase of said site. They shall appropriate the same to that purpose and take the proper and necessary conveyances of said tract or tracts of land in the name of the State. All lands and money acquired as provided in this section shall be taken and held for the sole use and benefit of said agricultural college and said agricultural experiment station.

SEC. 1624. The general control and supervision of such college is vested in the State board of education, which board may prescribe all rules therefor.a

SEC. 1625. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the State board of education, may designate and appoint an executive board, consisting of five members, at least three of whom shall be residents of the county wherein said institution is situated, which executive board shall have the immediate direction and control of the affairs of said college, subject only to the general supervision and control of said State board of education. Such executive board shall serve during the term of the State board of education, unless sooner removed.

SEC. 1626. The executive board is authorized to choose and appoint a president and faculty of said college, who shall serve as such for such time and receive such compensation as the executive board may prescribe, subject to the approval of the State board of education.

SEC. 1627. The executive board shall appoint a secretary thereof, who may also act as treasurer of said board and who may not be a member thereof, and such secretary and treasurer shall give bond with good and sufficient surety for the faithful performance of his duties as such and for the faithful accounting for and paying over to the said State board of education, to and for the use of said college, all moneys received by him as treasurer, in such sums as said State board of education may prescribe.

SEC. 1628. There is also located and established on the lands so to be selected by the State board of education, in connection with said agricultural college and under its direction, an agricultural experiment station, to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the State of Montana useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiments respecting the principles and application of agricultural science, which experiment station is established under and by virtue of the authority contained in the act of Congress entitled 'An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States, under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of the acts supplementary thereto," approved March 2, 1887, and the provisions, donations, and benefits contained in said act of Congress, and in all other acts of Congress relating to agricultural experiment stations and agricultural colleges now in force and all acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof are, by the State of Montana, hereby accepted and adopted.

SEC. 1629. Said agricultural experiment station is hereby placed under the supervision and control of the State board of education, and the executive or subordinate board or authority who may be by the governor, by and with the consent and advice of the State board of education, appointed.

SEC. 1630. The State board of land commissioners of the State of Montana is hereby authorized to issue bonds to the amount of $100,000; the minimum denomination of such bonds shall be $250 and the maximum denomination $1,000 each, said bonds to be known as the Montana Agricultural College bonds," to bear date

a Cf. section 1621.

July 1, 1895, to become due twenty-five years after date, and payable after ten years after date thereof; said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not more than 6 per cent per annum, payable semiannually on the 1st day of January and July of each year at the office of the State treasurer of the State of Montana. Said bonds shall run from the State board of land commissioners of the State of Montana to bearer, and shall be signed by the State board of land commissioners and countersigned by the secretary of state, who shall attach his seal thereto.

SEC. 1631. The bonds provided for in section 1630 shall be issued and sold as soon as possible after the passage of this act.

SEC. 1632. All funds realized from the sale or leasing of the lands (being 50,000 acres) granted by the United States to the State of Montana for the establishment and maintenance of an agricultural college, under and by virtue of the provisions of section 17 of the act of Congress, approved February 22, 1889, entitled "An act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States, and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States," are hereby pledged as security for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds authorized by this act [section 1630], and all moneys or revenue derived from the said lands or from any of them, whether on account of sale, lease, sales of timber, or otherwise, are hereby set apart and shall constitute a fund for the payment, as hereinafter provided, of the principal and interest of the said bonds, which bonds shall be a first lien on said agricultural college bond fund.

SEC. 1633. It shall be the duty of the State treasurer to keep all moneys derived from the agricultural college lands herein before mentioned in a separate fund, to be known and designated as the "agricultural college bond fund,” and out of the money in such funds he shall pay, after approval by the State board of examiners (a) the cost and expenses of the issuing of the bonds herein provided for; (b) the interest on the bonds herein authorized, when due; and (c) when such bonds shall become payable he shall call in and pay them as rapidly as the money in such fund will permit, after providing for the interest. That in the event there shall not be sufficient funds in the agricultural college bond fund to pay the interest when due, the board of State examiners shall, by an order entered upon their minutes, cause warrants to be issued on the agricultural college bond fund for the amount of the interest due; and the warrants so issued shall draw interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum; and said warrants shall be paid by the treasurer as soon as sufficient funds accumulate in said fund to pay the same; and by reason of the delivery of said warrants to the holders of said bonds, in satisfaction of accrued interest, there shall be no default in the payment of interest. SEC. 1634. It shall be the duty of the State treasurer to give notice, by advertising, for not less than two weeks, daily, in one newspaper published in the city of Helena, Mont., and in one newspaper published in the city of New York, N. Y., that he will on the 2d day of April, 1895, sell $100,000 of the bonds herein authorized, and will receive bids therefor, and said bonds shall on said day be by him sold to the highest bidder.

SEC. 1635. The money derived from the sale of said bonds shall be used to erect, furnish, and equip buildings for the use and benefit of the Agricultural College of the State of Montana, at the city of Bozeman, in said State.

SEC. 1636. Immediately upon the receipt of the money, the proceeds of the sale of said bonds, the State treasurer shall turn over the same to the treasurer of the agricultural college, and it shall be disbursed by him on orders of the executive board of the said agricultural college in the erection and furnishing of a suitable building or buildings for the use and benefit of the agricultural college upon plans and specifications first submitted to and approved by the State board of education: Provided, however, That the general supervision of the construction and erection of such building or buildings and the furnishing and equipping thereof shall be under the control of the State board of education.

SEC. 1637. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to in any wise hold the State of Montana liable for the payment of the bonds herein authorized or interest thereon.

Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials, 1897: Appropriation bill carries an item of $10,500 for maintenance and furnishing of agricultural college.

Ibid., 1899: Appropriates $12,660 for furnishing and fitting the agricultural college.

Ibid., 1901: Appropriates for 1901, $10.000 for maintenance and $15.000 for steamheating plant; for 1902, $10,000 for maintenance, $2,000 for irrigation, and $2,500 for the erection of a dairy department.

NEBRASKA.

Constitution of 1875, Article VIII: SECTION 1. The governor, secretary of state,.. treasurer, attorney-general, and commissioner of public lands and buildings shall, under the direction of the legislature, constitute a board of commissioners for the sale, leasing, and general management of all lands and funds set apart for educational purposes and for the investment of school funds in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 2. All lands, money, or other property granted or bequeathed or in any manner conveyed to this State for educational purposes shall be used and expended in accordance with the terms of such grant, bequest, or conveyance.

SEC. 8. University, agricultural college, common school, or other lands which are now held or may hereafter be acquired by the State for educational purposes shall not be sold for less than $7 per acre, nor less than the appraised value.

SEC. 9. All funds belonging to the State for educational purposes the interest... and income whereof only are to be used shall be deemed trust funds held by the State, and the State shall supply all losses thereof that may in any manner accrue, so that the same shall remain forever inviolate and undiminished, and shall not.. be invested or loaned except on United States or State securities or registered county bonds of this State; and such funds, with the interest and income thereof, are hereby solemnly pledged for the purposes for which they are granted and set.. apart, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other purposes.

SEC. 10. The general government of the University of Nebraska shall, under direction of the legislature, be vested in a board of six regents, to be styled "the board of regents of the University of Nebraska," who shall be elected by the electors.. of the State at large, and their term of office, except those chosen at the first election as hereinafter provided, shall be six years. Their duties and powers shall be prescribed by law, and they shall receive no compensation, but may be reimbursed their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.

SEC. 11. No sectarian instruction shall be allowed in any school or institution supported in whole or in part by the public funds set apart for educational pur poses, nor shall the State accept any grant, conveyance, or bequest of money, lands, or other property to be used for sectarian purposes.

[The following matter has been taken from "The compiled statutes of the State of Nebraska, 1881, with amendments, 1882 to 1901, comprising all laws of a general nature in force July 1, 1901, published under the authority of the legislature by Guy A. Brown and Hiland H. Wheeler," Lincoln, Nebr., 1901.]

SEC. 5203. There shall be established in this State an institution under the name and style of The University of Nebraska.

SEC. 5204. The object of such institution shall be to afford to the inhabitants of this State the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches.. of literature, science, and the arts.

SEC. 5205. The general government of the university shall be vested in a board. of six regents, elected by the electors of the State at large, according to the provisions of the constitution of 1875. Vacancies occurring in the board between one general election and another may be filled by the governor: Provided, always, That any person thus appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office until the next general election succeeding his appointment and no longer.

SEC. 5206. The board of regents shall have full power to appoint their own presiding officer and secretary; and they shall constitute a body corporate to be known as "The_regents of the University of Nebraska," and as such may sue and be sued, and may make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. They may acquire real and personal property for the use of the university and may dispose of the same whenever the university can be advantaged thereby: Provided. They shall never dispose of grounds upon which buildings of the university are located without consent of the legislature.

SEC. 5207. The regents shall have power, and it is made their duty, to enact laws for the government of the university; to elect a chancellor, who shall be the chief educator of the institution, and the prescribed number of professors and tutors and a steward; to prescribe the duties of all the professors and officers and to fix their compensation. They shall have power to remove any professor or officer, but only upon the proof of written charges and after affording to the person complained against an opportunity for defense.

SEC. 5208. That on and after the publication of this act the professor of botany at the State University shall be ex officio the acting State botanist; the professor of geology shall be ex officio the acting State geologist; the professor of chemistry shall be ex officio the acting State chemist, and the professor of entomology shall be ex officio the acting State entomologist.

SEC. 5209. It shall be the duty of these members of the faculty to give special attention to the interests of this State in their respective departments, to furnish all information requested by any official of this State, and to properly arrange and exhibit the collections in their departments, or some portion of these collections, with special reference to showing the varied resources of this State: Provided, That this work shall be so conducted as not to interfere with their original duties as instructors at the university.

SEC. 5210. No compensation shall be claimed or allowed on account of services rendered under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 5211. The university may embrace five departments, to wit: (1) A college of literature, science, and art; (2) an industrial college, embracing agriculture, practical science, civil engineering, and the mechanic arts; (3) a college of law; (4) a college of medicine; (5) a college of the fine arts.

SEC. 5212. The regents shall be empowered to establish in these several colleges such chairs of instruction as may be proper and so many of them as the funds of the university may allow. They shall also be authorized to require professors to perform duties in more than one of the several colleges whenever they shall deem it wise and proper so to do.

SEC. 5213. The governor shall set apart two sections of any agricultural-college land or saline land belonging to the State, and shall notify the State land commissioner of such reservation, for the purpose of a model farm as a part of the college of agriculture, and such land so set apart shall not be disposed of for any other purpose.

SEC. 5214. The several buildings of the university shall all be erected within a radius of 4 miles from the statehouse.

SEC. 5215. The regents shall, when the number of students in any particular branch of study shall require, elect one or more tutors to give instruction in such branch of study, but such tutors shall not be considered as belonging to the faculty of the college in which they may be employed.

SEC. 5216. The immediate government of each college shall be by its own faculty, which shall consist of the professors therein, but no course of study shall be adopted or series of text-books used without the approval of the board of regents. SEC. 5217. The board of regents shall have exclusive authority to confer degrees and grant diplomas, but each college may, in its discretion, grant rewards of merit to its own students. No student shall, upon graduation, receive any diploma or degree unless he shall have been recommended for such honor by the faculty of the college in which he shall have pursued his studies. The regents shall also have power to confer the usual honorary degrees upon other persons than graduates of this university in recognition of their learning or devotion to literature, science, or art, but no degree shall be conferred in consideration of the payment of money or other valuable thing.

SEC. 5218. The fee of admission to any college in the university shall be $5 each for all persons, and the amount arising therefrom, together with all other tuition fees, shall be paid into the hands of the university treasurer, and shall be held as a library fund, and the board of regents shall annually appropriate the same for the purchase of books for the university library. A reasonable course of study shall be prescribed by the board of regents precedent to admission, and no applicant who shall fail to pass an examination in any part of such course shall be admitted: Provided, Any person who shall produce a certificate from a county superintendent of common schools that he has passed honorably through the course of study prescribed in a high school under the common school laws of the State may be admitted without further examination.

SEC. 5219. All persons residing within the State, and who shall fill the requirements of the preceding section, may be admitted to any organized college of the university, and students entering the college of literature, science, and art or the industrial college shall not be required to pay any other tuition fee than the matriculation fes during the term of four years. All other students in these colleges and all who elect to remain under instruction for a longer term than four years shall be required to pay such fees as the board of regents may determine. Students may be admitted to the colleges of law, medicine, and fine arts upon such terms and be required to pay such tuition and fees as the board of regents may determine. Persons not residents of this State may be admitted to the privileges of the university in any college or department thereof, if otherwise qualified, upon such terms as to the payment of tuition and other fees, in addition to a matriculation fee, as the board of regents may prescribe.

SEC. 5220. The regents shall procure all text-books to be used in the university and shall furnish them to students at cost. The regents may, upon proper evidence of the good character of any student and his or her ambition to acquire an