SEC. 11. The secretary shall receive as a compensation for his services, a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly from the State Treasury, in the same manner as is provided by law for the payment of the salaries of State officers.

SEC. 12. The sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-one and eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or so much thereof as may be esteemed necessary by the State Board of Agriculture, is also hereby appropriated to meet the expenses which may be incurred in the purchase and transportation of seeds, postage, and other contingent expenses of the office of secretary, and also necessary to pay the expenses of the Board in attendance upon their duties.

SEC. 13. The State Agricultural School, established by act number one hundred and thirty, Session Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in obedience to section ele ofven article thirteen of the constitution, shall be known by the name and style of the "State Agricultural College." The design of the institution in fulfillment of the injunction of the Constitution is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the sciences connected therewith. To effect that object most completely, the institution shall combine physical with intellectual education, and shall be a high seminary of learning, in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue, and finish a course of study, terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and arts which bear directly upon agriculture and kindred industrial pursuits.

SEC. 14. No student shall be admitted to the institution who is not fifteen years of age, and who does not pass a satisfactory examination in arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, spelling, and penmanship.

SEC. 15. The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physi

ology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed; technology, political, rural, and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, book-keeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanic arts to practical agriculture in the field.

SEC. 16. A full course of study in the institution shall embrace not less than four years. The State Board of Agriculture may institute winter courses of lectures for others than students of the institution, under necessary rules and regulations.

SEC. 17. The academical year shall consist of not less than nine calendar months. This academical year may be divided into such terms by the State Board of Agriculture as, in their judgment, will best secure the objects for which the College was founded. The Board may at any time temporarily suspend the College in case of fire, the prevalence of fatal diseases, or other unforeseen calamity.

SEC. 18. Three hours of each day shall be devoted by every student of the College to labor upon the farm, and no person shall be exempt, except for physical disability. By vote of the Board of Agriculture, at such seasons and in such exigencies as demand it, the hours of labor may be increased to four hours or diminished to two and one-half hours.

SEC. 19. The State Board of Agriculture shall be vested with discretion to charge tuition or not, as they may deem most conducive to the interests of the institution, unless acts of the Legislature making appropriation for its support shall otherwise direct. The Board may make discriminations in regard to tuition between students from this and from other States, one-third of the tuition charged for the academic term shall be paid in advance, and shall be forfeited in case the student abandons the institution.

SEC. 20. The State Board of Agriculture shall have the general control and supervision of the State Agricultural College, the farm pertaining thereto, and lands which may be vested

in the College by State legislation; and all appropriations made by the State for the support of the same, and also the management of any lands that may hereafter be donated by the General Government to this State in trust for the promotion of agriculture and industrial pursuits. The Board shall have plenary power to adopt all such ordinances, by-laws and regulations, not in conflict with this act, as they may deem necessary to secure the successful operation of the College and promote its designed objects.

SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture to choose a President of the State Agricultural College before the commencement of the next term of the institution; they shall then proceed to choose such professors, tutors and employes as the necessities of the institution demand. In case of vacancy in the office of President, or in case a suitable man cannot be selected, the President of the State Board of Agriculture, or such member of the Board as shall be designated by them, shall be President pro tem. of the College, who shall receive such compensation for his services as the Board shall determine.

SEC. 22. The Board shall fix the salaries of the president, professors, and other employes, and prescribe their respective duties. The Board may remove the President or subordinate officers, and supply all vacancies.

SEC. 23. The Board shall have power to regulate the course of instruction, and prescribe, with the advice of the faculty, the books to be used in the institution, and also to confer, for similar or equal attainments, similar degrees or testimonials to those conferred by the University of Michigan.

SEC. 24. The president, professors, farm manager, and tutors shall constitute the faculty of the State Agricultural College. The president of the College shall be president of the faculty. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall be a member and secretary of the faculty.

SEC. 25. The faculty shall pass all needful rules and regula

tions necessary to the government and discipline of the college regulating the routine of labor, study, meals, and the duties and exercises, and all such rules as are necessary to the presertion of morals, decorum, and health.

SEC. 26. The faculty shall have charge of the laboratories, library, and museums of the institution.

SEC. 27. The faculty shall make an annual report by the first Wednesday of December of each year, to the State Board of Agriculture, signed by the president and secretary, containing such information and recommendations as the welfare of the institution in their opinion demands. Any members of the faculty may make a minority report if they disagree with the conclusions of the majority, which the faculty shall communicate to the Board. No communication at any other time from members of the faculty shall be entertained by the Board, unless they have been submitted to a meeting of the faculty and sanctioned by a majority.

SEC. 28. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the State Agricultural College, and it shall be his duty to see that the rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture, and the rules and regulations of the faculty be observed and executed.

SEC. 29. The subordinate officers and employes, not members of the faculty, shall be under the direction of the President, and, in the recess of the Board, removable at his discretion, and he may supply vacancies that may be thus or otherwise created. His action in these respects shall be submitted to the approval of the State Board of Agriculture at their next meeting.

SEC. 30. The President may or may not perform the duties of professor, as the State Board of Agriculture shall determine. If he performs the duties of a professor, or in case the duties of President are exercised by a President pro tem., a Superintendent of the farm may be appointed, who shall have the general superintendence of the business pertaining to the farm, the

land and other property of the institution, and who shall be a member of the faculty.

SEC. 31. The President and Secretary, together with the Superintendent of the farm, if there be one, and in case there is not one, then one of the professors to be elected by the faculty, shall constitute a committee to fix the rate of wages allowed to students and rate of board. In assessing the board it shall be so estimated that no profit shall be saved to the institution, and as near as possible at the actual cost. The rates of wages allowed and the rate of charge for board shall, if practicable, be submitted to the State Board of Agriculture before they take effect.

SEC. 32. For current expenditures at the State Agricultural College, specific sums shall be set aside in the hands of their treasurer by the State Board of Agriculture, which shall be subject to the warrants of the President of the College, countersigned by the Secretary. All moneys due to the institution or received in its behalf shall be collected and received by the Secretary, and deposited by him with the treasurer of the State Board of Agriculture. The secretary shall, with his annual report, render a full and complete account of all moneys received and all warrants drawn on the treasurer, as secretary of the College, and shall file and preserve all vouchers, receipts, correspondence or other papers relating thereto.

SEC. 33. The superintendents of the farm, horticultural, and other departments, the curators of the museums, and each of the professors shall make a written and detailed report of the workings of their several departments annually to the president of the College, which said reports shall be kept on file in the office of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. Agricultural operations on the farm shall be carried on experimentally, so far as shall be directed by the State Board of Agriculture, for the purpose of the instruction of the students, and with a view to the improvement of the science of Agriculture in the State of Michigan. And the said Board shall cause to