faithful and honest performance of his duties as Regent. Said bond shall be filed in the office of Secretary of State.

SEC. 2. Said Regents shall hold an annual meeting in the month of March in each year, and such special meetings as may be called by the President or by any two Regents.

SEC. 3. Said Regents shall elect one of their own number President, and a majority shall constitute a quorum.

SEC. 4. Said Regents are hereby fully authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to arrange, compromise, settle and pay any and all claims and demands of whatever nature against the University of Minnesota, or the Regents thereof, and to that end said Regents are hereby fully authorized and empowered to sell at public or private sale, and convey in satisfaction of any of said claims or demands, or for cash, or on credit, in whole or part, any of the lands donated to the State of Minnesota by the United States, by an act of Congress, entitled "An act donating to the States of Minnesota and Oregon certain lands reserved by Congress for the Territories of Minnesota and Oregon, for University purposes," approved March 2d, 1861. Provided, however, That the whole amount of lands so sold and conveyed, shall not exceed twelve thousand acres, and all conveyances of land after that amount shall have been conveyed, shall be absolutely void. No one of said Regents shall be interested directly or indirectly in the purchase of any lands conveyed under the provisions of this act. Said Regents may, in their discretion, authorize the State Auditor to sell at public sale the lands hereby authorized to be sold, or any part thereof. And Provided further, That if any person or persons shall purchase any of the lands mentioned in this act, upon which other parties have made improvements, they shall be required to pay the owner of said improvements their appraised value, such value to be appraised by one of the Regents and the County Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the county where the land may be situated, and one-half of such appraised value shall be paid at the time of sale and the balance within six months thereafter, with interest at seven per cent. per annum, with proper security, to be approved by said County Treasurer. Provided, That in appraising improvements upon any of the lands aforesaid, the appraisers shall take into consideration and shall deduct from the value of any such improvements, any waste or damage to said lands by the parties making the improvements or occupying the lands.

SEC. 5. Conveyances of land under the provisions of this act, shall be executed by the President and Treasurer of the Board of Regents, in the name of and under the seal of the University of Minnesota, and such conveyances shall pass all the right, title and interest of said University, as well as the State of Minnesota, in and to the lands conveyed.

SEC. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be held or taken as an admission of the legal validity of any of the claims or demands aforesaid, or of any obligation to provide for the payment thereof.

SEC. 7. All personal property of every nature and description, including notes, accounts, stocks, bonds,claims and demands, belonging to said University, or the Regents thereof, as well as the proceeds of all sales of lands sold or conveyed under the provisions of this act, while the same are in the hands of, or under the control of the said University or the Regents thereof, or of any one of them, or of any person for them, or either of them, or for said University, or of any State officer, shall be exempt from attachment, garnishee, process, proceedings, supplementary to execution and levy or sale on execution, or any other process issuing out of any court, until otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 8. The present Regents of the University and their Secretary, Treasurer, Chancellor and any and every other officer appointed by said Regents, as well as the Auditor of State, are hereby required to turn over to

the Regents herein appointed, on demand, all books, records, papers, claims, notes, bonds, stocks and personal property of every description belonging to said University or the Regents thereof, and the care of all lands belonging to the University and of the University buildings and grounds, and the leasing of the same and collecting of rent, as well as the adjusting and collecting of all claims of every nature, due or to become due to said University or the Regents thereof, as well as claims for trespasses committed, are hereby committed to the Regents herein appointed and their successors.

SEC. 9. Said Regents are hereby authorized to open or cause to be opened, a school in said University building; Provided, That no part of the funds of the University shall be expended for the support of the same.

SEC. 10. The operation of sections two, three, seven, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen of chapter eighty of the session laws of 1860, entitled as hereinbefore recited, is hereby suspended until otherwise provided by law.

SEC. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and may at any time be altered, amended or repealed by the Legislature. Approved March 4, 1864.

The Regents above named were employed, during the following four years, in carrying out the provisions of this act. On the 23d day of December, 1867, this Board made their final report to the Legislature, in which it appeared that they had settled all of the indebtedness of the University save about $6,000 and had left of the land entrusted to them for the purpose of settling the debts of the University, eight hundred and ninety acres. Beside this they had repaired the building on the Campus and organized a course of instruction which had been attended by about fifty students during the year.

The work of this Board having been satisfactorily completed and the purpose for which it was created accomplished, the following act was passed, reorganizing the University:

CHAPTER I, GENERAL LAWS 1868.

AN ACT to reorganize and provide for the Government and Regulation of the University of Minnesota, and to establish an Agricultural College therein.

As amended by Chapter X, of the General Laws of 1872:

AN ACT to amend Chapter I of the Session Laws of 1868, relating to the University of Minnesota.

SECTION 1. The object of the University of Minnesota, established by the Constitution at or near the Falls of St. Anthony, shall be to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and the arts, and such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, including military tactics and other scientific and classical studies.

SEC. 2. There shall be established in the University of Minnesota, five or more colleges or departments, that is to say, a College of Science, Literature, and the Arts, a College of Agriculture, including "military tactics," a College of the Mechanic Arts, a College or Department of Law, and also a College or Department of Medicine. The department of Elementary Instruction may be dispensed with at such rate and in such wise as may seem just and proper to the Board of Regents.

SEC. 3. The government of the University shall be vested in a board of ten regents, of which the Governor of the State, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the University shall be members ex officiis, and the remaining seven members thereof shall be appointed by the

Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Whenever a vacancy occurs therein, for any cause, the same shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner. Of the regents thus appointed, two shall be commissioned and hold their offices for one year, and two for two years, and three for three years. Their successors shall be appointed in like manner, and shall hold their office for the full term of three years from the first Wednesday of March succeeding their appointments, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The President of the University shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as other members, except the right of voting, and he shall be, ex officio, the corresponding secretary of the Board of Regents.

SEC. 4. The Regents of the University shall constitute a body corporate under the name and style of "The University of Minnesota;" and by that name may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure; a majority of the voting members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less number may adjourn from time to time.

SEC. 5. The Board of Regents shall elect from the members of the Board a President of the Board, [a] Recording Secretary and [a] Treasurer, who shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the Board. And the President and Treasurer each before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, with at least two sufficient sureties, to the State of Minnesota, to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for the faithful and honest performance of the duties of his office according to law, which bonds, when so approved, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

SEC. 6. The Board of Regents shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to enact by-laws for the government of the University of Minnesota in all its departments; to elect a President of the University, and, in their discretion, a Vice-President, and the requisite number of professors, instructors,officers and employes, and to fix their salaries, [and] also the term of office of each, and to determine the moral and educational qualifications of applicants for admission, and in the appointment of professors, instructors and other officers, and assistants of the University, and in prescribing the studies and exercises thereof; and in all the management and government thereof, no partiality or preference shall be shown to one sect or religious denomination over another, nor shall anything sectarian be taught therein. And the Board of Regents shall have power to regulate the courses of instruction, and [to] prescribe the books and authorities to be used, and also to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usual, in their discretion. It shall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to record all the proceedings of the Board, and carefully preserve all its books and papers; and before entering upon the duties of his office he shall take and subscribe an oath to perform his duties honestly and faithfully as such officer. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to keep an exact and faithful account of all moneys, bills receivable and evidence of indebtedness, and all securities or property received or paid out by him, and before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe an oath that he will well and faithfully perform the duties of Treasurer thereof. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at the meetings of the Board; and in case of his inability to preside, the Board may appoint a President pro tempore.

SEC. 7. In addition to all the rights, immunities, franchises and endowments heretofore granted to or conferred upon the University of Minnesota, for the endowment, support and maintenance thereof, there shall be and is hereby inviolably appropriated and placed at the disposal of the Board of Regents thereof, to be drawn from the State treasury upon the order of the President, drawn upon the State Auditor, countersigned by the Secretary of the Board and payable to the order of the Treasurer of the Board, all the

interest and income of the fund to be derived from the sales of all lands granted and to be granted to the State of Minnesota by virtue of an act of Congress, entitled "An act donating lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture andthe mechanic arts," approved July 2d, 1867; and also all such gifts, grants and contributions to the endowment thereof as may be derived from any and all such

sources.

SEC. 8. And in order to effect a settlement of all remaining indebtedness of the University, all the powers and authorities given by Chapter 18 of the laws of 1864, entitled "An act relating to the University of Minnesota," and Chapter 11 of the laws of 1866, entitled "An act to amend an act relating to the University of Minnesota, approved March 4, 1864," to the Regents therein mentioned, are hereby given to and conferred upon the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota aforesaid; and the said acts are hereby continued and shall be in force until such outstanding indebtedness is fully liquidated.

SEC. 9. The first meeting of the Board of Regents under the provisions of this act, shall be holden at the University building on the first Wednesday in March, 1868, at which meeting the officers of the Board shall be elected, and the annual meetings of the Board shall be holden on the second Tuesday of December in each and every year thereafter.

SEC. 10. Any person or persons contributing a sum of not less than fifteen thousand dollars shall have the privilege of endowing a professorship in the University, the name and object of which shall be designated by the Board of Regents.

SEC. 11. The said Board of Regents shall succeed to and have control of the books, records, building and all other property of the University; and the present Board of Regents shall be disɛolved immediately upon the organization of the Board herein provided for; Provided, that all contracts made and at the time binding upon the Board then dissolved, shall be assumed and discharged by their successors in office.

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the Board of Regents herein provided for, to make arrangements for securing suitable lands, pursuant to the act of Congress above mentioned, in the vicinity of the University, for an experimental farm; and as soon thereafter as may be to make such improvements thereon as will render the same available for experimental purposes in connection with the course in the agricultural college; and for such purpose the Board of Regents is hereby authorized to expend a sum not exceeding the amount specified by the act of Congress aforesaid.

SEC. 13. On or before the second Tuesday in December in each and every year the Board of Regents, through their President, shall make a report to the Governor, showing in detail the progress and condition of the University during the previous University year, the wants of the institution in all its various departments-the nature, costs and results of all improvements, experiments and investigations, the number of professors and students-the amounts of money received and disbursed-and such other matters, including industrial and economical statistics, as they deem important or useful. One copy of said report shall be transmitted to each of the other colleges endowed under the provisions of the said act of Congress, and one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 14. The President of the University shall be the President of the general faculty and of the special faculties of the several departments or colleges, and the executive head of the institution in all its departments. As such officer he shall have authority, subject to the Board of Regents, to give general direction to the practical affairs and scientific investigations of the University, and in the recess of the Board of Regents to remove any employe or subordinate officer not a member of the faculty, and supply, for the time

being, any vacancies thus created. He shall perform the customary duties of a Corresponding Secretary, and may be charged with the duties of one of the professorships. He shall make to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before the second Tuesday in December in each and every year, a report, showing in detail the progress and condition of the University during the previous University year-the number of professors and students in the several departments-and such other matters relating to the proper educational work of the institution as he shall deem useful. It shall also be the duty of the President of the University to make to the Board of Regents, on or before the second Tuesday in December in each and every year, a report, showing in detail the progress and condition of the University during the previous University year-the nature and results of all important experiments and investigations, and such other matters, including economical and industrial facts and statistics as he shall deem useful.

SEC. 15. Chapter eighty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter eighty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and so much and such parts of any and all acts and laws, whether general or special, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 16. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 18, 1868. Act to amend approved February 29, 1872.

By virtue of the above act, the land which had been appropriated to the Agricultural College, in McLeod County, became vested in the Board of Regents of the University.

By act of the Legislature of 1858, an Agricultural College was established in McLeod County, on "so much of section 16, township 115, range 28, as may be purchased by the State of Minnesota, and on all lands adjacent that may be donated," the donation to be not less than three hundred and twenty acres, and the same placed under the control of the officers of the State Agricultural Society. Subsequently, three hundred and twenty acres, adjacent to section 16, was donated to the State by the citizens of McLeod County for that purpose. By an act of the Legislature, March 12, 1861, all the swamp lands in McLeod County were reserved and set aside for the use and benefit of the Agricultural College. By the act of Congress, July 2, 1862, donating public lands to such States and Territories as should establish and provide Agricultural Colleges within five years from that date, the State of Minnesota was entitled to one hundred and twenty thousand acres of land. The Legislature accepted this grant for the Agricultural College and the lands were selected and certified to the State. Some of these lands were entered at double the minimum price and so the amount selected and certified was reduced somewhat below one hundred thousand acres. No experiments were ever carried on, nor was any attempt made to give any instruction, by the Agricultural Board who had charge of this College.

The act of Congress, referred to above, is herewith given, in full: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:

That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quan