In the year 1887 the Congress of the United States passed an act, popularly known as the "Hatch Bill," of which the following are the essential sections:

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 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and application of agricultural science, there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges or agricultural department of colleges in each State or Territory established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements to the said act, a department to be known and designated as an "Agricultural Experiment Station:" Provided, That in any State or Territory in which two such colleges have been or may be so established the appropriation hereinafter made to such State or Territory shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the Legislature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct.

SEC. 3. That it shall be the object and duty of said Experiment Stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and waters; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic question involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States and Territories.

SEC. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.

SEC. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as hereinbefore described, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each state, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, July and October in

each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of such colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Provided, however, That out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended.

Approved March 2, 1887.

It will be noted that the act of Congress of 1862 was designed to promote Agricultural Education, while that of 1887 provides for Agricultural Investigation.

The University receives from the State, by direct appropriation, sixty-five thousand dollars annually, provided for in the following acts:

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

That the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated in addition to the incomes from the permanent University fund, from the general revenue fund, for the support of the State University for the fiscal year ending July thirty-one, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and annually thereafter.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 8, 1887.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

For additional allowance for the general expenses for the support of the State University, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Approved April 24, 1889.

The legislature of 1893 passed an act, giving to the University a State tax of three-twentieths of a mill. This act goes into effect on and after the first day of August, 1894, and will take the place of the two appropriation acts as given above.

The government of the University is vested in a board of twelve Regents; nine of these members are appointed by the Governor of the State and confirmed by the Senate, and hold office for six years. The other three members are, ex-officio, the Governor of the State, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the President of the University. This board has complete control over everything connected with the University.

The General Faculty of the University has control of all matters pertaining to the department of Elementary Instruction, and have power to direct and control all the general interests pertaining to the internal affairs of the University (subject to the revision of the Board of Regents, to whom the action of the Faculty upon all important matters shall from time to time be submitted), except so far as said interests may fall under the supervision of the Special Faculties.

The several Special Faculties of the University shall have control and direction of the interests of their respective colleges or departments, except such matters as may be relegated to the General Faculty by the by-laws or by the Board of Regents.

The President of the University is the presiding officer of all the Faculties, but in his absence the senior professor present shall preside.

In the respective Faculties a majority of the votes constitutes a quorum, and upon call of any member the ayes and noes must be counted and entered upon the records.

The President of the University, as the chief executive officer of the University, sees that all the laws and regulations of the Board of Regents for the government of the University, and all the rules and regulations of the several Faculties in accordance therewith, are carefully executed; in all cases when an emergency arises in the administration of the affairs of the University, the President may, in his discretion, adopt such measures as he deems expedient and necessary for the best interests of the University; he may keep and use an official seal, and appoint a secretary; he communicates to any Faculty any information they may require; unless in his opinion the interests of the University demand that it be withheld; he edits and publishes the Annual Catalogue, subject to the revision of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents; and performs such other duties consistent with his office as the Board of Regents may prescribe.

Whenever the action of any Faculty is, in the judgment of the President of the University, at variance with the plans and policy of the Board of Regents, or otherwise prejudicial to the welfare of the University, and he shall so declare in writing to the Secretary of said Faculty, the said action shall not take effect until it shall have been submitted to the Board of Regents, and shall have been approved by them; and it is the duty of the President of the University promptly to make a full report of the transaction, together with the reasons for his action, to the President of the Board of Regents.

The professors have general superintendence of everything pertaining to instruction in their respective departments, and are responsible for the successful management of them; each professor has control and charge of the special apparatus of his department, and is responsible for the same.

Assistant professors and other instructors are responsible for the order and progress of their respective classes.

The order of the seniority of professors and assistant professors is determined by the dates of their first elections.

Such general devotional exercises are held in the University as the General Faculty directs.

The punishments used in the University are warnings or reprimands in private, in presence of the offender's class or section, or in public; suspension, indefinitely or for a stated time, by the President, or by order of a Faculty; expulsion by vote of the

General Faculty; and reduction to the ranks, of officers and noncommissioned officers in the Military Corps. In case of suspen. sion the student has the right of appeal to the General Faculty within twenty days after notice of suspension.

Administrative Officers.

BOARD OF REGENTS.

The HON. STEPHEN MAHONEY, B. A., MINNEAPOLIS,

1895.

The HON. WILLIAM LIGGETT, BENSON,

The HON. JOEL P. HEATWOLE, NORTHFIELD,
The HON. GREENLEAF CLARK, M. A., ST. PAUL,
The HON. CUSHMAN K. DAVIS, M. A., ST. PAUL,
The HON. KNUTE NELSON, ALEXANDRIA,

1897.

1897.

1898.

1898.

Ex-Officio.

The Governor of the State. The HON. DAVID L. KIEHLE, LL. D., ST. PAUL,

Ex-Officio.

The HON. O. C. MERRIMAN [Address care Commercial Bank], Treasurer.

CYRUS NORTHROP, LL. D., President.

CHRISTOPHER W. HALL, M. A., Dean of the College of Engineering, Metallurgy and the Mechanic Arts; Assistant Curator of the Museum. WILLIAM S. PATTEE, LL. D., Dean of the Department of Law.

PERRY H. MILLARD, M. D., Dean of the Department of Medicine and Surgery.

HENRY W. BRAZIE, M. D., Dean of the College of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery.

W. XAVIER SUDDUTH, D. D. S., Dean of the College of Dentistry.