year, unless the board shall in regular session determine to hold its meetings at some other time and place; and upon the application in writing of any four members of the board the governor shall appoint a special meeting, naming the time and place thereof, and cause notices thereof to be issued to the several members of the board, but such meeting shall not be appointed for a day less than twenty days subsequent to the date of the notice.

SEC. 3693. Quorum of board of trustees. Six members of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day until a quorum is present.

SEC. 3694. The certificate of the president of the board or in his absence of the president pro tempore, countersigned by the secretary, shall entitle the several trustees to the payment of their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as such trustees.

SEC. 3695. No grant or gift, by will or otherwise, shall fail on account of any misnomer or informality, when the intent of the grantor or donor can be arrived at; nor shall any default, malfeasance, or misfeasance, or nonuser on the part of the trustees or other officers or agents of such corporation, work a forfeiture of any of its rights, privileges, powers, or franchises.

SEC. 3696. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make or cause to be made to the general assembly, at each session thereof, a full report of their transactions, and of the condition of the college, embracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements on account of the college by those charged with the administration of its finances.

SEC. 3697. Interest paid by treasurer; when bond required of officers or agents. The State treasurer must pay the interest on the fund of $253,500 arising from the sale of land scrip quarterly, as the same may accrue, to the treasurer or other authorized agent or officer of the college; and on the application of such treasurer, agent, or officer, the auditor shall draw his warrant on the State treasurer for such interest; but in no case shall any person be authorized to receive, hold, or disburse any fund of the college without having first given bond conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.

SEC. 398. Experiment station of agricultural and mechanical college. The trustees of the agricultural and mechanical college may establish and maintain an agricultural experiment station, at which careful experiments in scientific agriculture shall be made: the results whereof shall be furnished the commissioner [of agriculture] monthly, and he shall make publication thereof as often as he may deem necessary; and if such station is established and maintained, the trustees of the college shall cause, without charge therefor, an analysis to be made of all fertilizers submitted by the commissioner for analysis; and one-sixth of the net proceeds arising from the sale of fertilizer tags shall be paid quarterly to the treasurer of the agricultural and mechanical college on the approval of the governor and of the commissioner, to be disbursed under the direction of the board of trustees for the development of the agricultural and mechanical department of the college.

SEC. 399. A branch agricultural experiment station, for the purpose of conducting and making experiments in scientific agriculture, is established and located at or near Uniontown, in Perry County, known as the Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station.

SEC. 400. The station is under the general supervision and control of a board composed of the commissioner of agriculture, the director of the experiment station at the agricultural and mechanical college, and five progressive farmers to be appointed by the governor, who are actually engaged in cultivating canebrake land, three of whom must reside within 10 miles of the station, and who must not receive any compensation other than expenses actually incurred in visiting the station, and, while there, supervising its affairs.

SEC. 401. The board has authority to purchase suitable lands, not exceeding in quantity 40 acres, for the use of the station, taking the title to the State, and to construct thereon the necessary buildings and other improvements, not expending more than $2.000 in making such purchase and in the construction of such buildings and improvements. The board has authority also to appoint and to discharge at pleasure such officers, agents, or servants as are deemed necessary to the operation of the station, fixing their compensation; and may appoint a director to conduct and control the operations of the station, under the superintendence and direction and subject to the rules and regulations of the board, and may pay such director a reasonable salary, not to exceed $250 per annum.

SEC. 402. The board must cause such experiments to be made at the station as will advance the interests of scientific agriculture, particularly on canebrake lands, and to cause such chemical analyses to be made as are deemed necessary,

all such analyses, if requested, to be made under the supervision of the commissioner of agriculture by the chemist of the agricultural department without charge.

SEC. 403. The expenses of the canebrake agricultural experiment station, not exceeding $2,500 annually, must be paid out of the funds of the agricultural department to the treasurer of the board of control in equal quarterly installments on the 1st days of January, April, July, and October.

SEC. 404. A branch agricultural experiment station and school is established at Athens, Limestone County, in the Eighth Congressional district, known as the North Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and School; another at Abbeville, Henry County, in the Third Congressional district, known as the Southeast Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and School; another at Albertville, Marshall County, in the Seventh Congressional district, known as the Northeast Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and School; another at Evergreen, Conecuh County, in the Second Congressional district, known as the Southwest Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and School; another at Hamilton, Marion County, in the Sixth Congressional district, known as the Sixth District Agricultural Experiment Station and School; another at Blountsville, Blount County, in the Ninth Congressional district, known as the Ninth District Agricultural Experiment Station and School; and three additional agricultural experiment stations and schools, to be located by the governor, commissioner of agriculture, and superintendent of education, may be established in the First, Fourth, and Fifth Congressional districts, respectively, to be known as theDistrict Agricultural Experiment Station and School, respectively, whenever the inhabitants of the district shall convey to the State for the use of such stations and schools, respectively, not less than 80 acres of land, with suitable school buildings thereon of not less than $5,000 in value as approved by the commissioner of agriculture. [On the 9th of December, 1896, the foregoing was amended as follows:] No school or experiment station shall be established in either [any?] of said Congressional districts until such district or the citizens thereof shall donate and convey to the State for the use of such station and school real estate and buildings not less than $5,000 in value, to be approved by the commissioner of agriculture: Provided, etc., [The matter being local in application and of detail.] SEC. 405. Each of such stations is under the supervision of a board of control, appointed by the governor, to be composed of five members, a majority of whom shall be men whose principal business is farming, who shall be residents of the respective Congressional district wherein the school for which they are appointed is located, and the superintendent of education and the commissioner of agriculture shall be ex officio members of such board of control. Such board of control may appoint an executive committee composed of not less than three members of such board, who shall exercise such powers consistent with the acts creating the said school as are conferred upon them by the board of control. Of the five members of each board of control appointed by the governor, one shall be appointed for two years, two for four years, and two for six years from the date of their respective appointments, and as their terms expire the governor shall fill the vacancies, and the members appointed to fill such vacancies shall hold for six years from their appointments. And the governor, whenever he deems such action necessary or expedient, shall have authority to remove the board of control of any school or any member of such board. The members of said board must not receive any compensation other than traveling expenses actually incurred in attending meetings of the board of control.

SEC. 406. For the support of the nine branch agricultural schools and experiment stations, located in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congressional districts, respectively, in the State of Alabama, there shall be appropriated annually out of the agricultural fund the sum of $2,500 to each of said schools, one-fourth of such sum to be paid quarterly, to wit, January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, to the treasurer of the board of control of such schools, provided there is so much of said fund not otherwise appropriated; and if such fund is not sufficient to pay to each of said schools the said sum of $2.500, then the same is to be equally divided among said schools.

SEC. 407. Not less than $500 of the sum so appropriated to each of said schools shall be used in maintaining, cultivating, and improving the farms, respectively, and making agricultural experiments thereon, under and by direction of the respective boards of control.

SEC. 408. The treasurer of the board of control shall give bond payable to the board of control, in the sum of at least $1,000, conditioned to faithfully keep and disburse the funds of the schools, and such board of control may require an addıtional bond at any time it may deem necessary.

SEC. 409. The president or principal of each of said schools shall be the director of the respective school and station in which he is employed, and he shall personally superintend the making of such experiments as will advance the interests of scientific agriculture and cause such chemical analyses to be made as are deemed necessary, and perform such other duties in reference to such experiment stations as shall be required of him by the board of control.

SEC. 410. The president and board of control of said agricultural schools and experiment stations'shall, from time to time, prepare bulletins of information for farmers and reports of agricultural experiments conducted by them and answers to questions that may be asked them in practical farming and veterinary diseases, including condensed reports of the experiment station at Uniontown, and publish the same in all the weekly newspapers published in their respective Congressional districts whose publishers will insert the same free of charge.

SEC. 411. It shall be the duty of the president or principal of each of said schools to make to the superintendent of education, on or before September 30 of each year, a full report of the financial condition, workings, and progress of said school, embracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements of money appropriated to such schools by this article, and a like report to the commissioner of agriculture of the condition, expenses, and workings of the experiment station connected with such school.

SEC. 412. It shall be the duty of the president and principal of each of such schools to report in writing quarterly to the board of control an itemized account of all incidental or matriculation fees, and all other moneys received by him as such president or principal, together with the disposition of the same. He shall give receipts for all moneys received and take receipts for all moneys disbursed by him.

SEC. 413. Scientific and practical agriculture shall be taught at all the agricultural schools, and all male pupils over 10 years of age who receive free tuition therein shall be required to take the course in scientific agriculture and horticulture, and all other pupils over the age of 10 years receiving free tuition shall be required to take the course in floriculture and horticulture.

SEC. 414. None of the said schools shall receive the appropriations provided for in this article or any part thereof unless such school shall be actually conducting an agricultural experiment station and agricultural school, wherein such experiments are made as will tend to advance the interests of scientific farming.

SEC. 415. The board of control and president of the faculty of said schools shall adopt a course of study with a view to educating and training pupils for teachers in the public schools of this State, which course of study shall embrace the different grades adopted by the State; to grant certificates of proficiency or diplomas to such pupils as shall complete the course of study so adopted: Provided, That such certificates of proficiency or diplomas shall not entitle the holder to teach in the public schools of the State without examination.

SEC. 416. The commissioner [of agriculture] is authorized and directed to adopt annually such measures as may be necessary to successfully conduct in different sections of the State farmers' institutes, consisting of lectures on subjects related to agriculture by persons of scientific attainments, and by practical and successful farmers, with discussions relating thereto, and of such exhibitions as may be found improving, instructive, and of practical value to the farmers of the vicinity where such institutes are held, a report of which, with a detailed statement of the money expended in that connection, must be embodied in his annual report.

SEC. 417. The commissioner is authorized to pay the necessary expenses incurred in conducting such farmers' institutes, including the expense of employing lecturers when necessary and for distributing the reports thereof, and for this purpose there is annually appropriated out of the funds of the department of agriculture $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid from the monthly estimate and allowance for expenses of the department.

SEC. 396. All moneys received by the department from fees for licenses, from sales of tags, from fees for the registration of lands for sale, or from any other source must be paid into the State treasury monthly.

Act approved February 15, 1897:

SECTION 1. A branch agricultural experiment station and agricultural school for the colored race is hereby established and located at Tuskegee, Macon County, to be run in connection with the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and to be known as the Tuskegee Agricultural Experiment Station and Agricultural School.

SEC. 2. The board of control of said station and school shall be composed of the State commissioner of agriculture, the president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the director of the State experiment station at Auburn,

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Ala., and the members of the board of trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute who reside in the town of Tuskegee, and their successors, who shall also reside in the town of Tuskegee, Ala. The members of said board shall not receive any compensation other than expenses actually incurred in visiting the station and school and while there supervising its affairs.

SEC. 3. The said board of control shall have power to elect the director, teachers, and such other officers, agents, and servants as are deemed necessary to the operation of the said station and school, fixing their compensation, and shall manage said school and station as in their judgment they think best.

SEC. 4. For the equipment and improvement of said station and school there is hereby appropriated out of the agricultural fund in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,500, one-fourth of said sum to be paid quarterly to the treasurer of said board of control, who shall give bond in double the amount of the appropriation, for the safe-keeping and faithful application of the sum appropriated, the bond to be approved by the judge of probate of Macon County and filed in his office, a certified copy of which shall be forwarded to the commissioner of agriculture, to be placed on file in his office.

SEC. 5. The trustees of the said Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute shall furnish for the use of said station and school all the necessary lands and buildings, and for such use they shall make no charge against the State of Alabama. SEC. 6. The board of control must cause such experiments to be made at said station as will advance the interest of scientific agriculture, and must cause such chemical analyses to be made as are deemed necessary. All such analyses, if requested, are to be under the supervision of the commissioner of agriculture by the chemist of the agricultural department without charge.

SEC. 7. The board of control may adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, so that the colored race may have the opportunity of acquiring an intelligent and practical knowledge of agriculture in all its various branches.

SEC. 8. It is the purpose of this act to appropriate to the support of the experiment station established by this act; the sums appropriated in this act are appropriated only for the purpose of maintaining and operating experimental stations with the view of educating and training colored students, as herein named, in scientific agriculture.

SEC. 9. The Alabama State Normal School for Colored Students, at Montgomery, is hereby constituted an experiment station and shall be under its present board of trustees, and $1,000 per annum is hereby appropriated out of the treasury to the credit of the agricultural department, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of operating an experiment station in connection with said Alabama State Normal School for Colored Students, at Montgomery.

Act approved February 13, 1891.

SECTION 1. Inasmuch as by the act of Congress for the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved August 30, 1890, the grants of money authorized by said act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants, it is hereby declared that the assent of the general assembly of the State of Alabama is given to the purpose of the grants made in said act of Congress; and the trustees of the institution receiving said grants are hereby directed to comply with the terms and conditions expressed in the act aforesaid, using all moneys received under said act of Congress faithfully for the purposes named therein.

SEC. 2. The division of the fund to be received under said act approved August 30, 1890, between one college for white students and one institution for colored students shall be based from year to year upon the ratio of the number of each race of legal school age to the population of school age in the State of Alabama, as shown by the State school census next preceding the annual payment of said fund by the United States Treasury, said ratio being, for the year 1888-9, white (56.6) fifty-six and six-tenths per cent, colored (43.4) forty-three and four-tenths per cent; it being provided that the division may be at any time modified by the written consent of the Secretary of the Interior of the United States and the governor of Alabama.

SEC. 3. That portion of the grant of money received by the State of Alabama under said act of Congress approved August 30, 1890, herein set apart for the education of white students, is appropriated to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, at Auburn. and that portion of the said grant herein set apart

for the education of colored students is appropriated to the Huntsville State Colored Normal and Industrial School.

SEC. 4. That the money appropriated in this act to the Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Auburn, and to the Huntsville State Colored Normal and Industrial School shall be drawn from the State treasury, as ordered by the trustees of the said institutions, on the warrant of the auditor, approved by the governor.' (Approved February 13th, 1891.)

ARIZONA.

[The following matter is taken from the Revised Statutes of Arizona Territory, 1901.]

SEC. 3625. There shall be established in this Territory, at or near the city of Tucson, in the county of Pima, upon the grounds secured for that purpose, in the manner hereinafter provided, an institution of learning under the name of the "University of Arizona."

SEC. 3626. The object of the university shall be to provide the inhabitants of this Territory with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts.

SEC. 3627. The government of the university shall vest in a board of regents, to consist of a president and three members, who shall be appointed as hereinafter provided, and the Territorial superintendent of public instruction and the governor of the Territory shall, during their respective terms of office, be members of said board.

SEC. 3628. The members of the board of regents shall be appointed by the governor of the Territory, by and with the advice and consent of the council, twothirds of the members of council concurring therein, and shall hold their offices, respectively, except those appointed to the first board, for the term of four years from the first Monday of August succeeding their appointment and until the appointment of a successor.

SEC. 3630. The regents of the university and their successors in office shall constitute a body corporate with the name and style of the Board of regents of the University of Arizona," and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law: have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued: may purchase, receive, and hold property, real and personal, for the benefit of the Territory of Arizona and the use of said university; of contracting and being contracted with; of making and using a common seal, and altering the same at pleasure.

SEC. 3631. Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of regent each of the members of said board of regents shall execute a bond, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the governor, in the penal sum of $5,000, and take and subscribe an oath of office similar to the oath required of other Territorial officers, which bond and oath shall be filed and kept in the office of the Territorial treasurer.

SEC. 3632. The regents shall appoint a secretary, a treasurer, and a librarian, each of whom shall hold office during the pleasure of the board. It shall be the duty of the secretary to record all the proceedings of the board, and carefully to preserve all its books and papers, and to perform such other duties pertaining to his office as the board of regents may from time to time require. The treasurer shall keep a true and faithful account of all moneys received and paid out by him, and shall give such bonds for the faithful performance of the duties of his office as the board of regents may require. The board of regents shall appoint one of its members treasurer and one of its members secretary, but no one member shall be appointed to both the said offices of treasurer and secretary. The secretary shall receive in full for all compensation as such secretary the sum of $15 per month. No compensation shall be paid to the treasurer.

SEC. 3833. The board of regents shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to enact laws for the government of the university; to elect a chancellor, who shall be ex officio president of the board of regents, and when the chancellor is absent from any meeting of the board, the board may appoint a president pro tem.; they may also appoint and employ the requisite number of professors and tutors, and such other officers and employees as they may deem expedient, and they shall also determine the amount of their respective salaries.

SEC. 3634. The university shall consist of five departments:

1. The department of science, literature, and the arts.

2. The department of theory and practice, and elementary instruction.

3. The department of agriculture.

4. The normal department.

5. The department of mineralogy and school of mines