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§4986. (3542 ) Sec. 11. The secretary shall receive, as a com pen- compeusatiou. 

 satiou 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. 



§4987. (3543.) Sec. 12. The sum of twelve hundred dollars Appropriation, 

 per annum, for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-one and eight- 

 een hundred and sixty-two, or so much thereof as may be esteemed 

 necessary by the State board of agriculture, is also hereby appro- 

 priated, to meet the expenses which may be incurred in the pur- 

 chase and transportation of seeds, postage, and the other contingent 

 expenses of the office of the secretary, and also necessary to pay 

 the expenses of the board in attendance upon their duties. 



§4988. (3544.) Sec. 13. The State agricultural school, estab- The state agri- 

 lished by act number one hundred thirty, session laws of eighteen Je^ge""^^' *^°'" 

 hundred and fifty-five, in obedience to section eleven, of article 

 thirteen, of the constitution, shall be known by the name and style 

 of " the State agricultural college ; " the design of the institution, Design of me 

 in fulfillment of the injunction of the constitution, is to afford institution, 

 thorough instruction in agriculture, and the natural sciences con- 

 nected therewith ; to effect that object most completely, the insti- 

 tution shall combine physical with intellectual education, and shall 

 be a high seminary of learning, in which the graduate of the com- 

 mon 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. 



§ 4989. (3545.) Sec. 14. Ko student shall be admitted to the insti- uequisitea for 

 tution who is not fifteen years of age, and who does not pass a sat- "f'^'^^'o^- 

 isfactory examination in arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, 

 spelling and penmanship. 



§ 4990. (3546.) Sec. 15. The course of instruction shall embrace course of 

 the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineer- 

 ing, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and phys- 

 iology, 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. 



8 4991. (3547.) Sec. 16. A full course of study in the institution fuh course 



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shall embrace not less than four years. The State board of agri- 

 culture may institute winter courses of lectures, for others than 

 students of the institution, under necessary rules and regulations. 



§ 499--^. (3548.) Am. 1871, p. SO'l, April 17, Act 180. Sec. 17. Academical 

 The academical year shall consist of not less than nine calendar ^*'"'"" 

 months. This academical year may be divided into such ternis, by 

 the State board of agriculture, as, in their judgi2ient, 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, ^fs'^g^JfJa 

 the prevalence of fatal diseases, or other unforeseen calamity. of college. 



§4993. (3549.) Sec. 18. Three hours of each day shall be Hours of 

 devoted by every student of the college to labor upon the farm, and ^* ^^' 



