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satiou for his services, a salary of one thousand dollars per annnni, to be paid 

 quarterly from the State treasury, in the same manner as is provided by hur 

 for the payment of the salaries of State officers. 



[Sec. 1:.', Comp. Laws § 3543, made an appropriation for secretary's expen- 

 ditures for 1861 and 18*32. The money was not drawn from the State treas- 

 ury.] 



Sec. 13. (Comp. Laws, § 3544.) The State Agricultural School, established 

 by act number one hundred and thirty, Session Laws of eighteen hundred 

 and fifty-five, in obedience to section eleven of article tiiirteen of the Consti- 

 tution, shall be known b}' 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 tiiorough instruction in agriculture, and the nat- 

 ural sciences connected tlierewith. To effect that object most completely, the 

 institution shall combine physical with intellectual education, and shall be a 

 high seminary of learnfng, 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. (Comp. Laws, § 3545.) No student shall be admitted to the insti- 

 tution who is uot fifteen years of age, and who does not pass a satisfactory 

 examination in arithmetic, geography, grammar, reading, spelling, and pen- 

 manship. 



Sec. 15. (Comp. Laws, § 3546.) The course of instruction shall embrace 

 the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricult- 

 ural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary 

 art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, 

 technology, polit;ical, 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. (Comp, Laws, § 3547.) 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 tlie institution, 

 under necessary rules aud regulations. 



Sec. 17. (Comp. Laws, § 3548.) The academical year shall consist of not 

 less than nine calendar montlis. 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. (Comp. Laws, § 3549.) 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 a vote of the Board of Agri- 

 culture, 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. (Comp. Laws, § 3550.) The State Board of Agriculture shall be 

 vested with discretion to charge tuition or not as they may deem most condu- 

 cive to the interests of the institution, unless acts of the Legislature, making 

 appropriations for its support, shftU otherwise direct. The Board may make 

 discriminations in regard to tuition between students from this State and from 

 other States. One-tiiird of the tuition charged for the academic term shall 

 bo paid in advance, and shall be forfeited in case the student abandons the 

 institution. 



