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counties for the location of the latter in their territory. iron County 
offered to give $83,000, 5,000 acres of land, and 20 acres for a site for 
the schoo! ; Phelps County, $75,000, 7,500 acres of land, and a site. I! 
has been recently located at Rolla, in Phelps County, where a colleg:: 
building, costing about $15,000, is soon to be erected. 
Whole number of students in the University during the year, 243.) /. 
portion of these have been pursuing agricultural studies. 
NEBRASKA. 
The congressional grant of 90,000 acres in land scrip, made to the State. 
of Nebraska, has been accepted, and commissioners have been appointe:! 
to select the lands. In order to carry out the object of the Nationai 
Government in making this donation, the legislature of the State passed 
an act, approved February 15, 1869, to establish a University to be called 
the University of Nebraska. It is located at Lincoln, the capital of the 
State, and is governed by a board of regents, consisting of the governor, 
the superintendent of public instruction, the chancellor of the University, 
and three persons from each judicial district, appointed by the legisla- 
ture. The University embraces six departments: .1. A college o! 
ancient and modern literature, mathematics, and natural science; 2. 
college of agriculture; 3. A college of law; 4. A college of medicine ; 
5. A college of practical science, civil engineering, and mechanics; 6. 4. 
college of fine arts. Each department or college will have a corps oi 
instructors, and when the plan of instruction is fully developed, and al: 
the colleges are in operation, fifty professors will be required to constitute 
the different faculties. The several buildings of the University are to 
be erected within a radius of four miles from the State-house, and the 
immediate government of each college will be by its own faculty. 
No person is to be deprived of the privileges of the institution be- 
cause of age, sex, color, or nationality. A matriculation fee of $5 will 
be required for admission into any department of the University; but 
applicants residing within the State, or, being non-residents, who pay, or 
whose parents pay, a school-tax of $30 or more to the State, and who pass 
the prescribed examinations successfully, will not be required to pay 
any tuition during the term of four years. All other students, and all 
who elect to remain under instruction for a longer time than four years, 
will be required to pay such fees as the board of regents may determine. 
Persons who produce a certificate from a county superintendent of the 
common schools, certifying that they have passed honorably through 
the course of study prescribed in a high school under the common-school 
laws of the State, may be admitted to any college of the University 
without further examination. Other applicants for admission will be 
required to pass an examination in the course of studies prescribed by 
the board of regents. 
In the College of Agriculture there are to be six professors: A pro- 
fessor of applied chemistry, of botany, of agriculture, of horticulture, 
of meteorology and climatology, of veterinary surgery, and a superin- 
tendent of the model farm. 
In February, 1869, the legislature of the State appropriated $100,000 
to be derived from the sale of its own lands, for the “ construetion and 
erection of a suitable building for a State University and agricultural 
college.” In pursuance of this act a beautiful four-story building has 
been erected at Lincoln during the present year, and is now ready for 
occupancy. The board of regents are about to organize the faculty and 
prescribe a curriculum of study, and the University will soon be opened 
for the reception of students. Two sections of the State lands have beep 
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