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SEC. 2. In case there are more applications for the bounty of 

 the State than there are vacancies to be filled on the part of the 

 State, said board shall give the preference to such young men as 

 are fitting themselves for agriculture and mechanical or manufac- 

 turing occupations in life, who are or shall become orphans 

 through the death of a parent in the naval or military service of 

 the United States ; next to them to such as are most in need 

 of pecuniary assistance ; and furthermore, they shall provide 

 that the appointments shall be distributed, as far as practicable, 

 among the several counties of the State, in proportion to their 

 population. 



SEC. 3. The Secretary of said school shall also be the Secretary 

 of said appointing board, and shall keep a record of their trans- 

 actions ; and he shall furthermore, at least one month before the 

 close of each academic year in said school, caused to be published 

 in at least one newspaper in every county of this state in which 

 a newspaper may then be published, an advertisement specifying 

 the number of pupils who by virtue of said act are entitled to be 

 admitted into said school for gratuitous instruction during the en- 

 suing academic year, and designating the time and manner in 

 which applications may be made to said appointing board for ad- 

 mission to said school. 



IV. 



Part of an act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, providing 

 that ofllcers of the army may be attached to colleges. 



26. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of pro- 

 moting knowledge of military science among the young men of 

 the United States, the President may, upon the application of an 

 established College or University within the United States, with 

 sufficient capacity to educate at one time not less than one hund- 

 red and fifty male students, detail an officer of the army to act as 

 president, superintendent, or professor of such college or univer- 

 sity: that the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed 

 twenty at any time, and shall be appointed through the United 

 States as nearly as practicable according to population, and shall 

 be governed by general rules to be prescribed from time to time 

 by the President. 



