192 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



definite working plan adopted, and that these requests were repeated 

 year after year. 



&quot;We find that the resolution of the Board authorizing Professor 

 Carr to employ a gardener, passed September 18th, 1872, was made 

 practically inoperative by failure to locate or mark out these &quot;right 

 places&quot; for his operations, which has only been done &quot;within the 

 past year.&quot; The same is true of their statement that $500 was 

 placed at the disposal of Professor Carr to secure the aid of compe 

 tent lecturers 011 special subjects, no such money having been placed 

 at his disposal, while his requests to have lectures from Dr. Strent- 

 zel and other competent parties named by him, with subjects and 

 number of lectures specified, was disregarded. 



On page sixty-eight of their Statements, the Regents say they 

 have been desirous of securing progress in the Department of Ag 

 riculture, and have asked for appropriations which would give it 

 more efficiency. They have requested means for the improvement 

 of the grounds.&quot; By turning back to page fifty-three of this extraor 

 dinary document, we find that they have expended $21,151 05 for 

 such improvements, not one feature of which was agricultural or 

 horticultural, a sum much larger than was required to carry out the 

 wishes of the Professor of Agriculture, who was never consulted 

 with regard to them. This sum was expended under the direction 

 of Dr. Merritt, Chairman of the Committee on Buildings and 

 Grounds, &quot;exclusively as a private trust.&quot; 



Your Committee cannot too strongly urge that the interest of the 

 people of the State, and especially of the agricultural and other 

 laboring classes, does not end with the administration of the Con 

 gressional grant, and the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges. 

 The Eegents say that they have received from the State $412,694 79, 

 exclusive of the $300,000 for building purposes; including this and 

 the $80,000 appropriated last winter, we have the sum of $792,694 79. 

 The income derived from other sources of endowment, subject to the 

 disposition of the Eegents as a &quot;private trust,&quot; are the proceeds of 

 seventy-two sections of &quot; Seminary lands,&quot; of ten sections, given to 

 the State for public buildings, the Act of endowment approved April 

 2, 1870, giving an income of $50,000 per annum, all of which add 

 enormously to the resources of the institution, with prudent man 

 agement. But neither in respect to the disposition of public lands, 

 the employment of funds thence derived, or in the direction of the 

 instructional force employed in the University, do we find the evi 

 dence we have diligently sought of the fitness or competency of the 

 Board of Regents to manage an institution created for the benefit of 

 the whole people. We find that, in consequence of their unfitness, 

 incompetency, and bad management, the interest of the Agricultural 

 College has been entirely subordinated, instead of being a leading 

 one in the University, as the law requires; its future usefulness 

 crippled by loss of lands of the greatest importance to practical edu 

 cation, and the prospect of an additional grant from Congress jeop 

 ardized, which would secure an additional income of $30,000 per 

 annum. 



In view of all these facts, we earnestly recommend to the Patrons 

 of California and their friends to adopt such measures as will best 



