MEMORIAL OF GRANGERS AND MECHANICS. 193 



remove, through the action of our next Legislature, the wrongs in 

 the management of the State University, of which we think we most 

 justly complain. 



The memorial above referred to was also signed by Hon. E. 

 D. Sawyer, C. C. Terrill, and M. J. Donovan, on the part of the 

 Mechanics. It presented the case as follows : 



Your petitioners, in behalf of the industrial classes of California, 

 both agriculturists and mechanics, would respectfully call the atten 

 tion of 3 T our honorable body to the condition and wants of the State 

 University. &quot;We make this petition with all due deference to the 

 Honorable Board of Regents and Faculty of our University, and with 

 no desire to interfere improperly with any of their rights or duties. 

 But we believe the interests of the people of the State, for whose 

 benefit especially this noble institution was established, require that 

 greater efficiency be given to the agricultural, mechanical, and other 

 industrial instruction therein, without diminishing the usefulness of 

 those departments already in successful operation. 



Your petitioners find that the State University resulted from an 

 Act of Congress entitled &quot;An Act donating public lands to the 

 several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the 

 benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.&quot; By this Act one 

 hundred and fifty thousand acres (more or less) were donated to 

 California. In accordance with this munificent provision of the 

 United States Government, our Legislature passed an Act establish 

 ing a University, and prescribing that its most prominent features 

 should be Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. By reference 

 to the last report from each of the thirty-eight States that shared in 

 this national endowment to the Department of Agriculture at Wash 

 ington, we find nearly every one of them carrying out both the 

 letter and the spirit of the Act of Congress; &quot;that they are attended 

 by over three thousand students, most of whom are practically pur 

 suing agricultural and mechanical studies/ with well stocked farms, 

 work-shops, and all necessary appliances of instruction. 



In the same report, we read that &quot; in California a farm of about 

 two hundred acres has been provided for the Agricultural Depart 

 ment, but it has not been improved, nor are the students instructed 

 in agriculture outside of the school-room. The Act of Congress re 

 quires that the &quot; leading object&quot; of the Industrial Universities shall 

 be without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and in 

 cluding military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are 

 related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the 

 Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to 

 promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes 

 in their several pursuits. The organic Act creating tlie University 

 requires that the College of Agriculture shall first be developed, 

 &quot; and next, that of the Mechanic Arts.&quot; We find that of the monthly 

 appropriation (six thousand dollars) for the regular expenses only one 

 twentieth is now devoted to the Agricultural Department, and that 

 one Professor is discharging all the duties of instruction on the sub 

 jects related to it. No technical instruction in the mechanic arts 

 has thus far been given. 

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