196 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING-. 



the necessary oatlis, and take the testimony for the thorough investiga 

 tion of the whole question, and that the results of such investigation 

 be published without unnecessary delay, for the information of the 

 people. 



In view of the important fact that another bill was introduced 

 into Congress, at the late session (by Mr. Morrill, the author of the 

 original bill), which it is expected will be passed during the coming 

 winter, giving to each of the industrial Universities in operation an 

 additional grant of five hundred thousand acres, we also request that 

 our Legislature memorialize Congress so to amend the law regarding 

 the locations upon unsurveyed lands as to protect actual settlers in 

 their improvements up to the time that the locator can make his 

 selection by sections or subdivisions. 



As a means of redress for seizures under the existing law, we also 

 recommend that our Legislature forthwith pass an Act, providing 

 that in all cases where contests have arisen, or may hereafter arise, 

 before the Board of Regents of the University upon University 

 lands, and the contestant shall feel aggrieved at the decision of said 

 Board, he shall have the right of appeal to the District Court, by 

 giving the usual notice of said appeal. 



We respectfully recommend that all the University funds be kept 

 in the State Treasury, subject only to order in proper form for Uni 

 versity disbursements. As we are now informed that the funds 

 hitherto appropriated are exhausted, and that additional appropria 

 tions will be required at the present session, to add other and 

 needed improvements, in accordance with the original plan, your 

 petitioners would respectfully ask that in addition to the sum re 

 quired for monthly current expenses, the following be specifically 

 appropriated: For farm, buildings, implements, stock, etc., twenty- 

 five thousand dollars; for annual farm and garden expenses, pay 

 ment of students and other labor, salary of farmer and gardener, 

 expenses of lectures from experts in special cultures, agricultural, 

 entomology, veterinary science, etc., collection and preparation of 

 specimens for museum of agriculture, and incidental expenses, fif 

 teen thousand dollars; for mechanical shops, printing press, steam 

 engine, and their appurtenances, fifty thousand dollars; for annual 

 expenses of mechanical shops, printing press, superintendence, 

 students and skilled labor, collections of models and raw materials 

 for museum of Mechanic Arts, lectures on technical subjects con 

 nected with mechanical pursuits by skilled persons, and incidental 

 expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. It is expected that this will fur 

 nish the carpenters , cabinet work, and printing for the institu 

 tion. It should be borne in mind that these departments are to be 

 created, and that no part of the twenty thousand dollars already 

 expended for chemical and physical apparatus, will supply their 

 technical needs. 



The completion of the central building, according to the original 

 plan, is a prime necessity in accomplishing the great purpose of the 

 University; for, in the absence of suitable rooms for the present 

 Museum and Library, it has been considered necessary to occupy 

 for this purpose, a part of the College of Agriculture, a building de 

 signed to supply the wants of this department, as is indicated by 



