278 HIGHER AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



The first meeting was held on the 19th of June, 1868, when 

 these appointed Regents proceeded to elect Isaac Friedlander, 

 Edward Tompkins, J. Mora Moss, S. F. Butterworth, A. J. 

 Moulder, A. J. Bowie, Frederick F. Low, and John B. Felton. 

 Not a single representative of the agricultural or mechanical 

 classes appear among these names. 



The first business which engaged the attention of the now 

 complete Board was the disposition of the lands. This was put 

 into the hands of a committee^ of which Mr. Friedlander was 

 chairman. Not long afterward Regent Friedlander resigned, 

 and Louis Sachs, of San Francisco, was appointed in his place. 

 On the second of March, 1869, the Board received a proposition 

 &quot;from a responsible party to purchase the entire tract of one 

 hundred and fifty thousand acres for $3 50 per acre in gold.&quot; 



This party was no other than the ex-Regent and chairman of 

 the Land Committee, Mr. Friedlander, whose proposition was 

 declined. An Act had just been passed through Congress con 

 ferring exceptional privileges upon the State of California in 

 the matter of locating its lands. 



The Board had full power under the organic Act to &quot; locate 

 and sell such lands for such price- and on such terms- as they 

 shall prescribe.&quot; 



These specialties of land location are not generally known, as 

 no report has ever been published giving a list of the parties to 

 whom the land certificates have \&amp;gt;een issued. It is manifestly 

 desirable that the public should be fully informed of every point 

 connected with the administration of the grant. 



The organization of an agricultural college, therefore, became 

 incidental to a more comprehensive plan, instead of a leading 

 object in the very foundation. Still, the organic Act creating 

 the University was sufficiently plain in its provisions, had they 

 been carried out in good faith. 



It provides that the College of Agriculture shall be first es 

 tablished ; but in selecting the professors and instructors for 

 the said College of Agriculture, the Regents shall, so far as is 

 in their power, select persons possessing such requirements in 

 their several vocations as will enable them to discharge the 

 duties of professors in the several colleges of mechanic arts, of 

 mines and of civil engineering. As soon as practicable a system 

 of moderate manual labor shall be established in connection 

 with the Agricultural College, and upon its agricultural and 



