PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS 



Of the Joint Committee from the State Grange, 



Mechanics' State Council, and Mechanics' 



Deliberative Assembly, 



AND 



REPLY OF THE BOARD OP REGENTS 



Of the University of California. 



SAN FRAN-CISCO, August 8, 1874. 



To the Board of Regents State University, California. GENTLEMEN: 

 The Joint Committee from the State Grange, Mechanics' State Coun- 

 cil, and Mechanics' Deliberative Assembly, met in this city August 7, 

 1874; when, on motion of A. M. Winn, W. H. Baxter was called to 

 the chair and A. M. Winn chosen Secretary. After preliminary or- 

 ganization, and explanation of the objects of the meeting, the follow- 

 ing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : 



PREAMBLE : 



WHEREAS, The Act of Congress providing for the support of State 

 Universities requires that the leading objects shall be to teach such 

 branches of learning as relate to agriculture and mechanic arts; and 



WHEREAS, The Board of Regents has totally ignored the mechani- 

 cal department of the University of California, and appointed but one 

 Professor for the Agricultural Department, while for the College of 

 Letters the Board has elected nine Professors, including the President, 

 two instructors and eight assistants, making nineteen Professors and 

 assistants engaged in teaching Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathematics, 



