colleges. 



OFFICERS DETAILED TOR COLLEGES, 



(United States Rev. Statutes, 1878). 



SEC. 1225. The President may, upon the application of any officers for 

 established college or university within the United States, having colleges, 

 capacity to educate, at the same time, not less than one hundred 

 and fifty male students, detail an officer of the Army to act as 

 president, superintendent, or professor thereof; but the number 

 of officers so detailed shall not exceed thirty at any time, and 

 they shall be apportioned throughout the United States, as nearly 

 as may be practicable, according to population. Officers so de- 

 tailed shall be governed by general rules prescribed from time to 

 time by the President. The Secretary of War is authorized to 

 issue at his discretion and under proper regulations to be pre- 

 scribed by him, out of any small arms or pieces of field artillery Arms for 

 belonging to the Government and which can be spared for that 

 purpose, such number of the same as may appear to be required 

 for military instruction and practice by the students of any college 

 or university under the provisions of this section ; and the Secre- 

 tary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the 

 property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return 

 of the same when required. 



ENGINEERS IN NAVY DETAILED FOR COLLEGES, 



(Sup. Revised U. S. Statutes, Vol. I, Chap. 105). 



That, for the purpose of promoting a knowledge of steam- 

 engineering and iron-ship building among the young men of the 

 United States, the President may upon the application of an 

 established scientific school or college within the United States, 

 detail an officer from the engineer corps of the Navy as professor 

 in such school or college : provided, that the number of officers 

 so detailed shall not at any time exceetl twenty-five, and such 

 details shall be governed by rules to be prescribed from time to 

 time by the President : and provided further, that such details 

 may be withheld or withdrawn, whenever, in the judgment of the 

 President, the interests of the public service shall so require. 



Standard Weights and Measures for Agricultural Colleges, 

 (United States Statutes, Vol. 21, Res. 26). 



That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby 

 directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures 

 adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State 

 in the Union, for the use of agricultural colleges in the States, 

 respectively, which have received a grant of lands from the United 

 States, and also one set of the same for the .use of the Smithsonian 

 Institutions : provided, that the cost of each set shall not exceed 

 two hundred dollars, and a sum sufficient to carry out the pro- 

 visions of this resolution is hereby appropriated out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



Engineers in 

 Navy in ay be de- 

 tailed as pro- 

 fessors in 

 colleges, &c. 



Not exceeding 

 twenty-five. 



May be with- 

 drawn from 

 detail. 



Secretary of 

 Treasury autho- 

 rized to deliver 

 standard 

 weights and 

 measures for 

 agricultural 

 colleges. 



Proviso. 



