BY-LAWS 



OF THE 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Corporation. 



ADOPTED FEBRUARY 5, 1886, 



OFFICERS. 



ARTICLE I. The Officers of this Corporation shall be a President, Vice- 

 President, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor of Accounts, and three Standing Com- 

 mittees, consisting of five members each, to wit : (i) a Committee on Finance and 

 Buildings; (2) a Committee on Course of Study and Faculty; and (3), a Committee 

 on Farm and Horticultural Departments, all of whom shall be elected annually by 

 ballot. 



Special Committees may be chosen from time to time as the Trustees at any 

 meeting may think expedient. 



DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 



ARTICLE II. The Officers of this Corporation are charged with the duties, and 

 entitled to the rights and privileges which belong, by general consent and parlia- 

 mentary custom, to their respective offices. 



The Treasurer, in addition to being the custodian of all the funds <vhich belong 

 to the College, so far as they come into his possession under the acts of the Legis- 

 lature, shall also collect and receive all moneys and valuables due the College 

 from whatever source, and pay out and disburse the same; but all disbursements 

 shall be made in accordance with the appropriations authorized by vote of the 

 Trustees, and all payments under these appropriations shall first be approved by 

 the President, and if they amount to more than $500 for any one purpose, except 

 for salaries and other fixed sums, such payments shall also be subject to the 

 approval of the Committee on Finance and Buildings. The Treasurer shall also 

 furnish to this Committee, a monthly statement of all receipts and disbursements, 

 and the balance, if any. in hand. 



The Treasurer shall keep the Corporate Seal, all deeds and other papers relating 

 to the financial affairs of the College; he shall keep the buildings and other pro- 

 perty of the College insured in such sums as the Board may from time to time 

 direct; he shall keep full and accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements, 

 subject at all times to the inspection of the Board, or any committee or officer 

 thereof. And to assist him in these duties, he may employ a bursar at the College, 

 who shall be under his direction, and for whose acts he shall be responsible, but 

 the services of said bursar shall be paid for by the Treasurer out of his salary. 



The Treasurer shall give a bond in the sum of $10,000, the sureties on which 

 shall be men from outside of this Board, and approved by the Committee on 

 Finance and Buildings. 



MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. 



ARTICLE III. There shall be two stated meetings of the Trustees in each year; 

 the first to be held at the State House, or at such place as the Trustees at any pre- 

 vious meeting may determine, on the second Thursday of January, and to be known 



