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and drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their 
letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely 
to the transaction of public business. 
(Stat., XXX VII, 387.) 
UNIVERSITY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
February 4, 1893—Senate. . 
Mr. REDFIELD Proctor introduced bill (S. 3824): 
That an institution shall be, and is hereby, established in the District of Columbia, 
to be called ‘‘The University of the United States,’’ where instruction shall be given 
in the higher branches of all departments of knowledge, practical as well as literary 
and scientific, and where facilities shall be furnished for research and investigation. 
Sec. 2. That the government of the university shall be vested in a board of regents 
and a council of faculties. 
Sec. 3. That the board of regents shall consist of one member from each State of 
the United States, to be appointed by the governor thereof, with the concurrence of 
the chief justice and the chief educational officer of his State, six members to be 
appointed by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, the following members ex officio, to wit, the President of the United States, 
who shall be honorary president of the board; the Vice-President of the United States, 
the Chief Justice of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
the Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and 
the president of the university; fifteen to be a quorum. The regents and their suc- 
cessors are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with the name of ‘‘ The 
Regents of the University of the United States,’’ and with power, subject to limita- 
tions herein prescribed, to adopt statutes for the government of the university, to 
elect the officers thereof, to determine the conditions of admission to the university, 
to confer such degrees, and such only, as are recommended by the council of faculties, 
and in general to perform any and all acts not inconsistent herewith or with the Con- 
stitution and laws of the United States, which may be necessary to the ends herein 
proposed. 
Sec. 4. That the first meeting of the board of regents shall be called by the Presi- 
dent of the United States, and shall be held in the city of Washington within three 
months after the passage of this act. At such meeting all members representing the 
several States shall be divided, as nearly as possible, into six equal classes, such division 
being according to an alphabetical arrangement of the States by them repre- 
sented. The classes thus formed shall be numbered in the order of such 
arrangement, and shall retire in such order at the end of one, two, three, four, five, 
and six years, respectively; and their successors shall be appointed thereafter for the 
term of six years. If the governor of any State shall neglect to make such appoint- 
ment within three months after the notice of a vacancy for such State, the board may 
fill the same by the election of some suitable citizen thereof. The regents first 
appointed by the President shall retire in the order of their names on the list of 
appointments at the end of one, two, three, four, five, and six years, and their suc- 
cessors thereafter shall be appointed for the term of six years. In order to the fullest 
efficiency, the board of regents shall designate seven of its members, including the 
president of the university as chairman ex officio, to act as an executive committee, 
with authority to choose the members of faculties and all employees of the university 
and fix their compensation, as well as to transact ordinary current business, and to 
perform such other duties as are imposed. The six members appointed shall be 
chosen for one, two, three, four, five, and six years, respectively, and their successors 
shall be appointed for the term of six years. 
