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of report. Said secretary or committee of said regents appointed to make and report 
such investments and collect said income shall receive a yearly salary of $ 
payable monthly by said regents. 
Sxc. 6. That said capital shall never in any way be used by said university, but 
only to secure a definite income; that all outlay for lands, buildings, furniture, cabi- 
nets, libraries, apparatus, and salaries, etc., shall be paid from the said income 
exclusively, and said regents are hereby prohibited from incurring any debt or liabil- 
ity beyond the actual income aforesaid. 
Sec. 7. That the object and aim of said university is to furnish gratuitously to all 
qualified students a thorough practical knowledge, to the most advanced degree, of 
every science useful to an accomplished engineer, civil, military, or naval, besides 
the study of the history, constitution, and laws of the United States and of the sey- 
eral States, as well as those of Europe, with their languages and literature, the 
theory of practical agriculture, irrigation, and forestry. 
Sec. 8. That students, to enter, must not be over the age of 18 years, of good 
moral character, residents or natives of the United States, who must pledge them- 
selves to serve the United States when needed, after graduation. They must suc- 
cessfully pass a rigid examination in the highest branches of science or learning 
taught in any State college or university, and they must bind themselves to punctual 
attendance on all instruction and examinations of said university, unless necessarily 
prevented, for and during the course of five years before graduation. Graduates 
must pass a rigid examination on each subject pursued, and shall receive, besides 
academical degrees, appointments as assistant United States engineers. 
Sec. 9. That the salaries of all professors of said university shall be not less than 
$5,000 per year, and of the assistant professors $3,000 a year, payable quarterly; 
they shall hold office during good behavior; they shall arrange all terms, courses, 
subjects of instruction, examinations, and report all delinquents to the governors. 
Sec. 10. That in the selection and appointment of said professors in every case, 
when qualified, the scientific experts now employed in the several bureaus of the 
Government service shall be preferred. 
Referred to Joint Committee on the Library. 
February 27, 1894—Senate. 
Mr. James H. Kyux introduced bill (S. 1708): 
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 Repre- 
sentatives, the Commissioner of Education, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, and the president of the university; fifteen to be a quorum. The regents and 
their successors 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 
limitations herein prescribed, to adopt statutes for the government of the university, 
to elect the officers thereof, to determine the conditions of admission to the univer- 
