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mentioned proceeds available for the erection of buildings and providing equipments 
shall be so used in any one year. 
Sec. 15. That the Board of Regents shall have power to receive and administer 
all such gifts, devises, and bequests as are made for the benefit of the university; 
which gifts, devises, and bequests, if in money, shall be deposited with the Treasurer 
of the United States, who shall pay interest thereon quarterly at the rate of 5 per 
centum per annum. 
Src. 16. That after the formal opening of the university for instruction the members 
thereof, under rules approved by the officers, subject to any regulations prescribed 
by Congress, shall have access to all institutions, collections, and opportunities for 
study and research under control of the Government, so far as the same can be 
accorded without detriment to the public service; and to the end that all such facili- 
ties may be utilized to the fullest extent and that the Government service may in 
turn derive the largest benefit from the work done in the university, the heads of all 
bureaus, institutions, and other organizations of the Government, whose work is of a 
sort to justify it, shall be, by the executive committee of the board, brought into 
such advisory and co-operative relations with the heads of corresponding depart- 
ments of the university as such committee, with the advice of the heads of faculties, 
and the aforesaid officers of the Government shall agree upon as being advantageous. 
Sec. 17. That at the close of the fiscal year the board of regents shall make a 
report to Congress, showing the operations, conditions, and wants of the university, 
one copy of which shall be transmitted free to all institutions of learning endowed 
by the Government under any act of Congress and to all other institutions of learn- 
ing in the United States whose degrees are recognized by this university. 
Referred to Select Committee to Establish the University of the 
United States. 
May 10, 1894—Senate. 
Mr. Eppa Hunton reported with aeeeeis bill (S. 1708): 
That a body corporate shall be, and is hereby, established in the District of Colum- 
bia, to be called ‘‘ The University of the United States,’”’ in which 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 scientific and 
literary research and investigation, which suid corporation shall have the power to 
make and adopt a corporate seal, to sue and be sued, to take by devise or gift any 
real or personal property, and all other powers proper and necessary to carry out 
the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 2. That the government of the university shall be vested in a board of regents 
and a council of faculties, as hereinafter constituted. 
Sec. 3. That the board of regents shall consist of eight members, no two of whom 
shall be from the same State, and who shall be citizens of the United States and 
citizens of the State, Territory, or district from which they are selected, and who 
shall 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. The board of regents shall have 
power, subject to limitations hevein prescribed, to adopt rules and regulations for the 
government of the university, to elect the officers thereof, to establish faculties, to 
determine the conditions of admission to the university, to confer such degrees, and 
such only, asare recommended by the council of faculties, and in general to perform 
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