LAWS OF WISCONSIN. 
CHAPTER 114—G. L., 1866. 
AN ACT to reorangize and enlarge the university of Wisconsin, and to authorize the 
county of Dane to issue bonds in aid thereof. 
[Act disposing of National Land Grant for a college of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts.] 
Tlie feople of the state of Wisconsm, represented in Senate and Assemhly^ do 
enact as follows : 
Section 1 . The object of the university of Wisconsin shall be to provide 
the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of 
learning connected with the scientific, industrial and professional pursuits; 
and to this end, it shall consist of the following colleges, to-wit: 1st. The 
college of arts. 2d. The college of letters. 3d. Such professional and 
other colleges as from time to time may be added thereto or connected 
therewith. 
Section 2 . The college of arts shall embrace courses of instruction in the 
matlematical, physical and natural sciences, with their applications to the 
industrial arts, such as agriculture, mechanics and engineering, mining and 
metallurgy, manufactures, architecture and commerce, in such branches in¬ 
cluded in the college of letters, as shall be necessary to a proper fitness of 
the pupils in the scientific and practical courses for their chosen pursuits, 
and in military tactics; and as soon as the income of the university will al¬ 
low, in such order as the wants of the public shall seem to require, the said 
courses in the sciences and their application to the practical arts, shall be 
expanded into distinct colleges of the university, each with its own faculty 
and appropriate title. 
Section 3. The college of letters shall be co-existant with the college of 
arts, and shall embrace a liberal course of instruction in language, literature 
and philosophy, together with such courses or parts of courses in the college 
of arts as the authorities of the university shall prescribe. 
Section 4. The university in all its departments and colleges, shall be 
open alike to male and female students; and all able-bodied male students 
of the university, in whatever college, shall receive instruction and discipline 
in military tactics, the requisite arms for which shall be furnished by the 
state. 
Section 5. The government of the university shall vest in a board of re¬ 
gents, to consist of fifteen members, to be appointed by the governor, two 
from each congressional district in the state, and three from the state at 
large. At the first appointment, which shall be within sixty days after the 
passage of this act, five shall be commissioned for one year, five for two 
years, and five for three years. Thereafter the full term of office shall be 
three years from the first Monday in February, in the year in which they 
were appointed, unless sooner removed by the governor. 
Section 6 . The said board of regents shall succeed to the custody of the 
books, records, buildings and all other property of the university ; and the 
present board of regents shall be dissolved immediately upon the organiza¬ 
tion of the board herein provided for: provided^ that all contracts legally 
made, and at that time binding upon the board thus dissolved, shall be as¬ 
sumed and discharged by their successors. 
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