LAWS OF WISCONSIN-. 
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Section Y. The regents and their successors in office shall constitute a 
body corporate, with the name and style of “ the regents of the university 
of Wisconsin,” with the rights, as such, of suing and being sued, of con¬ 
tracting and being contracted with, of making and using a common seal, 
and altering the same at pleasure. They shall have power, and it shall be 
their duty, to enact laws for the government of the university, in all its 
branches; to elect a president of the university, and the requisite number 
of professors, instructors, officers and employees, and to fix their salaries, 
also the term of office of each, and to determine the moral and educational 
qualifications of applicants for admission to the various courses of instruc¬ 
tion: provided, that no instruction, either sectarian in religion, or partisan 
in politics, shall ever be allowed in any department of the university, and no 
sectarian or partisan test shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appoint¬ 
ment of regents, or in the election of professors, teachers or other officers 
of the university, or in the admission of students theieto, or for any pur¬ 
pose whatever. 
Section 8 . For the time being, an admission fee and rates of tuition, 
such as the board of regents deem expedient, may be required of each pupil, 
except as hereinafter provided; and as soon as the income of the university 
will permit, admission and tuition shall be free to all residenrs of the State ; 
and it shall be the duty of the regents, according to population, to so appor¬ 
tion the representation of student^*, that all portions of the State shall enjoy 
equal privileges therein. 
Section 9. One suitably qualified pupil from each assembly district, to be 
nominated by the representative of such district in the legislature of the 
State, who, other things being equal shall prefer an orphan of a soldier who 
has died in defense of his country, shall be at once and always entitled to 
free tuition in all the colleges of the university. 
Section 10 . The president of the university shall be president of the sev¬ 
eral faculties, and the executive head of the institution, in all its departments. 
As such, he shall have authority, subject to the board of regents, to give 
general direction to the practical affairs and scientific investigations of the 
several colleges, a d in the recess of the board of regents, to remove any em¬ 
ployee or subordinate Officer, not a’memberof the faculty, and to supply for 
the time any vacancies thus created ; and so long as the interests of the insti¬ 
tution require it, he shall be charged with the duties of one of the profes¬ 
sorships. The secretary of state shall be secretary of the board of regents, 
and shall perform such duties as they shall impose. The state treasurer shall 
be the treasurer of the board of regents, and perform all the duties of such 
office. 
Section 11 . The immediate government of the several colleges shall be 
entrusted to their respective faculties; but the regents shall have the pow’er 
to regulate the courses of instruction, and prescribe the author ties to be 
used in the several courses, and also to confer such degrees and grant such 
diplomas as are usual in universities, or as they shall deem appropriate. 
Section 12. At the close of each fiscal year the regents, through their 
president, shall make a report in detail to the governor, exhibiting the pro¬ 
gress, condition and wants of each of the colleges embraced in the university, 
the course of study in each, the number of professors and students, the 
amount of receipts and disbursements, together with the nature, costs and 
results of all important investigations and experiments, and such other in¬ 
formation as they may deem important; one copy of which Si.all be trans¬ 
mitted, free, by the secretary of state to all colleges endowed under the pro¬ 
visions of the congressional act of July 2d, 1862, hereinbefore [hereinafter] 
referred to, and also one copy to the secretary of the interior, as provided in 
said act. 
Section 13. For the endowment and support of the university, there are 
hereby appropriated ; 1st The income of the university fund. 2d. The in¬ 
come of a fund to be derived front the sales of two hundred and forty thou¬ 
sand acres of land granted by Congress to the State of Wisconsin, by virtue 
of an act approved July 2d, 1862, entitled “an act donating land to the 
several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of 
