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STATE AGKICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
agriculture and mechanic arts,” which fund shall be designated as the agri¬ 
cultural college fund. ' 3d. All such contributions to the endowment fund, as 
may be derived from public or private bounty. The entire incouie of all said 
funds shall be placed at the disposal of the board of regents, for the support 
of the aforesaid colleges of arts, of letters, and of such colleges as shall be 
established in the university, as provided in section two of this act: provided^ 
that all means derivable from other public or from private bounty, shall be 
exclusively devoted to the specific objects for which they shall have been de¬ 
signed by the grantors. 
SEOTEav 14. Meeting? of the board may be called in such manner as the 
regents shall determine, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the 
transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time. 
No member of the board shall receive compensation for his service as such 
member, but each member shall be entitled to reimbursement, on the audit 
of the board, for his traveling and other necessary expenses while employed 
on the business of the board. 
Section 15. The first meeting of the regents, the appointment of which 
is herein provided for, shall be held in the university edifice, on the last 
Wednesday of June, 1866, at which time the regents when so convened, 
shall elect one of their number president of the board. The time for the 
annual election of president of the board of regents, as also the regular 
annual meeting, and such other meetings as may be required, shall be deter- 
termined*in the by laws of the board. Immediately upon the organization 
of the board, it shall be their duty to make arrangements for securing, with¬ 
out expense to the state, or to the funds of the university, suitable lands, in 
the immediate vicinity of the university, not less than two hundred acres, 
including the university grounds, for an experimental farm, and as early as 
possible thereafter, to make such improvements thereon as will render it 
available for experimental and instructional purposes, in connection with 
the agricultural course in the college of arts. 
Section 16. To enable the board of regents to purchase lands in the vi¬ 
cinity of the university for an experimental farm, and to improve the same, 
the board of supervisors of Dane county are hereby authorized and empow¬ 
ered to issue the bonds of said county, bearing interest at the rate of seven 
per cent, pen’ annum, interest payable annually, for the amount of forty 
thousand dollars, such bonds to be payable on or before the first day of Jan¬ 
uary, A. D. 1866, at such place as may be determined by said board of super¬ 
visors. The bonds so issued shall be delivered to the board of regents of 
the university, who shall faithfully apply the same, or the proceeds thereof, 
together with all contributions made for this specific purpose, to the pur¬ 
chase and improvement of the lands for such experimental farm. But if the 
said county of Dane, by its proper officers, shall not make provision for the 
issue and deli very of said bonds as aforesaid, within thirty days after the 
passage of this act, and if in such case the citizens of said county shall fail 
within thirty days after the expiration of the said first mentioned period of 
thirty days, to furnish guarantees satisfactory to the secretary of state, that 
the said amount of forty thousand dollars shall be placed at the disposal of 
the regents of the university at the first meeting of the board, then this act 
shall be null and void. 
Section I'Z. So much and such parts of chapter twenty-one of the revised 
statutes, and of any and all acts, as contravene the provisions of this act, 
are hereby repealed. 
Section J8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
passage. 
Approved April 12, 1866. 
[Section 4, as amended by Legislature of 186Y.] 
Section 1 . Section four of chapter one hundred and fourteen of the gene¬ 
ral laws of the year 1865, entitled “an act to reorganize and enlarge the 
University of Wisconsin, and to authorize the county of Dane to issue bonds 
in aid thereof,” is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: “Section 4. 
The University shall be open to female as well as male students, under such 
