May remove president, professors, etc. May appoint other officers, and prescribe their compensa. tion. Of what departments Univer always be at least one professor of homeopathy in the department of medicine.' (3486.) SEC. 6. They shall have power to remove the president, and any professor or tutor, when the interest of the University shall require it. (3487.) SEC. 7. They shall have power to appoint a secretary, librarian, treasurer, steward, and such other officers as the interests of the institution may require, who shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the Board, and receive such compensation as the Board may prescribe. (3488.) SEC. 8. The University shall consist of at least three sity to consist. departments Regents to prescribe course of study for students who do not desire to pursue collegiate course. To make pro vision for mete 17 Mich. 161. First. A department of literature, science, and the arts; Third. A department of medicine; Fourth. Such other departments may be added as the Regents shall deem necessary and the state of the University fund shall allow. (3489.) SEC. 9. The Regents shall provide for the arrangement and selection of a course or courses of study in the University, for such students as may not desire to pursue the usual collegiate course in the department of literature, science, and the arts, embracing the ancient languages, and to provide for the admission of such students without previous examination as to their attainments in said languages, and for granting such certificates at the expiration of such course or term of such students, as may be appropriate to their respective attainments. (3490.) SEC. 10. The Regents shall make provision for keeping a set orological tables. of meteorological tables at the University, after the forms adopted and furnished by the Smithsonian Institution, the record of which shall be transmitted with their report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall embody the same in his report. General di rection of institutions. (3491.) SEC. 11. The immediate government of the several departments shall be intrusted to the president and the respective faculties; but the Regents shall have power to regulate the course of instruction, and prescribe, under the advice of the professorship, the books and authorities to be used in the several departments; and also to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usually conferred and granted by other similar institutions. 1 As amended by "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for the government of the State University, and to repeal chapter fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six,' approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one," approved February 12, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 282. (3492.) SEC. 12. The fee of admission to the regular University Admission fees. course in the department of literature, science, and the arts, shall not exceed ten dollars, but such course or courses of instruction as may be arranged under the provisions of section nine of this act, What students shall be open without fee to the citizens of this State. admitted without fee. open to citizens (3493.) SEC. 13. The University shall be open to all persons resi- University to be dent of this State, without charge of tuition, under the regula- of the State tions prescribed by the Regents; and to all other persons under such regulations and restrictions as the Board may prescribe. without charge. whom paid, and (3494.) SEC. 14. The moneys received from such source shall be Moneys to paid to the treasurer, and so much thereof as shall be necessary how applied. for the purpose, shall be expended by the Regents in keeping the University buildings in good condition and repair, and the balance shall be appropriated for the increase of the library. to make an of University. (3495.) SEC. 15. The Board of Regents shall make an exhibit of Board of Regents the affairs of the University in each year to the Superintendent of exhibit of affairs Public Instruction, setting forth the condition of the University and its branches; the amount of receipts and expenditures; the number of professors, tutors, and other officers, and the compensation of each; the number of students in the several departments, and in the different classes; the books of instruction used; an estimate of the expenses for the ensuing year, together with such other information and suggestions as they may deem important, or the Superintendent of Public Instruction may require, to embody in his report.1 be erected from versity fund. (3496.) SEC. 16. From the increase arising from the interest of Buildings may the University fund, the Board of Regents may erect, from time to increase of Unitime, such buildings as are necessary for the uses of the University, on the grounds set apart for the same; but no such buildings shall be erected until provision shall be made for the payment of the existing indebtedness of the University, nor until one branch of the University shall be established in each judicial circuit of the State. how expended. (3397.) SEC. 17. The Board of Regents shall have power to Interest of fund, expend so much of the interest arising from the University fund as may be necessary for the improving and ornamenting the University grounds, for the purchase of philosophical, chemical, meteorological, and other apparatus, and to keep the same in good condition. 1 As amended by Act 219 of the Laws of 1859, p. 768, approved and took effect February 15, Board of Regents may establish branches. Ibid Meetings of board. Board of visitors may be appointed. (3498.) SEC. 18. As soon as the income of the University interest fund will admit, it shall be the duty of the Board of Regents to organize and establish branches of the University, one at least in each judicial circuit or district of the State, and to establish all needful rules and regulations for the government of the same. They shall not give to any such branch the right of conferring degrees, nor appropriate a sum exceeding fifteen hundred dollars in any one year for the support of any such branch. (3499.) SEC. 19. The Regents may establish and organize a branch or branches by the creation of a trusteeship for the local management of the same, or they may in their discretion select for a branch, under the restrictions aforesaid, any chartered literary institution in the State. (3500.) SEC. 20. The meetings of the Board may be called in such manner as the Regents shall prescribe. Five of them shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less number may adjourn from time to time. (3501.) SEC. 21. A board of visitors, to consist of three persons, shall be appointed biennially, at the commencement of the collegiate year, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It shall be their duty to make a personal examination into the state and condition of the University in all its departments and branches, Their duties and once at least in each year, and report the result to the Superintendent, suggesting such improvements as they may deem important; which report shall be embodied into the report of the Superintendent. report. Regents and visitors to be paid their expenses. Orders on treas urer, how signed Repeal of Chap. 57 of Revised Statutes. Department of natural history in the Univer sity. (3502.) SEC. 22. The Regents and visitors of the University shall each receive pay for the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid out of the University interest fund. (3503.) SEC. 23. All orders on the treasurer shall be signed by the secretary and countersigned by the president. (3504.) SEC. 24. Chapter fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed. An Act relative to the department of natural history in the University of Michigan. [Approved May 11, 1846. Laws of 1846, p. 199.] (3505.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the various specimens of geology, mineralogy, zoology, botany, and all other specimens pertaining to natural history belonging to the State, and now deposited in the Univerity buildings, be and the same are hereby transferred to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, to be held by said Board of Regents in trust for the use and benefit of the said University and its branches; and the said Board of Regents are hereby authorized to take, have, and enjoy the right, property, possession, and control thereof, and make such disposition of the said specimens as may be most beneficial for the interests of the University and its branches aforesaid. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. An Act to extend aid to the University of Michigan. [Approved March 15, 1867. Laws of 1867, p. 85.] 19 Mich. 13. whom paid. (3506.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation. That there shall be appropriated out of the State Treasury for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for each year thereafter, for the aid and maintenance of the University of Michigan, the How and to sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid by the State Treasurer to the treasurer of the Board of Regents of the University, in like manner as the interest on the University fund is paid the said treasurer of said Board; and it is also provided that the fund Fund already accumulated, to already accumulated under the provisions of act number fifty-nine be paid. of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall in like manner be handed over to the said treasurer of said Board of Regents of the University.' thorized to aid. (3507.) SEC. 2. The amount of fifteen thousand dollars for the special tax auyear eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and each subsequent year thereafter, shall be levied, assessed, and collected, as a special tax to provide for the aid to the University provided in this act, at the same time and in the same manner as other State taxes are levied, assessed, and collected." 1 As amended by Act 14 of the Laws of 1969, p. 19, approved and took effect February 24, 1869. As added by Act 14 of the Laws of 1869, p. 19, approved and took effect February 24, 1869. CHAPTER CXXXIII. THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. Acts and contracts of Board of Education confirmed. 1849, p. 157. 1849, p. 221. State Normal School, where established. Its design. To be under di of Education. An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relative to the establishment of a State Normal School. [Approved March 25, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 123.] (3508.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That all acts done and contracts made by and with the Board of Education under and by virtue of "An act to establish a State Normal School," approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and the act supplementary thereto, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be and they are hereby ratified and confirmed. (3509.) SEC. 2. That a State Normal School be established and continued at Ypsilanti, in the county of Washtenaw, upon the site selected by said Board of Education, the exclusive purposes of which shall be the instruction of persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, and in all the various branches that pertain to a good common-school education. Also to give instruction in the mechanic arts, and in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry; in the fundamental laws of the United States, and in what regards the rights and duties of citizens. (3510.) SEC. 3. The Normal School shall be under the direction rection of Board of a Board of Education, and shall be governed and supported as Board to pro- herein provided. Said Board shall provide for the erection of suitable buildings on the site selected, as soon as the title thereto is vide for erection of buildings. |