DELAWARE.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COLLEGE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANIC ARTS IN THIS STATE.

(Approved March 14, 1867.)

Whereas, the legislature of this State, by a recent act accepted the provisions of an act of congress approved July 2, 1862, entitled, "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts;" and whereas, the said act of congress renders it the duty of the State to provide the buildings, grounds and appliances necessary to carry out the objects of said act; and whereas, the board of trustees of Delaware College have proposed to convey to the State of Delaware a joint and equal interest in the grounds, buildings, libraries, apparatus and vested funds of said college proper, upon the condition that the State shall vest the income to be derived from the sale of the said lands in a board of trustees, not more than one-half of whom shall be the representatives of the State, and the remainder the representatives of the present board, for the purpose of establishing at Newark, in connection with said college, an institution which shall meet the requirements of the act of congress, and extend to the people of our State the benefits of its provisions; therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met :

SECTION 1. That the proposition of the board of trustees of Delaware College be and the same is hereby accepted, and that Delaware College is adopted and established as the institution to be provided by the State of Delaware, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress approved July 2, 1862, entitled, "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts."

§ 2. That the State treasurer, in conjunction with the governor of the State and the president of the board of trustees of Delaware College, is hereby authorized and required to sell and assign, upon such terms and conditions as they may deem best for the interests of the State of Delaware, the whole or any part of the scrip or land warrants issued or to be issued to the State by virtue of said act of congress.

§ 3. That the proceeds of the sale.or sales aforesaid shall be invested by the said treasurer in interest bearing bonds of this State, or of the United States, at his discretion, the principal of which bonds shall forever be held sacred for the purposes contemplated in the act of congress aforesaid, and shall not be transferable except by a special act of the legislature.

4. That the State treasurer may perform and discharge any of the acts, trusts or duties authorized, directed or conferred herein, by any agent or agents by him selected and appointed by and with the consent and advice of the gov

ernor of the State. All costs and expenses incurred in selling or assigning the said land scrip, or in investing the proceeds thereof, shall be allowed and paid out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 5. That the State treasurer shall, semi-annually, receive and pay over the interests of said bonds to the treasurer of the board of trustees to the Delaware College, for the purposes and on the conditions hereinafter mentioned.

§ 6. That the board of trustees of Delaware College shall devote said interest to the maintenance of such course or courses of instruction in said college as shall carry out the intent of the act of congress aforesaid, and shall provide for the gratuitous instruction of one pupil from each hundred in the State, who shall be annually nominated to be pupils of said college, in such manner as the legislature may prescribe. Said pupils so nominated and received shall be residents of this State, and shall be admitted into said college upon the same terms and subject to the same rules and discipline which shall apply to all other pupils of said college, with the single exception that they shall not be required to pay anything for their instruction.

§ 7. Said board of trustees shall, annually, on or before the first day of February, in each and every year, make up and distribute the reports required by the fourth paragraph of the fifth section of said act of congress.

§ 8. That the governor be and is hereby authorized to appoint five trustees from each county in the State, to be members of the board of trustees of Delaware College on behalf of the State, and to fill all vacancies which may arise in such appointments, occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, and that the present board of trustees of Delaware College shall fill up the remaining vacancies in said board, in the manner and to the number prescribed in the charter of Delaware College, as well as to fill any vacancies which may hereafter arise in their number, and the joint board of trustees, thus recognized, shall have the entire control and management of said institution, subject to the provisions of its charter and the terms of this act :

Provided, That said institution shall never be managed or conducted in the interests of any party, sect or denomination.

§ 9. That the board of trustees of Delaware College shall report such amendments to this act, or such further acts or laws, as they may deem necessary and proper to carry out the objects contemplated by this act.

ILLINOIS.

AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE LOCATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. (Approved January 25, 1867)

WHEREAS, each portion of the state is alike interested in the proper location of said University, and it is desirable to enable the public spirit of each community or section to fully compete for such location; therefore, Be it enacted, &c.

SECTION 1. That any county, city, township, or incorporated town of said state, may, by taxation, as well as by voluntary subscription of its citizens, raise a fund to secure the location of said University at any point whatever; and any other corporation in this state may make bids and subscription for the purpose of securing said location at any point whatever.

§ 2. That any county through its county courts or board of supervisors, and any township or town, through its supervisor, assessor and collector, and any city or incorporated town, through its council or board of aldermen, or other constituted authorities, as the case may be, may subscribe such sum or sums as they may deem necessary, to secure such location, and to raise the amount or amounts so subscribed by taxation, or by issuing bonds, payable at any seasonable or convenient time, and bearing any rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent. per annum: Provided, however, that no tax shall be levied for such purpose until the proposition so to raise a fund, together with the amount to be raised shall, after at least ten days' notice, be submitted to a vote of the people so to be taxed, and be approved by a majority of the persons voting at such election: Provided, that the county clerk of such county shall order an election in accordance with the provisions of this act; And provided, also, that it shall not be obligatory on any county, city or town authorities, or county clerk, as aforesaid, to submit any such proposition to a vote of the people, unless at least one hundred of the legal voters of said county, city or town shall petition for the same; in which event said election or elections shall be ordered: And provided further, that any election heretofore held in any county, city or town, for the purpose aforesaid, is hereby legalized and made valid.

3. The county, city or town authorities, as aforesaid, are hereby invested with full power to make any and all needful orders and regulations to carry into effect the foregoing provisions; and in case of an election being applied for, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said authorities to give the usual and seasonable notices, required by law, according to this act, and the end in view, and to conduct and report the same in the usual way. Such election to be conducted and return made according to the law governing elections: Provided, that the registry of votes used at the last general [election] shall be the registry for any election to be held under this act.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.

Approved February 28, 1867.

SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the governor of this state within ten days from the passage of this act, to appoint five trustees, resident in each of the judicial grand divisions of this state, who, together with one additional trustee, resident in each of the congressional districts of this state, to be appointed in like manner, with their associates and successors, shall be a body corporate and politic, to be styled "The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University;" and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold and convey real and personal property; to have and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure; to make and establish by-laws, and to alter or repeal the same as they shall deem neces sary, for the management or government, in all its various departments and relations, of the Illinois Industrial University, for the organization and endowment of which provision is made by this act. Said appointments to be subject to approval or rejection by the Senate at its next regular session thereafter, and the appointees to be and they are hereby authorized to act as trustees as aforesaid, until their successors shall be appointed by the governor and such appointment shall be approved by the senate.

§ 2. The members of the board of trustees, and their successors, shall hold their office for the term of six years each: Provided, that at the first regular meeting of said board, the said members shall determine by lot, so that, as nearly as may be, one-third shall hold their office for two years, one-third for four years, and one-third for six years from the first day of said meeting. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall fill all vacancies which may at any time occur by expiration of term of office, or otherwise, in said board, by appointment of suitable persons resident in the respective grand divisions and congressional districts in which such vacancies may occur. Said board of trustees may appoint an executive committee of their own number, who when said board is not in session, shall have the management and control of the same, and for that purpose have and exercise all the powers hereby conferred on said board which are necessary and proper for such object.

§ 3. In case the board of trustees shall at any time determine to establish a branch or department of said University at any points elected by them, such branch or department shall be under the control of the members of said board residing in the grand division and congressional district where such branch shall be located, unless otherwise ordered by said board of trustees: Provided that no portion of the funds resulting from the congressional grant of land for the endowment of said University, or from any donation now or hereafter to be made by the county, city or town at or near which said University is located; and no portion of the interest or proceeds of either of said funds shall ever be applied to the support of any branch or department located outside of the county wherein said University is located by this act.

§ 4. The first regular meeting of the board of trustees shall he held at such place as the governor may designate, on the second Tuesday in March A. D.

1867, at which meeting they shall elect a regent of the university, who, together with the governor, superintendent of public instruction and president of the state agricultural society, shall be ex-officio, members of said board of trustees. Said regent, if present, shall preside at all meetings of the board of trustees and of the faculty, and shall be charged with general supervision of the educational facilities and interests of the University. His term of office shall be two years, and his compensation shall be fixed by the board of trus

tees.

5. At the first, and at each biennial meeting thereafter, it shall be the duty of the board to appoint a treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board, and who shall give bonds, with such security as the board of trustees shall deem amply sufficient to guard the University from danger of loss or diminution of the funds intrusted to his care. The trustees may appoint, also, the corresponding secretary, whose duty it shall be, under the direction or with the approval of the trustees, to issue circulars, directions for procuring needful materials for conducting experiments, and eliciting instructive information from persons in various counties, selected for that purpose, and skilled in any branch of agricultural, mechanical and industrial art; and to do all other acts needful to enable him to prepare an annual report regarding the progress of the University, in each department thereof-recording any improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including state, industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; not less than five thousand copies of which reports shall be published annually, and one copy be transmitted by said corresponding secretary, by mail, free, to each of the other colleges endowed under the provisions of an act of congress, approved July 2, 1862, entitled “An act donating lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts; one copy to the United States Secretary of the interior; and one thousand copies to the Secretary of state of this state, for the state library, and for distribution among the members of the general assembly. Also, a recording secretary, whose duty it shall be to keep faithful record of the transactions of the board of trustees, and prepare the same for publication in said annual report. The said treasurer, corresponding and recording secretaries to receive such compensation as the trustees may fix, and to be paid in the same manner as the teachers and other employees of the university are paid.

6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury of the University, except by order of the board of trustees, on warrant of the regent, drawn upon the treasurer, and countersigned by the recording secretary.

7. The trustees shall have power to provide the requisite buildings, appa ratus and conveniences; to fix the rates for tuition; to appoint snch professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies. They may accept the endowments of voluntary professorships or departments in the University, from any person or persons or corporations who may proffer the same, and, at any regular meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and regulations in relation to such en. dowments, and declare on what general principles they may be admitted: