and disbursements, together with the nature, costs and results of all important investigations and experiments, and such other information as they may deem important; one copy of which shall be transmitted, free, by the secretary of state, to all colleges endowed under the provisions of the congressional act of July 2d, 1862, hereinbefore referred to, and also one copy to the secretary of the interior, as provided in said act.

§ 13. For the endowment and support of the university, there are hereby appropriated: 1st. The income of the university fund. 2d. The income of a fund to be derived from the sales of the two hundred and forty thousand 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 agriculture and the mechanic arts," which fund shall be designated as the agricultural college fund. 3d. All such contributions to the endowment fund as may be derived from public or private bounty. The entire income 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 object for which they shall have been designed by the grantor.

14. Meetings 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 services 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.

§ 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 determined in the by-laws of the board. Immediately upon the organization of the board, it shall be their duty to make arrangements for securing, without 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 nearly 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.

§ 16. To enable the board of regents to purchase lands in the vicinity of the university for an experimental farm, and to improve the same, the board of supervisors of Dane county are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said county, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, interest payable annually, for the amount of forty thousand dollars, such bonds to be payable on or before the first day of January, A. D. 1886, at such place as may be determined by said board of supervisors. 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 purchase 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 payment 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 days after the expiration of 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.

§ 17. 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.

18. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE INVESTMENT OF UNIVERSITY FUND IN CERTAIN BONDS OF DANE COUNTY.

(Approved March 26, 1867.)

SECTION 1. The commissioners of school and university lands are hereby authorized to invest a portion of the university fund, or of the agricultural college fund, or of both, in the bonds of the county of Dane, issued by said county and delivered to the regents of the university by virtue of chapter 114 of the general laws of 1866, entitled "An Act to reorganize and enlarge the University of Wisconsin, and to authorize the county of Dane to issue bonds in aid thereof."

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

PART II.

COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND DEPARTMENTS

OF

AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS.

ESTAB

1. COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND DEPARTMENTS OF SCIENCE LISHED IN PURSUANCE OF NATIONAL AND STATE LEGISLATION.

II. INSTITUTIONS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO THE ARTS, NOT AIDED BY CONGRESSIONAL OR STATE GRANTS.

SUPPLEMENT.

OFFICIAL CIRCULAR.-NO.6.

CONTENTS.

I. COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND DEPARTMENTS OF SCIENCE,

Applied to the Industrial Arts, aided by National Land-Grant,
Continued, -

Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, New Haven,

• MASSACHUSETTS.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston,

Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst,

NEW YORK.

Cornell University, Ithaca,

PENNSYLVANIA.

233-310

215

237

249

253

State Agricultural College, Hyattsville, Prince George County, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

273

State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Hanover,

277

VERMONT.

State University and Agricultural College, Burlington,

279

IOWA.

State Agricultural College and Model Farm, Story County,

State Agricultural and Mechanical Arts College, New Brunswick, KENTUCKY.

State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Orono, RHODE ISLAND.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE COLLEGE.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

HISTORY.

In the year 1846, a "Department of Philosophy and Art" was instituted in Yale College, on the same general principles as the Departments of Law, Medicine and Theology. One design in this movement was to secure better opportunities of scientific instruction for chemists, agriculturists and other students who might or might not have been members of the Academical Department. A special" Analytical Laboratory" was soon opened for the instruction of these scholars. Six years later a class in Engineering was commenced. These classes soon became known as the "Yale Scientific School," and were the beginning of the present organization. In 1860, a liberal endowment was received from Joseph E. Sheffield, Esq., of New Haven, (amounting to upwards of $100,000, and subsequently increased by further gifts of $60,000) in consequence of which the name of "Sheffield Scientific School was given to the establishment. The school, as enlarged and re-organized, was almost exactly such a college as was contemplated in the Act of Congress of July 2, 1862, so that the Legislature of Connecticut was led, almost unanimously, to bestow upon this department of Yale College the income of the fund derived from the sale of land scrip. The act directing this appropriation was approved June 24, 1863.

TRUSTEES.

The Trustees of the institution are the Corporation of Yale College, consisting of the President of the College and ten Clerical Fellows, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and six senior Senators of the State. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and three senior Senators, with the Secretary of the State Board of Education constitute the State Board of Visitors, and with the Secretary of the School, the Board for the appointment of State Students. The following persons compose the Board of Visitors in September 1867:-His Excellency James E. English, his Honor E. H. Hyde, Hon. George Beach, Hon. M. T. Granger, Hon. A. J. Gallup, and Rev. B. G. Northrup. The Secretary of the School is Professor D. C. Gilman. The President of Yale College and the thirteen professors of this department form a "Governing Board," responsible to the corporation.

SALE OF THE SCRIP.

The amount of the national land-grant conferred upon Connecticut was 180,000 acres. The scrip representing this endowment was sold by the Commissioner of the School Fund, in accordance with the directions of the Legislature, on terms approved by the Governor of the State, Hon. W. A. Buckingham.