of the board as they shall determine. Said officers shall hold their offices two years from the last Wednesday of February, or till their successors are chosen. SEC. 9. The duties of said officers shall be prescrib- Duties of officers ed by the board, and not inconsistent herewith, and to be prescribed by they may demand and receive from the treasurer a bond with such sureties as they shall prescribe. the Board. Duties of the SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the Agricultural College board, and they are hereby vested with power and authority, provided always, That they incur no expenses or debts beyond the moneys that may at the Board. time have been appropriated or donated, and within their immediate control, to erect, provide and keep suitable and proper buildings, and establish and maintain schools therein, improve and furnish the farm, and to adopt and execute such measures as they may deem necessary to secure the successful operation of the college, and promote its designed objects. SEC. 11. The secretary shall record all proceedings of the board and of the faculty; and all regulations Duties of the Beeand rules for the government of the college. He shall retary. keep a careful account with each field, in connection. with a plan of the farming lands in which shall be shown the manner and cost of preparing ground, the kind of crops, time of planting or sowing, condition, time and manner of harvesting, the labor devoted to each process and its cost, with cost of preparing and maturing crops for market, price for which it is sold, and such other matters as the Agricultural College board shall require [of] him. The record shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to the inspection of any citizen of the State, and the secretary shall report to the Governor, on or before the first day of December of each year, which report shall embrace the proceedings of the board, and the faculty and the condition and situation of the college and farm. President of the SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the board to choose a president of the college and such professors, teachers, superintendents and employees as the necessities of Board to choose the institution demand, who shall be paid such com- college. pensation as the board shall determine, and whose duties shall be prescribed by the board. SEC. 13. The president of the college shall be its Duties of President chief executive officer, and it shall be his duty to see of the College. What to constitute the Faculty. that the rules and regulations of the Agricultural College board and of the faculty be observed. SEC. 14. The president, professors and superintendents, and the secretary of the Agricultural College board shall constitute the faculty. The faculty shall have the special charge of the college and farm, and shall with the consent of the board make all need ful rules and regulations necessary for the government and discipline of the same, regulating the routine of study, labor, meals, and duties and exercises necessary to the preservation of morals, health and decorum. SEC. 15. That all the swamp lands in McLeod county, All lands previous donated to the Agricultural College of the State of Minnesota, by act of the Legislature approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be deemed to be inviolably set apart and donated for the use and benefit of the Agricultural College of Minnesota. ly donated to be set apart for the benefit of said College. Lands may be manner. SEC. 16. That whenever the Governor shall, upon the recommendation of the Agricultural College board, deem the sale of a part or all of said swamp lands necessary, he shall order the commissioner of the State land office to sell the same, who shall, thereupon, proceed to have the same appraised and sold, same as school lands are now appraised and sold, except that necessary-in what such lands may be sold at or above any appraised value, not less than two and one-half dollars per acre; and all moneys arising from such sales shall be deposited in the office of the State Treasurer, subject to the order of the Agricultural College board, and be drawn and expended in such manner as they may direct. Provided, That none of said moneys shall be expended for any other purpose than the erection of Agricultural College buildings upon the farm herein referred to, or the improvement of the farm, or the endowment of the Professorships of the college. And until said lands are sold they shall be under the control of the Agricultural College board, and may be used for the benefit of the college, or may be rented, and the money arising therefrom shall be used for the benefit of the college. SEC. 17. That the interest of all the moneys and proceeds arising from the sales of all the lands donated to the State of Minnesota by act of Congress, approv ceeds. ed July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled Disposition of pre"An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," be and the same is hereby applied and appropriated annually to the maintenance and support of the Agricultural College of Minnesota, and the same shall be drawn from the State treasury upon the order of the president of the Agricultural board, countersigned by the secretary of the board. Duty of Governor SEC. 18. When the necessary buildings shall have been erected and the college provided, it shall be the when buildings duty of the Governor of the State to certify the fact to completed. the Secretary of the Interior, and see that the title to the lands donated by Congress to the State, herein refered to, shall be perfected in the State. Amount of appro SEC. 19. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of five thousand priation for 1885. dollars for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be paid on warrants drawn by the president, and countersigned by the secretary of the Agricultural College board. SEC. 20. That chapter sixty-five of the general Repeal of former laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled an act. act to donate swamp lands in the county of McLeod to the Agricultural College of the State of Minnesota, be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 21. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. March 2, 1865. Repeal of former act. CHAPTER VIII. 66 An Act to repeal sub-division two, section one of " An Act for the Incorporation of Institutions of Learning," being section two hundred and twenty-one of Chapter seventeen of the Compiled Statutes, page three hundred and fifteen. SECTION 1. Repeal of former act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That sub-division two of section one of "An act for the Incorporation of Institutions of Learning," on page three hundred and fifteen of compiled statutes, is hereby repealed. Approved March 2, 1865. February 24, 1865. CHAPTER IX. An Act [to provide] for the appraisement and sale of the lands donated to the State by the act of Congress donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. SECTION 1. Manner of selling lands donated to the State for the benefit of Agriculture and the 2. Disposition of moneys derived from such sale. 3. If any portion of the fund invested, shall by any action or contingency be lost, it must be replaced by the State. 4. No portion of said fund shall be applied to the purchase or repair of any building. 5. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. All lands donated to the State of Min nesota for the purpose of providing colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, under the the benefit of Ag act of Congress, approved July two, eighteen hundred Manner of selling and sixty-two, an act donating public lands to the seve-lands donated for ral States and Territories which may provide colleges riculture. for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, shall be appraised and sold and the moneys arising therefrom shall be invested in the same manner as is provided by law for the appraisement and sale and investing the moneys of school lands under the provisions of an act to establish the State Land Office and other purposes, approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and acts amendatory thereto, except that there shall be written on the bonds, bonds of the agricultural college of Minnesota, transferable only upon the order of the Governor. Provided, That no such lands shall be sold for a less sum than five dollars per acre nor for less than the appraised value thereof. moneys derived from such sale. SEC. 2. All moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid, shall be invested in stocks of the Uni- Disposition of ted States, or of this State yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks; and the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as may hereafter be prescribed, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. funds invested be SEC. 3. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of Any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, lost to be replaced be lost, it shall be replaced by the State, so that the by the State. capital of the fund shall forever remain undiminished; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied, without diminution, to the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, except that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received, may be expend |