ness in study and correctness of deportment, and who may desire to cease such attendance, shall be entitled to receive such certificate of scholarship as is authorized by this section to be issued. All certificates of scholarships shall be in the English language, unless the pupil should otherwise prefer; and all names and terms on labels, samples, specimens, books, charts and reports shall be expressed, as nearly as may be in the English language.

§ 11. No member of the board of trustees shall receive any compensation for attending on the meetings of the board. At all the stated and other meetings of the board of trustees, called by the regent or corresponding secretary, or any five members of the board, a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum: Provided, all the members have been duly notified.

§ 12. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to permanently locate said University at Urbana, in Champaign county, Illinois, whenever the county of Champaign shall, according to the proper forms of law, convey or cause to be conveyed to said trustees in fee simple, and free from all incumbrances, the Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings, grounds and lands, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging, as set forth in the following offer in behalf of said county, to wit:

The undersigned, a committee appointed by the board of supervisors of Champaign county, are instructed to make the following offer to the state of Illinois, in consideration of the permanent location of the Illinois Industrial University at Urbana, Champaign County, viz: We offer the Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings and grounds, containing about ten acres; also, one hundred and sixty acres of land adjacent thereto; also, four hundred acres of land, it being part of section No. twenty-one, in township No. nineteen north, range No. nine east, distant not exceeding one mile from the corporate limits of the city of Urbana.

Also four hundred and ten (410) acres of land, it being part of section No. nineteen, township No. nineteen, range No. nine east, within one mile of the buildings herein offered.

Also, the donation offered by the Illinois Central Railroad Company of fifty thousand dollars worth of freight over said road for the benefit of said University. Also, one hundred thousand dollars in Champaign county bonds, due and payable in ten years, and bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, and two thousand dollars in fruit, shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery, to be selected from the nursery of M. L. Dunlap, and furnished at the lowest catalogue rates, making an estimated valuation of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($450,000.) Titles to be perfect, and conveyance to the state to be made or cause to be made by the county of Champaign, upon the permanent location of the Illinois Industrial University upon the said grounds, so to be conveyed as aforesaid, and we hereby in our official capacity guarantee the payment of said bonds and the faithful execution of the deeds of conveyance, free from all incumbrances, as herein set forth.

W. D. SOMERS, T. A. COSGROVE, C. R. MOOREHOUSE,

Committee.

§ 13. The board of trustees shall, by and with the advice and consent of the governor and adjutant general, procure all such arms, accoutrements, books and instruments, and appoint such instructors, as may, in their discretion, be required to impart a thorough knowledge of military tactics and military engineering, and they may prescribe a uniform dress to be worn by the pupils of the University.

§ 14. That upon the organization of the board of trustees and the appointment of said treasurer, and the filing with and the approval by said board of

the bond of said treasurer, and all of said foregoing acts being duly certified to the governor, under the hand of said regent, countersigned by the said recording secretary, it shall then become the legal duty of said governor to deliver over to said treasurer the land scrip issued by the United States to this state, for the endowment of said University, and that thereupon it shall become the duty of said treasurer to sell and dispose of said scrip at such time, place, in such manner and quantities, and upon such terms as such board shall, from time to time, prescribe, or to locate the same as said board may direct. Said treasurer being in all respects pertaining to the sale of said scrip, and the reinvestment of the proceeds received therefor, and the securities when reinvested, subject to such order and control of said board as is not inconsistent with this act and the act of congress providing for the endowment of said university.

15. That all the right, title and interest of the State of Illinois in and to said land scrip, is hereby invested in the Illinois Industrial University, for the use and purposes herein contained; and said scrip shall be assigned to said University by the governor of the state of Illinois on each certificate, and attested by the secretary of state, under the seal of the state; and that the transfer of said scrip to purchasers by assignment on the back thereof, by the said officers of said University, under the seal thereof, in manner following, shall be deemed sufficient in law, to wit:

STATE OF ILLINOIS, Illinois Industrial University

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For value received, the State of Illinois hereby sells and assigns to . . . the within scrip, and authorizes to locate the same, and obtain a patent on

such location.

Given under our hands and the seal of said University this . . . . . day of A. D. 186...

Countersigned by

E. F., Recording Secretary.

A. B., Regent.
C. D., Treasurer.

16. That upon said treasurer making sale of any of said scrip, he shall at once invest the fund so received, report the same to the said board, stating amount sold, price obtained and how the same was by him invested; which report shall be filed with the recording secretary, who shall transmit a copy of the same to the governor of said state, and he to the congress of the United States, in accordance with said act of congress.

17. That the said board shall order upon its minutes which of the several kinds of securities mentioned in the fourth section of said act of congress said treasurer shall invest proceeds of sales in.

§ 18. The bond required to be given by said treasurer shall be conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as treasurer of the "Illinois Industrial University," and for any breach thereof suit may be instituted, in the name of the "Illinois Industrial University;" and it shall be deemed a criminal offense for any person or persons holding in trust any part of the funds of said University knowingly or negligently to misapply or misappropriate the same, indictable in any court having jurisdiction, in the same manner as other crimes are punishable, by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, according to the nature of the offense.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION, ENDOWMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY."

March 8th, 1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That if the legal authorities of the county of Champaign shall not, by or before the first day of June, 1867, convey or cause to be conveyed, to the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, by a good and unincumbered title, in fee simple, all the real estate mentioned and contained in the propositions of said county, and which real estate is described and set out in the act to which this act is supplemental, amounting to nine hundred and eighty acres of land, and if said county shall not also pay over and deliver to said trustees by said day, all the bonds and other property offered by said county, mentioned in said act, then said board of trustees or a majority of them shall proceed without delay to permanently locate and establish said Industrial University in McLean, Logan, or Morgan county; such county so selected shall in like manner be required in all things to fulfill and comply with the conditions and provisions of the offer heretofore made by such county, as an inducement for the location of said University in said county.

INDIANA.

AN ACT ACCEPTING THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT Of Congress APPROVED JULY 2, 1862, AND THE ACT APPROVED APRIL 14, 1864, EXTENDING THE SAME.

(Approved March 6, 1865.)

SECTION 1. That the State of Indiana accepts and claims the benefits of the provision of said Acts of Congress, and assents to all the conditions and provisions in said acts contained.

§ 2. That the Governor of the State, for the time being, and Alfred Pollard, of Gibson, Smith Vawter, of Jennings, Henry Taylor of Tippecanoe, and Lewis Burke of Wayne, and their successors, are created a body corporate under the name of The Trustees of the Indiana Agricultural College.

§ 3. Said Henry Taylor and Lewis Burke shall hold said office for two years, and said Alfred Pollard and Smith Vawter shall hold the same for four years; provided they so long behave well, and at the expiration of each period of two years from the passage of this act the Governor and the remaining Trustees shall choose by ballot two citizens of this State to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of the terms of office of such preceding Trustees, who shall hold their office for the term of four years; provided they so long behave well. And whenever any other vacancy shall occur among said Trustees, they shall, in like manner, choose some citizen of this State to fill the same, who shall hold his office during the residue of the unexpired term of his predecessor, provided he so long behave well.

§ 4. The Governor of this State, for the time being, shall be, ex officio, President of said Trustees; and said Trustees shall, upon the first Tuesday of May, A. D. 1865, and every two years thereafter and whenever a vacancy occurs, elect, by ballot, a Secretary and Treasurer, whose compensation shall be fixed by said Trustees. The said Treasurer shall give bonds to the State of Indiana, in the sum of not less than two hundred thousand dollars, for the faithful execution of his trust, with sufficient sureties, to the approbation of said Trustees.

§ 5. That said Trustees shall, by the hand of their Treasurer, claim and receive from the Secretary of the Interior the land scrip to which this State is entitled by the provisions of said Act of Congress; and under their direction, the said Treasurer shall sell the same, in such manner and at such times as shall be most advantageous to the State, and shall invest the proceeds thereof, and any interest that may accrue thereon, in stocks of the United States or of this State, yielding not less than five per centum per annum upon the par value of the Stocks; and that the said principal and interest shall so continue to be so invested, until further provision shall be made by the General Assembly of this State for fulfilling the requirements of said Act of Congress.

§ 6. That there is appropriated, to be paid annually to said Trustees, out of the State Treasury, a sum of money sufficient to defray the actual expenses

incurred in obtaining and selling said land scrip and in investing and managing the proceeds thereof, the items of which shall be certified to by said Trustees; and the Auditor of State shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State, and the Treasurer shall pay the same. And the said Trustees shall receive three dollars per day for their services while so engaged.

§ 7. The Governor of this State shall report annually to Congress, all sales made of said land scrip, until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds.

§ 8. That an emergency exists for this act to take immediate effect, and it shall take effect from and after its passage.