IOWA.

AN ACT RELATING TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

AND FARM.

(Approved March 24, 1866.)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the State Agricultural College and Farm shall be under the management of a board of trustees, composed of one member elected from each judicial district. The governor, and the president of the State Agricultural College and Farm, shall be, ex officio, members of the board.

§ 2. The present session of the general assembly shall elect in joint convention all of said board of trustees, six of whom shall serve for the term of two years, and the other six for the term of four years, from the first day of May, 1866; and the general assembly at each biennial session thereafter, shall elect one-half of said board of trustees, who shall serve from the first of May after their election. The board of trustees shall at their first meeting under this act, which shall be on the first Thursday of May for 1866, at the capitol of the State, determine by lot, their several terms of service, and every succeeding year, they shall hold their annual meetings on the second Monday of January, at the capitol of the State. Any vacancies in the board of trustees, caused by death, removal from the district or the State, resignation, or failing to qualify within sixty days after their election, may be filled by a vote of a majority of the members of said board.

§ 3. The board of trustees shall elect a treasurer at their annual meeting in each year, who shall receive and keep all the moneys arising from the sale of the products of the farm, and from any other source, and give bonds in such sum as the board of trustees may require. He shall pay over all moneys, upon the warrant of the president, and countersigned by the secretary. He shall render, annually, in the month of January, to the board of trustees, and as often as may be required by said board, a full and true statement of all moneys received and disbursed by him.

§ 4. Sections 1715, 1716, 1739, of chapter 67 of Revision of 1860, and section 6 of chapter 121 of the acts of the tenth general assembly, (1864,) and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND REGULATING THE SALE AND LEASE OF LANDS BELONGING TO THE IOWA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

(Approved March 29, 1866.)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the trustees of the Iowa State Agricultural College and Farm, are hereby authorized to sell or lease all of the lands granted to the State of Iowa, by the act of congress entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and

Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts," approved July 2, 1862, which grant was accepted by the general assembly of the State of Iowa, Sept. 11, 1862, upon the following conditions, regulations, and restrictions, to wit. None of said lands shall be sold for a less sum than fifty per cent. above the price that each piece of said lands respectively was appraised at by the trustees of the agricultural college and farm in the year 1865, but may be sold by the purchaser paying one fourth at the time of sale, and the balance at any time within ten years from the day of sale, the purchaser to pay eight per cent. interest per annum, semi-annually in advance on the deferred payment. And a failure to pay the interest, or the prin cipal within sixty days after it becomes due, the purchaser shall forfeit al claim to said land, as well as that portion of principal and interest he had paid, to the agricultural college.

§ 2. Any of said lands may be leased in amounts not to exceed 160 acres, to any one man, for any term not exceeding ten years, the lessee to pay eight per cent. per annum in advance upon the price of said land, which is hereby declared to be fifty per cent. additional to the price at which each piece of said lands respectively, were appraised by the trustees of the Iowa State Agricultural College and Farm, in the year 1865, and the said lessee shall have the privilege of purchasing said land at or before the expiration of the lease, at the above described advance price. The lessee failing to pay the interest on said lease within sixty days from the time the same becomes due, shall forfeit his lease, together with the amount of the interest he has paid, and the improvements thereon.

§3. The money arising from the sale of said lands, shall be paid into the State treasury, which shall be invested by the State treasurer, in bonds of the State of Iowa, or United States Registered bonds, as directed by the act of congress granting said lands. And the moneys arising from the interest on the leases of said lands, shall he paid over to the trustees of the Iowa State Agricultural College and Farm, to be loaned by said board of trustees, on good and sufficient security, until needed to pay the expenses of the college.

§ 4. The trustees of the Iowa State Agricultural College and Farm, are hereby endowed with all necessary authority to appoint agents, or do any other acts to carry out the provisions of this act, as well as the provision of chapter 117 of the laws of the tenth general assembly.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND FARM, WITH A BOARD OF TRUSTEES, WHICH SHALL BE CONNECTED WITH THE ENTIRE AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF THE STATE OF IOWA.

(Passed March 22, 1858.)

SECTION 1714. (1.) Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby established a State Agricultural College and Model Farm, to be connected with the entire agricultural interests of the State.

§ 1715. (2.) Said college and farm shall be under the management of a board of eleven trustees, and the governor, the president of the State agricultural society, and the president of the State agricultural college, shall be, ex officio, members of said board.

§ 1716. (3.) The board of trustees shall at their first meeting under this act determine by lot their several periods of service, five of whom serving for two years, and six serving for four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. At the annual meetings in the fall before vacancies occur in this board, each county agricultural society in the State may nominate one person for trustee, from whom the general assembly shall choose trustees to fill vacancies every two years as they occur, discriminating so as to give, if possible, one trustee to each judicial district in the State. Any vacancy in the board of trustees, caused by death, resignation or removal from the State, may be filled by a vote of the majority of the members of said board. Each trustee is re quired to give a satisfactory bond to the State in such sum as may be required by the governor, for the faithful discharge of the duties imposed upon them.

§ 1717. (4.) The president of the college shall be president of the board of trustees. It shall be his duty to preside at all meetings of the board. He shall control, manage and direct the affairs of the college and farm herein established, subject to such rules as may be prescribed by the trustees.

§ 1718. (5.) Said board shall have power:

1. To elect a president of the State Agricultural College and Farm, and in the absence of the president, a president pro tempore, a secretary, and such other officers as may be required in the transaction of the business of the board.

2. To make all necessary rules and regulations for the government of the college and farm.

3. To purchase lands and erect buildings thereon, in accordance with the further provisions of this act.

4. To keep a full and complete record of all their proceedings, and do such other things as may be found necessary to carry out the intent and meaning of this act.

§ 1719. (6.) The trustees shall receive no compensation except for mileage in traveling to and from the meetings of the board, which shall be at the same rate and computed in the same manner as the mileage allowed to members of the general assembly; and the auditor of State is hereby authorized to audit and allow the claims for such attendance, upon not more than three meetings annually.

§ 1720. (7.) The first session of the board of trustees shall be held at the capitol of the State, on the second Monday in January 1859.

§ 1721. (8.) A majority of the board of trustees shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

§ 1722. (9.) Said board of trustees are hereby authorized to select and purchase suitable lands, not less than six hundred and forty acres, for the use and purposes of the college herein established.

§ 1723. (10.) Said board shall receive proposals for sale of lands for the use of said college before purchasing the same, and in the purchase, the price, location, quality and variety of soil, advantages of water, timber, stone, et cetera, shall be considered.

§ 1724. (11.) There is hereby appropriated the proceeds of the sale of five sections of land heretofore granted to the State of Iowa by congress for the erection of capitol buildings, for the use and benefit of the college herein established: provided, congress diverts the same for this purpose; and also the

proceeds of the sale of all other lands granted or which may be granted by congress to the State of Iowa for the purposes contemplated by this act.

§ 1725. (12.) There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury of the State, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purchase of lands as provided in section nine of this act, and the improvement of the same.

§ 1726. (13.) Upon the execution and delivery to the secretary of State, of the proper conveyance or conveyances of the land purchased as hereinbefore provided, with a certificate of the attorney general of the State, that he has examined the title to the same and finds it unincumbered and perfect and in accordance with this act, and that the location has been approved by the trustees, the auditor of State shall draw his warrant or warrants on the State treasurer, for the amount of such purchase in favor of the party or parties to whom such sum or sums may be due; said purchase or purchases to be made in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine previous to the first day of July of that year.

§ 1727. (14.) If any moneys remain unexpended after the purchase of said farm or lands, the trustees are hereby authorized to appropriate the same, or so much thereof as is needed, for the erection of the necessary buildings for the college on the farm, and otherwise improving the same.

§ 1728. (15.) The course of instruction in said college shall include the following branches, to wit: natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, horticulture, fruit growing, forestry, animal and vegetable anatomy, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, entomology, zoology, the veterinary art, plain mensuration, leveling, surveying, book keeping, and such mechanic arts as are directly connected with agriculture. Also, such other studies as the trustees may from time to time prescribe, not inconsistent with the purposes of this act.

§ 1729. (16.) The board of trustees shall establish such professorships as they may deem best to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

§ 1730. (17.) Tuition in the college herein established shall be forever free to pupils from this State over fourteen years of age and who have been resident of the state six months previous to their admission. Applicants for admission must be of good moral character, able to read and write the English language with ease and correctness, and also to pass a satisfactory examination in the fundamental rules of arithmetic.

§ 1731. (18.) The trustees upon consultation with the professors and teachers shall, from time to time, establish rules regulating the number of hours, to be not less than two in winter and three in summer, which shall be devoted to manual labor, and the compensation therefor; and no student shall be exempt from such labor except in case of sickness or other infirmity.

§ 1732. (19.) The board shall elect annually from the teachers or more advanced pupils, a competent book keeper, who shall keep an accurate account of the receipts and disbursements of said college and farm from all sources; he shall also keep a minute and accurate account with each field and of each crop, which shall embrace the time and manner of cultivation, the amount of seed and the product, condition of the field before planting and sowing, and after harvesting, and kind and amount of fertilizers used; also a list of animals and the value thereof, kept on the farm, and the treatment of the same; also, a daily register

of the weather; of all of which he shall make an annual statement or synopsis of the same, to the secretary of the board of trustees.

§ 1733. (20.) Said college and farm shall be charged with the amount of crops, the proceeds of sales and the increase of animals raised on the farm.

§ 1734. (21.) The trustees shall elect at their first annual meeting in January, 1859, and every two years thereafter, a secretary from their own number, who shall hold his office two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. He shall reside at the capital of the State and have an office in the legis lative building. It shall be his duty to keep a record of the transactions of the board of trustees and college and farm, which shall be open at all times to the inspection of any citizen of this State. He shall also have the custody of all books, papers, documents and other property which may be deposited in his office, including specimens of the vegetable and animal kingdom of the State or country; also, keep and file all reports which may be made from time to time, by county and state agricultural and horticultural societies, and all correspondence of the office from other persons and societies pertaining to the general business of husbandry; address circulars to societies and the best practical farmers in the State and elsewhere, with the view of eliciting information upon the newest and best mode of culture of those products, vegetables, trees, etc., adapted to the soil and climate of this State; also, on all subjects connected with field culture, horticulture, stock raising and the dairy. He shall encourage the formation of agricultural societies throughout the State, and purchase, receive and distribute such rare and valuable seeds, plants, shrubbery and trees, as may be in his power to procure from the general government and other sources, as may be adapted to our climate and soils. He shall also encourage the importation of improved breeds of horses, asses, cattle, sheep, hogs and other live stock, the invention and improvement of labor-saving implements of husbandry and diffuse information in relation to the same; and the manufac ture of woolen and cotton yarns and cloths, and domestic industry in weaving, spinning, knitting, sewing, and other household arts as are calculated to promote the general thrift, wealth and resources of the State. He shall make a report in writing to the general assembly at every session thereof, and to the governor in each year when the legislature is not in session, on the first day of February, of all the transactions of his office of a public character, including a full statement of receipts and expenditures of the college and farm and of his own office, and at such other times as the governor or legislature may require. He shall give a bond in the sum of thirty thousand dollars, with good security, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.

§ 1735. (22.) The seeds, plants, trees and shrubbery received by the secretary, shall be, as far as possible, distributed equally throughout the State, and placed only in the hands of those farmers and others, who will cultivate them properly and return to the secretary's office a reasonable proportion of the products thereof with a full statement of the mode of cultivation and such other information as may be necessary to ascertain their value for general cultivation in the State. All information in regard to agriculture, obtained by the secretary, of an important character, may be published by him from time to time in the newspapers of the State, provided it does not involve any expense to the State.