The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-04-22

may be required by the county Superintendent,
and the Superintendent of Public Instruction
8 64 In each county in which High
School shall be established, there shall be paid
from the county treasury to the said board OF
trustees, for the purpose of erecting building:
for and sustaining such school, the SUN OF
three thousand dollars per year, for the six
next succeeding years, and one thousand dol
lars annually thereafter, and it shall be the
duty of the County. Judge to include these
sums in levying the tax for ordinary county
revenue. r. ....- .-
8 60. In order to insure an early compile.
tion Of buildings necessary for the establish.
ment OF said High Schools, the County Judge
of every such county is hereby authorized tc
borrow sum Of money not exceeding sever
thousand dollars, al rate of interest not ex.
ceeding ten per cent, TO be paid to said trus.
tees of the High School; but in case such sun
shall be borrowed and paid 70 the trustees the
County Judge shall deduct f. ON the sums Of
three thousands dollars provided to be paic
by section 81, to the trustees, eac h year, a sun
sufficient to pay the animal interest on The
loan, and liquidate the whole debt in five year:
from the time it was contracted. #
5 &C. For training and educating young mer
to be Professors, in High Schools herein estab.
lished, there shall be constituted thirty-s,
scholarships in the University, and these
scholarships shall be distributed by the Super
iatendent of Public Instruction, to the differ.
ent High Schools of The State, but rot more
than four scholarships shall be assigned to any
one school.
5 67. II shall be The duty Of the trustees of
each High School, together with the profes
sor thereof, at snch times as they may Judge
expedient, to fill the scholarships assigned
thereto. by selecting the best male students
therein of not less than sixteen years of age;
for behavior, scholarship, attanments and ca
pacity to teach, and grant TO them certificates
of scholarship. ..lr...,.
6s. Any student thus selected shall be ed
ucated free of charge for tuition in the State
University, ard shall be entitled to receive
FROM the State tresury at the end of each year
for a period of not exceeding three years.
seventv-five dollars, upon his producing from
the Chancellor of the University, a certificate
that he has been, during the year, faithful in
his studies. exemplary in his department, and
that he ranks in scholarship among the frs,
half Of his claas.
SO. Every person who shall have enjoyed
a scholarship in the manner provided in sec-
ton 81, shall teach in some high or other
school, for term of time equal to that for
which he shall have enjoyed such scholarship
and there shall be deducted from his compen-
sation. seventy-fve dollars each year for the
same term, and the money thus deducted shall
be paid into the State treasury; and in case he
shallrefGse so to teach, if in competent health
he shall pay into the Stare treasury at the rate
OF seventy-fve dollars each year, for the time
he shall refuse to teach, with interest from the
time he received the money by virtue OF his
scholarship, ma- be recovered by the treasur-
er in an action at law.
10. When any University scholarship shall
became vacant during the term for which its
scholar was selected, or bv the expiration
thereof the vacancy may be filled in the same
manner provided in section &C, for the original
selection, and the board of trustees of the
high school in which such vacancy shall oc-
cur, together with the professors thereof, shall
take all necessary measures for filing such
vacancy in the manner therein provided
S7l. The State University established at
Iowa City, hereby constituted a corporation
under.that name possessing all the common law
corporotc powers, and also those conferred
upon If by this act.
70 The public buildings at Iowa City. to-
gether with the ten acres of land on-which the
same are situated, are granted to the estate
University of Iowa,"t to be used and appro-
pria,ed only to University purposes, and to re-
vert to the State whenever the same shall cease
to be used FOR such purposes.
T3. The two townships ofland granted bv
act Of Congress Of Jolly Goth, 1910, for the sup
port of University, and all proceeds and in
vestmeDts derived from the same. are hereby
donated to the said State University. to be and
constitute perpetual fund, the interest and
income Of which shall be applied exclusively
to the support Of said University.
IA. The object of the University shall be
to provide the bes, and most effectual means of
acquiring thorough education, and a perfect
knowledge of the different branches of litera-
ture. the arts and sciences, with their various
application.
10. The government of the University
shall be vested exclusively in board of trus-
ees. 10 consist of the Chancellor of the Uni
tversity, who shall be president of the Board,
the Governor, the Superintendent Of public in
struction, and twelve trustees, who shall be
elected as hereinafter provided.
s 76. Ths said trustees shall be divided into
classes, numbered ssone," ':two" and 'sthree. y,
Glass number s'one' shall hold their Offices for
two years; class number s'twoo for four wears.
and class number 'sthree" for six years, from
the first Monday of January. 1858; and every
two years thereafter there shall be elected by
the General Assembly, four trustees to supply
the vacancies made by the provision of this
section, and who shall hold their Offices for
six years respectively--Lauren Dewey, of
Henry county; Edgar Wright, of Cedar; VIM.
Burris, of Scott; w. F. Brannan. of Musca-
tine; E. c. Lyon, NJ. Reno, Fl. d. Downev,
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