The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-03-26

the officers OF the Board shall be elected and
the annual meeting of the Board shall be hold
ell on the second Tuesday of December in
each and every year thereafter. Special meet
ings of the Board shall be called and holden at
such times and in such manner as the Board Of
Regents shall determine
SEC. 10. Any person or persons contrib.
nting sum not less than SIS, 1000, shall have
the privilege Of indorsing a protessorship in
the University, the name and object Of which
shall be designated by the Board of Regents.
SEC. II. The said Board of Regents shall
succeed to and have the control of the books,
records, building, and other property of the
Unyesity and the said Board of Regents shall
be dissolved Immediately upon the organiza-
ton OF the Board herein provided for; Pro-
vaded: that all contracts made and at that
time binding upon the Board then dissolved
shall be assumed and discharged by their sue
! cessors in Office
| SEC. II. 1t shall be the duty of the Board
OF Regents herein provided for, to make
arrangements for securing suitable lands, pur-
suant to the act Of Congress above mentioned,
IN the vicinity Of the University, for an exper-
mental farm; and as soon as may be thereaf.
Ter, 10 make such improvements thereon as
Will render the same available for expert
mental purposes in connection with the course
in the Agricultural College; and for such pur-
pose the Board Of Regents is hereby author
lzed to expend sum not exceeding the
amount specified in the act Of Congress aforc-
said.
SEC 10. On or before the second Tuesday
OF December in each and every year the Board
of Regents, through their President, shall
make report in detail to the Governor, show
ing the progress, condition, and wants of the
University, and recording any improvements
anu experiments made, with their costs and
result ; the number Of professors and students:
the amount OF receipts and disbursements. to-
gether with the nature, costs and results of all
Important Investigations and experiments; and
such other matters, including State, industrial
and economical statistics, as may be deemed
Important or useful, one copy of which shall
oe transmitted to all the other colleges which
shall be endowed under the provisions of said
act OF Congress, and also one copy to the Sec
rotary Of thc.Interior.
SEC. IA. The President Of the University
shall be President Of the faculty and the ex-
ecutive head Of the Institution in all it's de-
partments. AS such officer, he shall have
authority subject to the Board Of Regents, to
give general direction to the practical affairs
and scientific Investigations Of the University
and IN the recess Of the Board Of Regents, to
remove any employee or subordinate officer
not member Of the faculty and supply, for
the time any vacancies thus created; and so
long as the Interests Of the institution require
it. he shall be charged with the duties Of one
OF the professorships; and it shall be the duty
OF the President Of the University to make to
the Superintendent OF Public Instruction on
or before the second Tuesday Of December in
each and every year. Il report in detail, show
ing the progress and condition Of the Univer-
sty: the number Of Professors and stu
dents, the nature, cost and results Of all i'm
portant investigations and experiments, and
such other matters, including industrial and
economical statistics as he shall deem useful.
SEC Is. Chapter eighty Of the laws Of
eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter eighty
seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and
slxty-two. and so much and such parts of any
and all acts and laws, whether general or spe-
clal as are inconsistent with the provisions
OF this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. l6. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved Feb Is, 1868.
AN ACT to amend sections twenty, (2o) and
twcnty-one, (2D Of chapter thirty (36)
of the General Statutes relating to Common
Schools
Be it enacted By the Legislature Of the State Of
Minnesota
SECTION l. That section ten (O) of said
chapter thirty-six, (36) of General Statutes be
amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 10. The director, treasurer and clerk
Of each district shall constitute a board of
trustees, and in that capacity have the general
charge OF the interests of schools and school
houses in their district; shall lease or pur-
chase in the corporate name of the district I,
site for a school-house, designated by major
ity of the legal voters of the district: shall
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out Of the funds provided for that purpose;
and when directed by majority of the quail
flied voters at any legal meeting of the dis
trlct, may sell or exchange any such site or
school house; and it shall be the duty Of said
board of trustees, when such school district
shall have determined by a majority Of quail
flied voters at any legal meeting thereof. to
open more than one school, to grade said
schools so determined to be opened assigning
to each school its proper grade of scholars.
SEC. .. That section twenty (2O) of chap
ter thirty-si (36), of the General Statutes be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 20. The clerk shall draw orders on
the treasurer of the district for the payment
of the teacher, or for any lawful purpose, and
when such orders are attested by the director
they shall be paid by the treasurer.
Each order shall be dated and numbered
state the services or consideration for which
it is drawn, and the person rendering such
service, and shall be recorded by the clerk in
a book to be kept for that purpose.
The clerk shall procure from the county a,,-
ditor, and furnish each teacher, register for
his school, which register shall be deposited
by the teacher with the clerk at the end of
each term, and before any money shall be
paid or order drawn for services as teacher
he shall also procure from the auditor, record
hooks h1oOES for of +bo al
treasurer Of tho district, containing such forms
and instructions as may be prescribed by the
Of Public Instructions.
The county auditor of each county shall pro-
cure and furnish to the clerk Of each school
district, in his county, such registers, record