The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1880-01-31
A MEMORIAL
OF the Trustees of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College.

to secure site for said College In accor.
dance with the provisions Of the 18th Sec.
ton of said Act.
SITE.
They selected a location and site, under
the limitations OF said section securing in
| the vicinity Of Starkyille, in Oktibbeha
county, tract Of land containing three
hundred and fifty (350) acres, at a price
much below its intrinsic value, upon which
they have erected
COLLEGE HALL,
containing one Of the largest chapels in the
South, and eighteen other large rooms for
Lecture purposes, Societies, Library,
Museums and collections, besides some
smaller rooms and halls. The house il
three stories high besides basement o.
nine feet in height, aHording room for many
useful purposes.
The house is &C by ~ feet including
galleries, rs by l22 feet.
/ This house is constructed in the most
substantial and duEable manner, without
any useless ornamentaton--th walls u
brick, the roof of slate and copper aud the
cornicc Of galvanized iron, with every pre-
caution and arrangement devised by mod.
ern ingenuity tosecurc ventilation warmth
light, health and comfort and 10 guard
against dangers from fire and other acct
dents. This Hall lacks but little of com.
pleton, and will cost when completed, less
than $l7, 000--the land 81 400. Total cost
of land aud house, about $4,000, being less
than one-half Of the cost Of a less valuable
building recently erected for the Michigan
-. A. q NJ. College.
The means used to meet these expcndi-
lures, and actual travelling expenses Of the
Board OF Trutccs, have been derived from
one-half the interest on the land scrip fund
donated in Section 10 of said Act and from
cash and subscriptions collected in the
vicinity of the College, to the amount OF
about $1,000. Besides this, we have on
hand about $3.50 worth of fencing lumber
also donated by mills in the vicinity.
The hail. aforesaid, presents very i'm.
70 posing appearance, and is universally
regarded as n marvel Of chcapness, dura
; bility strength, convenience, etc. The tray
% cling expenses of the Board OF Trustees have
been very small AS they receive no com
pensation whatever for their time, labor
care aud patient Investigations
Section 8 Ct the aforesaid Act provde
that the Board Of Trustees shall possess al
the powers necessary and proper for tn
establishment and maintenance Of u
FIRST CLASS INSTITUTION,
I at which the youth of the State Of Missis
! sippl may acquire n common school educa
Il ton, and scientific and practical knowI
edge of Agriculture, Horticulture anC
/. Mechanic Arts also of the proper growtl
/ aud care Of stock, without, however, cxcu
c ding other scientific and classical studies
b including military tactics.
This Act thus directs what the Trustee
~ must do, but the last Legislature has lief
to your wise sense of what is due to the
. farming, mechanical and other productiv,
\ interests of the state; aud to your instruct
: ed intelligence the duty of providing thu
8 means for carrying out and completing tn
e objects contemplated in the Act incorpor.
! ating this college,
Your MemOrlalsts, therefore, now come
before you for the purpose OF stating, most
respectfully, the items that will be nccos-
p sary to put this institution into good anC
= successful working order.
= ITEMS.
|, Buildings, including stewards inn
professors houses, dOrmitories, armories
cisterns, barns, stables aud sheds for liv,
stock
$ .. Fencing, outside and for divisions
i. several miles, work-stock, wagons, farming
implements
8. Forage for stock first year.
4. Stewards supplies first year.
o. Furniture for college hall (the hous,
> already erected), stewards inn, dormito
= ries, etc.
I 6, Shelving and cases for library, mu
scum and cabinets.
l 7. Agricultural, horticultural, mechaui
g cal, Natural History, literary and othe
books OF reference.
8. Chemical apparatus and chemicals.
C g. Natural Philosophy apparatus,
@ 10 Salaries of professors and other EN-
ployees, two years.
a After long, careful and mature investiga
; ton and consideration, your Memorialist
:. will state, reducing their estimates mucl
below what could, and perhaps should, b,
utilized in putting this institution il
most efficient operation, and with
view to the same vigorous econo
It my which has characterized their ex
# pendtures and labors SO far, and of whicl
. they are proud to be able to challenge in
= vestigation by any and all parties interest
+ ed that the sum of $l00000 will be needed
q in the aggregate for the two years till tn,
meeting of the next Legislature.
+ Your Memor1alists would further respect
| fully call your attention to the fact that
most of this sum is required as perma-
nent investment, which would not have tt
: be renewed, and that, hence, but small
amounts would, hereafter, have to be appro.
priated, merely for portion of the running
expenses-the other portion being derived
2 from the interest on the fund heretofore
mentioned and from incomes of the
farm.
Your Memorialists, therefore, come be.
5 fore you and respectfully request the appro-
, priation of the above stated sum of money
with confidence of its being granted
5 growing out of the history of our doincs
, heretofore the smallneSs of the sum asked
for in comparison with the good to accrue
I therefrom TO all the people Of the State
; your own wisdom and knowledge of the
wants of the laboring, producing classes OF
; the State, and of the fact of the very wise
$ and liberal donations by former Legisla-
, lures TO other literary, classical and profess
sional institutions, which have done So
: much credit to our State, and which, it is
E most earnestly hoped, the State will still
continue unswervingly to sustain in the
most liberal manner.