The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-21
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
WEDNESDAY.

NEDNESDA1.
The charter of the Calvert cotton company
capital stock 5000 was filed yesterday.
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
About $1,000 for general revenue and S15OC
for the available school fund, were warranted
for payment in the state treasury yesterday
LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
TEXAS.
Professors o. NJ. Roberts and Robert S.
Gould have prepared the following course OF
study, which has been adopted by the board OF
regents of the university
This department will be open for the recep-
ton of students on the 18th day OF September
1888, at the university building in the city OF
Austin. The course of study required for
graduation will occupy two years. 1t is con-
templated to add a postgraduate course.
There Will be two classes, Junior and senior.
JUNIOR COURSE OF STUDY.
Municipal law, embracing the elementary
law of rights, wrongs and remedies, including
the following subjects: Personal rights, do
nestle relations, estates i'll and titles to prop
erty, both real and personal, tOrtS, criminaI
law, contracts, equity, pleading and evidence.
TEXT BOOKS.
BlackstOnes commentaries, selections from
Kent'S commentaries, Arson on contracts,
Bigelow on tortS, Bispham's equity COM
meuced, Clark'S Texas criminal law, GOuld'S
pleading, Fl st Greenleaf on evidence, SayleS
& BasSett's Texas pleading and practice.
SENIOR COURSE OF STUDY.
The governments of the United States and
of the state of Texas, with the jurisprudence
of each; international law, public and private,
embracing comparative jurisprudence, equity
continued, negotiable Instruments, partner
ship, corporations and legal ethics.
TEXT BOOKS, so FAR AS SETTLED.
Revised statutes of Texas, including the
constitutions of the United States and of
Texas, COOley'S constitutional limitations, Sc
lectiOns from kentS commentaries, BiSpham'S
equity. Benjamins Chalmers on bills, notes
and checks,
LECTURES.
The methods of instruction contemplate the
use of text books. with daily examinations
and oral explanations; and also contemplate
throughout the entire course occasional
lectures, experimenting the text books,
and developing the peculiar eedS feat feat,
will be- course of lectures OH the history of
Texas jurisprudence, and possibly one or more
of the subjects embraced in the senior course
will be taught by lectures.
MOOT COURTS.
The students will be exercised in the discus
sion of legal questions, and the preparation of
legal Instruments, and, when sufficiently ad-
vanced, in the trial Of actual cases in moot
courts
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.
All applicants to enter the law department
Will be expected tO,have at least fair English
embracing reasonable familiarity
with the history of the United States and OF
England. Although classical or collegiate
education is not eXacted, it is earnestly rec
commended to all young men seeking to be-
come lawyers.
Applicants for admission to the senior class
of the present year, will be examined on the
Arson or Bishop on contracts, BgelOw or
Cooley on TOrIs, Gould or Stephen on Plead
ing, First Greenleaf on Eyidenc e, or Stephen
on Evidence, or on books which may be re-
garded as the equivalent of these.
Arrangements will be made to enable stu
dents to purchase text books Oh reasonable
turns at Austin.
Under the law organizing the University,
tuition is without charge. There is matrcu-
latiOn fee of 81 in the law department. Per-
sons desiring the full benefits of the inStitI-
ton should be prepared to enter on the first
day of each term; and applicants for the
senior class should present themselves for eX
five days before the first day of the
term.
ter the law department., should notify the pro-
fessOrs in advance, when practicable.