Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13
University Of The State Of Missouri,

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., Mo-, July s. 1888.
To the Clerk Of the Iron County Court:
SIR-It is my duty to inform you that, I'M
| der the provisions of act of the General
Assembly, approved April 1, 1872, wide
Session Acts, 1872, PIP. 1888, and Rev. Stat.
| 1879, Sec. 1867, 1885, your county is entitled
to send to the departments of the State
University at Columbia and Rolla, during the
year. ending July 1. 1856, five students,
| between the ages of Sixteen and Twenty five
years, Under the rules adopted by the Board
Of CuratOrs, students ''shall possess good
moral character, and shall pass a satisfactory
examination in photography, reading, writing,
arithmetic and geography" and must pay
the fees prescribed by said act, to wit: On
matriculating, an entrance fee of ten dollars,
and con tingent fee of five dollars; and like
contingent fee at the beginning of the second
half year, making the whole annual charge
twenty dollars; which must be paid by every
student, except regularly ordained ministers
OF the gospel, belonging to any OF the various
religious denominations in this State, and
INDECENT young men preparing for the minis
try: For the schools OF Law and Medicine
an Engineering, the annual charge is forty
dollars, each. The session of all the depart
ments, under the presidency of Samuel s.
Laws, LID, will begin on the
Second Tuesday (sth) of September,
and will continue until the first Thursday of
June, 1oS6-except that of the School of
Mines and Metallurgy at Roila, which will
begin Monday, September 21st, aud end June
10Th, 1856.
Ample provision has been made for the
care of young women in all the classes OF the
University, and a course of study specially
adapted for them has been adopted. See
catalogue 1SS4-S5, pages 1872 to 1873.
beg to call your attention to the appended
extract from the law on this subject You
win please, after giving two weeks publica-
ton to this certificate transmit to me, on or
before September 1st, list of the names of
all the youth of your county who intend to
make application for entrance into the
University at the commencement of the next
session. Ii such a list is not transmitted,
to enter in lieu of those to which your county
is entitled. Board can be had in clubs in the
college building for male students at 50 25
per week; in private families at IS 90 to .4.5O.
l am very Respectfully: your ob't serv't
j. II. DRUMMONr, Secretary
Board o. Curators University Of Miss ouri
tine Secretary OF the Board of Curators shall
cause to be transmitted to the Clerk of each
County Court in this State certificate stating
the number of pupils that such county is enti-
tied to send to the State University the next
scholastic year, which certificate shall be pub
liShed by each County Clerk for two weeks I'm a
newspaper published in such county. The ex-
pense thereof to be allowed blythe COuntyCourt
and paid for out OF the County Treasury"
Persons desiring to enter the State Univer-
sity at Columbia or Rolla, are required to make
known their intention to me on or before
September /, 1885.
Catalogues of the University can be had on
application to the University Librarian, Col
umbia, Mo-, or at nv office or the office of the
County School Com'r. q. B. NALL.
au Is Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo.