Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-29
MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY.

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., Mo-, June 3D. 1856.
To the Clerk of the Iron County Court:
SIR-It is my duty to inform you that, I'M
der the provisions of an act OF the General
Assembly, approved April l, 1872 vide
Session Acts, 1872, PIP. 1859, and Rev. Stat.
to send to the departments of the Mis-
souri, Agricultural College and University
at Columbia and Rolla, during the
year ending June 2, 1856, six students,
years. Under the rules adopted by the Board
of Curators, students ''shall possess good
moral character, and shall pass 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 contingent 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
AMI Engineering, the annual charge is forty
dollars, each. The session of all the depart
nonts under the presidency of Samuel S.
LAWS, LID. will begin on the
First Tuesday 9TH of September,
and will continue until the first Thursday of
June, 1SS7-except that of the School of
begin Monday, September Goth, and end June
9th, 1857.
Ample provision has been made for the
education and 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 1SS5-S6, page 200
l beg to call your attention to the appended
extract from the law on this subject You
Will please, after giving two weeks publica-
ton to this certificate, transmit to me, on or
before September list, list of the names of
all the youth of your county who intend to
make application for entrance into the
Agricultural College and University at the
commencement of the next session. If sucL
a list is not transmitted, students from
other counties will be allowed 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 o. Is per week;
in private families at $500 to $3.50.
am very respectfully, YOUR obt serv't,
j. H. DRUMMOND Secretary
Board of Curators, Missouri Agricultural
College and University OF Missouri.
.'The Secretary of the Board of Curators shall!
cause to be transmitted to the Clerk of each
County Court in this State certific ,te, 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, in
newspaper published in such county. The ex-
pense thereof to be allowed by the County Court
and paid for out of the County Treasury"
Persons desiring to enter the Missouri Ag-
ricnltural College and University at Columbia, |
or School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla, |
are required to make known their intention
to me on or before September /, 1856.
Catalogues OF the Agricultural College and |
University can be had on application to the |
University Ltbrarisn. Columbia, Mo-. or at |
nv office or the office of the County School |
Com'r. q. B. NALL,
Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo- |