Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-22
MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY.

COLUMBIA, Boone Co., Mo-, June %, 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, wide
Session Acts. 1872, PIP. 1859, and Rev. Stat.
1879, Sec. 1867, 1868, your county is entitled
to send to the departments of the Mis-
at Columbia and Rolla, during the
year ending June 9. 1886, six students,
between the ages of Sixteen and Twenty live
years, Under the rules adopted by the Board
of CuratOrS, students "shall posse SIS a 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
religions denominations in this State, and
INDECENT young men preparing for the minis
try. For the schools Of Law and Medicine
ana Engineering, the annual charge is forty
dollars, each. The session of all the depart
mPnts 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
Mines and Metallurgy at Rola, which will
begin Monday, September goth, and end June
9th, 1887.
Ample provision has been made for the
education and care of young women in all the
classes of the University, and course of
study specially adapted for them has been
adopted. See catalogue 1885 Sc, page 200
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 1st, list of the names of
all the youth of your county who intend, to
Agricultural College and University at the
commencement Of the next session. If sucL
list is not transmitted, students from
other counties will be allowed to enter in lieu
Board can be had in clubs in the college
building for male students at 81 25 per week ;
in private families at $500 to $3.50.
/ am very respectfully. YOUR obt serv't,
j. Ii. DRUMMOND Secretary
Board of Curators, Missouri Agricultural
College and University of Missouri.
1.-THE Secretary of the Board of Curators shall!
cause to he transmitted to the Clerk of each
County Court in this State certific tie, 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 l, 1886.
Catalogues of the Agricultural College and
University can be had on application to the
University Librarian, Columbia, Mo-, or at
my Office or the office OF the County School
COm'r. q. B. NALL,
Clerk County Court Iron Co., Mo.