Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-31

| from time TO time to elect president OF
said college and such professors, instruc-
tors and other officers Of said college as
they shall Judge most for the interest
thereof, and to determine the duties,
salaries, responsibilities and tenures of
their several offices. And the said cor
poration are further empowered to pur-
chase or erect and keep in repair such
houses and other buildings as they shall
Judge necessary for such college; and
also to make and ordain, as occasion may
require, reasonable rules, orders and by
laws, not repugnant to the constitution
and laws of this State, with reasonable
penalties, for the good government of said
college, and for the regulation of their
own body, provided that no distinction
with regard to sex, race or color shall be
made in admitting students to said col
lege; and also to determine and regulate
the course of instruction in said college,
and to confer such appropriate degrees
as they may prescribe. Provided that no
corporate business shall be at any time
transacted at any meeting unless ma
iority of the trustees are present.
"Sec. 4. The said corporation may
have common seal, which they may
alter or renew at pleasure; and said cor
poration may sue and be sued in all ac-
tons, real, personal or mixed, and may
take an hold in fee simple, or any less
estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or
otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other
estate, real or personal.
"Sec. >. The board of trustees shall
determine the location of said college in
some suitable place within this State, and
may, in their discretion, purchase or OBJ
tain by gift grant, or otherwise, in con
nectlon herewith tract of land contain
ing at least one hundred acres. to be
used a. an experiment farm Or otherwise
so as best to promote the objects of their
institution, and they may also in their
discretion make such provision for the
manual labor of the college as they shall
deem reasonable, provided that no stu
dent shall be exempt from such labor ex-
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''Sec. 6. Upon application of a ma
jority of the trustees of the Vermont
State Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege the governor is hereby authorized to
draw his warrant upon the State treasur-
er in favor of SAID college for sum not
exceeding One-tenth of all the moneys
which have been received by the State
from the sale of land scrip by virtue of
the provisions of the both chapter of the
acts of the 9th congress, at the ID SEES
sion thereof. approved July 2, 1862, for
the purchase of said site or farm.
'Sec. 4. The trustees of the Univer-
sity of Vermont and State Agricultural
college shall, at the close of the fiscal
year of the State experiment station,
transfer to the trustees of the corpora
ton hereby created, all property belong
ing to said experiment station. establish
ed by act No. -, of the session laws of
1856, and said station shall there
after be connected with, and be under
the control of the Vermont State Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college. The trus-
tees OF said Vermont State Agricultural
and Mechanical college shall elect di-
rector of said station. and shall annually
appoint two of their number. who, to-
gether with the president OF the corpora
ton as chairman. shall act as a board of
control for said State Agricultural eX-
pertinent station, and to audit all bills
Tor its expenses and to have general
oversight and direction of its affairs.
All of the provisions of act No. 80. of the
acts of 1856, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this section, are continued
in force; provided, that the sum of
money now appropriated by section of
said act shall hereafter be appropriated
to the Vermont State Agricultural and Me-
chanicIl college, for the purposes and in
the manner therein specified; and for the
further maintenance of the station there
shall hereafter be paid to said college in
accordance with the act of congress re-
lating to experiment stations, approved
March 2, 1887, the whole of the appro-
prlatlon made to the State of Vermont by
virtue of said act of congress, to be used
wholly for the work of said station in ac-
cordance with the provisions of said act.
"Sec. s. 1t is hereby directed that all
funds which have been received by the
State treasurer from the general govern
ment, III accordance with an act of con-
gress approved August p, 1890, shall be
paid to the treasurer of the Vermont
State Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege, on the warrant of the governor
whenever the corporation created by this
act shall have been duly organized, and
all funds which may hereafter be receiv-
ed by the State in accordance with said
act of congress shall be paid to the trea-
surer of said college; and there shall also
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