Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-03
LAS VEGAS NORMAL SCHOOL.
Law Providing for Extension of the Work
Of the Las Vegas Normal School.

The act to extend the work of the
New Mexico Normal School at Las We
gas and for other purposes reads as fol-
lows:
Section /. That the name and title of
the New Mexico Normal school at Las
institution shall hereafter be known and
designated as The New Mexico Nor
nal University Except as modified or
amended by this act, all laws heretofore
enacted, or appointments made touch
ing The New Mexico Normal School
at Las Vegas are hereby made applca.
BILE to and continued in force as to the
said New Mexico Normal University;
and all rights, titles, interest, proper
ties, privileges, grants, or donations
which said New Mexico Normal Schol at.
Las Vegas now has, or to which it is
now. OF. would have hereafter become
entitled, shall hereafter belong to and
inure to the benefit of the said New
Mexico Normal University.
Sec. Q. There are hereby established
as branches or departments of said New
Mexico Normal University, to be car
ried on at Las Vegas, a school of manual
training for the territory of New Mex
leo, the object of which shall be to in
struct pupils, and to train and qualify
teachers to teach the use Of hands and
tools in the various useful arts Of prac-
tical value to the people of the territory;
and also a kindergarten training school
to qualify teachers of the territory to
use that system of teaching in the pri-
mary schools.
Sec. 3. Said institution shall be for
ever strictly non%-sectarian in its charac-
acter and management, and no creed or
system of religion shall be taught, prac-
ticed, or exercised in it.
Sec. A. Section 1866 of the Compiled
Laws of New Mexico of 1897 is hereby
amended by adding the following words:
viz: Except on payment of a tuition fee
to be prescribed by the board Of regents
for each term"
Sec. 5. Section 1868 of the Compiled
Laws of New Mexico of 1897 is hereby
amended by adding thereto the follow
ing words, viz: ''Provided that such di-
plomas certify that said graduates have
taken a complete course for the profess
sion of teachers"
Sec. 6. The provisions of section
1903, of The Compiled Laws of New
Mexico of 1897, shall be applicable to
the New Mexico Normal University with
the same force and effect as if said
institution had been one of those men,
toned therein.
Sec. Z. For the purpose of reim-
bursting and paying the cost of the com-
pleting and equipping the building of the
said New Mexico Normal University
heretofore subscribed by way of ad-
vancement to the territory by certain
citizens and institutions of Las Vegas
and vicinity, there is hereby appro-
priated the sun of $40, 800, which shall
be paid by the territorial treasurer on
of,regents OF said New Mexico Normal
University from time to time as fast as
the money becomes available; and a tax
sufficient to realize the said sum shall
be levied under direction of the auditor,
for the fiscal years 1898, 1900 and 1901,
and collected as other territorial taxes.
If the moneys collected from said tax
for said years should fall short of the
amount required, a tax shall be in like
manner levied and collected for the
following year to make up the deficien-
cy. Said moneys shall be applied by
said board of regents to the repayment
of the sums so advanced and paid by
them without interest, to the sub.
scribers who have paid the same, or
their order, pro rata, without any
preference in such manner, and under
such regulations as the said board of
regents may prescribe.
Sec. s. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed, and this act
shall take effect from the date of its
passage.