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LAWS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY, 
 
 ACTS OF CoisranEss 
 
 AND LAWS OF THE 
 
 MISSOURI LEGISLATURE 
 
 RELATING TO THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 
 
 AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, 
 AND SCHOOL OF MINES AND METALLURGY. 
 
 AN APPENDIX. 
 
 PUBLISHED B ,,-;& OF THE BOARD. 
 
 , MO.: 
 
 -STATKSMA . >li -JFFICE PRINT, 
 
LAWS. 
 
 CHAPTER I.reVIT.11 
 
 HISTORIC MEMORANDUM. 
 
 ORDINANCE OF 1TS7. 
 
 The liberal school policy of the General Government, by land 
 grants, was established by the ordinance of 1787. in the following- 
 language, to-wit:- 
 
 'And ior extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious lib- 
 erty, which form the basis whereon these republics their laws and constitu- 
 tions are erected, etc., etc. 
 
 "It is hereby enacted and declared, by the authority aj oft-said, (i.e., of the 
 United States in Congress assembled), that the following- articles shall be con- 
 sidered as articles of compact between the original State* and the people, in 
 the said Territory (northwest of the river Ohio), and forever remain un. tit-. ru- 
 ble, unless by common consent, to-wit: 
 
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 "ARTICLE 3. Religion, moralitv and know ledge being necessary to good 
 government arid the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of educa- 
 tion shall forever be encouraged.'' 
 
 ACT ORGANIZING THE TERRITORY OF MIBtsOURf. 
 
 In the act ot Congress of 18.12. organizing the Territory of 
 Missouri, this article of the ordinance of 1787 was somewhat am- 
 plified, as the following extract wi.l show: 
 
 "Religion, moralitv and knsv\ ledge being necessary tw good government 
 and the happiness ot mankind, schools and the means 01 education shall be 
 encouraged and provided lor from the public lands of th? Unit:d States in said 
 Territory, in such manner a> Congress may deem expedient." 
 SEMINARY AND OTHER LANDS- 
 
 [Extracts from An Act of Congress approved March 6 1^20, tei authorize 
 the people of the Missouri Territory to fo/m a Constitution an:4 Stiie Go.-'irn* 
 nient. c. See Revised Statutes 1845, p. 14.] 
 
 "SEC. t). And be it further enacted* That the following prop- 
 ositions be. and the same are hereby, offered to the convention of 
 the said territory of Missouri, when formed, for their free accep- 
 tance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be 
 obligatory upon the United States. 
 
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 "First. That section numbered sixteen in every township, 
 and when such section has been sold, or otherwise disposed of, oth- 
 er lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be 
 granted to the State for the use of the inhabitants of such town- 
 ship, for the use of (now district) schools. 
 
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 Fifth. That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which 
 shall be designated by the President of the United States, together 
 with the other lands, hereto tore reserved for that purpose, shall be 
 reserved for the use of : a seminary of learning, and vested in the 
 legislature of said State, to be appropriated solely to the use of such 
 seminary by the said legislature: Provided, That the five fore- 
 going propositions herein offered, are on the condition that the 
 convention of the said State shall provide, by an ordinance, irre- 
 vocable without the consent of the United States, that every and 
 each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the 
 first day of January next, shall remain exempt from any tax laid 
 by order or under the authority of the State, whether for State, 
 county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term 
 of five years from and after the day of sale: Arid further ^ That 
 the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military 
 services during tint late war. shall, while they continue to be held 
 by the patentees, or their heirs, remain exempt as aforesaid from 
 taxation for the term of three years irom and after the date of the 
 patents respectively. Approved, 6th March, 1820." 
 
 In pursuance of the provisions of this act, members of a con- 
 vention were elected to form a Constitution and State government. 
 They assembled at St. Louis on the 12th of June, .1820, and deter- 
 mined that it was expedient to form a Constitution and State gov- 
 erninent> and having accepted the five propositions offered by the 
 6th section of the above act, passed an ordinance which was finally 
 signed on the 19th of July, 182 J. A Constitution, was formed, 
 whereby the boundaries, mentioned in the 21 section of the above 
 act, wereratilied and a new republic established by the name of 
 the State of Missouri. 
 
 Agreeably to the 7th section of the above act, an attested copy 
 of the Constitution Was transmitted to Congress. A resolution 
 was introduced in both Houses for the unconditional admission of 
 the State into the Union, as had been the uniform course in rela- 
 tion to other new States; these resolutions were, however, lost, and 
 finally, after much -discussion, a resolution was passed for admit^ 
 ting the State on 'a certain condition. The Legislature of Mis- 
 souri, on the 27th of June, 1821, accepted the condition, -protesting 
 
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 at the same time against the right of Congress to annex it, and on 
 the 10th of August, 1821, the President of the United States is- 
 sued his proclamation, announcing the acceptance by this State of 
 the condition and the admission of the State into the Union. 
 
 The University of the State of Missouri, called in the acts of 
 Congress of February 17, 1818, March 6, 1820, January 2-4, 1827, 
 and March 2, 1827, a "Seminary of Learning, 11 possesses a legisla- 
 tive or legal history which is not only in itself very interesting, 
 but quite essential to a proper understanding of its relations to tho 
 Federal and State governments, and of the obligations imposed upon 
 the General Assembly of Missouri to foster and encourage it. It 
 therefore has a history which antedates its} location and establish- 
 ment in the town of Columbia. 
 
 In the discussion of the act of March 6, 1820. quoted above r 
 a complication often presented itself, originating in the fact 
 that that act donated to the State only thirty-six sections, or one 
 township, of public land whereas the State received "for the use of 
 a Seminary of Learning," seventy-two sections, or two townships. 
 
 This apparent contradiction is explained by the following- 
 facts : 
 
 Three years anterior to the admission of Missouri into the 
 Union, and by the third section of the act of Congress of Februa- 
 ry 17, 1818, two townships were directed to be located and reserv- 
 ed for the support of a seminary of learning in this State, and one- 
 of these townships was authorized to be located on the waters of 
 the Missouri, and the other on the waters of the Arkansas river. 
 
 Following this in chronological order was the act of March 
 6, 1820, already quoted. 
 
 Although the Seminary lands were reserved by the act of 
 1818 and donated by the act of 1820, they were not authorized to 
 be selected nor confirmed to the State until the passage of the act 
 of January 24, 1827, as follows: 
 
 ACT OF JANUARY 24, 1827. 
 
 "An 'Act concerning the selection of certain lands, heretofore 
 granted by compact, to the 'State of ' Missouri, for seminaries of 
 learning. 
 
 Be it enacted, clc., That it shall be the duty of the President 
 of the United States, as soon as may be, to cause to be selected, 
 from any of the public lands of the United States in Missouri, the 
 sale of which is authorized by law, and in quantities not less than. 
 
 
 
a section, according to the divisional lines of the public surveys, 
 the several townships of land heretofore secured by compact to the 
 State of Missouri, for the purposes of a seminary or seminaries of 
 learning in that State, and to cause one descriptive list of such se- 
 lections to be filed with the Governor of Missouri, in the office of 
 the Secretary of that State, and another like list to be filed in the 
 General Land Office of the United States; and the lands so selected 
 .shall, immediately thereupon, vest in the State of Missouri, ac- 
 cording to, and in satisfaction of, the above mentioned compact 
 with the United States. 
 
 "Approved January 24th, 1827." 
 
 A.CT OF MARCH 2, 1827. 
 
 (Extract from a letter nf Hon. N. C. McParland, commission- 
 er of the General Land Office, dated July 15, 1882.) 
 
 "By the Act of March 2, 1827, entitled "An act concerning a 
 -seminary of learning in the Territory of Arkansas," authorizing 
 the Secretary of the Treasury to set apart two townships for the 
 use and support of a seminary of learning, it is provided that one 
 of said townships so sot apart slvill be "in lieu of an entire town- 
 ship of land directed to be located on the waters of the Arkansas 
 River, in said Territory, for the use of a seminary of learning 
 therein, by an act of Congress entitled, 'An act making provision 
 for the establishment of additional land offices in the Territory of 
 Missouri, 1 " approved February 17, 1818. 
 
 "It will bo scon from the aJ30ve cited act, that one of the town- 
 ships reserved for seminary purposes in the Territory of Missouri, 
 -und to be located on the waters of the Arkansas, was transferred 
 .to the Territory of Arkansas, leaving one townsnip reserved for 
 .the former Territory, which, together with the additional town- 
 ship granted by the Act of March 6, 1820, made .two townships 
 which the President of the United States was directed to cause to 
 be selected, under the Act of January 21, 1827, for the purpose of a 
 seminary or seminaries of learning in the State of Missouri." 
 
 ACT OF MARCH O, 1831, AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF THE SEMINARY 
 
 LA.XDS. 
 
 The eighth section of "an act to create the office of surveyor 
 -of public lands for the State of Louisiana, 11 passed by Congress and 
 approved March, 3, 1831, authorized the Legislatureof Missouri to 
 sell the seminary lands "and to invest the money arising from the 
 sale thereof in some productive fund, the proceeds of which shall 
 be forever applied by the Legislature of said State, solely to the 
 use of such seminary, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever," 
 -as follows: 
 
 SEC. 8. And Be if further enacted^ -That the Legislature of 
 
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 the State of Missouri be, and is hereby authorized to sell and con- 
 vey in fee simple all or any part of the lands heretofore reserfexl 
 and appropriated by Congress for the use of the Seminary of learn- 
 ing in said State, and to invest the money arising from the sale 
 thereof in some productive fund, the proceeds of which shall be 
 forever applied by the Legislature of said State, solely to the use of 
 such Seminary-, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 EDUCATION CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. 
 [From the State Constitution of 1820.] 
 
 S*:c. I. Schools and the means of education shall forever be 
 encouraged in this State; and the General Assembly shall take 
 measures to preserve from waste or damage such lands as have 
 been, or hereafter may be granted by the United States for the use 
 of schools within each township in this State, and shall apply the 
 funds which may arise from such lands in strict conformity to the 
 object of the grant; one school or more shall be established in each 
 township as soon as practicable and necessary, where the poor shall 
 be taught gratis. 
 
 SEC. 2. The General Assembly shall take measures for the im- 
 provement of such lauds as have been, or may hereafter be grant"- 
 <{ by the United States to this State for the support of a seminary 
 of learning; and the funds accruing from such lands by renter 
 lease?, or in. any other manner, or which may be obtained from any 
 other source for the purposes aforesaid, shall be and remain & per- 
 manent fund to support a university for the promotion of litera- 
 ture, and of the arts and sciences; and it shall be the duty of the 
 General Assembly, sis soon, as may be, to provide effectual means 
 for the improvement of such lands and for the improvement 
 permanent security of the funds and endowments of such i 
 tion. 
 
 (For provisions r flic State Constitution of 1865, see "Appendix..'') 
 (Kroin the State Constitution of 1875, Art. XI.) 
 
 SEC. 1. PUBLIC SCHOOLS PERSONS O-P SCHOOL AGE. A gener- 
 al diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to Ahv 
 preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the General 
 
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 Assembly shall establish aud maintain free public schools for the 
 gratuitous instruction of all persons in this State between the ages 
 of six and twenty years. 
 
 (The limit was twenty-one years, under constitution of 1865, Art. IX, i.) 
 (a) IN GENERAL. Section 7, Article VII, of the school law of 1855 (R. 
 S.'i855, p. 1440), giving a preference to the debt owing by a defaulting coun- 
 ty treasurer of the school fund, is not in conflict with any provision of the 
 State or Federal Constitutions. Cass County v. Jack, 49 Mo. 196. 
 
 Sec. 2. DISBURSEMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS, CERTAIN DISTRICTS 
 NOT ENTITLED TO. The income of all the funds provided by the 
 State lor the support of free public schools shall be paid annually 
 to the several county treasurers to be disbursed according to law; 
 but no school district, in which a free public school has net been 
 maintained at least three months during the year for which the 
 distribution is made, shall be entitled to receive any portion of such 
 funds. 
 
 (The first clause is new. Constitution of 1865, Art. IX, 7.) 
 
 Sec. 3. SCHOOLS FOR COLORED CHILDREN. Separate free pub- 
 lic schools shall be established for the education of children of Af- 
 rican descent. 
 
 (Same as Constitution of 1865, Art. IX. 2.) 
 
 Sec. 4. BOARD OF EDUCATION. The supervision of instruc- 
 tion in the public schools shall be vested in a "Board of Educa- 
 tion," whose powers and duties shall be prescribed by law. The 
 Superintendent of Public Schools shall be President of the Board. 
 The Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney -General shall be 
 x officio members, and with the Superintendent, compose said 
 Board of Education. 
 
 (Constitution of 1865, Art. IX, 3, modified.) 
 
 Sec. 5. STATE UNIVERSITY. The General Assembly shall, 
 whenever the Public School Fund will permit, and the actual ne- 
 cessity of the same may require, aid and maintain the State Uni- 
 versity now established with its present departments. The gov- 
 ernment of the State University shall be vested in a Board of Cu- 
 rators, to consist of nine members, to be appointed by the Govern 
 or, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 
 
 (The last sqntence is new. Constitution of 1865, Art. IX, 4.) 
 
 See. 6. SCHOOL FUND. -The proceeds of all lands that have 
 been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this 
 State, and not otherwise appropriated by this State or the United 
 
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 States; also, all moneys, stocks, bonds, lands and other property 
 now belonging to any State fund for purposes of education; also, 
 the net proceeds of all sales of lands and other property and effects 
 that may accrue to the State by escheat, from unclaimed dividends 
 and distributive shares of the estates of deceased persons; also any 
 proceeds of the sales of the public lands which may have been or 
 hereafter may be paid over to this State (if Congress will consent 
 to such appropriation ) ; also, all other grants, gifts or devises that 
 have been, or hereafter may be made to this State, and not other- 
 wise appropriated by the State or the terms of the grant, gift or de- 
 vise, shall be paid into the State Treasury, and securely invested 
 and sacredly preserved as a Public School Fund; the annual in- 
 come of which fund, together with so much of the ordinary reve- 
 nue of the State as may be by law set apart for that purpose, shall 
 be faithfully appropriated for establishing and maintaining the 
 free public schools and the State University in this Article provid- 
 ed for, and for no other uses or purposes whatsoever. 
 
 (Same, substantially, as Constitution of 1865, Art. IX, 5.) 
 
 Sec. 7. DEFICIENCY IN SCHOOL FUNDS STATE REVENUE. : In 
 case the Public School Fund now provided and set apart by law, 
 for the support of free public schools, shall be insufficient to sus- 
 tain a free school at least four months in every year in each school 
 district in this State, the General Assembly may provide for such 
 deficiency in accordance with section eleven of the Article on Rev- 
 enue and Taxation; but in no case shall there be set apart less than 
 twenty-five per cent, of the State revenue, exclusive of the Inter- 
 est and Sinking Fund, to be applied annually to the support of the 
 public schools. 
 
 (Constitution of 1865, Art. IX, 8, modified.) 
 
 Sec. 8. COUNTY SCHOOL FUND.- All moneys, stocks, bonds, 
 lands and other property belonging to a county school fund; also,, 
 the net proceeds from the sale of estrays; also, the clear proceeds 
 of all penalties and forfeitures, and of all fines collected in the sev- 
 eral counties for any breach of the penal or military laws of the 
 State, and all moneys which shall be paid by persons as an equiva- 
 lent for exemption from military duty, shall belong to and be se- 
 curely invested, and sacredly preserved in the several counties, as a 
 county public school fund; the; income of which fund shall be faith- 
 
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 fully appropriated for establishing and maintaining in-n public 
 schools in the several counties of this State. 
 
 (Constitution of i8f>5, Art. IX, ^ 5, with additions and changes.) 
 
 Sec. 9. INVESTMENT Ob PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND.- No part of the 
 Public School Fund of the State shall ever be invested in the stock 
 or bonds, or other obligations of any other State, or of any county, 
 city, town or corporation; and the proceeds of the sales of any 
 lands or other property which now belong, or may hereafter be- 
 long to said school iund. shall be invested in the bonds of the 
 State of Missouri, or of the United States. 
 
 (Under the Constitution of 1865, Art. IX, 6, the School .Kim.il could bo 
 invested only in the bonds of the United States.) 
 
 (a) SECTION* 6 OF THE ACT 01* 1865 provided that the purchase money 
 arising from the sale of certain stoek of the Bank ot the State of Missouri, be- 
 longing to the State, might he paid in bonds and coupons ot the State; //cfd, 
 that this was not necessarily an investment in .either State bonds or obliga- 
 tions. (Acts of 1^65, p. 16.) State, v. The Hank of the State of Missouri, 4$ 
 Mo. 528. 
 
 Sec. 10. INVESTMENT OF COUNTY SCHOOL FILND. All county 
 school funds shall be loaned only upon unincumbered real estate 
 security, of double tlu> value of the loan, with personal security in 
 additional thereto. 
 
 (Same, substantially, as Constitution of 1885, Art. IX, 6.) 
 
 Sec. 11. SCHOOLS FOR RELIGIOUS. OB SKCTAHIAN PURPOSES.-- 
 Neither the General Assembly, nor any county, city, town, town- 
 ship, school district or other municipal corporation, shall ever 
 make an appropriation, or pay from any public fund whatever, 
 anything in aid of any religious creed, church or sectarian pur- 
 pose; or to help to support or sustain any private or 
 public school, academy, seminary, college, university or 
 other institution of learning, controlled by any religious creed, 
 church or sectarian denomination, whatever; nor shall any grant 
 or donation of personal property or real estate ever be made by;.the 
 State, or any county, city, town or other municipal corporation^ 
 for any religious creed, church or sectarian purpose whatever. 
 
 (This section is new. Constitution of Illinois, Art. VIII, 3.) 
 
 CHAPTKRKJ. 
 
 SALE OF 
 On January 23, 1820, (see Session Acts 18284) t -) an act was 
 
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 approved which provided for the prosecution, fine awl imprison- 
 ment of trespassers on the Seminary Lands. 
 
 By an act approved Dec. 81, 1830, (J) provision was made for 
 the sale of the Seminary Lands. It made it the duty of the Gov- 
 ernor of this state, or his successor in office tor theJtinie being, af- 
 ter giving six months previous notice thereof, in tnV' several news- 
 papers published in this state, to cause the lands granted to the 
 state for seminary purposes, to be offered at public sale to the 
 highest bidder, upon this condition, however, that the same shall 
 not be sold for a less price than two dollars per acre, and the sales 
 of the said lands shall be conducted in every other respect, under 
 f,he same regulations as the public lands of the United States. 
 
 By the same act John B. Swearengen was made register and 
 Hamuei (/. Owens receiver for the purpose of superintending the 
 lands in the United States Western district; James Jamison, reg- 
 ister, and Henry Lane, receiver, in the Salt river district, and Wil- 
 liam Garner, register, and Robert F. Brown, receiver in the Cape 
 (rirardeau district, each of whom was required to give bond. 
 
 The sales of land in the Western district were held in Inde- 
 pendence, commencing on the first Monday in December, 1831; in 
 the Salt river district in Palmyra on the second Monday in No- 
 vember, 1831; and in the Cape Giradeau district in Benton, Scott 
 county, on the first Monday in November of the same year. 
 
 On January 17, 1831, (*) an act was approved which provid- 
 ed for annexing to the town of Independence, laying off into lots, 
 and making sale of eighty acres of Seminary Lands adjoining said 
 town. Said sale commenced on the first Monday in December, 
 1832, openly to the highest bidder, under the superintendence of ^ 
 commissioner appointed by the Governor, said act providing that 
 no lot of one acre or less should be sold for less than $10, nor any 
 Jot of more than one acre for less than So per acre. 
 
 ACT OF DECEMBER 31, 1830, REVIVED. 
 
 January 29, 1833, (f) an act was approved reviving the act 
 to provide for the sale of the Seminary Lands, approved Dec. 31 t 
 1830, and it authorized public sales of the lands at Independence, 
 
 J See Session Acts 1830-1, p. 86. 
 * See Session Acts 1830-1 p. 91. 
 tSee Session AcU 183.2-3, p. 116. 
 
 TJUIVBRSITT; 
 
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 Palmyra and Benton in the months of October. November and 
 cember 1833. Abraham McClellaii was appointed commissioner 
 of the sales at Independence, Henry Wilcox at Palmyra, and John 
 Moore at Benton. All lands not thus sold at public sale were? 
 thereafter subject to private entry or purchase. 
 
 The commissioner of the Western district was directed at the- 
 close of the public sales to offer to the highest bidder the town lots 
 remaining unsold in the annexed portion of the town of Independ- 
 ence, pursuant to the act approved January 17, 1831. 
 
 On the 17th of March, 1835, (*) an act of the Legislature 
 was approved to take effect the first day of May thereafter, provid- 
 ing for the sale, at private entry, of the Seminary Lands, in the 
 same manner at the same price, and under the same regulations 
 as the Unitec Ifcates lands were then disposed of, at private sales. 
 
 By the t, /ms of the act, John Moore of Scott county, for the 
 Cape Girardeaa land district; Henry Wilcox for the Salt River dis- 
 trict and Small wood Nolan d of Jackson county for the Western 
 district, were made commissioners to superintend the sale of these 
 lands, each giving bonds of not less than $5,000. Moneys receiv- 
 ed by them from said sales to be paid into the State treasury everj 
 twelve months, the treasurer to keep the same "as a distinct fond 
 for the purposes for which said lands were accepted" by the State, 
 
 For an act of two sections to protect th > rights of pre-emphen settlers- ea 
 the Seminary Lands, see Sessions Acts of 1832-3, p. iiy. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 SELECTING A SITE FOB THE STATE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 By an act of the Legislature, approved Feb. 8, 1839, (f) STO 
 commissioners were appointed to select a site for the State Univer- 
 sity, said commissioners being Peter H. Burnett of Clay, Chaneey 
 Durkee of Lewis, Archibald Gamble of St. Louis, John G. Bryan 
 of Washington and John S. Phelps of Greene. The act 'provided 
 the site should contain at least fifty acres of land in a compact form 
 within two miles of the county seat of the county of Cole, Cooper, 
 Howard, Boone, Callaway or Saline. 
 
 It was made the duty of the commissioners to meet in theeitj 
 of Jefferson on the first Monday of June, 1839, and thereafter at 
 such times as they might appoint at the county seat of each conn* 
 
 *See Revised Statutes 183-,, p. 5^6. 
 
 fSee Session Acts 1838, p. 185, and for the act in full.se? "Appendix." 1 
 
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 ty mentioned, to receive conveyances of land and subscriptions of 
 money, to be void if the University was not located at the county 
 seat of the county in which they were made. 
 
 After visiting all the county seats and receiving bids as afore- 
 said the commissioners were to return to the seat of government 
 and open the bids; "and the place presenting most advantages to 
 fee derived to said University, keeping in view the amount sub- 
 scribed, and locality and general advantages, shall be entitled to its 
 location." 
 
 On the 24th of June, 1839, the commissioners met in Jeffer- 
 son City, opened all the bids, and located the University of Mis- 
 souri at Columbia, in the county of Boone. The following is a 
 copy of the award : 
 
 *'The commissioners appointed by law to select a site for the State Uni- 
 versity have agreed unanimously in the choice of Boone county for its loca- 
 tion. Given under our hands at the City of Jefferson this 24th day of June in 
 the year 1839. JOHN GANG BRYAN, 
 
 CH. DURKIiE, 
 
 [Signed.] ARCHIBALD GAMBLE, 
 
 JOHN S. PHELPS, 
 PETER H. BURNETT." 
 
 CH AFTER V. 
 
 INSTITUTION" OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 On the llth Feb., 1839, (*) an act was pass -d "to provide for 
 tlie institution and support of the Slate University, and for the 
 governmeut of colleges and academies." This act, drafted by Hon. 
 Henry S. Geyer, a distinguished lawyer of St. Louis and afterwards 
 United States Senator, was very elaborate, consisting of five arti- 
 cles, and provided for colleges and academies in different parts of 
 the State, to be connected with the State University, and to be un- 
 der the visitorial power of its Curators. 
 
 This idea of a State University, with branches and subordi- 
 nate institutions scattered over the State, was a favorite one witK 
 many distinguished men in the earlier history of the country, and 
 was placed upon the statute book of several of the States; but the 
 plan was found cumbrous, and too unwieldly to be carried out into 
 practice, and was abandoned wherever projected and never carried 
 into execution in Missouri. 
 
 *See Session Acts 1839, PP- *73 181. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 AMENDING ACT OF FEB. 11. 1839. 
 
 On the 24th Feb.. 1843. (*) an act was approved amendatory 
 of certain provisions of the act of .Feb. 11, 1839. Under this 
 amendatory act so much of the last named law as provides for the 
 government of colleges and academies of the university was repeal- 
 ed, and the power was conferred on the board of curators t> aj>- 
 point the necessary professors and tutors of the university, mid to 
 fix their compensation. No one of the professors or tutors was 
 allowed to exercise the functions of a bishop, priest, clergyman or 
 teacher of any religious persuasion, denomination, society or sect, 
 whatsoever, during his continuance in office. 
 
 The act also provided that the compensation of the president, 
 professors and tutors shallbe fixed annually, and any of them may 
 be removed at the pleasure of the curators. Also, that so much of 
 the act as requires a curator to be thirty years of age was repeal- 
 ed, and that each curator shall be not Isss than twenty-five years 
 of age. 
 
 The curators were authorized to sell all the lands conveyed to 
 the State for the benefit of the university, with the exception of 
 twenty acres for a university site, on such terms as the curators 
 shall deem best for the interest of the institution, and to convey 
 the same to purchasers by deed under their common seal. 
 
 The proceeds of the sale of said lands to be applied to the pay- 
 ment of the debts contracted by the curators: :i.nd if there should 
 be any surplus remaining after the payment of said debts, the sam 
 to be applied in the manner deemed b?st for t ho benefit of said uni- 
 versity. 
 
 An act was also approved Feb. :^8, 1S48 ( Jj providing lor 
 semi-annual meetings of the Board of Curators in April and Octo- 
 ber, fixing the number to constitute a quorum, and making it the 
 duty of the Auditor of public accounts to report to each meeting; 
 the increase of the seminary fund. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 DISTRIBUTION" OF LAWS AND .TOL'ttXALS. 
 fjc it enacted bv the Genera/ Asscmlly of lie State of 
 *See Session Acts. 1842, p. 14$. 
 JSee Session Acts 1842. p. 1^9. 
 
TJ1U7BESITY 
 
 souri as follows : 1. That hereafter there shall be furnished, at 
 the time ol distribution of the laws and journals of the General 
 Assembly of this State, to the University of the State of Missouri, 
 and to the Law Library Association of St. Louis.each.two copies of 
 the laws and journals of every session of the (feneral Assembly 
 now holding and hereafter to beheld, and to each member of Con- 
 gress from this State one copy. 
 
 This Act to take effect from and after its passage. Appioved, 
 Dec. 19. 1842. 
 
 LAND DOCUMENTS, LAWS AND JOURNALS. 
 
 /, Tli at the Secretary of State be and he is hereby di- 
 rected to furnish, to the University of the State of Missouri and to 
 the Law Library Association of St. Louis, each, one copy of the 
 documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the Uni- 
 ted States, in relation to the public lauds selected and edited under 
 the authority of the Senate of the United States, by Walter Low- 
 rie. Secretary of the Senate; printed by Duff Green; one copy of 
 the revised code of 1885, one copy of the acts and journals of each 
 General Assembly of this State held since the year lS: : sr>, one copy 
 of the Territorial laws, one copy of the Militia laws, approved 6th 
 February, 18H7. and Kith February, 1881), and one copy of the 4th, 
 5th and 6th volumes of the Decisions of the supreme court of this 
 State now remaining in the office of Secretary of Stare. Approv- 
 ed, Dec. Ill, 1842. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 BR1KF MENTION OF VARIOUS ACTS. 
 
 Session *>/" 1844-5. 
 
 For Revised Act to provide for the institution and support of 
 a State University, see Revised Statutes of 1815. pp. 587-540. 
 Session o/M 846-7. 
 
 For an net directing the Register of Lands to procure from 
 the commissioner of the gene rail and office copies of documents re- 
 lating to the seminary lands and file the same in his office: also 
 making it his duty to make out 11 complete list of said lands, spec- 
 ifying range, township and county, marking such as had been sold, 
 the time when sold, to whom, what remained unsold, and to file M 
 
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 copy of said paper with the secretary of the Board of Curators. See 
 Session Acts of 1846-7, pp. 131-2. 
 
 Two acts were passed during the same session in regard to 
 bank dividends requiring the bank of Missouri to report the 
 amount of dividends accruing on stock held in trust for the Uni- 
 versity, to the treasurer of the Board of Curators, and to pay over 
 to him or place to his credit the same. See Session Acts 1846-7, 
 
 pp. 136-7. 
 
 Session of 1848-9. 
 
 For an act increasing the number of Curators to eighteen 
 one from each judicial circuit and four from the county of Boone 
 fixing their terms of office, times of meeting and compensation, 
 said compensation to be paid out of the seminary fund; prescribing 
 the manner of filling vacancies, and the number necessary to con- 
 stitute a quorum, &e. See Session Acts of 1848-9, pp. 129-30. 
 
 For an act providing for a Normal Professorship in the Uni- 
 versity, prescribing the duties of county courts in the selection of 
 students for free education in the same, &c. See same Acts, pp, 
 130-1. 
 
 For an act authorizing the curators to appropriate the ret 
 mainder of the subscription fund to the improvement of walks 
 leading to and from the University, outside of the campus; also au- 
 thorizing the Curators to audit and allow any debt justly due by 
 the trustees of Columbia College at the time ol the location of the 
 University, and to pay the same out of any money belonging to 
 the subscription fund, or which may be collected from it, provid- 
 ed said debts do not amount to more than $300; also an act requir- 
 ing the State Auditor to certify to the treasurer of the Curators 
 the balance of the subscription fund, uncollected, and authorizing 
 the Board to employ some person to collect the same. See same 
 acts, pp. 1 31-2. 
 
 Session of 1850-1. 
 
 Three acts were passed during this session in regard to the 
 University: I. Requiring the State Auditor to draw his warrant 
 on the State Treasurer, in favor of the Treasurer of the University, 
 for any moneys in the treasury arising from the sale of seminary 
 lands, and not invested in public stocks. 2. Authorizing the 
 Board to hold a meeting at the Capitol in Jefferson City. 3. He- 
 leasing from furr.her liabilities, on certain conditions, the 
 
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 tors of the subscription fund. See Session Acts 1850-1, pp, 204.-5-6* 
 
 Session of 1852-3. 
 
 During this session a single act was passed in regard to the 
 University, viz: Authorizing the librarian to expend any moneys 
 thereafter arising from the sale of seminary lands in the purchase 
 of a library. See p. 171. 
 
 Session of 1854-5. 
 
 But one act, of two sections, was passed during this session^ 
 viz: requiring the curators to establish, in connection with the 
 University, a primary school, under the superintending care of the 
 President and Professors. Sen p. 520. 
 
 Session of 185G-7. 
 
 There was no legislation during the regular or called session 
 relating to the University. 
 
 Session of 1858-9. 
 
 There was no legislation during this session relating to the 
 University. 
 
 Session of 1800-1. 
 
 There was no legislation during the regular or called session 
 relating to the University. 
 
 Session of \ 362-3. 
 
 There was no legislation during this session in relation to the 
 University 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 (FROM THE REVISED STATUTES OF 1879.) 
 
 OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 II. 
 III. 
 
 The State University. 
 
 The Agricultural Cellege and School of Mine*. 
 The Seminary Fund. 
 
 ARTICLE J. 
 
 TMK STATR UNIVERSITY. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 7229. University established. 
 
 7230. Corporate name. 
 
 7231. Curators, number of. 
 
 7232. Governor to appoint. 
 
 7233. Vacancies, how filled. 
 
 7234. Tenure of appointee to fill vacan- 
 
 cy. 
 
 7235. Quorum. 
 
 7236. Power of board to appoint facul- 
 
 7237. President and treasurer to sub- 
 
 mit' state in c'nt. 
 
 7238. Curators to cause property to be 
 
 inventoried. 
 
 7239. Qualification of curators. 
 
 7240. Meetings ot board. 
 
 7241. Vacancies by removal or non-at- 
 tendance. 
 
 7242. Oath of curators. 
 
 7243. Officers of the board. 
 
 7244. \Vho shall preside. 
 
 7245. Special meetings. 
 
 7246. Adjourned meetings. 
 
 7247. Report to legislature. 
 
 7248. Journal to be kept, 
 
 7249. Duties of secretary. 
 
 7250. Curators to have access to re- 
 
 cords. 
 
 7251. Duty of treasurer. 
 
 7252. By-laws, etc. 
 
 ! SECTION 
 
 17253. Conferring degrees. 
 J7254 1 . Grants not to be diverted. 
 7255. Curators to improve and protect 
 property. 
 
 7256. President to have management 
 
 of institution. 
 
 7257. Bookstand apparatus. 
 
 7258. List of books, etc., to be made. 
 
 7259. Salaries, when ant!' by whom 
 
 . paid. 
 
 7260. Salaries, \vhen suspended. 
 
 7261. Disposition of balances. 
 
 7262. Power of board to sell and con- 
 
 vey land. 
 
 7263. Publications, where made. 
 
 7264. Expensed of curators to be allow- 
 
 ed by committee. 
 
 7265. Professor of normal school. 
 
 7266. The salary. 
 
 7267. Students admissible. 
 
 7268. How apportioned and notified. 
 
 7269. Reports to state superintendent. 
 [7270. Disposition of reports. 
 
 7271. Missouri reports to be furnished. 
 
 7272. Statutes to be furnished. 
 
 7273. Statutes of other states. 
 
 7274. License to sell liquor prohibited. 
 
 7275. Penalties. 
 
 to students, how 
 
 7276. Selling liquoj 
 punished. 
 
 SEC. 7229. University established. A university is hereby in- 
 stituted in this state, the government whereof shall he vested iii a 
 board of curators. (G. S. 251, 17. ) 
 
 Sec. 7230. Corporate name. The university is hereby incor- 
 porated and created a body politic, and shall be known by the 
 
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 name of "the curators of the university of the State of Missouri;' 1 
 and by that, name shall have perpetual succession; ppvv.er. to sue 
 and be sued, complain and defend, in all courts; to make and ji.se 
 .a- common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure; to take, purchase 
 and hold, to sell, convey and otherwise dispose of lands and chat- 
 ftles. (G. S. 251, 18.) 
 
 Sec. -72B1. Curators^ number of. -The board of curators of the 
 state university shall hereafter consist of nine members, who shall 
 be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the sen- 
 ate, three of whom shall be residents of. the county of Hoon^, two 
 , of the county of Phelps, two of that part, of the state m>> t.h of the 
 Missouri river and outside of the county of i>oone, and {.wo of that 
 part of the state south of the Missouri river and outside the coun- 
 ty of Phelps; and no person shall be appointed a curator who shall 
 not have attained the age of" twenty-one years, or who shall not 
 be a citr/ei) of the United States and a resident of the sbito of Mis- 
 souri two years next, prior to his appointment. (*) i Laws 1 
 p. 270, 3.) 
 
 Sec. 7&J2. Governor to appoint. - : -Jt shall bo the duly of the 
 governor, as soon as m;<y be after the passage of this act, j \pril 
 18th, 1877,] and during the session of the twenty-ninth general 
 assembly, to lay before the siMuito for its confirmation Hie names 
 of nine persons, competent under this chapter to serve as curators 
 of the state university, who shall, as soon as confirmed by the sen- 
 ate, duly qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties, and 
 continue in office as herein provided. As soon as said curators 
 qualify, they shall meet and divide themselves into three classes of 
 three members each, one of which classes shall hold their office ior 
 two years from January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. 
 and until their successors are appointed and qualified; one class for 
 four years from January first, eighteen hundred and seventy seven. 
 and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and one 
 class for six years from January first, eighteen hundred and seven- 
 ty-seven, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 
 As soon as such classification is made, a certificate thereof shall be 
 transmitted to the governor, who shall thereupon commission each 
 of said curators for their respective terms, as. indicated by said cer- 
 tificate. In case any person appointed, by the governor be reject- 
 
 5, art. xi. of constitution. 
 
 OF THB 
 
 HVBESITY 
 
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 ed by the senate, the governor shall immediately appoint others 
 until the required number sha'J have been appointed and confirm- 
 ed. (Laws 1877, p. 271, 4.) 
 
 Sac. 7233. Vacancies, how filled. During the session of the 
 general assembly in eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and each 
 regular biennial session thereafter, the governor shall, by and with 
 the consent of the senate, Jill all vacancies caused by the expira- 
 tion of the term of office of any curator, and he shall also fill all 
 vacancies occasioned by death, resignation or removal which 
 may occur while the general assembly is not in session; but all 
 such appointees shall continue in office only until the meeting of 
 the general assembly next thereafter and until their successors be 
 appointed and qualified. All vacancies which may exist at or dur- 
 ing the meeting of the biennial sessions of the general assembly, 
 caused by death, resignation or removal, shall be filled in like man* 
 ner as those created by expiration of official terms, and shall be 
 only for the unexpired time of the party whose vacancy is thereby 
 filled. (Laws 1877, p. 271, 5.) 
 
 Sec. 7234. Tenure of appointee to fill vacancy. All appoint- 
 ments to fill vacancies, (except such as may be made to till out un- 
 expired terms,) shall be for the terms of six years, and until the 
 successors of such appointees shall be appointed and qualifier!. 
 (Laws 1877, p. 271, 6.) 
 
 Sec. 7235. Quorum. At all meetings of the board of cura- 
 tors, seven members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business. (Lnws 1877, p. 270, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7230. Power of board to appoint facility. The curators 
 shall have power to appoint and remove, at discretion, the presi- 
 ideut, professors and tutors of the university, to define and assign 
 their powers and duties, and to fix their compensation. (Laws 
 1877, p. 270, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7237. President and treasurer to submit statement. The 
 president and treasurer of the university, residing at Columbia, 
 and the treasurer of the school of mines and metallurgy, residing 
 at Holla, shall, at each annual meeting of the board, prepare and 
 submit to the board a carefully prepared statement of the proba- 
 ble amount of income, as near as may be, of the university and all 
 its departments for the year following, and the curators shall there- 
 upon make an estimate of the probable expenses of the institution 
 
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 and each of its departments for the ensuing year, based upon the- 
 statements above mentioned, and make the necessary appropria-. 
 tions to meet said expenses for the current year; and in no instance, 
 shall the board of curators create any indebtedness in any one year 
 above what they can pay out of the annual income of said year. 
 (Laws 1877, p. 271. 7.) 
 
 Sec. 7238. Curators to catise property to be inventoried. The 
 curators shall cause to be made out and recorded in H strong and 
 well bound book, to be provided by the secretary for the purpose,a 
 careful and complete inventory, of the property, real and personal, 
 belonging to the university, including e:i.ch department thereof 
 and specifying separately all property of whatever kind belonging 
 to each department of the institution, and it shall be the duty of 
 the secretary of the board, from time to time, to record in said 
 book a description of all property at any time purchased for the use 
 ot the institution, or any department, with the exact cost of the 
 same; and in order to preserve said property from waste or injury,, 
 it shall be the duty of the board, at least once in every year, by 
 proper committees appointed for that purpose, to examine careful- 
 ly all said lists of property to see that the same is well preserved,. 
 and to report the results of their examinations to the board, in 
 writing, which reports shall be filed and recorded by the secretary. 
 (Laws 1877, p. 271, 8.) 
 
 Sec. 7239. Qualification of curators. No person shall be- 
 chosen a curator who shall be in anywise related or of kin to any 
 member of the faculty in office at the time of his election, and any 
 person so elected shall be ineligible to hold such office. (G. S,' 
 251, 22.) 
 
 Sec. 7240. Meetings of board. There shall be two regular 
 meetings of said board of curators in each year, to be holden intre 
 university edifice, or in the town of Columbia; the first meeting 
 shall be deemed the annual meeting, for all the purposes of this 
 chapter, and shall be held on the first Monday in July; and the 
 second meeting, on the fourth Monday in December, unless differ- 
 ent days shall be fixed upon by said board. (G. S. 251, 23.) 
 
 Sec. 7241. Vacancies iy removal or non-attendance. If any 
 curator shall remove from the district in which he resided at the 
 time of his appointment, orsha 1 ! neglect to attend three successive 
 regular meetings of the board, his office shall become vacant; and 
 
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 if a vacancy shall occur by death, resignation, or from any other 
 cause, the governor shall, without delay, lill such vacancy by ap- 
 pointment, and the person so appointed shall serve until the next 
 regular meeting of the general assembly, and until his successor is 
 appointed and qualified. (Laws 1808, p. 175, 8.) 
 
 Sec. 724-2. Oath of curators. The curators shall severally take 
 an oath to support the constitution of the United States and of 
 
 this state, and faithfully de?iean themselves in office. (G. S. 251,. 
 26.) 
 
 Sec. 724)3. Officers oj the hoard. There shall be a, president: 
 and vice-president of the board, who shall be chosen by the bonrd 
 from the members thereof; a, secretary, treasurer, and such other 
 officers of the board as they shall deem necessary, w"ho shall be ap- 
 pointed by the board and hold their offices during the pleasure of 
 
 the board. (G. S. 251, 27.) 
 
 Sec. 7244. Who shall preside. The president, and if he be 
 
 absent, the vice-president, and, if both be absent, a curator, chosen 
 for the occasion, shaJl preside at the meetings of the board, and 
 have a casting vote in case of equal division. (G. S. 252. 28.) 
 Sec. 7240. Special meetings. --The president of the board,aud 
 
 until his election, or in case of his absence or disability, any three 
 curators, shall have power to call a special meeting of the board at 
 the place of holding the annual meetings; provided, they give time- 
 ly notice thereof, in such form as the board, at its annual meeting, 
 
 stall; by resolution, prescribe. (G. S. 252, 2i).) 
 
 SeC. 7246. Adjourned meetings. Adjourned meetings may be 
 
 ordered and held by the board, at such time and place as shall be 
 
 agreed upon by them. (G; S. 252, oO. ) 
 
 Sec. 7247. Report to legislature. It shall be the duty of said 
 
 board of curators to cause to be furnished to the legislature, at 
 each regular meeting thereof, and within the first three weeks of 
 the' session, a list of the names of all the students that may have 
 been taught at said institution during the two preceding years, giv- 
 ing the names, the ages,the place of residence of each,and the time 
 that each one has been taught, as well as the tuition fees charged 
 per session for the various branches of study. It shall likewise be 
 the duty of the treasurer of said board to furnish the legislature 
 with an abstract of the amounts annually paid to the president and 
 each professor, teacher or other officer of said institution. (G. S. 
 '252. 32.) 
 
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 Sec. 7248. Journal to be kept. The secretary shall keep ft- 
 journal of the proceedings of the curators, in which the ayes and 
 noes on all questions shall be entered, if requested by any one of 
 the curators present. (G. S. 252, 33.) 
 
 Sec. 7249. Duties of secretary. It shall be the duty of the 
 secretary to keep and preserve all records, books and papers be- 
 longing to the board; to prepare, under the direction of the board, 
 all their reports, estimates, etc., and record the same in a book to 
 be kept for that purpose, and generally io do and execute all such 
 matters and thingvS as belong to his office, and may be required of 
 him by the curators; and his compensation shall be fixed by the 
 board. (G. S. 252, 34.) 
 
 Sec. 7250. Curators to have access to records. Each curator 
 and member of the faculty shall, at all times, have access to and 
 be permitted to take copies of any or all records, books and papers 
 of the board. (G. S, 252, 35.) 
 
 Sec. 7251. Duty of treasurer. It shall be the duty of the 
 treasurer to receive, keep and disburse all moneys belonging to the 
 board, and to perform all customary acts pertaining to his office, 
 under direction of the curators, and to make report of the same at 
 the annual meeting of the board. (G. S. 252, 36.) 
 
 Sec. 7252. By-laws, etc. The curators shall have power to 
 make such by-laws or ordinances, rules and regulations, as thej 
 may judge most expedient for the accomplishment of the trust re- 
 posed in them, and for the government of their officers and to se- 
 cure their accountability. (G. S. 252, 37.) 
 
 Sec. 7253. Conferring degrees. The curators shall have au- 
 thority to confer, by diploma, under their common seal, on any 
 person whom they may judge worthy thereof, such degrees as are 
 known to and usually granted by any college or university. (G. S. 
 
 252, 38.) 
 
 Sec. 7254. Grants not to be diverted. Grants made to the cu*- 
 
 rators for specified purposes and uses, shall not be applied, either 
 wholly or in part, to any other uses. (G. S. 252, 39.) 
 
 Sec. 7255. Curators to improve and protect property. It shall 
 be the duty of the curators to provide for the protection and im- 
 provement of the site of the state university, as selected and es- 
 tablished by law; to erect and continue thereon all edifices design^ 
 ed for the use and accommodation of the officers and students of 
 
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 the university, and to furnish and adapt the same to the uses of 
 the several departments of instruction. (G. S. 253, 40.) 
 
 Sec. 7256. President to have management of institution. It 
 shall be the duty of the president of the university, among other 
 things, to superintend and direct the care and management of the 
 institution and its grounds, and to make and transmit to the cu- 
 rators, at each annual meeting thereof, a report of the state and 
 Condition thereof, containing such particulars- as the curators shall 
 require. (G. S. 253, 43.) 
 
 SEC. 7257. Books and Apparatus. The president, professors 
 and tutors shall each have the care and management of the books 
 and apparatus belonging to their respective departments, and the 
 librarian the care and superintendence of the library. (G. S. 
 253, 44.) 
 
 SEC. 7258. List of books, etc., to be made.li shall be the 
 duty of the librarian, and eacJi professor having the care of any 
 portion of the books or apparatus belonging to the institution, to 
 make out a complete list of the same, specifying the additions 
 which have been made thereto during the preceding year, and at 
 what cost, and submit a report thereof, in writing, to the curators 
 at each annual meeting. (G. S. 253, 45.) 
 
 SEC. 7259. Salaries, when and by whom paid.r- The salary of 
 each officer of the university shall be payable semi-ami ually ; and 
 it shall be the duty of the president of the board of curators to 
 draw his warrant accordingly on the treasurer of the board, paya- 
 "ble to the order of the officer therein named, and bearing interest 
 at the rate of six per centum per annnm from the time it is pre- 
 sented to the treasurer of the board for payment till paid. (G. S. 
 253, 46.) 
 
 SEC. 7260. Salaries, when suspended. Should the president 
 or any professor, tutor, or other person holding office in the uni- 
 versity, by election, appointment, contract or engagement of the 
 board of curators, fail to discharge, for any length of time, his of- 
 ficial duties, without having obtained the permission of said board T 
 the salary or compensation of such president, professor, tutor, or 
 other person holding office in the university, shall cease for the 
 time he may so fail to discharge his official duties, and no compen- 
 sation shall be allowed for such time; but if said board shall be 
 -satisfied that said president, professor, tutor, or other person hold- 
 
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 ing office in the university, as aforesaid, had good cause for failing 
 to discharge his official duties, then no part of his salary or com- 
 pensation shall be deducted or withheld on account of such failure. 
 (G.S/253, 47.) 
 
 SEC. 7261. Disposition of balances. The balance of the in- 
 crease of the seminary fund, after payment of salaries for each 
 current year, shall be applied as follows: First, to payment of ar- 
 . rears of salaries and necessary repairs of buildings; second, to pro- 
 vide for library, apparatus and cabinet; third, to improvement of 
 buildings and grounds; fourth, surplus to be invested as provided 
 in this chapter. (G. S. 253, 48.) 
 
 Sec. 7262. Poiuer of board to sell and convey land. The cura- 
 tors are hereby authorized to sell and convey to the purchaser, by 
 deed, under the common seal of the board, all lands which have 
 been donated, from any source whatever, ior the use and benefit of 
 the university, except twenty acres for the university site, and to 
 apply the proceeds to the use of the institution; and the avenue 
 around the university campus is hereby declared a highway for 
 permanent public use. (G. S. 254, 49.) 
 
 Sec. 7268. Publications, ivhercmadc. All newspaper publica- 
 tions necessary to be made by the curators, or the president and 
 faculty, for the benefit of the university, shall be inserted in the 
 newspaper or newspapers printed in the county of Boone, and in 
 such other newspapers as the board of curators may select. (G. 
 S. 254, 50.) 
 
 Sec. 7264. Expenses of curators to be allowed by committee. 
 The accounts of said curators, shall be allowed by a committee 
 appointed for that purpose; and the treasurer shall pay such al- 
 lowances out of the seminary fund, keeping a correct account of 
 the same, as well as all other allowances of every kind and charac- 
 ter; and the treasurer shall lay before the general assembly, at 
 each regular meeting thereof, and within the first three weeks of 
 the session, a certified copy of all such allowances and payments 
 as may be ordered by said board.* (G. S. 254, 52.) 
 
 Sec. 7265- Professor of normal school. The curators of the 
 university are hereby authorized and required, as soon as practica- 
 ble, to establish an additional professorship, to be devoted to the 
 theory and practice of teaching, to be called "the normal profess- 
 
 * Fer compensation of curators, se? 7290. 
 
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 orahip," and to call some suitable individual to" the charge of 
 professorship. ( G. S. 254, 56. ) 
 
 Sec! 7230. The salary. ^^ the. support of said professor- 
 ship, there is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars 
 per annum, to be paid out of the income of the seminary fund of 
 the state. (0.8. 254, 57.) 
 
 Sec. 7267. Students admissible. All youths, resident of the 
 state of Missouri, betwixt the ages of sixteen and twenty-five 
 years, shall be admitted to all the priveleges and advantages of the 
 preparatory department, also to the various classes of the practi- 
 cal, scientific and literary departments of the state university ,upon 
 the payment, annually, of an entrance fee, in lieu of all charges 
 of tuition, and which shall not exceed ten dollars; provided, that 
 each applicant for admission therein shall possess such scholastic 
 attainment and mental and moral qualifications as shall be pre- 
 scribed in rules adopted and established by the board of curators ; 
 and, provided further, that nothing herein enacted shall be con- 
 strued to prevent the board of curators from establishing such 
 fee, for library and incidental expenses, not to exceed five dollars 
 per term, as they may find necessary. (Laws 1872, p. 168, 1. 
 
 Sec. 7268. How apportioned and notified. It shall be the du- 
 ty of the board of curators to establish such rules as will entitle 
 each county in the state to its proper number of students, to be 
 determined by the proportion of the number of all the youths in 
 each county, as compared with the entire number in the state, be- 
 twixt the ages of sixteen and twenty-five years; and in order to 
 ascertain its proportion, it shall be the duty of the state superin- 
 tendent of public schools, each year, on or before the fourth day 
 <of July^ to transmit to the secretary of the board of curators a 
 certified list, as near as he can, of the number of youth in each 
 'county, betwixt the ages of sixteen and twenty-five; and thereupon 
 the secretary of the board of curators shall cause to be transmit- 
 ted to the clerk of each county court in this state a certificate, 
 stating the number of pupils that such county is entitled to send 
 to the state university the next scholastic year, which certificate- 
 shall be published by eat-h county clerk for two weeks, in a news- 
 peper published in such county, the expense thereof to be allowed 
 by the county court and paid for out of the county treasury; and 
 there is no newspaper in the county, such eirtifieate to be 
 
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 put 'up c6nspicuoul^ in the office of the county court clerk; and 
 it shall b the duty Of each county court c)erk to transmit to the 
 secretary of the board of curators , on or before the first day of 
 September, of each year, a list of the names of all the youth who 
 intend to make application for entrance into the state university 
 from such county at the commencement of the ensuing session; 
 and if there is any failure of any county clerk to transmit such 
 list within the time specified, from any C9unty, then the vacancies 
 from such county may be filled by students coming from 
 any other county in the state, as the curators may direct. (Laws 
 1872, p. 168, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7200. Reports to state, superintendent. The curate rs 
 of the state university, the trustees of other state institutions for 
 purposes of education, and others having authority and being re- 
 quired by the law now existing so to do, shall hereafter report to 
 the state superintendent of public schools, on or before the first 
 day of November of each year, concerning the condition, 
 improvements and necessities of the said institutions, which 
 report shall be published as apart of the state superintendent's 
 annual report.* (Laws 1870, p. 71, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7270. Disposition of reports. Fifty copies of such ' re- 
 port shall be reserved for the use of each public institution so re- 
 porting, and ten copies shall be bound in suitable manner and pre- 
 served in the state library. (Laws 1870, p. 71, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7271. Missouri reports to be furnished. The secretary 
 of state is hereby required to procure and furnish to the library of 
 the law department of the university of the state of Missouri a 
 full set of the decisions of the supreme court of said state, together, 
 with such digest of the same as may be hereafter select. -d by the 
 dean of the law faculty, and shall also furnish to said library the 
 current volumes of said reports as they shall be published. (Laws 
 1874, p. 184, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7272. Statutes to bejiirnishcd. He shall also furnish', as 
 aforesaid, a copy of the last edition of Wagner's statutes, and in. 
 future a copy of each revision or publication of the statutes of the, 
 state, as shall be made or approved by the general assembly.* 
 (L.iws 1874, p. 184, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7273. Statutes of other states. He shall also, forthwith^ 
 * See 5879 for exceptions. 
 
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 and from time to time, procure for said library the current colla- 
 ted or revised statutes of the several states, so far as it can he done 
 by exchanging for the same statutes of this state, named in the 
 preceerling section. (Laws 1874, p. 184, 3.) 
 
 Sec. 7274. License to sell liquor prohibited. Hereafter no li- 
 cense shall be granted to sell intoxicating liquors in any quanti- 
 ties less than one gallon, at any place within the distance of three 
 miles from the edifice of the state university of Missouri. (Laws 
 1875, p. 75, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7275. Penalties. In addition to the penalties now im- 
 posed upon persons who shall sell intoxicating liquors in less 
 quantity than one gallon, without license, persons violating the 
 next preceedi ig section, after conviction, shall not be granted li- 
 cense to deal ither as a merchant, druggist or confectioner,withiii 
 the distance o,' three miles of said university edifice. (Laws !Sy5, 
 p. 75, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 727G. Selling liquor to students, tioiv punished. Any 
 person who shall knowingly sell, gire, or in any manner dispose 
 of any intoxicating liquor to any student of the state university, 
 or of any school, college or academy in this state, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a 
 fine of not less than forty nor more than four hundred dollars, or 
 by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months, 
 nor more than one year, or by both su;h fine and imprisonment, 
 provided, that it shall be lawful for druggists to sell or give such 
 liquor to any student upon the written prescription of a regular 
 practicing physician in good standing, or upon the written order 
 of the president of the university or college, or the principal of 
 the school or academy at wh'ch such student may be in attend- 
 ance, or by the written order or consent of the parent or guardian 
 of such student: provided, that nothing in this section shall be so 
 construed as to apply to any mercantile or business college- 
 (Laws 1877, P- 273, 1.) 
 
ARTICLE II. 
 
 THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND SCHOOL CI* MINES. 
 
 SECTION. 
 
 727: 
 
 Agricultural college and school 
 of mines. 
 
 Objects pi these colleges. 
 
 Rights of students. 
 
 Faculty. 
 
 Right to confer degrees. 
 
 Condi lion > ot location. 
 
 Funds, how raised. 
 
 Curators to receive subscrip- 
 tions, etc. 
 
 School of mines, location of. 
 
 Subscriptions may be taken. 
 7287. Institution, by whom located. 
 
 Act to become void, when. 
 
 Curators to report annually. 
 
 Appointment of visitors com- 
 pensation of curators. 
 
 7278. 
 7279. 
 7280, 
 7281. 
 7282. 
 7283. 
 
 7*5- 
 
 7.86. 
 
 7288. 
 7 .8> 
 7:90. 
 
 7291. 
 
 7292. 
 7-293- 
 7-'94- 
 7 2 95- 
 
 Commissioner ot lands ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 Otrice of, where kept. 
 May lease lands. 
 Leased lands liable to taxation. 
 Le >sees mav purchase. 
 
 Commissioner to report quar-i7ji4. 
 
 SliCTIOX. 
 
 terly. 
 
 7297. Shall make quarterly statement. 
 72^8. Proceeds of sale, how invested. 
 7:9;. Pre-emption rights. 
 73 jj. President of board to make 
 
 deed. 
 7331. Bonds to he deposited, where 
 
 treasurer of university to give 
 
 Uond, etc. 
 
 7302. Exemptions from taxation. 
 
 7303. Curators to take possession of 
 
 geological prwpeitv. 
 
 7304. To transfer to school of mines. 
 
 7305. Professorship of geology. 
 
 7306. Treasurer of school of mines. 
 
 7307. To he appointed by curators. 
 
 7308. To give bond. 
 
 73 ig. Duty of treasurer of unversity. 
 
 7310. Report of treasurer of schojl of 
 
 mines. 
 
 7311. Compensation. 
 
 73(2. Liabilities. of treasurers. 
 7313. Disposition of bonds. 
 
 Punishment fo; trespasses. 
 
 Sec. 7277. Agricultural college and school of mines estab- 
 lished. There is hereby established the agricultural and mechan- 
 ical college and a school of mines and metallurgy, provided for by 
 the grant of the congress of the United States, as a distinct de- 
 partment of the university of the State of Missouri. (Laws 1870, 
 p. 15, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7278. Objects of these colleges. The leading objects of 
 said colleges shall be to teach such branches as are related to ag- 
 riculture and the mechanic arts and mining, including military 
 tactics and without excluding other scientific and classical studies, 
 in order to promote the liberal and practicul education of the in- 
 dustrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. 
 (Laws 1870, p. 15, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7279. Rights of students. To effect the said leading ob- 
 jects of the colleges, as herein established, it is provided that the 
 students and members thereof shall be admitted to the libraries, 
 museums, models, cabinets and apparatus, and to all lectures and 
 
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 instructions ot the university, which now exist or may hereafter 
 exist, and to all other rights and privileges thereof, in a manner 
 as full and ample as are the students of any other department in 
 said university; and to provide for instruction in military tactics 
 as herein required, it is enacted that in case a system of military 
 education shall lie established by congress, the state university is 
 hereby required, by law, to make? the necessary provision for car- 
 rying out the plan so established in connection with the institu- 
 tion; and, furthermore, there is hereby established and created n 
 perpetual fund, to be styled the "agricultural and mechanical 
 fund, 11 to be derived from the sale or lease of the three hundred 
 and thirty thousand acres of land granted by congress to the State 
 of Missouri, by virtue of an act approved July the second, eighteen 
 hundred and sixty -t wo,. entitled ' "an act donating lands to the sev- 
 ,eral states and territories which may provide colleges for- the bene- 
 fit of agriculture and the mechanic ir'ts," and from all additions to 
 the same from public or private bounty, the principal of which 
 fund shall remain forever inviolate and undiminislied, to be invest- 
 ed in the manner hereinafter specified, and the income thereof 
 shall be placed at the disposal of the board of curators of the uni- 
 versity of the state. Three-fourths of which income shall be for 
 the support of the agricultural and mechanical college aforesaid. 
 and the remaining one-fourth for tbe support of the school of 
 mining and metallurgy hereinafter provided for, in accordance 
 .with the provisions of this article, and .the acts of c:igra.ss afore- 
 said. (Laws 1870, p. 16, 8,) 
 
 Sec. 7280. Faculty. The agricultural and mechanical college 
 arid the school of mining and metallurgy, herein provided for, 
 shall have each a. separate and distinct, faculty, whose officers and 
 professors may be the same, in whole or in part, as the officers 
 and professors in other colleges and departments of the university. 
 (Laws ISyO, p. 10, 4.) 
 
 Sec. 7281. Right to confer degrees.- -The agricultural and 
 mechanical college and the school of mines and metallurgy shall 
 have power to confer degrees suitable to their designs and courses 
 of studies. (Laws 1870, p. 16, 5.) 
 
 Sec. 7282. Conditions of location. [n consideration ol the 
 permanent location of the agricultural and mechanical college in con r 
 nection with the state university, the county of Boone shall donate 
 
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 not. less than thirty .thousand dollars hi cash, to be used in erect- 
 ing such buildings and making such improvements as may be 
 needed for such college, and also for buying stock for, and making 
 improvements on a model or experimental farm of not less than 
 six hundred and forty acres of land, located convenient to the 
 present university grounds, and to be donated by said county of 
 Boone in addition to said sum of thirty thousand dollors in cash. 
 The title to said laud to be clear and indisputable, to be bought 
 .without any charge whatever to the state or to the agricultural 
 college fund, and to be conveyed to the State of Missouri by deed 
 of general warranty, the consideration expressed therein being the 
 location of said agricultural and mechanical college in connection 
 with the state university, and that the same shall be held for the 
 uses and purposes of said agricultural aud mechanical college. 
 (Laws 1870, p. 16, 8.) 
 
 Sec. 7283. Funds, hoiv raised. In order to raise the amount 
 of money and purchase the quantity of land specified in the last 
 ssction, voluntary individual subscriptions may be made and re- 
 ceived, and the form of the subscription shall be thus: We, the 
 "undersigned, agree aud bind ourselves to pay to the curators of the 
 university of the State of Missouri, the sums respectively set oppo- 
 site to our names, whenever the same may be demanded and upon 
 tho condition that the agricultural and mechanical college is loca- 
 ted in connection with the state university at Columbia, and the 
 corporate authorities of the town of Columbia and the coun- 
 ty court of Boone county, are hereby authorized and empow- 
 ered, respectively, to issue bonds of the corporation of the town of 
 Columbia and of the county of Boone in such sums as they may 
 agree upon, to run not longer than twenty years and bearing in- 
 terest at a rate not exceeding ten per centum per annum, payable 
 semi-annally; which bonds shall be properly executed and deliver- 
 ed to the curators of the university of the State of Missouri, to !>* 
 by them sold and converted into cash, to. be used in the erection 
 of the necessary buildings, buying stock and making improve- 
 ments,, as set forth in the preceding section, and in the purchase 
 , ot the six hundred ajtid forty acres of laud required to be donated 
 by this article; and said corporation of the town of Columbia and 
 the county court of Boone county shall have power to levy such 
 ', tax, under the /constitution and -laws of this state, as may be need*- 
 
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 ed to m?et, according to the terras of the bonds, the payment reg- 
 ularly of the interest thereon and the principal when due. (Laws 
 1870, p. 17, 9.) 
 
 Sec. 7284. Curators to receive subscriptions, etc. The mem- 
 bers of the board of curators residing in Boone county are hereby 
 fully authorized to receive the subscriptions and to purchase the 
 lands referred to in the foregoing sections, and to pay for the same 
 either in cash or bonds, as may be agreed upon, and when the sum 
 required shall be subscribad, the bonds issued and lands purchased 
 and deeded to the state, as contemplated by this article, the attor- 
 ney-general of the state, the state superintendent of public schools, 
 in connection with Philemon Bliss, Edward Wyman, J. W. Mat- 
 thias, Robert L. Todd and Paul Hubbard, members of the board of 
 curators, shall act as commissioners to see tint the conditions here- 
 in, contained have been fully complied with, and being satisfied 
 thereof, a majority of them shall make out and sign a certificate 
 stating the facts, which certificate shall be filed in the office of 
 the secretary of state, and a duplicate copy thereof shall be fi^ed 
 with the treasurer of the board of curators, and thereupon the said 
 agricultural and mechanical college shall be fixed and permanent- 
 ly located in connection with the university of the state. (Laws 
 1870, p. 17, 10.) 
 
 Sec. 7285. School of mines, location of. The school of mines 
 and metallurgy, herein provided for, shall be located in the miner- 
 al district of southeast Missouri, but in consideration therefor any 
 county having mines therein within such district shall donate to 
 the board of curators, for building and other purposes of said 
 school, not less than twenty thousand dollars in cush, and not less 
 than twenty acres in land, on which to erect buildings for the use 
 of said school, and lots of mineral land in such quantity, quality 
 and kind as may be deemed necessary for said school for practical 
 and experimental mining; the title of said land to be clear and in- 
 disputable, to be bought without charge whatever to the state or 
 to said agricultural college fund, and to be conveyed to the State 
 of Missouri by general warranty deed for the uses and purposes of 
 said school of mines and metallurgy; and further, the said school 
 shall be located in that county, by a committee of the board of cu- 
 rators selected for such purpose, which shall so give the greatest 
 available amount of money arid lands; provided, however, that if 
 
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 no one of sucli counties shall within three years from the passage 
 of this act comply with the foregoing provisions and conditions, 
 then any or all of such counties may combine for the purpose of 
 complying therewith ; and in such case the said school shall be lo- 
 cated in manner aforesaid within that county of the number so 
 complying with said conditions in which the greatest variety of 
 ores may be then known to exist, and which has also the other ad- 
 vantages and facilities for the successful working of such a school; 
 provided, also, that if said conditions are not accepted by such 
 counties within seven years from the passage of this article, the 
 said part of said fund set apart for said school shall be applied to 
 the maintenance and support of a chair of mining and metallurgy 
 in the state university at Columbia. (Laws ISyO, p. ly, 11.) 
 
 Sec. 728G. Subscriptions may be- taken. la order to raise the 
 amount of money and to purchase the quantity of land specified in 
 the last section, voluntary individual subscriptions may be made 
 and received by the board of curators, and the corporate authori- 
 ties of any city or town; and the county courts of any county iii 
 the district mentioned in the foregoing section, are hereby author- 
 ized and empowered, respectively, to issue bonds of such city, town, 
 or county, in such sums as they may agree upon, to run not lon- 
 ger than twenty years, and bearing interest not exceeding ten per 
 centum per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall be 
 delivered to the board of curators, to be by them sold and convert- 
 ed into cash, to be used in the erection of the necessary buildings, 
 buying stock and making improvements, as set forth in section 
 seven thousand two hundred and eighty- three, and of the land re- 
 quired to be donated therein, and any such city, town or county 
 shall have power to levy such tax, under the constitution and laws 
 of this state, as may needed to meet, according to the terms of the 
 bonds, the payment regularly of the interest and principal when 
 
 due. (Laws 1870, p. 18, 12.) 
 
 Sec. 7287. Institution, by -whom located. The board of cura- 
 tors, after notice of such subscriptions, by individuals, the city, 
 town, or county authorities, mentioned in the foregoing section, 
 shall immediately determine which county in said mineral district 
 is entitled to such school, and shall thereupon proceed to locate in 
 such county the said school, as hereinbefore provided; and the said 
 board of curators are hereby fully authorized to receive the sub- 
 
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 scriptions and to purchase the lands referred to in the preceding 
 section, and to pay for the same, either in cash or bonds, as may 
 be agreed upon. (Laws 1870, p. 18, 13.) 
 
 Sec. 7288. Act to become void, when. The terms of this act, so 
 far as the conditions required to be complied with to iix the loca- 
 tion of said college in connection with the state university, to be 
 met and complied with on or before the second Monday in May. 
 one thousand eight hundred and seventy, otherwise this act shall 
 be null and void. (Laws 1870, p. 18, 13:) 
 
 Sec. 7289. Curators to report annually. At the close of -each 
 university year the board of curators shall make a report in detail 
 to the governor, exhibiting the progress, condition and wants of 
 the several colleges or departments of instruction in the universi- 
 ty, the course of study in each, and the number and names of the 
 officers and students, the amount of receipts and disbursements, to- 
 gether with the nature, costs and results of all important experi- 
 ments and investigations, and such other matters, including state, 
 industrial and economical statistics, as may be thought useful. The 
 governor shall cause the same to be printed for the use of the gen- 
 eral assembly and people of the state, and shall cause one copy of 
 the same to be transmitted by mail, free of expense, to all the col- 
 leges which may be endowed under the provisions of the act of 
 congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 hereinbefore referred to, and also one copy to the secretary of the 
 interior, and one copy to the commissioner of agriculture at Wash- 
 ington City. (Laws 1870, p. 18, 15.) 
 
 Sec. 7290. Appointment of visitors compensation of cura- 
 tors. Inasmuch as all trust funds committed to the management 
 of the state are to be deemed a sacred deposit and to be vigilantly 
 guarded irom perversion, waste, or wrongful use, it is provided 
 that a board of visitors, to consist of five persons, three at least of 
 whom shall be citizens eminent in the agricultural and mechanic 
 arts, and not less than two graduates of the university, shall be ap- 
 pointed by the governor. It shall be the duty of the visitors to 
 make personal examination into the condition of the university, in 
 all its departments, once at least each year, and report the result 
 to the governor, suggesting such improvements and recommenda- 
 tions as they may consider important, which report shall be pub- 
 lished with the annual report of the curators. The visitors shall 
 
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 receive no per dicm^ but they, together with the curators, shall 
 have their actual expenses paid, [and upon the certificate of the 
 secretary of the board of curators, the auditor shall draw his war- 
 rant upon the treasurer of the state, who shall pay the same out ol 
 any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.*] (Laws 
 1870, p. Ml 16.) 
 
 Sec. 7291. Commissioner of lauds appointed. The curators of 
 the university are authorized and empowered to appoint a com- 
 missioner and fix his compensation, whose duty it shall be to take 
 charge of all said agricultural college land, and who, before enter- 
 ing upon the discharge of his duties, shall take an oath faithfully 
 to demean himself in office, and shall be required to give bond in 
 such sum as the board of curators shall direct, with two or more, 
 sufficient securities, for the faithful performance of his duties as 
 such commissioner, which bond shall be made payable to the state 
 of Missouri, and be signed in duplicate by said commissioner and 
 his securities to be approved by the board of curators, one copy of 
 which bond shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the board 
 of curators, and the other copy in the office of the secretary of 
 state. (Laws ISyO, p. 19, 17.) 
 
 Sec. 7292. Office of, where kept. Said commissioner shall 
 keep his office in the city of St. Louis, and shall cause to be pro- 
 cured and kept in his office, complete lists of all the lands selected 
 in this state under the act of congress, approved July second, eigh- 
 teen hundred and sixty-two, entitled u an act donating lands to the 
 several states and territories which may provide colleges for the 
 benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," described by the 
 proper subdivisions or parts of sections, townships and range, to- 
 gether w r ith maps and plats such as are kept in the United States 
 land offices, all to be kept in strongly bound books which shall be 
 labeled "agricultural college lands." Duplicate copies of such lists 
 .of lands, maps and plats shall also be furnished by the commission- 
 er, and in similar books, to the secretary of the board of curators 
 of the state university, which shall also be labeled in the same 
 manner and safely kept in his office. (Laws 1870, p. 19, 18. ) 
 
 *That part .of this section included in brackets is abrogated by 43, art. 
 iv. and 19, article x. ot the constitution. The remainder of the section re- 
 peals 51 of'and part of 52 of chapter 45 f the general statutes of 1865. 
 
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 Sec. 7293. May lease lands. Said commissioner is hereby au- 
 thorized to lease any of said lands for the term of ten years at any 
 time during the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy- 
 one, and for the term of nine years at any time during the }~ear 
 one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and so on annually 
 diminishing the term of lease in such manner that all leases may 
 terminate by the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 eighty-one, and in all n^v leases of land whose lease shall have 
 been forfeited the same rule shall be observed, and the quantity in 
 any one lease shall not exceed three hundred and twenty acres, 
 the lessee to pay interest upon the price named in the lease in lieu 
 of rent at the rate of eight per cent, per annum, to be paid annu- 
 ally in advance, with annual interest upon any interest that shall 
 be unpaid, and said price shall not be less than one dollar and 
 twenty-five cents per acre for lands outside of the railroad belt of 
 lands,and not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre contiguous 
 to railroads where one acre was taken for two; or instead of mak- 
 ing a lease as aforesaid, the commissioner may sell any of said lands 
 for cash in hand without regard to quantity at the price fixed by 
 the board of curators. And the board of curators shall cause the 
 lands to be examined, classified and appraised by two or more com- 
 petent agents by them appointed, before the same are offered for 
 lease or sale, and shall thereafter, either by direct action of the 
 board or by a committee oi its members, fix the price at the inter- 
 est of which said land may be leased, or at which it may be sold; 
 and the said board may at any time change said price, or it may 
 withhold or withdraw from sale or lease any specific tract or par- 
 cel of land, or may designate what tract or parcel shall be sold 
 only for cash in hand, or may attach contiguous subdivisions of 
 lands not to exceed a quarter section that are not to be separated 
 in their lease or sale. Should it be discovered that the number of 
 acres to which the state is entitled by the act of congress has not 
 been selected, located and confirmed, the said agents shall forth- 
 with select the additional number from the vacant lands of the 
 United States within the state so as to secure the full amount of 
 three hundred and thirty thousand acres granted by the United 
 States, taking as heretofore ne acre for two when selected within 
 the railroad belt, and shall in like manner and with full effect as 
 the commissioners created by the act of the general assembly of 
 
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 Missouri, approved March nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred 
 and sixty-six, have the same set apart and withdrawn from entry 
 on the books of the United States land office; and said agents shall 
 receive the same compensation for said services, and for any and 
 all other services performed in appraising said lands, and for any 
 other services under this act as was all owed the commissioners who 
 selected the lands under said act of March nineteenth, one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and sixty-six, and they shall be paid in the 
 same manner, and they shall also receive for their expenses a sum 
 not to exceed two dollars and fifty cents per day for each person. 
 (Laws 1871, p. 89, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7294. Leased lands not liable to taxation. Whenever any 
 said agricultural college lands shall have been leased under the pro- 
 visions of this act and the act to which this is an amendment, they 
 shall be exempt from taxation for state or county purposes during 
 the period of s;iid lease. (Laws 1871, p. 39, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7295. Lessees may purchase. The lessee of any tract cf 
 land shall have the privilege of purchasing the same for cash, at cr 
 before the expiration of said lease at the price specified in the lease, 
 and the lessee failing to pay the interest on any such lease within 
 sixty days from the time the same is made due and payable shall 
 forfeit his lease with all interest previously paid and the improve- 
 ments made thereon, and said commissioner shall be authorized to 
 enter upon and take possession of said land and release the same. 
 (Laws 1870, p. 20, g 21.) 
 
 Sf'C. 72.90. Commissioner to report quarterly. Said commis- 
 sioner shall be required to make quarterly reports to the secretary 
 of the board of curators, which report shall specify by the proper 
 subdivisions the quantity of lands leased, to v/iom leased, and upon 
 what terms, and thereupon the secretary ot th > board of curators shall 
 insert upon the records required to be kept in his office the disposi- 
 tion of the lands thus leased. (Laws 1S70, p. 20, 22.) 
 
 . Sec. 7297. Shal- make quarterly statement.--- Said commis- 
 sioner shall also make out a quarterly statement of his account: to 
 the treasurer of the board of curators, in which he shall specify the 
 amount of money collected on lands either leased or sold by him 
 in each and every quarter, and which sums of money, at tho end 
 of each quarter, he shall pay over to the treasurer of the board of 
 curators, and from whom he shall take, duplicate receipts, one 
 
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 which shall be filed in his office, and the other in the office of the 
 secretary of the board of curators, and the secretary of the board 
 shall charge the treasurer of the board with all moneys thus re- 
 ceived by him. (Laws 1870, p. 20, 23.) 
 
 Sec. 7298. Proceeds of sales, how invested. Under the direc- 
 tion of the board of curators the treasurer shall invest the princi- 
 pal for which any of said land may be sold in such United States 
 or other securities allowed by law as will be saved and yield a cer- 
 tain and permanent income for the support of said ugricultural and 
 mechanical college and the school of mines and metallurgy; and all 
 interest received on lease of land or on any bonds or securities nam- 
 od in this article, to be expended under the direction of the board 
 of curators, for the support and maintenance of said agricultural 
 and mechanical college and the school of mines and metallurgy, in 
 conformity with this article, and with the act of congress a tore- 
 said, granting said land to this state! (Laws 1870, p. 20, 24.) 
 
 Sec. 7299. Pre-emption rights. Any person who has hereto- 
 fore made, or may hereafter make actual settlement upon the ag- 
 ricultural college lands shall bo entitled to lease or purchase three 
 hundred and twenty acres or less, as he may choose, lying contig- 
 uous and including his improvement, in preference to any other 
 person, his right being subject to the power of the board in re- 
 gard to withholding or withdrawing from sale, of designating what 
 may be sold for cash only, or what shall be attached for sale 
 to adjacent subdivisions; and providod, such settlers shall comply 
 with the law and with the rules that may be adopted by the board 
 or commissioner in relation to lease or purchase, the same as is and 
 shall be required by others; and further provided, that at or be- 
 fore a day to be specified in a notice to be publishe'd by the com- 
 missioner, which notice shall be published for four consecutive 
 weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which the 
 lands lie. or, if none be there published, in a newspaper as near as 
 may be to said county, the last insertion to be thirty days before 
 the day named, such settler shall proceed to make proof of his 
 claim in compliance with the rules aforesaid, or he shall forfeit all 
 preference, and the lands shall be subject to lease or sale as other 
 lands; and the commissioner for the sale of the lands shall have 
 authority to hear and determine the conflicting pre-emption rights 
 of any who may claim a right to pre-empt the same land, and he 
 
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 shall be entitled to such compensation for his services as shall be 
 or shall have been provided by the board of curators; and it is fur- 
 ther provided, that the actual settlement referred to must be made 
 prior to the first publication of the commissioner herein referred 
 .to. (Laws 1871, p. 39, 3.) 
 
 Sec. 7300. President oj board to make deed. In case where 
 any of said lands may be sold, and a deed to the same is required 
 to bj made, the same shall be executed by the president of the 
 board o1 curators, signed by him with the seal of the corporation 
 attached thereto, and attested by the secretary of the board. (Laws 
 1870, p. 21, 26.) 
 
 Sec. 7301. Bonds to be deposited, icherc treasurer of univer- 
 sity to give bond. etc. -All bonds for moneys invested under this 
 chapter, shall bo deposited fur safe keeping with the treasurer of 
 the board of curators, who shall be responsible upon his official 
 bond for the safety of said bonds and all other funds in his hands; 
 and the board of curators are fully authorized to require said 
 treasurer to give bond at any time, with two or more securities, to 
 be approved by the board in double the amount of any sum likely 
 to come into his hands. (Laws 1879, p. 21, 37.) 
 
 Sec- 7302. Exemptions Jrom taxation. The agricultural and 
 mechanical college, and the school of mines and metallurgy, and 
 the lands, stock, apparatus and furniture, and all other property be- 
 longing to the same, shall be exempt from state, county and mu- 
 nicipal taxation. (Laws 1870, p. 21, 28.) 
 
 Sec- 7303. Curators to take possession of geological property. 
 It shall be the duty of the curators of the state university of the 
 State of Missouri, within thirty days after tlie passage of this act, 
 either in person or by their agent, to demand of the state geologist, 
 and take charge of, all the charts, instruments, specimens, furni- 
 ture and all property, either real or personal, belonging to the bu- 
 reau of geology, or to the State of Missouri, in their possession, 
 or under their charge or control, and receipt the state geologist 
 therefor. (Laws 1875, p. 73, 2.) 
 
 Sec. 7304. 7v transfer to school of mines. The curators of 
 the university of the State of Missouri shall transfer to the director 
 of the school of mines and metallurgy, at Rolla, Missouri, all prop- 
 erty and implements, specimens, charts and instruments, and fur- 
 niture received from the bureau of geclogy, and the director shall 
 
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 hold the same for the use and benefit of said school of mines and 
 metallurgy, at Rolla, Missouri. (Laws 1875, p. 73, 3.) 
 
 Sec. 7305. Professorship of geology. The school of mines 
 and metallurgy shall be empowered to utilize all implements, in- 
 struments, charts, specimens, etc., and the board of curators may 
 establish, when they deem proper, a professorship of geology, said 
 geologist to supervise the geological surveys that may be made by 
 the school of mines and metallurgy; provided, that nothing in this 
 chapter shall be so construed as to authorize the removal of the 
 specimens now in Washington university of St. Louis. (Laws 
 1875, p. 73, 4.) 
 
 Sec. 7306. Treasurer of sclwol of mines, There is hereby 
 created the office of treasurer of the school of mines and metallur- 
 gy, located in the county of Phelps, whose duty it shall be to re- 
 ceive, keep and disburse all moneys belonging to said school of 
 mines and metallurgy, the money donated and the proceeds of the 
 bonds issued by Phelps county for building and other purposes of 
 said school, the proceeds of the lands donated to the board of cu- 
 rators of the state university and conveyed to the state of Missouri 
 for the uses and purposes of said school, all moneys which shall be 
 appropriated or apportioned for the purposes of said school, includ- 
 ing one-fourth of the income arising from the agricultural and me- 
 chanical fund, and all other money which may belong exclusively 
 to the said school for building, or for any other purpose. He shall 
 have the custody of the said bonds issued by Phelps county, and 
 shall, under the direction of the board of curators, and in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of law, sell the same or borrow money 
 and hypothecate said bonds, for the purposes for which they were 
 issued; and the said treasurer shall perform all customary acts per- 
 taining to his office, under direction of the board of curators, and 
 make report of the same at the annual meetings of the board. 
 (Laws 1872, p. 166, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7307. To be appointed by curators. -The governor shall 
 appoint the treasurer for the school of mines and metallurgy, who 
 shall hold his office until the annual meeting of the board of cu- 
 rators, and thereafter he shall be appointed by the board, and hold 
 his office during the pleasure of the board. (Laws 187'2, p. 166, 
 2. 
 
 Sec. 7308. To give bond. The treasurer of the school of 
 mines and metallurgy shall keep his office in the city of Rolla,and, 
 
upon his appointment, and before he enters upon the duties of his 
 office, give bond to the state of Missouri, to the use of the curators 
 of the university of the state of Missouri, with at least two good 
 and solvent securities, in a sum not less than twenty thousand 
 dollars, to be approved by the board, and filed amongst their pa- 
 pers and records, conditioned that he will faithfully administer 
 the funds of the school of mines and metallurgy coming into 
 his hands, and disburse and invest the same according to the di- 
 rections of the board of curators; and such bond shall be renewed 
 every two years, until the next annual meeting of the board of 
 curators. Such bond may be approved by the president of the 
 board. (Laws 1872, p. 100, 3. 
 
 Sec. 7809. Duty of treasurer of university. The treasurer of 
 the board of curators shall pay over to the treasurer of the school 
 of mines and metallurgy, as soon as he shall be appointed and his 
 bond approved, and at all times hereafter, all moneys, bonds, and 
 all property whatsoever in his hands, which have been donated, or 
 which have been or hereafter may be appropriated or apportioned, or 
 in any manner belonging to said school for its support, or for any 
 other purpose. (Laws 1872, p. 107, 4). 
 
 Sec. 7^10. Report of treasurer of school of mines. At each 
 annual meeting of the board of curators, the treasurer of the 
 school of mines and metallurgy shall make out a full statement of 
 his accounts, showing the amount of money which he has received, 
 according to the provisions of this article, the amount of bonds by 
 him hypothecated or negotiated, as well as the items of expendi- 
 tures; and when approved by the board, a copy of the account shall 
 be entered upon the record. He shall also furnish the board of cu- 
 rators an abstract of the amounts annually paid to the directors, 
 and every professor, teacher or other officer of said school. (Laws 
 1872, p. 107, 5.) 
 
 Sec. 7311. Compensation. The compensation of the treasurer 
 of the school of mines and metallurgy shall be fixed by the board 
 of curators: provided, that the same shall not exceed for any one 
 year the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. (Laws 1872, p. 
 1(57, 0.) 
 
 Sec. 7312. Liabilities of treasurers. The treasurer of the 
 ftoard of curators of the state university at Columbia, and the 
 treasurer of the school of mines and metallurgy, located in the 
 
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 county of Phelps, shall each be held accountable upon their official 
 bonds, respectively, for all moneys and property which may come 
 into their hands belonging to the university, or any of its depart- 
 ments: provided, that the treasurer of the board of curators at Co- 
 lumbia shall not bs held accountable for any moneys or other 
 property which may come into his hands, belonging to the school 
 of mines and metallurgy after the same shall have been paid over 
 under the law to the treasurer of said school of mines and metal- 
 lurgy at Rolla, nor shall the treasurer of the school of mines and 
 metallurgy be held accountable on his official bond for any mon- 
 eys which may come into the hands of the treasurer of the board 
 of curators at Columbia, and which may not have been paid over 
 to the treasurer of said school of mines and matallurgy, the pur- 
 pose of this section being to separate the funds and property be- 
 longing to each institution, and to hold the treasurers, respective- 
 ly, responsible only upon their official bonds, for all moneys and 
 property which may come into their hands, and which belong to 
 the institution of which they are the treasurers. ( Laws 1 872, p. 
 
 17, 7.( 
 
 Sec. 7318. Disposition of bonds. Instead of selling the bonds, 
 issued by the county of Phelps, and delivered to the board of cu- 
 rators under the provisions of section seven thousand two hundred 
 tind eighty-seven, the said board shall have authority at its discre- 
 tion to. borrow money and hypothecate the same for the purposes 
 for which they were issued, and if the board shall be able to re- 
 deem said bonds by the sale oi lands, as herein provided, or other- 
 wise, they may, if in the judgment of the board the interest of 
 said mining school shall require it. be held as an endowment in 
 part for the support of said mining school. And further, all the 
 lands subscribed and conveyed to the State of Missouri in order to 
 secure the location of the school of mines in the county of Phelps, 
 are hereby accepted by the state for the purposes of the grant, and 
 the said board of curators are authorized, according to such rules 
 and regulations as it may adopt, to sell all or any portion of the 
 lands so conveyed, other than those conveyed for the uses and pur- 
 poses of building sites, and for the purposes of practical and expe- 
 rimental mining; and upon making such sales, the title of the 
 state, and the interest of the curators of the university, shall be 
 conveyed by deed in the name of the state, executed by the cura- 
 
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 tor's of the university of the State of Missouri by the signature of 
 the president of the board, and affixing its corporate seal; and the 
 proceeds of such sale may b:> applied to the redemption of bonds 
 hypothecated as aforesaid, or to the erection of the necessary 
 buildings and making other improvements, to the purchasing of 
 apparatus and library, or any other legitimate objects pertaining 
 to such a school. (Laws 1871, p. 40, 5.) 
 
 rfoc. 7fUl. Puiiishment for trespasses . It shall be the duty of 
 the circuit court of the proper counties to give specially in charge 
 to the grand juries of the counties in which are situated any of the 
 agricultural college lauds, or any of lands donated to the state for 
 the use of the mining school, the provisions of sections one thou- 
 sand three hundred and fifty-eight and one thousand three hun- 
 dred and fifty-nine, with special reference to the destruction of 
 timber upon such lands; and it shall be the duty of prosecuting 
 attorneys to proceed before justices of the peace against any per- 
 son violating the provisions of said sections in regard to said lands, 
 and procure their recognizance according to law, to answer in. the 
 proper court; and inasmuch sis congress bus made it the express 
 duty of the state to be at all the expense of administering the 
 trust in regard to such lands, the costs of trials in the circuit 
 court shall, upon conviction, and so far as they are poperly charge- 
 able to and cannot be collected of the accused, be paid out of the 
 state treasury, and the president of the board of curators, or the 
 commissioner for the sale of lands under his direction, shall have 
 authority to institute civil suits in the name of the state for the 
 use of the curators of the university to recover damages for any 
 trespass upon, any of such lands; and those who may take lease for 
 any such lands shall have no authority to cut or carry away more 
 timber than is necessary for the proper improvement of the prem- 
 ises, or for fuel on the same, and any one so doing shall be held to 
 have forfeited his lease, and he shall forthwith, upon notice, sur- 
 render possession, that the premises may be sold or leased to other 
 persons. (Laws 1871, p. 39. 4.) 
 
ARTICLE III. 
 
 THE SEMINARY FUND. 
 
 SECTION. 
 
 7315. Seminary fund created. 
 
 7316. To remain a permanent fund. 
 7.517. How appropriated. 
 
 7318. Register of lands to keep list el 
 
 lands. 
 
 7319. He shall keep list of sales. 
 
 7320. Duties of auditor and treasurer. 
 73 2 i- Commissioners of seminary 
 
 fund. 
 
 7322. Investment oi fund. 
 
 7323. Bonds, : )\\- taken. 
 
 7324. Praceec. of bank stoek. 
 
 SECTION. 
 
 7325. Auditor to be custodian of fund 
 
 7326. Interest on fund, to be paid to 
 
 whom. 
 
 Treasurer to report to board. 
 Copy of treasurer's account to 
 
 be deposited with auditor. 
 
 7329. Compensation of treasurer. 
 
 7330. Treasurer's bond. 
 
 7331. Investment of seminary fund. 
 
 7332. Interest to be paid t treasurer 
 
 of university. 
 
 Sec. 731"). Seminary jund created. There is hereby created 
 and established a fund to support a state university, for the pro- 
 motion of literature and of the arts and sciences, to lie denomina- 
 ted "the seminary fund," which shall consist of: First, the pro- 
 ceeds of the lands now held by the state, and known MS seminary 
 lands; second, all moneys derived from the sale of seminary lands 
 heretofore made, and the interest thereof: third, the interest, divi- 
 dends, proceeds and profits of such moneys and lands, except such 
 distribution as shall be, by law, authorized. ( G. S. '349, J.) 
 
 Sec. 7316. 1o remain a permanent /////</. The semi miry 
 fund shall be and remain a permanent fund for the promotion of 
 literature and of the arts and sciences; and so much of the income 
 thereof shall be added to and become a part of the fund as shall 
 not be appropriated as hereinafter provided for. ((1. S. 249, 2.) 
 
 Sec. y317. How appropriated. So much only of the income 
 of the seminary fund shall be appropriated in any year as shall be 
 necessary for the purposes to which the application therefor shall 
 be authorized by law; and the residue shall be added to and be- 
 come part of the permanent fund, which shall never be lessened or 
 impared. (GK S. 249, 3.) 
 
 Sec. 7318. Register of lands to keep list of lands. It shall be 
 the duty of the register of lands to provide and keep in his office 
 a book, to be called "the register of seminary lands," in which 
 shall be entered a description of all seminary lands heretofore or 
 now held by the state, showing the county wherein situate, tho 
 
range, township and legal subdivision, arranged with suitable 
 volumes, in which shall be noted all sales, by the date, number 
 of acres, price per acre, and total amount of each tract. (G. S. 
 250, 4.) 
 
 . Sec. 7319. He shall keep list of sales. The register shall also 
 enter in such book a list of sales hereafter made, showing the par- 
 ticular description of the lands, and the sales thereof, specified in 
 the last preceding section. (G. S. 250, 5.) 
 
 Sec. 7320. Duties of auditor and treasurer. The state audi- 
 tor and state treasurer shall, respectively, perform like duties and 
 possess the same powers in relation to the seminary fund and in- 
 come, as they respectively are or may be required to perform or 
 exercise in relation to public school funds and moneys ; and shall 
 account themselves, and shall require others to account to them,iii 
 the same manner as in relation to public school funds and moneys^ 
 except in cases otherwise provided. (G. S. 250, 6.) 
 
 Sec. 7321. Commissioners of seminary fund. The governor, 
 secretary of state and attorney general, shall, by virtue of their 
 respective offices, be commissioners of the seminary fund. (G. S. 
 250, '7. 
 
 Sec. 7322. Investment of fund. Whenever there shall be in 
 the treasury, or elsewhere, subject to the order of the treasurer,any 
 moneys belonging to the capital of the seminary fund, the state 
 auditor shall make report to the commissioners, who shall direct 
 the same to be invested in bonds of the United States, and the 
 state auditor shall make the investment accordingly. (G. S. 
 250, 8.) 
 
 Sec. 7323. Bonds, how taken. The bonds thus taken shall 
 be in the name of the office of the state auditor, in trust for the 
 seminary fund, which trust shall be specially expressed in erery 
 such bond. (G. S. 250, 9. 
 
 Sec. 7324. Proceeds of bank stock. Whenever the stock now 
 held by the state in the bank of the State of Missouri shall be dis- 
 posed of the proceeds thereof which may belong to the university 
 fund, together with the proceeds of all other stocks or lands be- 
 longing to such fund, as they may be received, shall be invested as 
 provided for in sections seven thousand three hundred and twenty- 
 two and seven thousand three hundred and twenty-three. (G. S. 
 250, 10.) 
 
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 Sec. 7325. Auditor to be custodian of fund. All bonds and 
 certificates of stock, in trust for the seminary fund, shall be in 
 charge of the state auditor, who may deposit them for safe keeping 
 in such bank or banks as may bo designated by law for the keep- 
 ing of the state funds. (OK S. 250, 1 1. ) 
 
 Sec. 782(>. Interest on fund to be. paid, to whom. All interest 
 and profits of such bonds held in trust for the seminary fund, shall 
 he paid to the treasurer of the board of curators, who shall be 
 charged therewith by the state auditor. (OK S. 250, 12.) 
 
 Sec. 782y. Treasurer to report to board. At each annual 
 meeting of the board ol curators, the treasurer thereof shall make 
 out a full statement of his accounts, showing the amount of money 
 which he has received, according to the provisions of this article, 
 and the items of expenditure; and when approved by the board, a 
 copy of the account shall bo entered upon the record. (G. S. 
 250, 4.) 
 
 Sec. 7828. Copy of treasurer* s account to be deposited with 
 auditor. An exact copy of the account of the treasurer of the 
 board of curators, required by the last preceding section, certified 
 by the president of the board, shall, immediately upon its approval 
 be transmitted })j him to the state auditor, who shall enter a cred- 
 it in favor of the treasurer of the board for the amount appearing, 
 by said account, to have been expended by him. (OK S. 250, g 15. ) 
 
 Sec. 7829. Compensation of treasurer .- -The compensation of 
 the treasurer of the board of curators shall be fixed by the board : 
 provided, that the same shall not exceed, for any one year, the 
 sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. (G. S. 251. $ 46.) 
 
 Sec. 7830. Treasurers bond. The treasurer of the board 
 shall, upon his appointment, and before he enters upon the duties 
 of his office, give bond to the state of Missouri, to the use of the 
 curators of the university of the State of Missouri, with at 
 least two good and solvent securities, in the sum of ten 
 
 thousand dollars, to be approved by the board, and filed 
 amongst their papers and records, conditioned that he will 
 faithfully administer the university funds coming into his hands, 
 and disburse and invest the same according to the directions of 
 the board of curators; and such bond shall be renewed every two 
 years.* (G. S. 255, 59.) 
 
 * The treasurer may be required to give bond ;;t. any time, by order of the 
 board oi curators, in double the amount likely to conic into his hands. \'u1<: 
 section 7301. 
 
Sec. 7331. Investment of seminary Jund. The state treasurer 
 is authorized and directed to invest without delay all sums, of 
 money now in the state treasury to the credit of the state semi- 
 fund and not already invested, in interest hearing stocks of the 
 United States. (Laws 1870, p. 159, 1.) 
 
 Sec. 7332. Interest to be paid to treasurer of university. The 
 accruing semi-annual interest on all sums thus invested under this 
 act shall be paid over to the treasurer of the board of curators of 
 the state university by the state treasurer at the same time and in 
 the same manner as is now done in reference to the seminary funds,, 
 now invested, and the duties of the auditor and treasurer shall be. 
 the same. (Laws 1870, p. 159, 2.) 
 
 REPORTS AND LIABILITY OF -OFFICERS. 
 
 SECTION. j SECTIOX. 
 
 5878. Reports. j 5880 Liability ol officers. 
 
 Sec. 0878. Reports. All public institutions in this state, 
 maintained and supported in whole or in part by appropriations 
 out of the treasury of the state, shall make, through their proper 
 officers to the general assembly, on or before the second Monday 
 in January of each session thereof, biennial reports, under oath, 
 containing an itemized statement of all the actual expenditures of 
 said institutions, showing minutely the disbursements of 
 all funds appropriated by the general assembly for the maintenance 
 of the same, before there shall be any money appropriated by the 
 general assembly out of the stale treasury for their maintenance 
 and support. (Laws 1877, p. 263, 1.) 
 
 *#*****##** 
 
 Sec. 5880. Liability of officers If. the curators, managers, 
 trustees, or other officers having control ot any educational, el- 
 eemosynary, or other public institutions belonging to the state, or 
 any executive committee, by whatever name called, having subor- 
 dinate control under such curators, managers, trustees, or other 
 officers, as aforesaid, or any president, superintendent, steward or 
 
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 other officer in immediate charge of any such institution, or any 
 person having the business management of any such institution, 
 shall contract in the name or for the use of such institution any 
 debt, for which there shall not be at the time an adequate appro- 
 priation, every such curator, manager, trustee, or other officer in 
 control, as aforesaid, and every such comrnitteeman, and every 
 such president, superintendent, steward or other officer in immedi- 
 ate charge, as aforesaid, and any person having the business man- 
 agement of any such institution, as aforesaid, shall be personally 
 liable for such debt to the person with whom such is contracted, or 
 the assignee thereof, and in addition shall, on conviction, be deem- 
 ed guilty of a misdemeanor: provided, that no such curator, mana- 
 ger, trustee, or officer in control, or committeeman, as aforesaid, 
 shall be so liable, as aforesaid, or be deemed guilty, as aforesaid, if 
 at the time of incurring such debt he shall require the ayes and 
 noes to be taken and recorded on the question of incurring such 
 debt, and shall himself vote against incurring such debt. (Laws 
 1875, p. 70, 1.) 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 ADJOURNED .SESSION NOV. 1, 1865- 
 
 No legislation. A memorial to Congress passed in regard to 
 damages to the university building during the war. 
 Session of 1867-8. 
 
 During this session an act was passed appropriating out of the 
 State Treasury $10,000 to rebuild the President's House, which 
 was destroyed by fire on Nov. 26th, 1865. This appropriation was 
 the lirst whicli was ever made by the Legislature, of any sum or 
 for any purpose, in aid of the university. Said act also contained 
 this section: 
 
 Sec. 2. There is also set aside and appropriated, annually, for 
 the support of the State University of Missouri, out of the revenue 
 of the State, after first deducting therefrom the one-fourth of the 
 revenue for the Public School Fund, one and three-quarter per 
 cent, of such balance of the State revenue; and this is declared to 
 belong to the University, and shall be paid to the Treasurer of the 
 Board of Curators, as provided for by law for the payment of other 
 funds of the University. Approved March 11, 1867. 
 Adjourned Session 1867-8. 
 
 On Feb. 12, 1868, an act was approved amending sections 20, 
 21 and 25 of chapter 45 of the General Statutes. For this amend- 
 atory act see Session Acts of adjourned session of 1868, p. 175. 
 Session 0/1868-9. 
 
 No legislation during this session in regard to the University. 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
CHAPTER XL 
 
 SEMINARY FUND: INVESTMENT OF. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the further investment of the Seminary fund of this 
 State. 
 
 SECTION. (SECTION. 
 
 i State Treasurer directed to in- 2. Accruing semi-annual interestto 
 ve?t surplus moneys in State be paid to whom. 
 
 treasury in interest bearing stocks 
 
 Act to take effect when. 
 
 of United States. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri^ 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. That the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to 
 invest without delay, all sums of money now in the State treasury 
 to the credit of the State seminary fund and not already invested, 
 in interest bearing stocks of the United States. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the accruing semi-annual interest on all sums 
 thus invested under this act shall be paid over to the treasurer of 
 the board of curators of the State University by the State Treas- 
 urer at the same time and in the same manner as is now done in 
 reference to the seminary funds now invested, and the duties of the 
 Auditor and Treasurer shall be the same. 
 
 Sec. 3. This act to take effect from its passage. 
 
 Approved February 9, 1870. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND SCHOOL OF MINES. 
 
 AN ACT for the benefit of the State University, the Agricultural and Me- 
 chanical College of Missouri, and the School of Mines and Metallurgy, and 
 to settle the account between the State and the Seminary fund, arising from 
 
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 the sale oi the stock held by the State in the Bank of the State ot Missouri, 
 in trust for the Seminary Fund. 
 
 SECTION. 
 
 1. Coupon bonds to be issued; 
 amount and condition thereof. 
 
 2. Form of bonds; objects of issue. 
 
 3. Issue or" further bonds for school 
 of mines. 
 
 4. First mentioned bonds, when ex- 
 
 SECTION. 
 
 5. Other bonds to be delivered to 
 treasurer of school of mines. 
 
 6. Purposes to which portion of 
 proceeds is to be applied. 
 
 7. Report thereof to be made by 
 curators. 
 
 ecuted, delivered to whom. 8i Act to take effect, when. 
 
 WHEREAS, The act of congress, approved July 2, 1862, and 
 making grants of land to the different states for the purpose there- 
 in of founding colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, ex- 
 pressly provides that no portion of said fund nor the interest thereon 
 shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatev- 
 er, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building 
 or buildings; and also that any state which m:iy take and claim 
 the provisions of this act within five years at least, not less than 
 one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the 
 grant to such state shall cease; and also that no state shall be en- 
 titled to the benefit of this act, unless it shall express its accep- 
 tance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of 
 its approval by the president to- wit: July 2, 1862 and 
 
 Whereas, The general assembly of the state of Missouri adopt- 
 ed the following- resolution, approved M-irch 17, 1863, to- wit: 
 That the said act of congress of the United States is assented to 
 and accepted by the State of Missouri with the conditions, re- 
 strictions and limitations therein contained, and the faith of the 
 State of Missouri is hereby pledged to the faithful performance 
 of the trust hereby created; and 
 
 Whereas, Said agricultural and mechanical college and school 
 of mines and metallurgy, having been located under an act uf the 
 general assembly of the State of Missouri, approved February 21, 
 ISyO, and one of the conditions and obligations contained in said 
 act of congress was, that each state should -provide the necessary 
 college buildings for the accommodation of the students who might 
 attend upon the instructions of the same, and as imperative neces- 
 sity now exists for such buildings to meet the wants of said insti- 
 tution; and 
 
 Whereas, The amount of stock held in trust by the state in 
 the Bank of the State of Missouri, for the use and benefit of the 
 ceminary fund, amounted to the sum of one hundred thousand dol- 
 
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 lars, and which was sold for the sum of $108,500 on the 12th day 
 of June, 1866, and the interest thereon, computed at the rate of 
 six per centum per annum from the first day of July, 1866, to the 
 first day of July, 1872, being $38,580, making the whole" amount 
 of the proceeds of the sale of the bank stock, with the interest 
 thereon due to the seminary fund, on the first day of July ,1872 
 $147,080; and it being desirable that said account, together with 
 all claim for back interest, and for any failure of the said bank to 
 declare dividend on said stock held by the state for the use of the 
 seminary fund, prior to the year 1866. should be finally settled and 
 adj Listed : therefore. 
 
 JSe it enacted by the Ge'neral Assembly of the State of Missouri % 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. Upon the passage and approval of this act, the gov- 
 ernor is hereby directed to cause to be issued coupon bonds of the 
 state of Missouri, amounting to the sum of one hundred and sixty- 
 ty-six thousand dollars,and in the sum of one thousand dollars each, 
 and to be dated the first day of July, 1872, the principal to be pay- 
 able in lawful money of the United States, twenty years after their 
 respective issue, the interest thereon payable semi-annually, at the 
 rate of six per centum per annum, in lawful money of the United 
 States. The principal and interest shall be payable at the Bank 
 of Commerce, in the city of New York. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said bonds shall be signed by the governor, coun- 
 tersigned, sealed and registered by the secretary of state; the cou- 
 pons shall be signed by the state treasurer, and the bonds and cou- 
 pons shall be numbered and registered by the state auditor; and 
 the faith and credit of the state are hereby solemnly pledged for 
 the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal 
 thereof. The bonds provided for in the first and second sections of 
 this act shall be for the benefit of the agricultural and mechanical 
 college of Missouri, made by law a department of the State Uni- 
 versity, and in lieu of and in full payment of the amount of prin- 
 cipal and interest due by the state to the seminary fund on account 
 of stock heretofore held in trust in the Bank of the State of Mis- 
 souri, and in full discharge of all back interest claimed to be due 
 on account of the non-payment of interest, or failure at any tirno 
 of the bank to declare dividends upon said stock. 
 
 Sec. 3. The govermor is further directed to cause to be issued 
 
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 coupon bonds of the state of Missouri, amounting to the sum of 
 thirty-five thousand dollars, in the sum of one thousand dollars 
 each, the principal to be payable in lawful money of the United 
 States, twenty years after their respective issue, and to be dated the 
 first day of July, 1872, the interest thereon payable semi annually, 
 at the rate of six per centum per annum, in lawful money of the 
 United States. The principal and interest shall be payable at the 
 Bank of Commerce, in the city of New York. Said bonds shall be 
 signed by the governor, countersigned, sealed and registered by 
 the secretary of state; the coupons shall be signed by the state 
 treasurer, and the bonds and coupons shall be numbered and reg- 
 istered by the state auditor: and the faith and credit of the state 
 are hereby solemnly pledged for the payment of the interest and 
 the redemption of the principal thereof. The bonds provided for 
 in this section shall be ior the benefit of the school of mines and 
 metallurgy, located at the town of Rolla; and the proceeds of the 
 sale thereof shall be appropriated toward the erection and equip- 
 ment of a suitable building for said school of mines and metallur- 
 gy, under the direction of the board of curators of the state uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Sec. 4. The bonds named in the first and second sections of 
 this act, aftnr the same shall have been properly executed and reg- 
 istered, as required, shall be delivered by the governor to the treas- 
 urer of the board of curators of the Static University at Coulumbia, 
 who shall take his receipt therefor, and cause the same to be filed 
 in the office of the secretary of state; and said treasurer shall be 
 held responsible on his official bond for the safe keeping of said 
 "bonds, and for the proceeds of the sale thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. The bonds named in the third section of this act, after 
 the same shall have been properly executed and registered, as re- 
 quired by law. shall be delivered by the governor to the treasurer 
 Of the school of mines and metallurgy at Rolla, who shall take his 
 receipt therefor, and cause the same to be filed in the office of the 
 ISscretary of state; and said treasurer shall be held responsible on 
 his official bond for the safe keeping of said bonds, and for the pro- 
 ceeds of the sale thereof. 
 
 Sec. 6. The curators of the State University are hereby au- 
 thorized to use so much of the proceeds of the sale of sixty-six of 
 the bonds named in the first and second sections of this act, as may 
 
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 be necessary to finish and fully equip the scientific building of the 
 agricultural and mechanical college; to pay off the outstanding 
 debts of the university, amounting to the sum of nineteen thou- 
 sand and six hundred dollars; and to expend the further sum of 
 five thousand dollars in making additions to the library, for the 
 benefit of the agricultural and mechanical college; and the balance 
 thereof to be and remain a part of the permanent endowment of 
 tlie state university. 
 
 Sec. 7. A report of the expenditures of said money as above 
 authorized, containing a full and complete statement of the ac- 
 count, shall be presented by the board of curators, in the next an- 
 nual report, which they are required by law to make to the gov- 
 ern of the state, and to be laid betore the legislature at its nex 
 session. 
 
 Sec. 8. This act to take effect and be in force from and after 
 its passage. 
 
 Approved March 29, 1872. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS: FIRE-ARMS DISCHARGE OF. 
 
 AN ACT to prohibit the discharge of fire-arms in the immediate vicinity of 
 any court house, church or building used for school or college purposes 
 
 SECTION. ' SECTION 
 
 i. Unlawful to fire gun or pistol in 
 immediate vicinity of court- 
 house, church or college. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Definition of "immediate vicin- 
 ity" 
 
 f?c it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri^ 
 as foHo-vs : 
 
 SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person in 
 this State, except he be a sheriff, or other officer, in the discharge 
 of official duty, to discharge or lire off any gun, pistol or fire-arms 
 of any description, in the immediate vicinity of any court house, 
 church or building used for school or college purposes, 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person gpilty of a violation of the preceding 
 
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 section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic- 
 tion, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor 
 more than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail 
 not exceeding twenty days. 
 
 Sec. 3. The term "immediate vicinity," as used in this act, 
 shall be construed and held to mean a distance not exceeding two 
 hundred yards. 
 
 Approved April 30th, 1879. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 SCHOOLS: PUBLIC BONDS p* SCHOOL AND SEMINARY FUNDB. 
 
 AN ACT to prohibit the officers or agents of this State, and thor persons 
 from negotiating, assigning, transferring or hypothecating the 
 bonds of the State, school and seminary funds. 
 
 SECTION SECTION 
 
 2. Bonds hereafter required to be 
 
 stamped. 
 
 3. Descriptive list of bonds to be 
 
 Bonds not to be assigned or ne- 
 gotiated ; bonds to be stamped ; 
 he\v. 
 
 published. 
 
 WHEREAS, There are in the custody of the State Treasurer 
 two thousand and nine bonds, belonging to the school fund, and 
 one hundred and twenty-two bonds belonging to the seminary 
 fund, of the aggregate value of $2,131 ,000.00, exclusive of attach- 
 ed coupons; and 
 
 WHEREAS, A prudent regard to the interests of the State de- 
 mands that, without destroying their identity, or otherwise im- 
 pairing their validity, the negotiation, transfer, hypothecation, or 
 other misuse of the bonds aforesaid, 1)9 prevented effectually; 
 therefore, 
 
 Be tt enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri^ 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. That the two thousand one hundred and thirty-one 
 bonds, and each of the attached coupons, mentioned in the pream- 
 ble to this act as belonging to the seminary fund, and to the state 
 school fund, respectively, shall not be assigned, negotiated, trans- 
 
ferred or hypothecated by any officer or agent of this state, iior by 
 any other person or persons whatever; and the State Board oF 
 Education, by its president, in the presence of the Auditor and 
 'treasurer, each of whom shall take notice of what is done and en- 
 ter the same in his books, immediately after this act takes effect, 
 shall cause to be written or stamped upon the face of each of said 
 Ibonds and coupons the words and figures, as follows: This bond 
 is a part of the public school fund of the State of Missouri, and 
 cannot be assigned, negotiated, transferred or hypothecated by any 
 officer or agent of this State, iior by any other person or persons 
 whatever. 
 
 Done by virtue of an act of the General Assembly, approved 
 , 1879, (naming the date of the approval of this act.) 
 
 And if the bond belongs to the seminary fund, the same words 
 and figures a above recited shall be written or stamped thereon, 
 except the words "public school fund, 1 ' in lieu of which the words 
 "seminary fund" shall be so written or stamped ; and make report 
 tiiereof to the General Assembly. 
 
 Sec. 2. And all bonds hereafter acquired by the State Board 
 of Education, for the use of either of said funds, shall immediate- 
 ly, upon their acquisition, have written or stamped upon them by 
 said board the same inscription, and in the manner as directed in 
 section one of this act. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Auditor shall publish, in the appendix to his bi- 
 ennial report, a schedule of all the bonds so inscribed. He shall 
 also make a descriptive list of all bonds now or hereafter affected 
 "by this act, and promptly notify the fiscal agent of the State of 
 the condition of all such bonds. 
 
 Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage 
 the emergency being that a due regard to the interests and 
 safety of the public school fund, and the interest of the State, re- 
 quires greater safeguards for the protection of said bonds and the 
 State in the preservation thereof. 
 
 Approved April 24th, 1879. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 SCHOOLS PUBLIC: FTODS PERPETUATED. 
 
 AN ACT to create and perpetuate free public school funds for the -several 
 counties f this State. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 i. School funds to be invested, how 
 
 SECTION 
 
 Inconsistent acts repealed 
 
 and by whom. 
 
 J-^e ii enacted by the General Assembly of the .State 6f Missouri, 
 as Jollows : 
 
 ' Section 1. It is hereby made the duty of the several county 
 courts of this State, to diligently collect, preserve and securely in- 
 vest, at the highest legal rate of interest on imincumbered real 
 estate security, worth at all times at least double the sum loaned, 
 with personal security in addition thereto, the proceeds of all 
 moneys, stocks, bonds and other property belonging to a county 
 school fund; also, the net proceeds from the sale of estrays; also, 
 the clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures, and of all fines 
 collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal or 
 military laws of this State, and all moneys which shall be paid b} r 
 persons as an equivalent for exemption from military duty; shall 
 belong to, and be securely invested, and sacredly preserved in the 
 several counties, as a county public school fund; the income of 
 which fund shall be faithfully appropriated for establishing and 
 maintaining free public schools in the several counties of this 
 State. 
 
 Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved May 19th, 1879. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 SCHOOLS: PUBLIC GIFTS TO FUND. 
 
 AN ACT to encourage and increase the Public School Fund of the State by 
 grant, gift or devise, as provided for in Section six (6), Article 
 eleven (n) of the Constitution of Missouri, and to provide lor its 
 safe and permanent investment. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 1. Gifts to school fund lawful. 
 
 2. Duplicate receipts to be given by 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 3. Certified copy of transfer to be 
 
 recorded by Auditor. 
 
 4. Property to be sold and proceeds 
 
 invested. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 5. Treasurer responsible for sale- 
 
 keeping, etc. 
 
 6. Where terms of grant cannot be 
 
 complied with, proceedings. 
 
 7. State made custodian of such 
 
 funds. 
 
 Auditor and Treasurer to report 
 such gifts to the Legislature. 
 
 ]E>c it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri^ 
 as follows : 
 
 Section 1. It shall hereafter be lawful for any person to grant, 
 give or devise to the Public School Fund of the State any money, 
 property, real or personal, choses in action of every kind and de- 
 scription, the same to be turned over and delivered to the Treas- 
 urer of the State, and to be disposed of by him in the manner 
 hereinafter provided for. 
 
 Sec. 2. For any money, property or choses in action, delivered 
 to the Treasurer, under this act, he shall give duplicate receipts, 
 one of which shall be filed in the office of the Auditor ot State, 
 who shall charge the Treasurer therewith. 
 
 Sec. 3. A certified copy of the instrument of writing, evidenc- 
 ing such grant, gift or devise, shall also be delivered to the State 
 Auditor, and duly recorded by him, in his office, in a book to be 
 kept specially for that purpose, and the original shall be recorded 
 in the recorder's office of the county where said grantor, donor or 
 devisor lives or resided at the time of his death. 
 
 Sec. 4. Said Treasurer shall, as early as practicable, dispose of 
 the property granted, given or devised, according to the terms 
 specified in the written instrument, granting or giving the same 
 to the Public School Fund, and if the same be in money, or after 
 the property is converted into money, it shall be securely invested 
 and sacredly preserved as a part of the Public School Fund, as 
 
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 provided for by the Constitution of this State, whether the same 
 be given for the free public schools or for the benefit of the State 
 University, and the annual income of which fund shall be invest- 
 ed, reinvested, appropriated and disbursed, and paid over according 
 to the terms of the writing making such grant, gift or devise, and 
 for no other uses or purposes whatsoever. 
 
 Sec. 5. For all property or money received under this act by 
 the State Treasurer, he and his securities shall be responsible for 
 the safe keeping, investment, reinvestment and disbursement of 
 the same on his official bond. 
 
 Sw. 0. In all cases where any such grant, gift, devise or be- 
 quest has been made by any person for educational purposes, in 
 aid of or connected with the free public school system, or of the 
 State University, and from any cause the terms of such grant, gift 
 devise or bequest cannot be executed or carried out according to 
 the terms and conditions of thf same, it shall be lawful for the 
 person or persons having the charge thereof, or holding the same 
 in trust, or any person interested therein, to file a petition in the 
 circuit court of the county where such grantor, donor or testator 
 <licd, setting forth all the facts connected therewith, and, in the 
 discretion of the court in which said petition may be filed, an 
 order may b made, directing that the amount of such grant, gift 
 devise or bequest shall bs turned over to the Treasurer of the 
 State, as a part of the Public School Fund, according to the terms 
 and conditions of this act. and securely invested, reinvested and 
 sacredly preserved; the annual income on which fund shall be 
 faithfully appropriated, as near as may be, in meeting and carrying 
 out the purposes and wishes of such grantor, donor, devisor or 
 testator, according to the instrument of writing making such 
 grant, gift, devise or bequest. 
 
 Sec. 7. The State of Missouri is hereby constituted the custo- 
 dian and trustee, under this act, of all such funds, and pledges 
 itself for the safe keeping, investment and due application of all 
 funds, with the interest thereon, which may be deposited in the 
 treasury, in pursuance of this act. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Auditor and Treasurer shall, in the reports re- 
 quired by law to be made by them to the General Assembly, from 
 time to time, make a full report of all sums that may be made to 
 the Public School Fund under this act, by whom made, and the 
 precise expenditure of the annual income and growth of said fund* 
 
 Approved March 16, 1881. 
 
CHAPTER XVIL 
 
 STATE UNIVERSITY: CURATORS VACANCY IN BOARD. 
 
 AN ACT to amend Section 7241 ot Chapter ix, Article one, title ''State 
 
 University," page 21. 
 
 SECTION i. Vacancy in board of curators of State University. 
 J3c it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That section seven thousand two hundred and 
 forty-one (7-J 1) of the Revised Statutes of Missouri be amended 
 as follows: i Jy striking out the words, beginning in the third line 
 of said section, "three successive regular meetings of the board, 
 his office shall become vacant," and substituting therefor the 
 words, "any annual, semi-annual or regularly called meeting of 
 the board, of which meeting he shall have had due notice, his 
 office shall become at once vacant, unless such absence shall be 
 caused by sickness, or some accident preventing his arrival at the 
 time and place appointed for the meeting of the Board of Cura- 
 tors," and by inserting in the sixth line, between the words 
 "delay" and "fill," the words "upon being informed of the fact by 
 the secretary of the Board of Curators," so that said section 7241, 
 HO amended, will read: Section 7241. If any curator shall remove 
 from the district in which he resided at the time of his appoint- 
 ment, or shall fail to attend any annual, semi-annual or regularly 
 Called meeting of the board, of which meeting he shall have had 
 due notice, his office shall become at once vacant, unless such ab- 
 sence shall be caused by sickness, or some accident preventing his 
 arrival at the time and place appointed for the meeting of the 
 Board of Curators; and if a vacancy shall occur by death, resig- 
 nation, or from any other cause, the Governor shall, without de- 
 lay, upon being informed of the fact by the secretary of the 
 Board of Curators, fill such vacancy by appointment; and the 
 person so appointed shall serve until the next regular meeting of 
 the General Assembly, and until his successor is appointed and 
 Qualified. 
 
 Approved March 26, 1881. 
 
AN ACT to select a site for the State University. 
 SEC. i. Commissioners appointed to select a site far a State University. 
 
 a. Quantity of land said site shall contain, and in what counties the se- 
 lection thereof to be made. 
 
 3. When and where commissioners shall meet; may receive absolute 
 
 conveyances of land for the purpose of a site. 
 
 4. Grants of land to the State for the University shall be by deeds of 
 
 general warranty ; to be void if the site is not selected in that county. 
 v Commissioners shall view the real estate thus granted, and register 
 the same. 
 
 6. Commissioners may receive sealed bids. 
 
 7. Form of a subscription to be mad* by bidders. 
 
 8. Payment of the amount of such subscription to be guaranteed by &C 
 
 teen citizens of the county; form of such warranty. 
 
 9. When bids to be opened. 
 
 10. One citizen of each of the counties entitled to the site, shall attend 
 
 the opening of such bids. 
 
 1 1 . Bids to be opened in presence ef the commissioners and deputies from 
 
 the counties, and the site determined according t0 the best bid. 
 Publication thereof to be made. 
 
 12. Rejected subscriptions to be returned and cancelled. 
 
 13. Buildings on the lands granted to be appropriated for the college, &c. 
 
 14. In case the buildings and land be granted by an incorporated college 
 
 or academy, the same shall become a college, etc., of the University ^ 
 
 15. In what cases the trustees of said incorporation shall act as such. 
 
 1 6. After site is selected, deeds, subscriptions, etc., to be deposited with. 
 
 the Auditor. 
 
 17. Subscription to be placed lor collection in the hands ot State Attor- 
 
 ney for the county. 
 
 18. Duty f said attorney to collect, and pay the amount of such sub- 
 
 scription into the State Treasury. 
 
 19. Monies collected under this act how to be applied. 
 
 20. Vacancies among the commissioners how filled. 
 31-22. Commissioners to take oaths. 
 
 23. Compensation of commissioners; how paid. 
 
 24. Delcgatrs from th.2 counties to attend the opening of the bids, to re* 
 
 ceive same compensation, to be paid by their counties. 
 
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 JBe it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. That Peter H. Burnett of Clay, Chancey Durkee of 
 Lewis, Archibald Gamble of St.. Louis, John G. Bryan of Wash- 
 ington, and John S. Phelps of Greene county, are hereby appoint- 
 ed commissioners, any three of whom shall have power to act in 
 the selection of a site for the State University. 
 
 Sec. 3. The site of the University shall contain at least forty 
 acres of land, in a compact form, within two miles of the county 
 seat of the county of Cole, Cooper, Howard, Boone, Callaway, or 
 Saline, to be selected in the manner herein after provided. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to meet at 
 the City of Jefferson, on the first Monday of June next; and there- 
 after to meet,atsuch time as they shall appoint,at the county seat of 
 each county mentioned in the preceding section. When assem- 
 bled in any county, the commissioners shall receive conveyances 
 of such land as may ba offered as a site for the University, which 
 conveyance shall b3 for at least forty acres of land within the dis- 
 tance of the co:mty seat above specified, and shall be made to the 
 State with general warranty, specifying that the land conveyed is 
 for a site for the University, and conditioned to be void if the 
 University shall not be located thereon. 
 
 Sec. 4. Where other real estate shall be granted to the State 
 either by the county or private individuals, the same shall be con- 
 veyed by deed of general warranty, for the use and benefit ol the 
 University, conditioned that the said deed shall be void if it is not 
 located in the county making such conveyance. 
 
 Sec. 5. All the real estate conveyed shall be examined and 
 valued by the commissioners, keeping in view the object for which 
 it is intended, and they shall at the time of the valuation inscribe 
 the value thereof upon the deed by which said lands are conveyed, 
 and also place the amount of such valuation in a book to be pro- 
 vided by them for that purpose, describing the lands conveyed, and 
 naming the county wherein it is situated. 
 
 Sec. 6. The commissioners shall also receive sealed bids from 
 the different counties and from the citizens thereof, for such sums 
 of money as may be secured to the State for the use and benefit of 
 the University. 
 
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 Sec. 7. In all instances where individuals bid they shall sign 
 a subscription paper to the following effect: 
 
 u We the undersigned, whose names are hereto subscribed,, 
 agree and bind ourselves to pay to the State of Missouri the sums 
 opposite our names, one half in one, and the balance in two years 
 from the first day of June, 1839, for the use and benefit of the 
 State University; provided, that it is located in county," 
 
 and each sum subscribed shall be written out at length in words. 
 
 Sec. 8. The commissioners shall receive in each county, from 
 at least fifteen responsible individuals, a guarantee for the pay- 
 ment of the whole amount subscribed by the citizens thereof, 
 which guarantee shall be in writing affixed at the bottom of each 
 subscription paper, and in the following words. "Wo the under- 
 signed, jointly and severally, hereby guarantee the payment of 
 each sum above subscribed," and the same shall be signed by them. 
 Sec. 9. After the commissioners shall have visited the differ- 
 ent counties, and received the bids according to the provisions of 
 this act, they shall repair to the Seat of Government, and the bids 
 shall there be opened in the manner herein after prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 10. Each county court of the counties entitled to bid 
 shall appoint one citizen from their respective counties, whose duty 
 it shall be to attend on such day as shall be appointed by the com- 
 missioners for that purpose at the Seat of Government, for the pur- 
 pose of opening and comparing the bids made by the different coun- 
 ties, and any county failing to bid or send a citizen, it shall not in- 
 validate the action of the commissioners, but they shall go on with 
 their duties in the same manner, as if every county had bid, and 
 was represented. 
 
 Sec. 11. The bids shall be opened, and the additions made in 
 presence of the commissioners, and of the individuals appointed by 
 the different county courts, or such of them as are in attendance, 
 and receive the bids of the counties named in the second section of 
 this act, and the place presenting the most advantages to be de- 
 rived to said University, keeping in view the amount subscribed, 
 and locality and general advantages, shall be entitled to its loca- 
 tion, and shall be published in each newspaper published in the 
 city of Jefferson. 
 
 Sec. 12. The commissioners shall return to the counties, who 
 do not obtain the University, the subscription papers, and the 
 deeds of conveyance which they may have received from them, or 
 their citizens, and they shall be cancelled. 
 
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 See. 1& If there shall be, on any lands granted for the use of 
 the University, and within two miles of the site selected, any build- 
 ing adapted to the use oi a College or Seminary, such building 
 shall be appropriated to such use, until other sufficient buildings 
 shall be erected on the site of the University. 
 
 Sec. 14. If such land and buildings shall have been grante<J 
 by the trustees of any incorporated College or Seminary, the cor- 
 poration shall not thereby be dissolved, but such College or Semi- 
 nary shall be deemed a College or Seminary of the University, and 
 subject to regulation and government as such. 
 
 Sec. 15. Until a State University shall be instituted and in- 
 corporated, and provisions (made for the government of the Col- 
 leges and Seminaries) thereof, the trustees making a grant as in 
 the preceding section specified, shall continue to have the powers 
 and privileges vested in them by their charter of incorporation; ex- 
 cept that the property granted by them shall be vested in the State 
 for the uses specified in the grant. 
 
 Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, immedi- 
 ately after selecting the site for the University, to deposite with 
 the Auditor of Public Accounts all conveyances for land, and sub- 
 scriptions within the county in which the site is selected. 
 
 Sec. 17. The Auditor of Public Accounts, as soon as the sub- 
 scription or any part thereof shall become due, shall place the evi- 
 dences of such subscription in the hands of the Attorney prosecu- 
 ting for the State in the county in which the subscribers reside, for 
 collection, taking the receipt of the Attorney therefor. 
 
 Sec. IS. It shall be the duty of such Attorney to collect the 
 money subscribed, without unnecessary delay, and cause the same 
 to be paid into the State Treasury for the use of the University. 
 
 Sec. 19. All money, which shall be (collected under the pro- 
 visions of this act. shall be) applied,so far as the same may be nec- 
 essary for the purpose, to the construction of necessary buildings 
 on the site selected, in such manner as the General Assembly shall 
 by law direct. 
 
 Sec. 20. Any vacancy happening in the Board of Commission- 
 ers either by death or ortherwise, the remaining Commissioners 
 shall fill the same, but shall select no person having a direct inter- 
 est in choosing the site, and who does not live at least one hun- 
 dred miles from each county entitled to bid. 
 
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 Sec. 21. Each Commissioner, before entering upon the dis- 
 charge ot his duty, shall take an oath before some Judge or Jus- 
 tice of the Peace, that he will faithfully and impartially perform 
 the trust reposed in him. 
 
 Sec. 22. The said Commissioners, in addition to the oath al- 
 ready required to be taken, shall first (take) and subscribe the fol- 
 lowing oath, to-wit: "That he is not directly, or indirectly inter- 
 ested in any real estate in either of the counties herein named, to- 
 wit: Callaway, Boone, Howard, Cooper, Cole and Saline." 
 
 Sec. 23. The Commissioners appointed under the provisions 
 of this act shall receive the sum of three dollars per day, for each 
 day they shall be engaged in the discharge of their duties, and 
 twelve cents per mile for every mile they shall necessarily travel in 
 performing the duties confided to them ; and upon the presentation 
 of their accounts to the Auditor, he shall draw a warrant upon the 
 State Treasurer for the amount due each Commissioner, who shall 
 pay the same out of any moneys belonging to the State, and not 
 otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Sec. 84. The persons who attend the meeting of the Commis- 
 sioners shall receive the same per diem allowance and mileage, as 
 is received by the Commissioners, to be paid out of the respective 
 County Treasuries. 
 
 This act te take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, Feb. 8, 1839. 
 
 UNIVERSITY. 
 
 AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "an act to provide for the selection 
 of a site for the State University." ' 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri^ 
 as follows : 
 
 Sec. 1. If the Commissioners named in the act to which this 
 is supplementary shall not meet as is provided in said act, on the 
 day and at the place therein named, it shall be lawful for them to 
 meet at the place and on any other day during the month of June, 
 and proceed as is now provided by said act. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Executive to send a copy 
 of this, and the act, to which this is a supplement, to each of the 
 said Commissioners, and request their attendance. This act to 
 take effect from its passage. 
 
 Approved Feb. 11, 
 
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. 
 
 JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE ACCEPTING THE 
 ACT OF CONGRESS. A COL'Y OF THE ACT ITSELF. 
 
 (See Session Acts 1863, page 34.) 
 
 WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States passed an act dona- 
 ting lands to the several States and Territories which may 
 provide Colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the me- 
 chanic arts, which said act is as follows: 
 
 "AN ACT donating lands to the several States and Territories which may 
 provide Colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate atid House of Representatives of 
 the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there 
 be granted to the several States for the purpose hereinafter men- 
 tioned, an amount of public land to be appropriated to each State, 
 a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and 
 Representative in Congress, to which the States are respectively 
 entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hun- 
 dred and sixty: provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected 
 or purchased under the provisions of this act. 
 
 u Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land aforesaid, 
 after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in 
 sections, or subdivision of sections, not less than one quarter of a 
 section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to 
 sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, 
 the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected 
 from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary 
 of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in 
 which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at 
 private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre to which 
 said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land 
 script to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive 
 share; said script to be sold by said States, and the proceeds there- 
 
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 of applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for 
 no other use or purpose whatsoever: provided, that in 110 case shall 
 any State, to which land scrip may thus be issued, be allowed to 
 locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Ter- 
 ritory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate 
 said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United 
 States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five 
 cents, or less per acre: and, provided further, That no more than 
 one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of 
 the States: and, provided ' Ju rt her, That no such location shall be 
 made before one year from the passage of this act. 
 
 "Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of 
 management, superintendence and taxes from date of selection of 
 said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the 
 management and disbursement of the monies which may be re- 
 ceived therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they maybe- 
 long out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds 
 of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution 
 whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 u Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all monies derived 
 from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the 
 lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip, hereinbe- 
 fore provided for, shall be invested in the stocks of the United 
 States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less 
 than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks; and that 
 the monies so invested shall constitutes perpetual fund, the capi- 
 tal of which shall remain forever undiminished, (except so far as 
 may be provided in section fifth of this act) and the interest of 
 which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may 
 take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support 
 ,and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object 
 shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies,and 
 including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as 
 are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner 
 as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in or- 
 der to promote the liberal and practical education of the indus- 
 trial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. 
 
 u Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and 
 land scrip hereby authorized, shall be made on the following con- 
 
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 ditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contain- 
 ed, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by 
 legislative acts : First, If any portion of the fund invested as pro- 
 vided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest there- 
 on, shall, by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, it 
 shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the cap- 
 ital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished, and the annual 
 interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the pur- 
 poses mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a 
 sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by 
 any State under the provisions of this act, may be expended for 
 the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever au- 
 thorized by the respective Legislatures of said States. Second, No 
 portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied di- 
 rectly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, 
 erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings. 
 Third, Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the pro- 
 visions of this act, shall provide within five years, at least, not less 
 than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or 
 the grant to such State shall cease; and said State shall be bound 
 to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previ- 
 ously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall 
 be valid. Fourth, An annual report shall be made regarding the 
 progress of each college, recording any improvements and 
 experiments made, with their costs and results, and such 
 other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics 
 as may be supposed useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted 
 by mail, free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be en- 
 dowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the 
 Secretary of the Interior. Filth, When lands shall be selected 
 from those which have been raised to double the minimum price 
 in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the 
 States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportion- 
 ably diminished. Sixth, No State while in a condition of rebel- 
 lion or insurrection against the Government of the United States, 
 shall be entitled to the benefit of this act. Seventh, No State 
 shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless it shall express 
 its acceptance thereof by its Legislature within two years from the 
 date of its approval by the President, 
 
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 u Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued un- 
 der the provisions of this act, shall not be subject to location un- 
 til after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixty -three. 
 
 "Sec. 7. And be it further enacted,Tte& the land officers shall 
 receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the pro- 
 visions of this act, as is now allowed for the location of military 
 bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, Their maxi- 
 mum compensation shall not be thereby increased. 
 
 "Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Governors of the 
 several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be 
 required to report annually to Congress all sales made of such 
 scrip, until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for 
 the same, and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds. 
 Approved July 2, 1862." 
 
 AtfD, WHEREAS, It is provided in the seventh condition under the 
 fifth section of said above recited act, that u no State shall be 
 entitled to the benefits of this act, unless it shall express its 
 acceptance thereof by its Legislature within two years from 
 the date of its approval by the President, July 2, 1862. Now, 
 therefore, 
 
 Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Mis- 
 souri, That the said act of the Congress of the United States is as- 
 sented to and accepted by the State of Missouri, with all the con- 
 ditions, restrictions, and limitations therein contained; and the 
 faith of the State of Missouri is hereby pledged to the faithful per- 
 formance of the trust thereby created. 
 Approved March 17, 1863. 
 
AMENDATORY ACT EXTENDING THE TIME FIXED BY 
 FOREGOING LAW. 
 
 AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the fifth section of an 
 act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Ter- 
 ritories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 
 mechanic arts," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
 so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall be 
 accepted and such colleges established," approved July twenty-third, 
 eighteen hundred and sixty-six. 
 
 Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives oj 
 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
 time within which the several States may comply with the pro- 
 visions of the act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and six- 
 ty-six, entitled "An act to amend the fifth section of an act en- 
 titled 'An act donating public lands to the several States and Ter- 
 ritories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture 
 and the mechanic arts,' approved July second, eighteen hundred 
 and sixty-two, so as to extend the time within which the provis- 
 ions of said act shall be accepted and such colleges established," is 
 hereby extended so that the States which have not complied with 
 the provisions of said acts in establishing colleges shall have the 
 period of two years, after the first day of July, eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-two, within which to provide at least one college, as 
 described in the fourth section ot an act entitled "An act donating 
 public lands to the severel States and Territories which may pro- 
 vide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, 1 ' 
 approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 
 
 Approved, January 23, 1873. 
 
STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1865. 
 
 Sec. 1. A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence be- 
 ing essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the 
 people, the general assembly shall establish and maintain free 
 schools for the gratuitous instruction of all persons in this state 
 between the ages of five and twenty-one years. 
 
 2. Separate schools may be established for children of African 
 descent. All funds provided for the support of public schools 
 shall be appropriated in proportion to the number of children, 
 without regard to color. 
 
 3. The supervision of public instruction shall be vested in a 
 board of education, whose powers and duties shall be prescribed by 
 law. A superintendent of public schools, who shall be the presi- 
 dent of the board, shall be elected by the qualified voters of the 
 state. He shall possess the qualifications of a state senator, and 
 hold his office for the term of four years, and shall perform such 
 duties and receive such compensation as may be prescribed by law. 
 The secretary of state and attorney general shall be ex-officio mem- 
 bers, and with the superintendent, compose said board of educa- 
 tion. 
 
 4. The general assembly shall also establish and maintain a 
 State University, with departments for instruction in teaching, hi 
 agriculture, and in natural science, as soon as the public school 
 fund will permit. 
 
 5. The proceeds of all lands that have been, or hereafter may 
 be granted by the United States to this state, and not otherwise 
 appropriated by this state or the United States; also, all moneys, 
 stocks, bonds, lands and other property now belonging to any 
 fund for purposes of education; also, the net proceeds 
 of all sales of lands, and other property and effects that may 
 accrue to the state by escheat, or from sales of estrays, or 
 from unclaimed dividends, or distributive shares of the 
 estates of deceased persons, or from fines, penalties and forfeitures; 
 also, any proceeds of the sales of public lands which inay have 
 been or hereafter may be paid over to this state, (if congress will 
 consent to such appropriation;) also, all other grants, gifts or de- 
 vises, that have been or hereafter may be made to this state, and 
 
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 not otherwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift or de- 
 vise, shall be securely invested and sacredly preserved as a public 
 school fund, the annual income of which fund, together with so 
 much of the ordinary revenue of the state as may be necessary, 
 shall be faithfully appropriated for establishing and maintaining 
 the free schools and the university in, this article provided for, and 
 for no other uses or purposes whatsoever. 
 
 6. No part of the public school fund shall ever be invested in 
 the stock, or bonds, or other obligations of any state, or of any 
 county, city, town or corporation. The stock of the bank of the 
 State of Missouri now held for school purposes and all other 
 stocks belonging to any school, or university fund, shall be sold, 
 in such manner and at such time as the general assembly shall 
 prescribe; and the proceeds thereof, and the proceeds of the sales 
 of any lands, or other property which now belong or may hereaf- 
 ter belong to said school fund, may be invested in the bonds of 
 the United States. All county school funds shall be loaned upon 
 good and sufficient unincumbered real estate security, with per- 
 sonal security ill addition thereto. 
 
 7. No township or school district shall receive any portion of 
 the public school fund, unless a free school shall have been kept 
 therein for not less than three months during the year for which 
 distribution thereof is made. The general assembly shall have 
 power to require by law, that every child of sufficient mental and 
 physical ability, shall attend the public schools, during the period 
 between the ages of five and eighteen years, for a term equivalent 
 
 to sixteen months, unless educated by other means. 
 
 8. In case the public school fund shall be insufficient to sus- 
 tain a free school, at least four months in every year, in each 
 school district in this state, the general assembly may provide by 
 law for the raising of such deficiency, by levying a tax om all the 
 taxable property in each county, township or school district as 
 they may deem proper. 
 
 9. The general assembly shall, as far as it can be done, with- 
 out infringing upon vested rights, reduce all lands, moneys, and 
 other property, used or held for school purposes in the various 
 counties of this state into the public school fund herein provided 
 for, and in making distribution of the annual income of said fund 
 shall take into consideration the amount of any county or city 
 funds, appropriated for common school purposes, and make such 
 distribution as will equalize the amount appropriated for com- 
 mon schools throughout the state. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGES. 
 
 Act of Congress March 6, 1820 3-4 
 
 Act of Congress Jan. 24, 1827 5-6 
 
 Act of Congress March 2, 1827 6 
 
 Act of Congress March 3, 1831 '. . . . 6-7 
 
 Act of Congress July 2, 1862, (Lands for Agricultural Col- 
 leges) 66-69 
 
 Act of Congress amendatory of the above '. 70 
 
 Acts (various) of Missouri Legislature brief mention of.. 10-1.7 
 
 Agricultural College and School of Mines 29-43 
 
 Act of Legislature appropriating $10,000 to rebuild Presi- 
 dent's House 49 
 
 Act of Legislature setting aside one and three-fourths per 
 
 cent, of three-fourths of State Revenue to University. 49 
 Act of Legislature Stating and Settling the account be- 
 tween the State and Seminary Fund, March 29, 1872. 49-54 
 
 Act to Select Site for the State University 61-65 
 
 Bonds of School and Seminary Funds 55-56 
 
 Constitution of 1820 7 
 
 Constitution of 1865 71-72 
 
 Constitution of 1875 7-10 
 
 Curators of Univers : ty Vacancy in Board 60 
 
 Fire-arms, Discharge of 54-55 
 
 Gifts to Public School Fund. 58-59 
 
 Joint Resolution of Missouri Legislature, accepting Agri- 
 cultural College Act of Congress 66-69 
 
 Officers, Reports and Liability of 47-48 
 
 Ordinances of 1787 3 
 
 Organizing Missouri Territory, Schools and Education pro- 
 vided for 3 
 
 Perpetuation of Free Public School Funds 57 
 
 Site for the State University, Act to select 61-65 
 
 State University, Columbia selected as site of 12-13 
 
 State University, Institution of. 13 
 
 State University established 19-28 
 
 Seminary Fund, Act relating to 44-47 
 
 Seminary Fund, Investment of. 50 
 
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