/?r 'Z4, ^ / THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF Til K A R K A N £ A £ WITH NORMAL DEPARTMENT. LOCATED AT- — ORGAXIZED SEPTEMBER 18. 1871. AUGUST, 1875 FAYETTK V1U.K: t’KIMTKl) at THK I*KMOCKAT BOOK XN1> JOB I 'BIN TIM; oFFiOi:. p\ THIRD REPORT OF THE WITH A J4oRJVIAL pEPy\RTMENT pHE^EIJl LOCATED AT Fayetteville, Washington Connty, Arkansas. ORGANIZED SEPTEMBER 18 , 1871. AUGUST, 1875. FAYETTEVILLE : I’RINTED AT THE DEMOCRAT BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. 1875. TO GOVERNOR A. H. GARLAND. Sir : I have the honor to submit herewith the Third Annual Report of the Boa rd of Trustees of the' Arkansas Industrial University f for the year closing with the session of the Board held at Fayetteville in June , 1875 . Very respectfully yours , JAMES MITCHELL, Secretary Board of T rustces , ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITY. *214 feet front. 122 feet depth of win#. S4 feet depth of center. 5 stories high. 30 class rooms. 4 offices. 7 lecture rooms, including library, laboratory, chapel, etc. Hot-air heating apparatus. En titan ventilation. Materials — Iron, stone and brick. Capacity for about 700 students. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/thirdreportofarkOOarka CATALOGUE OF THE WITH A Normal Department Therein. FOR 1875-76- CIRCULAR FOR 1875-76 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. HIS EXCELLENCY A. H. GA RLAND, Governor, Little Roel:. EX-OFFICIO PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD. D. D. STARK , Fayetteville . TREASURKR. PROF . JAS. MITCHELL , Fayetteville , SECRETARY. IION. LAFAYETTE GREGG, HON. A. W. LIN SMOKE, HON. JAS. M. JOHNSON, - DUDLEY E. JONES, Esq., HON. M. F. LAKE, WOOL E.. THOMPSON, Esq., - JOHN C. WALKER, Esq., - BUILDING COMMITTEE . HON. LAFAYETTE GREGG, Chairman. HON. A. W. LINSMORE, HON. M. F. LAKE. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, Chairman. HON. LAFAYETTE GREGG, HON. A. W. LINSMORE. JOHN C. WALKER, Esq. HON. J. M. JOHNSON. FINANCE COMMITTEE. HON. A. W T . LINSMORE, Chairman. DUDLEY E JONES, Esq. WOOL E. THOMPSON, Esq. COMMITTEE ON RULES AND BY-LAWS. IION. JAMES M. JOHNSON, Chairman. JOHN C. WALKER. Esq., HON. M. F. LAKE • COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. IION. J. M. JOHNSON, Ch’m. PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY. BOARD OF VISITORS. IION. II C. CALDWELL, - Little Rock, Ark. K. R. LuVAL, M. L., - Fort Smith, Ark. REV. W. C. STOUT, - - - Lewisburg, Ark. HON. GEO. P. SMOOTE, - - - Magnolia, Ark. IION. O. S. RUSSELL, - - - Helena, Ark. HON. RANSOM GULLY, . - - Philadelphia, Pa. Fayetteville, Ark. Bentonville, Ark. Wesley, Ark. Little Rock, Ark. Viney Grove, Ark. Monticello, Ark. Magnolia, Ark. ^pFFICEF^ AND In£TF(UCTOR£. N. P. GATES , Acting President, and Principal Normal Department. C. H LEVERET! \ A. Jf., Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature. 0. C. GRA Y, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering. JAMES MITCHELL , A. R., Professor of History and English Literature. LIEUT. E. S. CURTIS , Second Artillery , U. S. A . Professor of Military Science and Tactics. F. L. HARVEY/ R.S., Professor of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry. MARY R. GORTON, Preceptress of Normal Department, W. II a BOTEFUHR , Professor of Music. MRS. F. L. SUTTON, Instructress of Training School. MRS. V. L. GRA T, Teacher of Drawing and Painting in Oil and Water Colors FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 7, 1874, AND ENDING JUNE 18, 187 S. LJenefial {Science and JjIte^ature. UWSJ2®IE (DCtASBo * Ayres, John. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. ♦Bolinger, DeWitt C St. Paul, Madison county. Brooks, George L .Fayetteville, Washington county. Brooks, Samuel J Yan Buren, Crawford county. Chrisman, Mattie A ....Little Rock, Pulaski county. ♦Coors, Henry G Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Gregg, Alfred W Fayetteville, Washington county. :k Harris, Agnes . ..Fayetteville, Washington county. Harris, Sallie E. Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Johnson, Albert P Wesley, Madison county. ♦Massie, Burrus Fa^’etteville, Washington county Massie, Collin Fayetteville, Washington county. Total, 12. Blake, John T. F Bentonville, Benton county. Blakeley, Leonora Fayetteville, Washington county. f Cline, J. Wade Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Compton, William A Little Rock, Pulaski county. Cravens, William H Fayetteville, Washington county. Dickinson, Albert P Fayetteville, Washington county. Jennings, Edgar • Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Morrison, Charles IT Little Rock, Pulaski county. ♦Quarles, Thomas Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Scarborough, William J Little Rock, Pulaski county. Stapp, William S Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Sutton, William Fayetteville, Washington county. Walker, James V Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Watson, Charles A Fayetteville, Washington county. Wilshire William A Cana, California. Total, 15. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 9 C mb - m MSm’MMS ©ILiiSSo * Burns, William ♦Dean Maggie Gregg, Andrew S ♦Hobbs, John IT. . . ♦Houston, Juicy .. ♦Hudgins, Jackson W . ♦Johnso'n, Ilenry C . . ♦Johnson Thomas M. . * Maffitt, John W. . ♦Merritt. Benjamin F Moore L : zz : e Heed, Maggie ♦Roberts, John M ♦Shumard, Carrie B. . . ♦Sloan, Millard F . . . . ♦smith, Wiley M . . ♦Stone, William 0 . . . ♦Vance, Birdie A . . . . ♦Wood, Carroll I). Little Rock, Pulaski county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Clarksville, Johnson county. . Dallas, Polk county. Drake’s Creek, Madison county. .Wesley, Madison county. ..Tlot Springs, Garland county. Mo I’d Bay, Brad lev county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. . Fayetteville. Washington county. .Dardanelie, Yell county. . Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Smith vi lie, Lawrence county. Be itonville; Benton county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Tuttle Rock, Pulaski county. .Hamburg, Ashley county. Total, 19. CoLLEQE OF JJpqiNEERipq. ♦Absalom, Edward C Clarksville, Johnson county. ♦Amis. Walter S Princeton, Dallas county. Austin, James L . . . Van Buren, Crawford countv. ♦Ayres, Walter Fort Smith, Sebastian county. ♦Bustin, John F C miden, Ouachita countv. Total, 5. csimlsSg Austin, George Van Buren, Crawford countv. Boles,. Clifford Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦Boles, Joseph M Bluffton, Yell county. ♦Davenport, Charles P Black Jack, Scott county. ♦Foster, Williom C Magnolia, Columbia county. ♦Jones, R. S. Xcvada count}”. ♦Pape, Charles A Fort Smith, Sebastian county. ♦Patton, David S Camden, Ouachita coun y. ♦Putman, Robert Fayetteville, Washington county ♦Robinson, Charles E Clarksville, Johnson county. Skillen, Eliza B Fayetteville, Washington county. ♦\ ance, Robert C Sheridan, Grant county Total, 12. 1 * i& ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. pQJLLEQE OF p.OyMEF^CE. BHXTH©® ©E^SEo v Coors, William P. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. ♦Gooding, James P ....Van Buren, Crawford county. ♦Martin, Frank L , ........ .Little Bock, Pulaski county ♦McMillan, Benjamin F. , ....Harrison, Boone county. Moore, James F Fayetteville. Washington county. Morrow, Stafford BeValFs Bluff, Prairie county. Total, 6. * Alexander. William * A skew, William D. .. ♦Barton, Wi liam J. .. ♦Buie, Hugh F ♦Chidester, William ♦Clark, William J ♦Dawson, Eli L Jackson, Ulysses L... ♦Jones, Ivatie P ♦Locke, Pobert ♦Morris, James A. . . . ♦May lor, Frank ♦Oliver, Charles M... ♦Pollard, Joel II Shook, Emory * Trout, Fayette..,,,. * Wallis, Benjamin F ♦White, Pobert E... Wilshire, Emma...,. . W Camden, Ouachita county. ...Eldorado, Union county. ...Cove, Polk county. Fayetteville, Washington county ? Camden, Ouachita county. Little Pock, Pulaski cou ty. Camden, Ouachita county. Fayetteville, Washington county, Little Pock, Pulaski county. Alma, Crawford count}’ Greenwood. Sebastian county Fayetteville, Washington countv, Cliffy, Madison county, ..Fayetteville, Washington county, Fayetteville, Washington county, . . Bentonville, Benton county, . . .Forrest City, St. Francis county, . . . Camden, Ouachita county. .....Little Pock, Pulaski county, Total, 19, ]\|0F(jVIAL pEPARTMENT. SENIOR CLASS. Botefuhr, Laura D., Fayetteville, Washington county, Bridgeford, Emma Fayetteville, Washington county, Carson, Ann E . .Jonesboro, Craighead county. Carson, Augusta A Jonesboro, Craighead county, Davis, Lizzie P Bentonville, Benton county. Gorton, Belle L Pock Island, Illinois. McCart, Eva Fayetteville, Washington county, McKinney, Charles F Ozark, Franklin county. Moore, Lucy J Fayetteville, Washington county, Hoc, Laura Fayetteville, Washington county. Putman, Anna Fayetteville, Washington county. Waggoner, William J Farmington, Washington county. Total, 12. A R KA N? 4 S IX D US T.RIA L UNI VERST 'I Y. li MUDDLE CLASS. Barnett, Henry C Fayetteville, Washington county. Barnett, Nettie Fayetteville, Washington county. Bassett. William S Fayetteville, Washington county. Campbell, Maggie Fayetteville, Washington county, FI kins, Louis W., ,. . . ..Lee s Creek, Crawford county. Fngland, Matilda Cincinnati, Washington county. H argis, James li.. .., Clinton, Van Burcn county. lying, Thomas II ,, Leeks Creek, Crawford count}'. .Martin, James, Jacksonnort, Jackson county. . McCormick, Ivitfie Fayetteville, Washington county, Jfeal, William IF, Van Buren, Crawford county. Perry, Mary., Van Buren, Crawford county. Rich, Jennie, ...Fayetteville, Washington county, \Searle, Mary., . Bock River Junction, Illinois. Stearns, John W , .....Fayetteville, Washington county. Taylor, F. L, Fayetteville, Washington county. Wilson, Lite IfimLville, Madison county. Total, 17, A n d re ws, Fa n n i e ..... , \f\ Lews, Hardin., Buie, Maggie Carden, Edward B. , . Caudell, Mattie F. Chiles, James P Crabbs, David F... Davis, Anna Davis, Rose A (Filbert.. Lizzie Gilbreath, < yrus . . . Jackson, Hattie, Jameson, .Lizzie Ring, Artelee....,,, Ring, Ida, Kirkpatrick, Allie. . , . Marshall, James F. , . M >ory Fppie Moore, Matie Peninger, James II, . Putman, Mary Rhodes, Alice D.. . . . . Rutherford, Hattie N. Sager, Mo! lie Sharp, James II. , Wince, Samuel 11 Watts, William M Wei ton, Bartley M Wcsterfield, John A JUNLOR CLASS ... — Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Bloomer, Sebastian county. Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. Waldron, Scott county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Bento nvi lie, Benton county. — Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county, Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington county, Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Fayetteville. Washington County. Fayetteville, Washington count v. Fayetteville, Washington county.' Fayetteville, Washington count} . Greenwood, Sebastian county. Fayetteville., Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington countv. Billingsley, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. ..Fayetteville, Washington county. Sheridan, Grant county. Little Rock, Pulaski county. Cass P. O., F ranklin county. . Springfield, Conway countv. Total. ‘ 13 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. Preparatory Department. Adams, Arthur . * Adams, William W. . . * Alexander, Thomas W. Andrews, Lou Andrews, Mattie * Andrews, William W . * Atkins, William * Barrett, John M Bates, Lena *Beleher, Josiah 2L . . . *Bell, James McK *Bell, John H Benbrook, Elbert *Binns, Burwell Boles, Minnie *Bolinger, Emma E Botefuhr, Beulah Botefuhr, Eddie. Botefuhr, Frank Botefuhr, Freddie ^Botefuhr, Lillie *Bozarth, George W. ... Bozarth, James *Brewer Henry Bridgeford, Laura Brooks, Charles I). . . . Bybee, John Bybec, William fByrne, Augustus M . . Caldwell, Minerva L *Campbelll, Joseph ... . Carlile, Sarah ^Carlton, James C *Caudell, James Y ^Chaffin, George B . . . . * Chides ter, Frank Chiles, Frances E *Chiles, John H *Cobb, Thomas P . . ..Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Ozark, Franklin county. . . . Camden, Ouachita county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington county. . ... Fayetteville, Washington county. . . Washington, Hempstead county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington countv. . . . . Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Little Hock, Pulaski county. ... Fayetteville, Washington county. . .. Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Mon tied 1°, Drew county. Fayetteville, Washington county. -.St. Paul, Aadison county. ...Fayetteville, Washington eoun'y. . . . . Fayetteville, Washington count}’. . .. .Fayetteville, Washington county. ...Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washingt >n county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county.’ . . . Dickson, Benton county. Fayette viife, Washington county. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Louisville, La Fayette county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington county, . . ..Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . Fayetteville, Washington county. . . . . Lima Landing, Chicot countv. . . . . Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. . . . Monticcllo, Drew county. . . . Camden, Ouachita county , t . . .Waldron, Scott county. . . . Waldron, Scott county. . . . , Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. Conley, Eddie Conley, Mack *Cook, Joseph E *Copeland, William Cornelius, Joseph M Cravens, Jessie Cravens, Nannie *Crosnoe, William W.... Crouch, Clinton fDalton, James S Dickinson, John G *Doxey, Samuel H *Prennen, William M .. *Dudney, Ezekiel *Dun a way, Will i a m E Darning Robert * Eaton, Mary M. *Ellis, Frank Ellis. Tyree Ellis, TJttie *Field, Ernest J Fletcher, John S ... * Flynn, Wayne G. *Garrett, Martha *Garrett, Nellie Garrett, William II Gates, Alice Gates, Cora. *Gault, Jefferson, L. . . . Geyer, Charles M.. .. *Geyer, George Gilbert, Jennie Giles, John F '"Giles, William F *Gillam, Joseph E . . Gray, Carl *Green, James A Gregg, William * Grubbs, James A, Gwinn, Henry C... * Harris, Charles W . . . Harrison, Jefferson D.. Harrison, Joseph C. . . i v ..Fayetteville, Washington county. ..Fayetteville, Washington coinnv. ..Lewisville, La Fayette county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. Wan Buren, Crawford county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Hope Station, Hempstead county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Chalk Bluff. Clayton county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Little Rock, Pulaski county. .Little Rock, Pulaski county. .Magnolia, Columbia county. .Ozark, Franklin county. .Clarksville, Johnson county. .Lee’s Creek, Crawford county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Little Rock, Pulaski county. . Little Rock, Pulaski county. I)< s Arc, Prairie county. . Fayetteville, Washington county Brinkley, Monroe county. Van Buren, Crawford county. . Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. . Bluffton, Yell county. .Lewisburg, Conway county. Lewisburg, Conway county. . Fayetteville, Washington county. Little Rock, Pulaski county. Clinton, Van Buren county. Batesville, Independence county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Marianna, Lee county. Fayetteville, Washington countv. . Montieello, Drew county. .Hot Springs, Garland county. .Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. u *Harrison, Major P. *Harrison, William M., Jr .. . Harrison, William W. Hector, Ol in thus H *Henderson, Eobert C_. Hester, Wm *Hicks, Thos. J *IIixon, Lelloy Hodges, Maggie ... Horn, Alex Me Hunt, Josie Hunt, Ho rah . *Jarrett, Charles J Jennings, Lillie Jennings, Lulu Jennings, Thomas Jobe, Lennie Johnson, Charles P Johnston, Alice Johnston, Charles Johnston, J. Jacob Q Karnes, Ida *Kinsworthy, Wm E * Kirkpatrick, John A *L‘ayne, Thomas B Leach, Albert Leach, Morris Leverett, Julia B * Lock hart, Wm. H *Lounsberry, Fred J * Manuel, Willie * Martin, James P Massie, Lemuel Mayes, Frank * McBride, Eobert C *McBride, Wm. H McCart, Walter McCormick Isabel McCoy, William *McCollough. Ehadamanthus, Mellroy, James Mcllroy, Eobert *McMally, George F .Como, Horsey county. .Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .San Antonio, Texas. .Cotton Plant, Monroe county. Fayetteville, Washington county. .Lonoke, Lonoke county. .Shoal Creek, Sarber county .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Stockton, Missouri. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Pocahontas, Eandolph county. Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Little Bock, Pulaski county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. . Fayetteville, Washington county. . Fayetteville, Washington county. . Fayetteville, Washington county. . Ben Lomond, Sevier county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Eocky Comfort, Little Eiver county ..Fayetteville, Washington county. ..Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Yan Buren, Crawford county. .LaGrange, Lee county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. ..Magnolia, Columbia county. ..Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. ..Star City, Lincoln county. .Star City, Lincoln county. ..Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Bellefonte, Jackson county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. ARKANSAS INI) US TR IAL UNIVERSITY. * Me Vi car, James W *Menard, John * Merrick, Dwight Mitchell, Mamie Mitchell, William S ^Montgomery, Francis A. Murray, Elias ^Murray, George W *Murray, James W.. Naylor,. Lixzie *Neal, Charles C Nees, Mol lie Noe, Maud Noe. Minnie Nolen, Sarah, Nolen, Emmett *Paddock, Charles *.Patton, William E Payne, Gabriel D *Petross, Carroll Pettigrew, Anna Pettigrew, Ida Pettigrew, James *Poe, William E Porter, Arthur R *Porter, Charles A ♦Porter, George ♦Pulliam, Alexander M . . . ♦Qualls, Samual W Eainwater, Kate S Rainwater, Sal lie J ♦Ray, W illiam Eeed, Lina Eeed, John ♦Reynolds, Johnanna Rhea, William B Rhodes, Lena '.. ♦Rieff, Emma ♦Rieff, George II Russell, Henry F Rutherford, Anna — * Rutherford, John II Sager, Homer lo Little Rock, Pulaski county. Noble’s Lake, Jefferson county. Little Rock, Pulaski county. Fayetteville, AYashington county. Fa\ etteville, Washington count}'. Louisville, LaFayette county. .Cass P. O., Franklin county. .Cass P. O., Franklin county. Cass P. O., Franklin county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Bloomington, Benton county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington bounty. .Fayetteville, AYashington county. .Pine Bluff, Jefferson county. Fort Smith, Sebastian. county. Springdale, AYashington county. .Fayetteville, AA r ashington county. . Faj'etteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, AYashington county. .Pageville, Grant county. DeWitt, Arkansas county. DeWitt, Arkansas county. .DeWitt, Arkansas county. Rancho Bonito, Sebastian county. .Kingston, Madison county. Fayetteville, AYashington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. . Fayetteville, AYashington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, AYashington county. Rhea’s Mills, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, AYashington county. .Fayetteville, AYashington county. .Marianna, Lee county. .Cincinnati, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. .Fayetteville, Washington county. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. Sager, Libbie Sams, Ella *Seott, Daniel N Scott, James S *Scott, John P. *Simmons, Jay ♦Simmons, John P. . . ... ♦Simpson, John T Skelton, William It. *Smith, Frank *Sparks, James M ♦Stafford, William L. • . . . . *Stallings, James ♦Stone, Lodowick, O ♦Sutton, Land on ♦Taliaferro, Emma K Taylor, Thaddeus B ♦Thompson, Fannie ♦Townsend, Bichard.. Trimble, Thomas P Yanllooser, William P... ♦Walker, John A ♦Walters, William . ♦Whitney, Jennie. Williams, Nannie ... Williford, Edward Wilshire, Pose Wilshire, William W Wright, Claudia Wright, Ella Fayetteville, Washington county. Huntsville, Madison county. Black Springs, Montgomerycounty Little Pock, Pulaski county. Danville, YelJ county. ... Magnolia, Columbia county. Chalk Bluff, Clayton county. RockyCom fort, Little River county Fayetteville, Washington county. Eldorado, Union county. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Bed Bluff, Jefferson county. Lewisburg, Conway county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fort Smith, Sebastian county. Bentonville, Benton county. Hot Springs, Garland county. Hot Springs, Garland county. Arkadelphia, Clark county. Washington, Indiana. Fayetteville, Washington county. Dallas, Polk county. Little Rock, Pulaski county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Fayetteville, Washington county. Little Rock, Pulaski county. Little Pock, Pulaski county. Fayetteville, Washington county. ...... Fayetteville, Washington county. Total, 198. SUMMARY. College of General Science and Literature 46 College of Engineering 17 College of Commerce 25 Normal Department 58 Preparatory Department. 198 Aggregate 344 ^Beneficinriesi fDrceased, CIRCULAR. FOR 1875—6. ESTABLISHMENT AND AIMS OF THE UNIVERSITY. This institution is established in accordance with an act of Congress, making a grant of land as an endowment for its benefit, and in accord- ance with an act of the General Assembly of this State, carrying out the object of said grant. According to the object of the grant, “the leading object shall be — without excluding other scientific and classi- cal studies, and including military tactics — to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life; ” or, changing the order of statement, the chief aim of the University is “the liberal and prac- tical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and profes- sions of life;” and in order to this end, the University is “to teach such branches of learning as arc related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics.” Military tactics are required, and the scientific and classical studies are permitted. Such, at least, we believe, is the com- mon construction of those clauses, though the language may not un- reasonably be understood to imply that the latter studies shall not be excluded from the course. The aim of the University is to comply strictly with the acts of Congress and the General Assembly of this State in providing for and establishing it. 2 18 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY It proposes, therefore — First — To impart a knowledge of science and its application to the arts of life. Second — To afford to students, such as may desire it, the benefits of daily manual labor. This labor is to some degree remunerative. But its remunerative character is not so much intended to lessen the ex- penses of students as for educational uses, as it is planned and varied for the illustration of the principles of science. The preservation of health, and of a taste for the pursuits of agriculture and the mechanic arts, arc two other important objects. Third — To prosecute experiments for the promotion of agriculture and horticulture. Fourth — To provide the means of instruction in military science; and to this end a skilled instructor and suitable implements have been obtained. Fifth — To afford the means of a general and thorough education not inferior to those afforded to all classes in the best of colleges. LOCATION The Arkansas Industrial University is pleasantly located within the corporate limits of the town of Fayetteville, Washington county. The location is thought to be unsurpassed by any other locality in the State in salubrity of climate, beauty of surrounding scenery, fertility of soil* variety and perfection of agricultural and horticultural productions; and the morality and intelligence of its people. STUDIES. By recent action of the Board of Trustees, all male beneficiaries who are hereafter appointed to the Arkansas Industrial University, will be required to take a course in Agriculture and Mechanics, “with permission to select such other studies as circumstances may allow.” This regulation does not apply to students in the ISTormal Department. It is expected that each student shall take and carry on four distinct studies — not less than three under any circumstances; and no change in studies will be permitted after the beginning of a term without per- mission of the Faculty. Heretofore, students who have been unable to pass the examination required for admission to the Normal Department, have been permitted to remain a year in the Preparatory Department. For the future no ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 19 student will be permitted to enter the Normal School without under- going the required examination, and thus passing at once to the work of that department. By recent action of the Board of Trustees, the number of Normal students to which any county is entitled is made equal to the number of beneficiaries from said county. This regulation, however, does not exclude anyone from the Normal School, who pays the regular tuition fees. The tabular statement on page 22 will show the number of ben- eficiaries, to which each county in the State is entitled. According to the last enumeration, the number of beneficiaries to w'hich ihe State is entitled is 236 — the number of Normal students will be the same. Considering the demand for trained teachers which exists in Arkansas, as well as the facilities for thorough and systematic training enjoyed in the University, may we not hope that each county will soon send its quota of Normal students? To give an idea of the growth and efficiency of the Normal Department, as well as its promise of useful- ness to the State, it may be necessary to present a few' facts connected with this branch. Organized in 1872, the first catalogue of the Uni- versity show's a total of ten students in the Normal Department. Our catalogue for 1873 — 74 show^s, as the entire number of Normal stu- dents, twenty-nine; while the last catalogue, 1874 — 75, show^s fifty- six , or a gain of nearly one hundred per cent, on the previous year. And of the fifty-six, thirteen have been engaged in teaching since the close of the term in June; and this, too, without the advantages of a system of public schools. These students, wdth a true love for the profession, and with a sense of obligation to the State for the blessing of free instruction, have gone out and asked for work, taking, as a general rule, small and unprofitable schools, from the fact that the stringency of the times and the absence of a school system have made lucrative positions impossible. While it is lamentably true that some, and not a few, have entered the Normal School merely for the purpose of avoiding tuition fees, and have shown, in this respect, a shameless violation of good faith, it is yet true that those who have engaged in teaching have as a general rule, exhibited the qualities of energy, zeal and a true love for the profession, as well as a commendable degree of efficiency. If the Stato wu’ll but provide the schools by the adoption of a liberal system of public instruction, we feel assured that \vq shall soon be able to send out from our Normal School such an array of trailed workers that shall mark a new era in popular education in Arkansas. TERMS AND VACATIONS. The scholastic year of the University, with its several departments, 20 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. ' VF" will consist of three terms of thirteen weeks each. There will be a vacation of one week including the Christmas holidays, but no vaca- tion between terms. It is especially desirable that all students should be present at the opening of the autumn term; if this is not possible, they should make all necessary preparations to be present at the beginning of the next term. All beneficiaries will understand that any unnecessary delay in entering the institution will lead to the for- feiture of their places. CALENDAR FOR THE UNIVERSITY YEAR 1875—70 . The autumn term will commence on the 6th of September, 1875, and close on the 3d of December, 1875. The winter term will commence on the 6th of December, 1875, and close on the 9th of March, 1876. The spring term will commence on the 12th of March, 1876, and close on the 15th of June, 1876. Commencement exercises will continue through the last week of the spring term. By act of the Legislature, the annual meeting of Board of Trustees is fixed on the Monday of Commencement week in each year. LABOR. Labor in ilie Arkansas Industrial University is not compulsory, but it is the opinion of the Board of Trustees, as well as of the Faculty, that manual labor is a good thing for the student — that a certain amount of work with the hands will enable him to do better the work of the brain. To the extent of our ability to furnish it, labor will be given to our students on the farm and grounds of the University. So far as our finances will permit, labor to the deserving student will he made remunerative — the rate of wages being fixed by the Board of Trustees at from five to ten cents per hour, according to the char- acter of the work and the efficiency of the worker. Besides remuner- ative labor, that kind of labor which may be denominated educational — that which is designed for practical knowledge and instruction — will be encouraged, so that all may, as far as possible, secure the advantages of one or the other. PROPERTY AND FUNDS. The property of the University consists of the proceeds of the munificent, grant of land by Congress, the bonds of Washington county and the town of Fayetteville, the appropriations made by the ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 21 State, and the University farm and lands — amounting in all to §300,000 in value. The bonds of the count}’ of "Washington, §100,000, and of the town of Fayetteville, §30,000, payable thirty years from date, with interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, have, by the action of the Board of Trustees, become a portion of the permanent endowment of the University, and will be scrupulous!} 7 held for that purpose. EXPERIMENTAL FARM . An experimental farm of excellent character has been provided, immediately contiguous to the University, for agricultural and horti- cultural purposes. The labor system will be voluntary, and students will not labor exceeding three howi's per day, Saturdays excepted. Compensation for labor will be from five to ten cents per hour, accord- ing to ability. APPOINTMENT OF BENEFICIARIES. All ap pointments should be completed, if possible, before the opening of the autumn term. The county judges, who make the appointments, should prepare duplicate notifications of appointment, one of which will be forwarded to the President of the University, and one to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees; and in case the appointee fails to appear at the University within twenty days after the commencement of the autumn term (except in case of sickness), he will be regarded as having declined his appointment, in which case it will be the duty of the President of the Faculty to notify the per- son making the appointment of such failure, who will make another appointment as soon thereafter as possible, and such other appointee will be required to appear at the University on the first day of the next term. The President of the Faculty shall continue to notify appoint- ing officers till their respective number of appointees make their ap- pearance at the University. NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES. It is provided in section eighteen ©f the act of the General Assem- bly establishing the University, that the Board of Trustees shall have power to u prescribe the grade and number of scholarships, and pre- scribe the rules by which scholars who are to be admitted free shall be elected equally from the various parts ©f the State.” They have, therefore, made provisions for two hundred and thirty-seven benefi- ciaries, who will be entitled to four years’free tuition, and who are apportioned among the several counties according to their respective populations by the United States census of 118TQ,. which apportion- ment is as follows : ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 22 COUNTIES. ^.2 o« Ctq n COUNTIES. 1 o.2 c£ A g 2 Lincoln 3 3 Little River 2 6 Lonoke 2 2 Lee 2 RoftllP : 2 Madison 3 Bradley 3 Marion 2 Calhoun 2 Mississippi 2 2 Monroe 4 Chicot 4 Montgomery 1 Clark 5 Nevada 2 Clavton 2 Newton 2 Columbia 4 Ouachita 6 Con way 3 Perry 1 Crawford 4 Phillips G Crittenden 2 Pike 2 Craighead 2 Poinsett 1 Cross 2 Polk 1 2 Dallas 2 Pope 4 Desha 2 Prairie 4 Drew 4 Pulaski 14 Dorsey 2 Randolph 3 Faulkner .* 2 Sarber 2 Franklin 4 St. Francis 3 Fulton 2 Saline 2 Garland 2 Scott 3 Grant 2 Stone 2 Greene 3 Searcy 2 Howard 2 Sebastian 6 Hempstead 6 Sevier 2 Hot Springs 3 Sharp 3 Independence 6 Union 5 Izard 3 Van Buren 2 Jackson 3 Washington 8 Jefferson 7 White... 5 Johnson 4 Woodruff. 4 Lafavette 4 Yell 4 Lawrence 3 TUITION. Beneficiaries and normal students, upon entering the University, will he required to pay a matriculation fee of five dollars. This entitles them to free tuition for four years if beneficiaries, and three, if normal students. Students other than beneficiaries and normal students, whether residents or non-residents of the State, will be charged fifteen dollars tuition per term in the Collegiate, and ten dollars per term in the Preparatory Department and Training School. This tuition is paid invariably in advance, by the term, at the office of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, at Fayetteville. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 23 MI LI TAR Y DEPARTMENT. Provision has been made for instruction in military science and tactics, and all able-bodied male students will be required to drill twice a week. A uniform has been prescribed, which will consist of a suit of cadet gray mixed cloth, of the color and quality worn at West Point, and a cap of dark blue cloth, ornamented in front with the initials A. I. U. surrounded by a silver wreath. Owing to the general stringency of the times, this uniform, with the exception of the cap, will not be required for the coming year, but students are urged to procure it., (which can be done at Fayetteville), as soon as their means will per- mit. The cap can be had at or near cost, on their arrival at the University. The suit, consisting of blouse and pants, will cost from $22.00 to $26.00; coat (frock) and pants, from $26.00 to $32.00. COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. A Commercial Course of two years has beecn organized, and students who complete it will be entitled, on payment of fees for diploma, to receive the degree of Bachelor of Commerce. CLASSICAL COURSE. •FRESHMAN YEAR. JFIttSE’ TKRM. Physical Geography (Elementary.) Algebra. Caesar’s Commentaries and Hark- Physiology. ness’ Introduction to Latin Harkncss' First Greek Book ^op- Composition. tional.) SMCOSI) TEEM. Algebra. History. Katural Philosophy. Hark ness’ First Greek Book (cor- Hnglish Diction and Elocution. tinned and Xenophon's An- Ciccrb’s Orations and Latin Gont- abasis commenced (optional.) position. French (optional.) Physiology. TSfciSKQ- TKK5E. 'Geometry. History. Cicero's Orationsand Latin Com,- Xenophon's Anabasis and liar Im- position. ness' Greek Composition (op- Botany. tional.) .Natural Philosophy. -French (optional.) ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 25 SOPHOMORE YEAR Geometry. Chemistry. Virgil’s iEneid. German (optional.) Chemistry. Livy- Plane Trigonometry. FIRST TERM. Homer, with written exercises (op- tional.) French (optional.) SECOND TERM. Euripides, Iphigenia in Taurus, (op- tional). German and French (optional). THIRD TERM. Mineralogy. Rhetoric. Surveying and Spherical Trigo- Aristophanes, Bird’s, (optional). nometry. German (optional). Horace. JUNIOR YEAR. FIRST TERM. Astronomy. Thucydides, Selections (optional). Tacitus (Germania and Agricola). German (optional). Rhetoric. Surveying and Navigation. SECOND TERM. English Literature. Juvenal. Geology, Astronomy. Sophocles (CEdipus Tyrannus (op- tional). German (optional). THIRD TERM. Logie. English Literature. Conic Sections and Analytical Ge- ometry. 2 * Demosthenes, Olynthiacs and Philippics, (optional). Tacitus (Histories). German (optional). 26 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. SENIOR YEAR. FIRST TERM, Meteorology. Mental Philosophy. Political Economy. Elements of Criticism. Latin (optional). Greek (optional). SECOND TERM. Moral Philosophy. History of Civilization. Civil Polity. Evidences of Christianity. Greek (optional). Latin (optional). Constitution of the United States* Modem Philosophy. Constitutional Law. Social SeiencC'. THIRD TERM. History of Inductive Sciences. Latin (optional). Greek (optional). QUALIFICATION FOE ADMISSION. For admission to the Freshman Class, candidates must pass a sat- isfactory examination in reading, spelling, penmanship, algebra, to equations of the second degree, English grammar, geography, arith- metic, Harkness' introductory Latin book, and Harknoss 7 Latin reader, or their equivalents. If unable to pass such examination, they may be placed in the Preparatory Department. For admission to higher classes, students must have done the work prescribed for preceding classes. Candidates must be of good moral character, and not under the age of fifteen years. AJRKAW8A8 industrial university \ 27 COURSE IN AGRICULTURE. Algebra. Physical Geography: Manual of Farm. Free Hand Drawing. FIRST YEAR FIRST TETM. Practical Agriculture — Lectures. •English Diction ahd Elecution. Physiology. Algebra. Natural Philosophy. SECOND TEEM. Practical Agriculture and Po- mology. English Diction and Elocution, Free Hand Drawing, Geometry. Botany. Natural Philosophy. Free Hand Drawing. •t? THIRD TERM. Manual of Farm. Practical Agriculture and Horti- culture. Geometry. Chemistry, Botany. SECOND YEAR. FIRST TERM. General Historj T , Lectures on management of Soils and Crops. SECOND TERM. Chemistry — Laboratory Practice. Plane Trigonometry, General History. Mechanical Treatment of Soils Lectures on Breeding, Races, His- and Drainage, tory and Management of Stock. Mineralogy. Surveying. THIRD TERM. Rhetoric. Propagation of Plants, Seedlings, Chemistry— Qualitative Analysis. Grapes and Small Fruits. Botany. 28 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY THIRD YEAR. FIRST Astronomy. Chemistry — Qualitative Analysis. Zoology, TERM. Chemical Treatment of Soils and Manures. Orcharding. SECOND TERM. Geology. Farm Engineering, Road Making. English Literature. Farm Machinery and Farm Arch- Bookkeeping and Farm Records. itecture. Entomology. THIRD TERM. Loffic. Science of Government. « O Physical Geography and Meteor- Rural Architecture, ology. FOURTH YEAR. Mental Philosophy. Political Economy. FIRST TERM. Rural Law and Economy. Animal Husbandry. SECOND TERM. Moral Philosophy. Constitutional Laws. History of Civilization. Fruit Culture aud Forestry. THIRD TERM. Meteorology. Veterinary Surgery. Landscape Gardening. Current History. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 2d COURSE IN ENGINEERING. FIRST YEAR. FIRST TERM. Algebra. Physiology. Physical Geography. English Diction and Elocution. Drawing. SECO^ D TERM. Algebra. Drawing. Geometry. Natural Philosophy. English Diction and Elocution, THIRD TERM. Geometry. Botany. Natural Philosophy, Drawing, SECOND YEAR. FIRST TERM. I Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. Analytical Geometry and Oonie Chemistry, Sections. General History, Drawing, Chemistry, General History, Linear Perspective. SECOND TERM. Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections. vShades and Shadows, THIRD TERM . Mineralogy— Crystallography, Drawing Designs, Rhetoric. Calculus, so ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. THIRD YEAR. Astronomy. Theoretical Mechanics. Geologj". Metal lurgy. Logic. English Literature. FIRST TERM. Physics. SECOND TERM. Physics. Applied Mechanics. THIRD TERM. Meteorology. Shading and Tinting. FOURTH YEAR Mental Philosophy. Political Economy. Moral Philosophy. History of Civilization. Constitutional Law. Theory of Motors. Millwork and Machines. FIRST TERM. Strength of Materials. Architecture. SECOND TERM. Theory of Mechanics. Machine Drawing. THIRD TERM. Designs and Estimates. Railway Surveys and Bridge Build- ing. QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION. For admission to the Freshman Class, of this course, candidates must pass a satisfactory examination in reading, spelling, penmanship, alge- bra to equations of the second degree, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic. If unable to pass such examination, they may be placed in the Preparatory Department. For admission to higher classes, students must have done the work prescribed lor preceding classes. Candidates must be of good moral character, not under the age of fifteen yeal*s. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 31 COMMERCIAL COURSE. Algebra. Physiology. Arithmetic. Algebra. Natural Philosophy. Bookkeeping. Geometry. P enmanship. Bookkeeping. JUNIOR YEAR. FIRST TERM. Penmanship. Bookkeeping. SECOND TERM. Commercial Arithmetic. Penmanship. THIRD TERM. Natural Philosophy. Commercial Arithmetic. SENIOR YEAR. Geometry. German. Physical Geography. Plane Trigonometry. Bookkeeping. History. FIRST TERM. Bookkeeping. Penmanship. SECOND TERM. German. Penmanship. third term. Surveying and Spherical Trigo- Political Economy nometry. Science. German. and Moral QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION. For admission to the Junior or first class, of this course, candidates must pass a satisfactory examination in reading, spelling, penmanship, algebra to equations of the second degree, English grammar, geogra- phy, and arithmetic. If unable to pass such an examination, they may be placed in the Preparatory Department. For admission into the Senior class, students must have done the work prescribed for the Junior class. Candidates for admission into any of the colleges connected with the University, must present satisfactory evidence of good moral character. If previously connected with any other College or Univer- sity, they must produce certificates of honorable standing from the authorities thereof. By the aet of the General Assembly carrying into effect the act of Congress making the grant for the Industrial University, it was pro- vided that there should be a Normal Department therein. A Normal Department has been, therefore established in, or in connection with the University. This department is now fully in operation, and is designed to furnish a thorough course of instruction to all those who desire to engage in the profession of teaching in the public schools. The courses of study and training in this department are separate and distinct from the University courses — the great aim being the education of teachers. QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION. Applicants for admission must be of good moral character, and must, if males, be sixteen, if females, fourteen years of age ; the}’ must also pass a satisfactory examination in the common English branches. TRAINING SCHOOL. The Primary Department of the University, as formerly con- ducted, has been dispensed with, and in lieu thereof a Training School has been established, which will be operated in conduction with the Normal Department of the University, and under the immediate super- vision of the Principal thereof. This Training School will have a preceptress in charge; and will also to some extent be taught by nor- mal students, in the manner customary in the normal schools of the country. Care will be taken to see that proper instruction is given, and no pains will be spared to render this Training School as efficient in all respects as an}’ other, for children. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. COURSE OF STUDY. FIRST YEAR. FIRST TERM . Arithmetic through fractions. Sentence making. Geography, Spelling and Phonics. Impromptu Composition. Arithmetic. Etymology. Heading and Spelling. Methods of Teaching. Arithmetic. Geography. Latin, German or French. Practice in Teaching. Reading. Drawing and Penmanship. Music. SECOND TERM. k Grammar. Geography. Impromptu Composition. Drawing and Penmanship. THIRD TERM. Grammar (Syntax). Botany. Methods of Teaching. SECOND YEAR. FIRST TERM. Arithmetic. United States History. Algebra. Physiology. Latin, German or French. Methods of Teaching Impromptu Composition and Drawing. Algebra. Geometry. Essays and Drawing. SECOND TEEM. Physiology. United States History. Algebra. Philosophy. General History, 3 THIRD TEEM. Geometry, English Literature. Practice in Teaching. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 34 THIRD YEAR. FIRST TERM. Geometry. English Literature. Theory and Art of Teaehing. Physical Geography. Chemistry. Astronomy. SECOND TERM. Trigonometry. Astronomy. Chemistry. English - Literature. Essays on Mental Develepment. Mental and Moral Science. Lectures on the Constitutions of the United States and Arkansas. THIRD TERM. Geology. Reviews. Essays. Mental and Moral Science. Lectures on the Constitutions of the Surveying. United States and Arkansas. In view of the fact that the educational facilities of this State have been and are, with the exception of a few favored localities, such that young persons desirous of a collegiate or normal education have been and are unable properly and sufficiently to prepare themselves to enter the Industrial University or Normal School therein, there has been established, in connection with the University and Normal School, a Preparatory Department. This is intended to be auxiliary to the higher departments, and especially to prepare pupils who may enter it for those departments. This department is under the gen* eral supervision of the Faculty of the University and Normal Depart- ment. Beneficiaries who, upon an examination by the Faculty, may be found -not qualified to enter the Industrial University, may be placed in the Preparatory Department as beneficiaries ) but the time spent by them in this department will be deducted from the four years’ free tuition to which they are entitled in the University by virtue of their appointments. FIRST YEAR. FIRST TERM. Charts and First Header . Arithmetic . — Counting, reading and writing numbers to 100. .Sums and differences to 10, Using objects. Conversational Lessons on familiar things,' as toys, bright colored objects in the school-room, yard, etc., to develop power of expression. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. m SECOND TEEM. First Reader . — Finish and review. Arithmetic . — Counting, reading and writing numbers to 1,000. All products to 20, using objects. Conversational Lessons on objects not present, for cultivation of lan- guage and conception, as “ birds’ nests,” “ our dog,” “your cat.,” etc. Lessons on Place .— Arranging of objects by child and representa- tion of same on slates and black-board. Cardinal and semi-cardinal points. Music, THIRD THEM. ' Reading. — Nursery, and other selections suitable for children. Arithmetic . — -Introducing the idea of division by means of objects. Continue and extend work ot previous term. Form . — Lines and angles. •Lessons on Place . — Develop the idea of map. Draw map of school- room, floor, yard, city, etc. Size. —Measurement of lines and distances. Conversational Lessons .-*- -Writing of sentences on familiar objects, giving attention to capitals, periods and correct expression. Con- tinue work of previous terra. SECOND YEAE. FIRST TERM. Second Reader . Arithmetic. -Primary to subtraction. Conversational Lessons . — Stories read by teacher and reproduced by children. This exercise is valuable, as it is specially adapted to the formation of good style. Writing sentences; as in previous term. Lessons on Place . — Present map of the county, with definitions of such terms as may arise, as river, bank, source, brook, tributary, agri- culture, trading, etc. / Form . — Triangles and quadrilaterals. Size . — Continuation of previous term’s work. SECOND TERM, Second Reader . — Finish and review. Arithmetic . — Primary to division. Conversational Lessons . — Exercise in general description, as form, size, color, etc*. Objects described and guessed ; child conceals some nhiecl, and others describe it : show picture, and children tell wind ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 37 they see in it, and draw from it as much of' a story as possible Culti- vate observation and judgment. Read a story, and require its repro- duction. Writing of sentences, and attention given to pronunciation, etc. Familiar Mammalia . — As cat, dog, horse, rat, pig, etc., naming and describing parts, especially such as will help in classification; habits also noticed. Color . — Distinguish a few prominent colors, as red, yellow, blue, green, etc. Exercises in patterning, the child always imitating the teacher; cultivate taste. Geography. — Oral. Study of the State of Arkansas and contiguous States, defining such terms as may arise. Music. THIRD TERM . Reading . — Select reading. Geography . — Continue work of previous term, finishing the United States. Elementary to page 71. Arithmetic . — Primary to federal money. Familiar Mammalia . — Same as previous term, introducing adapta- tion of parts. Conversational Lessons . — Simple subjects and plan given ; children required to make a story; continued stories read and reproduction required. Exercises in writing sentences, punctuation and capitals. Form — Polygons and most familiar solids. Size -and Weight. — Continue work with weights and measures. Color . — An additional number of common colors learned. Pat- terning continued. Botany . — Miss Yo uman’s course. Music. THIRD YEAR. FIEST TERM. Arithmetic. — Primary, finish. Geography — Elementary, finish to part III. Familiar Insects . — Same work as with mammalia, using the micro- scope. Conversational Lessons . — Same as previous term. Different subjects given to each child and stories required. Exercises in writing sen- tences, punctuation, capitals, etc. Correction of false syntax. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 88 Color . — Names of standard colors, red, green, yellow, etc., formed by actual experiment. Tints and shades. Form. —Circulars, curvilinear angles. Botany m — Miss Youman's lessons. Music. SECOND TEEM. Third Reader . — -Finished and reviewed. Geography. — Elementary. Arithmetic . — Intermediate to page 96. . Form. — Solids, cones and cylinders. Color.— Secondary colors, how formed. Hues of violet. Conversational Lessons . — Same as in previous term. Description of scenes and events which pupils have knowledge of. Work on sen- tences continued. Separation of simple prose into sentences, with capitals and punctuation marks. Animals . — Less familiar mammalia, as elephant, camel, bear. Pic- tures presented. Music. third term. Reading.— -Selections. Arithmetic . — Intermediate to page 174. Geography. — Intermediate. Grammar . — Oral lessons on the parts of speech, taking first the noun and verb, and forming the sentence. Conversational Lessons . — Exercises in writing sentences, punctua- tion, false syntax, etc. Separation of prose into sentences; combining statements into single sentences. Oral exercises, same as previous term. Animals . — Familiar birds; parts, adaptation, habits, etc. Color. — Hues, tertiaries. Botany . — Miss Youmans’ course. Music. FOUETH YEAE. fTRST TERM. Fourth Reader. Arithmetic . — Intermediate to page 274. Geography. — Intermedia te . Grammar . — Oral lessons continued, taking up phrase' and clause modifiers. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. sy Composition. — Visits, journeys, description of places, etc., requiring written work. Atiimals. — Familiar reptiles, fishes, etc. Color. — Harmony of secondaries, tertiaries. Botany. Penmanship. Music. SECOND TERM. Fourth Reader. — Finished and reviewed. Arithmetic. — Intermediate finished and reviewed. Geography. — Intermediate. Composition. — Stories told from suggestive pictures, without conver- sations. Subjects strongly suggestive of a story given, as u I want,” “ Katy’s first day at church, ” etc. Color. — -.Colors as emblematic flags, railway signals, etc. Penmanship . Animals. — Less familiar birds and reptiles, with a few common mol- lusks. Grammar. — Properties of parts of speech. Drawing. — Leaf' flower and fruit, also familiar objects. Latin. THIRD TERM. Reading. — Select current reading. Arithmetic . Grammar. Drawing. — Leaf, flower and fruit, also familiar objects. Composition. — Same as previous term. Letters, analysis of subject and different heads to different children. Penmanship . Latin . Music. FIFTH YEAR, FIRST TERM. Fifth Reader. Arithmetic. Grammar . History. — United States. Drawing. Composition. — Same as previous term. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 40 Penmanship. Music. ",‘'i . | Algebra. Latin. SECOND TERM. Fifth Reader. Arithmetic. Latin. Algebra. Draw ing. History . — United States. Composition . — Subjects more difficult, less suggestive, still involving narrative or description. Current history or biography. Penmanship. Grammar. Music. THIRD TERM. Reading.— Fifth Beader, choice literature and biography. Arithmetic. Composition . — Same as previous term. Algebra. Latin. Grammar. Physiology. Music. Many letters have been received asking how a student can pay his way by labor — what our labor system is— what is the design of the Normal Department — what is the price of board, tuition, books, etc. An attempt has been made to answer these inquiries in this circular, and one will be sent in reply to such letters hereafter, unless a written answer seems to be required. Board, in private families, in Fayetteville, including fuel, light and washing, can be had for from $100 to $130 per scholastic year of nine months. A beneficiary or Normal student pays $5.00 matriculation fee. After this his tuition is free. All other students pay from $20.00 to $45.00 per year for tuition, and by recent action of the Board of Trustees this tuition is to he paid by the term, in advance, and hereafter no name is to be entered on the University rolls until the receipt of the Secretary, for his or her tuition, shall be presented. All new students entering the Collegiate Department are required to pay a matriculation fee of $5.00. The books used in the University can be bought in Fayetteville at publishers' prices. Students should bring with them such books as they have, for reference. Students can wear such clothing here as they have been accustomed to at home. Cleanliness, neatness and comfort only will be required. While it is true that several students have paid their way while in school by labor, it is not a safe dependence. It has been done by the closest economy and the most determined thrift. The energy and economy necessary to carry such through their course should be used in the first place in providing a small amount of money to start with. An unlimited amount of remunerative labor cannot be promised, though as much as possible will be provided for such students as have a mind to use it to accomplish the two ends for which it is furnished. 3 * ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 42 The Normal Department is designed solely for the education of teachers j either those who- have begun to teach, or young persons who desire to fit themselves for teaching. No one has a right to free tuition in this department who does not, in good faith and with proper motives, intend to make teaching his profession. It is admitted that a doctor or lawyer should have some training or preparation to be successful in his profession, and schools for this purpose have been established. Thoughtful parents are beginning to feel that teachers also need preparation for their work, and they are dema'iding men and women of the best talents and character and the highest culture as the teachers of their children. It is to meet and encourage this want that the Normal Department is established. DISCIPLINE. If our students are to become valued and noble citizens they need to learn self government, and to conform their conduct to the laws of their country and to the usages of good society more than they need to learn science. Students must not expect to be governed, but to govern themselves. It is no part of the duty of the Faculty to act the part of policemen or spies upon the conduct of students. With the instructions they receive, those who care and try can be gentlemen. Those who do not care nor try, need not come, for they will not be per- mitted to. remain as students. It will not be enough fora student to order his conduct well during school days and while upon the college premises. The every-day life of the student must give evidence of growth in manly virtue and scholarly attainments. The widest personal freedom will be accorded to every one to do all that is good and right, and the fullest opportu- nity and the most abundant material possible will be furnished, but whatever is unmanly and lowers one's self-respect, will not be tolerated. Loitering in the streets and shops, the contracting of debts, and the spending of money foolishly, the use of profane, indecent or un- gentlemanly language, all forms of dissipation, ihc spending of time in any company whose influence does not lead to a higher and better life, are some of the things which must be avoided by students. In short, we expect every student to see to it that every act of his does honor to himself and the University- to let his highest ambition and aim he to accomplish some noble purpose, both while a student and through life. Absolute promptness in attendance and in the performance of all duties will he required, not more for the good of the school than for its value to the student as a habit. » ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. A-* Besides the regular work of the day, two or three hours of study at night will be required of adult students in good health. Students should enter at the beginning of the year (September 7th), but if this is impossible they should enter at the beginning of some term, as classes cannot be formed during term- lime. All students will be required co ente»* upon some regular course of study, and they will not be permitted to depart from that course except for good reasons. Absence, except for unavoidable causes, or leaving without the consent of the Faculty, will forfeit the student’s' membership. / • LITEBABY SOCIETIES. Two literary societies, the “ Clariosophic’' and the “Mathetian,” have been established. They are both sustained with great interest and furnish valuable aid in the intellectual training of the student. LIBBABY. The University library, though at this time small, comprises some valuable works. Additions will be made from time to time. All students have access to the library free of charge. MUSIC DEPABTMENT. For the practice of chorus singing two societies are organized — Eu- terpean and Philharmonic. A class will be formed this year in the Primary Department for the purpose of teaching the elements of music. Special instruction in vocal and instrumental music will be given, two lesions a week, by W. D. C. Botefuhr, Professor of Music, assisted by Miss Laura Botefuhr. Tuition $15.00 per term for advanced and $10.00 per term lor primary scholars, payable one-half in advance, balance at the end of each term. Use of piano, one hour per day, $3.50 per term. CONTRIBUTIONS. Contributions arc solicited for our library, reading room, labora- tory and museum. Any book, paper or manuscript of historical or other value ; Any piece of chemical, philosophical or mechanical apparatus; Any ores, crystals, precious or valuable stones, vegetable or ani- mal fossils, or any other thing that will be a source of information to our students, will be thankfully received. u ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY , i We hereby designate and request County Superintendents of Public Schools to take charge of and forward to the University, by students or others who may be coming, any of the above named do- nations. CABINET AND MUSEUM. The collections in these are yet inconsiderable, but they are slowly increasing. The State Geologist has kindly consented to forward to the University duplicates of she specimens obtained by him, and in time this feature can be made of rare attractiveness. APPARATUS. The University will be supplied for the coming year with mathe- matical and philosophical apparatus, and additions will be made to the chemical department, which is already in efficient operation. BAND. A brass band of fourteen pieces, organized for special use, in con- nection with the military department of the University, and composed entirely of students, has already demonstrated its usefulness. BRANCH NORMAL COLLEGE. By an act of the Legislature, approved April 25, 1873, the organ- ization of a Branch Normal College was provided for, and $25,000 were appropriated to carry the act into effect. This appropriation was in State scrip, and owing to its depreciated value, the organization of the College has not yet taken place. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, however, in July, 1874, a Spe- cial Committee, consisting of Trustees Jones, Johnson and Thompson, was appointed to carry this law into effect, and immediate steps will be taken to do so, locating this College, which is specially designed for colored students, somewhere in the Southern or Eastern portion of the State. [See Branch Normal College, Appendix.] THE NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES. By an act of the Legislature of the State, approved May 30th, 1874, all the trusteeships of the University, as created by the act of the Legislature, approved March 27th, 1874, wmre vacated, and the Board of Trustees was made to consist, until otherwise provided by law, of Dudley E. Jones, L. Gregg, A. W. Dinsmore, James M. John- son, M. F. Lake, Wood E. Thompson, J. C. Walker, the Governor of the State for the time being, and the President of the University. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. IN GENERAL CONDUCT OF THE UNIVERSITY. It is due to the authorities of the University, in explanation of the fact that agriculture and the mechanic arts have not yet been as full 3^ taught as the acts of Congress contemplate, to make some reference to the condition of educational matters here, when the Arkansas Industrial University was organized. At that time, such was the dis- position of the State to patronize the institution, and so great was and ■still is the demand throughout the State for general education, that the University came rapidly and from necessity to assume, in part, the form of an institution for general instruction. By the laws of the State, there is likewise attached to it a Normal Department, which it becomes our dut3" to develop, nevertheless, u Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts” will receive the full attention that the acts of Uongress contemplate when man3' of the young men admitted into the institution, and who are the sons of farmers, shall have become more thoroughly grounded in the rudiments of general knowledge, the special training for mechanical and agricultural life then begin- ning. FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT AT THE \RK\NSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, ADOPTED MARCH 9, 1874. I. This department will be governed, in as far as they ma}^ be applied, by the General Regulations and Tactics adopted for the United States army. II. The course will consist of practical and theoretical instruction in the tactics of the different arms, military police and discipline, ordnance and gunnery, international and military law, military engin- eering* topographical drawing, military history, strategy and the art of war. III. For practical instruction in military science and tactics the male students of the University will be organized intp a battalion of companies the battalion to be under the, command of the Military Professor. The battalion staff will consist of one Adjutant, one Quar- termaster, one Sergeant-Major and one Quartermastpr-Sergeant. Each company, will consist of one Captain, one First and one Second Lieu- tenant, five Seargents, four Corporals, two Musicians, land privates not to exceed fifty. IV. This organization shall be known as the “Arkansas Indus- trial University Cadets.” V. The Officers and non-commissioned officers shall be appointed by the President of the University, upon the recommendation of the Professor of Military Science and Tactics. The selections will be made from those students who have been most diligent and prompt in the performance of their duties, and most exemplary in their general deportment. In general, the officers will be taken from the Senior and Junior classes, and the more advanced students of the Normal Department; the non-commissioned officers from the Sophomore and ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 47 and Freshman classes, the Normal Department and the Preparatory School. YT. There will be theoretical instruction and military exercises at such times as the President may direct. YIT. All arms and other public property issued to cadets shall be marked with their company number. They shall only be used on duty. No cadet shall lend or exchange his arms or accoutrements, or use those of another cadet. No cadet shall alter his musket by scraping, filing, cutting, or varnishing the stock, barrel, or any part of it; nor shall the lock be removed or taken apart without the permission of the Mil- itary Professor. The guns will habitually be kept in the rack in the armory, the corresponding accoutrements hanging thereon. YIII. Cadets are required at all times to have their muskets and accoutrements in good order and serviceable condition. They will be held personally responsible for any loss or damage to public property issued to them, or while in their possession. IX. The duties of Battalion Adjutant and Quartermaster, will be those assigned to the offices by the United States Army Regulations, and in addition, such other special duties as may be ordered by proper authority. X. It shall bo the duty of the Adjutant to receive the reports at all military formations, transmitting the same to the Chief of the De- partment, or to the cadet officers in charge. XI. Cadets will be reported “absent” at any formation, when not in ranks before the cadet calling the roll makes his report. Officers will be reported “ absent” who are not on the company parade when the Captain makes his report. A cadet will be reported “ late” at any formation who is not in ranks when the signal ceases. Officers will be reported “late” who are not in front of their companies, properly equipped, when the signal ceases. XII. The Battalion Quartermaster will have the armory in charge, and will be held responsible for the safe-keeping and preservation of all arms, accoutrements and other public property, and for the en- forcement of such rules and regulations thereto, as may be prescribed by the Military Professor. XIII. No cadet shall be absent from any military duty whatever, without the permission of the President or Military Professor, unless by reason of sickness or other unavoidable causes. XIY. Personal cleanliness is expected of all cadets. The uniform or clothing will be kept in good condition and neat. The hair will be kept short, whiskers and mustaches neatly trimmed. 48 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. XV. Habits of order,., attention and punctuality in the discharge of all duties, are especially enjoined upon cadets. Prompt and ready obedience is the essence of all discipline, it is, moreover, indicative of a cultivated mind, and he makes the best citizen or soldier who has thoroughly learned the duty of obedience, A non-compliance with the requirements of rules, regulations, and orders, indicates a spirit of insubordination, a disregard for authority, which cannot be allowed. XVL Inferiors will be required to obey strictly and to execute with alacrity and good faith the lawful orders of the superiors ap- pointed over them, XVII, Superiors of every grade are forbidden to injure those under them by tyrannical or capricious conduct, or by abusive language. Authority will be exercised with firmness but with justice to all. XVIII. In all of the official relations the courtesy becoming gen- tlemen will be required of all cadets — the subordinate recognizing the superior in military rank by the salute which military etiquette enjoins, XIX. These regulations will be strictly obeyed and enforced. By order of the President. EDWIN S. CURTIS, First Liutenant, Second Artillery, Prof. M. S. and T, UNIFORM. The following dress is prescribed as the uniform for University Cadets. Coat, Full-dress* Frock of cadet gray — single-breasted, nine but- tons in front, four on skirt in rear, and three small buttons on each cuff. The skill to extend from one-half to three-fourths the distance from the hip joint to the bend of the knee) coat to be piped with scarlet) stand-up collar, not less than one nor more than two inches in height, of scarlet cloth) cut square to hookup close in front) skirt of coat on each side of opening behind to be faced with scarlet cloth ) two bands of scarlet cloth one-half inch in width and one inch apart, on each sleeve, two and one-half inches from the end. Blouse, For Squad and Company drills and other duty when authorized by proper authority, and for ordinary wear ; a sack coat of cadet gray, falling collar, single-breasted, with five buttons in front and three on each cuff) the skirt to extend from one-third to two-thirds the distance from the hip-joint to the bend of the knee) coat to have no outside pockets and to be piped with scarlet. . ARKANSAS- INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. JfO Pantaloons. Gray cloth, same material as coat, witli stripe of scarlet cloth one inch wide down the outer seam. Forage Cap. Dark blue cloth, according to pattern, with initials “ A. I. U,” surrounded by wreath, all in silver. Cadets acting as officers and non-commissioned officers shall be designated by the following badges : Captain. Chevrons of four bars of scarlet cloth, one-halt inch in width, on each arm above the elbow, point up Lieutenant. Chevrons of three bars, same material and pattern. Adjutant. The Lieutenant's chevron with an arc. Quartermaster. The Lieutenant's chevron with a horizontal bar. Sergeant. Chevrons of two bars, same material and pattern. First Sergeant. Sergeant’s chevron with a lozenge. Color Sercjeant. Sergeant’s chevron with a star. Corporal. Chevrons of one bar, same material and pattern. Color Corporal. In addition to corporal’s chevron, will wear u pon both sleeves a star of scarlet cloth, two inches in diameter. 4 Fayetteville, Ark., June 16, 1875. The Board met pursuant to adjournment, and tho President, Gov. Garland, being absent, Hon. James M. Johnson was elected President pro tern. The roll being' called, -the following Trustees responded to their names : Bishop, Dinsmfore, Jones, Johnson, Gregg, Lake and Thompson. The regular order of business was then called,, when the various committees and officers asked time to get up their reports, which was granted. * The oath of office was administered to Trustee W. E. Thompson, of Drew county, by Hon. H. C. Caldwell, of the United States Dis- trict Court. The following members of the Board of Visitors were received and welcomed to our sittings, and cordially invited to aid us in our deliber- ations : Hon. H. C. Caldwell, of Little Bockj Dr. E. It. DuVal, of Fort Smith.; and Kev. Wm. O. Stout, of Lewisburg. Applications, with accompanying letters of recommendation, were received to fill the chairs of Applied Chemistry, Geology, &c.-: J. S» Lee, Ames, Iowa; F. L. Harvey, Humboldt, Iowa; James G. Adams, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Reuben D. Itaislip, Washington-Lee Uni- versity. For the chair of Languages, W. A. Parham, Little Rock. A petition was then presented by A. W. Bishop, setting forth that by a misapprehension he had failed to put in his account for the full ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. n amount due him, and showing that the Arkansas Industrial University Is now justly indebted to him for arrears in salary, for services ren- dered previous to the present scholastic year, in the sum of 8488.89-. and prays the Board to order warrant to issue on Treasury for said amount ) which petition was, on motion, referred to the Committee on Finance. On motion, the Board adjourned to meet to-morrow at 9 oclock a. m-. J. M. JOHNSON, Chairman, pro fern. A. W. DINSMORE, Secretary. Fayetteville, Ark., June 17, 1875. The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present — Gregg, Jones, Lake, Johnson, Thompson, and Dinsmore. An application for the chair of Chemistry by Mr. J. F. Simonds, of Little Rock, was presented and placed, on file. A report was presented by the Secretary of the Board, showing the progress of work upon the new University building, the amount paid on the contract, an l the amount necessary to complete contract with all special changes ordered, which was placed on file for future reference and consideration. The Secretary presented his current last account for the past scho- lastic year, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Also, his farm report, reports on furniture account, stationery ac- count, library account, apparatus account, chemical account, educa- tional account and building account, which were referred to the Com- mittee on Finance. A resolution was offered by Trustee Gregg to invite Hon. W. W v Wilshire to deliver an address in the University Hall on Commence- ment Da}\ Adopted. On motion, the Board adjourned till to-morrow morning at 8 o’clock. J. M. J OH NS ON, President, pro tern. A. W. DINSMORE, Secretary. Fayetteville, Ark, June 18, 1875. The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present — J. M. Johnson, President pro Lein ., Gregg, Bishop, Jones, Lake, Thompson and Dinsmore. 52 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The Chairman of the Building Committee asked further time to report. Secretary Dinsmore presented his “ Miscellaneous Account,” marked Exhibit J, which was referred to the Committee on Finance. Treasurer Bishop presented his report of “Building Account,” which was, on motion, referred to the Committee on Finance. President Bishop presented the Report of the Faculty of the Arkansas Industrial University, and, on motion, so much of said Report as refers to appropriations, was referred to the Committee on Finance. A resolution was offered by Trustee Gregg authorizing the Secre- tary of the Board to issue a warrant to W. Z. Mayes & Co. for $1,000, as part pay on the estimate for May and part of June, which was adopted. A resolution was offered by Trustee Dinsmore that the Board pro- ceed at the earliest practicable date to employ a Professor of Chemistry. Adopted. The following names were at once placed in nomination : G. S. Lee, Ames, Iowa; F. L. Harvey, Humboldt, Iowa; James D. Adams, Fayetteville, Arkansas; R. D. Haislip, Washington, Arkansas; R. A. Parham, Little Rock, Arkansas; and J. F. Simonds, Little Rock, Arkansas. On the third ballot F. L. Harvey was elected to fill said chair. The following was then offered by Trustee Gregg: Resolved , That the Secretary of the Board be instructed to advise Prof. F. L. Harvey, of Humboldt, Iowa, that he has been selected to fill the chair of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry in the Arkansas Industrial University for the term of one year, at his proposition of $1,200 salary for the first year. Which was adopted. A paper was presented through the Honorable Board of Visitors, asking a change in the calendar of the University, the adoption of which change said Board reported that they could not at present re- commend. On motion, said paper was placed on file. The Finance Committee was, on motion, requested, at their earliest convenience, to make up their estimates of receipts and expenditures for the ensuing year, and report. President Bishop then tendered his resignation of the Presidency ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSIT )\ 53 of the Arkansas Industrial University, and by motion, it was placed on file. The Finance Committee presented the following report : The Finance Committee, to whom was referred the He port of Treasurer Bishop on the Normal School Fund, find the same to be* correct, and recommend that the Fund be placed in the hands of the State Treasurer, as the Financial Agent or Custodian of the Uni- versity funds. [Singned.] A. W. DINSMORE, Chairman. D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Finance Committee. A. W. BISHOP, Treasurer, IN ACCOUNT WITH JhE yVF(KAN£A£ JnDU£TF(IAL ^NIVERglTY. NORMAL SCHOOL FUND. 1875. I)r. June 17, To Cash on hand, drawing interest at 6 per cent. per annum from May 2, 1875 . $ 2,414 56 “ 17, To State Scrip on hand, part of Normal School Fund, on deposit as follows: With D. D. Stark & Co., Fayetteville, $13, 011 75 Merchants’ Nat. Bank, Little Rock,... 8,000 00 — 21,011 75 $23,426,31 The report was, on motion, adopted. The Finance Committee then submitted the following report, which was concurred in by the Board : The Finance Committee, to whom was referred the petition of President Bishop for four hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty- nine cents ($488.89), as balance due him for services during the vscholastic year of 1873-74, beg leave to report that, in their opinion, the claim is correct and just, and recommend that it be paid. A. W. DINSMORE, D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Finance Committee. Which was, on motion, approved and adopted. The Board then took a recess to three o’clock p. m. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. AFTER RECESS. Present — J. M, Johnson, President -pro tern.) Bishop, Gregg, Lake* Jones, i hompson and Dinsmore. The following resolution win then offered and adopted: R.'solcrrl, That the Secretary be authorized to employ Mr. J. H. Beil to take charge of the University building and property until the re-opening of the Institution, to work the corn, vegetables, etc., at a compensation of twenty-live dollars per month. The following resol u ion was offered by Trustee Bishop, and con- curred in by the Board : Resolver/, That students hereafter entering the Preparatory De- partment be required 1<> ray ten dollars and those entering 'he Classical Department fifteen dollars per term. The following was offered and adopted: B( soloed, That all students who may hereafter enter the Collegiate Department be required io pay a matriculation fee of five dollars. The following was offered by Trustee Bish6p, and concurred in : Resolved, That Mrs. V. L. Gray be elected as teacher in Painting io Oil. and Water Colors, Crayon and Freehand Drawing; the com- pensation to be regulated by her, and received from her pupils. The following was offered by Trustee Thompson and concurred in by the Board : Resolver], That hereafter the number of free Normal students shall be in the same proportion as Beuificiarics are now received from the respe c.t i v e counties. On motion, the Board adjourned until Monday morning at nine o’clock. J. M. JOHNSON, President, pro tern. A. W. DINSMORE, Secretary. Fayetteville,' Auk., June 21, 1875. The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present — J. M. Johnson, President pro tern.', Bishop, Gregg, Lake, Jones, Thompson and Dinsmore. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.. Trustee Gregg, as Chairman of the Building Committee, submitted the following annual report : Arkansas Industrial University.) Fayetteville, June 21, 1875. To the President cnid Members of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Indus- trial University. Your Committee, in charge of the building, have the honor to report that ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY , . 5 : 7 the main building has progressed as well as we anticipated during the past year, and that the work is. now so far advanced that it can easily he completed by tii • tirstof September next, the time designated by the contract. Your Committee, acting under instructions given at the last annual mec' ing- ot* the Board, in reference to the verbal contract made by the old Board of Trus- tees. or their Building Committee, for extra, thickness of glass, stone, and brick work, for quoins, and for pressed brick, endeavored to carry the same out yi good faith, and at the price our predecessors agreed to pay, it having been established by pay-roll evidence at the last annual meeting of the Board, to-wit : tor extra thickness of glass, stone, and brick work, and for quoins $(3,200, and for pressed brick, and for laying the same. $800. The latter item gave your Committee much trouble. The principal contractor would not assume authority to settle that Ink. because, as he alleged, it had been m ule with sub-contractors, and the several sub-contractors made up their respective bills, amounting, in the aggregate, to about. $1,000, Your Committee persistently refused to pay any amount above the $800, and that only on full receipts. Alter several months of cavil and threats of suits, the $800 was accepted and lull acquittance given. Your Committee would jefer to the state of finance pesented to the Board by our Secretary, showing the various estimates of materials furnished, and work done, and the amounts paid thereon. Your Commit tee. endeavored to adhere strictly to the resolutions of the Board, requiring all original bills for materials purchased to be presented before a monthly estimate could be approved, or payment made; which uv submit will clearly appear by reference to the monthly estimates allowed ; and on examination of the material and work yet to be furnished. By the special contract for the extra work above designated, the principal contractor was to cause this extra material and work to be put in the building actual cost, and without any profit to himself In consideration of this proposi- tion, the twenty per centum was not to be r< sural, and hence ue paid $000 on the contract in excess of the eighty per centum. In the month of August, 1874, the contractor proposed to reduce his estimate of difference between stone, and iron work on front portico from $1,000 to $500. Your Committee, deeming it very essential to the symmetry and general appear- ance of the building that this work should be of massive stone, according to the original plans of the designing architect, and believing that. columns, balustrades, pilasters, and capitals of choice, solid stone v oid ; more than compensate us for the difference ($500) to be saved by erecting n on work instead of scone, a sub- stitution agreed upon by the old Board, we agreed, therefore, to pay the contractor $500 extra, to furnish such stone work according to the original plans. Your. Committee, upon consideration of the original plans, found that the peculiar formation and design of the wood cornice therein designated, could not he properly executed in galvanized iron, which the old Board had substituted, as we were advised to reduce the cost of the work. In consequence of financial embarrasments and the want of labor for mechanics, our contractor advised us that this cornice, in the style of architecture presented, would ordinarily cost much more in wood than in iron, but could now be done for even less. While this matter was under consideration, your superintending architect, advised us t that, since the specifications do not contemplate upper and mansard stories, t! e framing for floor would be insufficient, to give secure bracing for the support of so heavy a roof, and that unless a floor should be laid on the upper tier of joists the ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 1)0 Avails would be endangered ; hence he advised a heavy deafening floor to be laid in that story, at an estimated cost of $500. In answer to the proposition of the contractor to change the cornice from iron to Avood, we replied, that if he Avoid d put up said cornice according to origninal specifications, and lay the aforesaid floor without additional compen- sation, he might do so. To this he acceded, and the work nas been done. Your Committee, discovering that the main gutters at the foot of the mansard roof had been changed by our predecessors from copper to tin, a change by us deemed at variance >vith the best interests of the building, and as this guttering extended up to and under the mansard roof, we deemed it essential to have the most durable material, and we effected an arrangement with the contractor to put in copper, according to the original specifications; this Board to pay the differ- ence in the cost of materials. From the original bills we found the cost of copper to exceed that of tin $631.00, as shown by estimates. Your Committee call your attention to the fact, that by the original contract, gas pipe, Avith the necessary mains, were t > be placed in each story of the building for headlights, and a provision for all desired side lights and fixtures, the Board should pay the usual cost of such material and work. With the advice of our Superintending Architect and that of the Faculty, we designated the position and number of wall and side lights necessary. The contractor agreed to furnish all necessary material, and put in such extra gas pipe at 22£ cents per foot, making an aggregate of $147.15. Your ( ommittee, fearing that lead pipe would be insufficient, being exposed to injury about the wash-basins, changed that for galvanized iron, which cost only about one-third as much ; the Board to be credited with the difference. Your Committee, being advised by the Supervising Architect and others, in Avhose judgement we had confidence, that the down spouts from the roof of the main building were too small to carry off the water in violent rain storms, di- rected the contractor to increase the size from three inches to inches, the Board to pay the difference in actual cost. Your Committee, or its Chairman, agreed to have strips put around the walls of the four cloak rooms ; to extend the wainscoting doAvn the main stairway from the first floor; to lay paving stone at the foot of the stairways ; to have a superior coat of plaster or cement put on the Avails for blackboard. For this, and other extra work last named, Ave expect the Board to pay whatever is just whenever the same is ascertained, no estimates as yet having been made. It being neces- sary to the early completion of certain work, these small items Avere allowed to go in under that clause in the contract, authorizing the cost of extras to be fixed by the Building Committee and the Superintendent. Generally throughout the building, under our Architect, Ave found the con- tractor putting in a great number of iron anchors, thus giving the walls great strength. In one instance, however, the Architect advised the addition of a strong anchor of bar iron from the main walls entirely around both towers in the first story, above the heavy belting course, which was accordingly added, at a cost or $20.00, as shown. The anchorage avus most likely sufficient without this, in fact, the perfection now appearing in the work convinces us that it was, yet Ave felt that no one should have reason to doubt the stability of the structure, hence the small expenditure. After the adjournment of our last annual meeting some bills for material furnished and work previously done upon other buildings, and upon contracts with the old Board of Trustees, Avere presented to your Committee. The largest ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 57 of these bills was $489.89, for an armory, so erected anil not paid for until Novem- ber last. We also ordered paid some small sums for improvement of grounds, etc. These, however, all appear fully in the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. Before the discharge of the Superintending A? chitect, McKay, and while he was under the control of the old Board, changes were made from the plans and specifications that did not meet the approbation of your Committee, and in so far as the progress of the work did* not prevent, your Committee directed our Superintendent to require the contractor to comply with the stipulation in his agreement, and to disregard orders given him by said McKay, in several par- ticulars, however, the work had so far progressed that it could not be changed without a loss of many thousand dollars. The iron columns were cast with ample strength, but one-fourth of an inch thinner than contracted for, the difference in the value of which, estimated at $160.00, the contractor agreed to pay, or credit to the Board. The wooden columns in the mansard story were to have been of turned oak, but, as alleged, for want of suitable timber, and in order to make a better finish, the Superintendent allowed square, rough columns of yellow pine to be put in, without the knowledge of your Committee. The contractor readily offered to pay the difference in cost, as he stated those used were less expensive than those contracted for, but the difference has not yet been ascertained. Under the direction of McKay, some of the basement joists were not placed as near each other .as required in the contract, and by our permission, and that ot our Superintendent, the corridor joists were reduced in thickness, being still abundantly strong, of yellow pine, two inches thick. For this gain the con- tractor was to account, but he put in a large amount of bridging extra, some extra joists in such parts of the basemen is as were not ready when cur present Superintendent came into office ; also extra joists under the water tanks, amount- ing, in the aggregate, to a small sum over the deduction made. Another change made under the orders of Superintendent McKay was a reduction of about four inches in the width of a large proportion of the windows, and a reduction in height of many of them, making quite a difference in favor of the sub-con tractor. It is claimed that this change was assented to by the Building Committee of the old Board, and while the proof is not perfectly con- clusive, we believe such to have been the understanding, and as the basement windows were all in, we could but carry out'this modified plan. We now submit to the Board whether or not we shall attempt to make the principal character liable in damages for this change. Under the same direction, eight inch instead of fifteen inch drain pipes were put in (about three hundred feet), for which the contractor offers to allow $105.00 against himself, which has not yet been agreed to by your Committee, and hence submitted to you. We have thought best not to place the water closets in the building, but the deduction to be made by reason of leaving them out has not been agreed upon , but is referred to you for consideration and direction. While there was a very large force at work on the building up to the month of , and the duties of the Superintendent were onerous, we continued him at the rate of $150.00 per month. Since that time the labor has not been so great, and we have paid him $100.00 per month. lie lost some time by sickness, for which deduction was made, as will appear by exhibit of Secretary’s book. 4 * ARKANSAS USDCTSTR TAL UNIVERSITY. 08 The contractor caused the iron girders to support one side of the upper part of the foyers to he east fourteen feet and inches, according to the plans : the Board furnished' through the original Architect, which was three feet. inches short of what was required to- span the perpendicular walls, and they were ordered recast and a powerful tension rod attached to give them the requi- site length, and to mate the strength beyond' all question. The expense of recasting ($54.00) was paid by your Committee. Tour Committee have to report that all their drafts- for estimates on materials work, tfcc., as shown by the finance statement herein referred to, lktve been met by our Treasurer to this da te. The estimate for May has now been made, and the sum of $3, 167.84 is now due the contractor. The Treasurer’s report shows only $1,355.84 due the build- ing fund with which to meet this estimate. We are advised by the State Treasurer that there are Nine IT. S. bonds, costing. , $ 11,020. 52* U. S. currency... . "983.20 A mount belonging to A. I. TJ. .. $ 12,009.72 with accrued interest, which he states were deposited by his predecessor in office with Stoddard Bro’s, and for which he feels in no vyay responsible. As is well known, this firm has failed, and no part of said funds are available. In conse- quence of our inability to avail ourselves of these funds, we shall be unable to meet the monthly estimates as they fall due. The contractor informs us that the whole of the work, and the materials necessa.iv f r the completion of the contract, have been w sub-let/ 7 To suspend the work now will greatly damage the contractor, and if the Board of Trustees fail to pay the estimates, as they fall due, he can not complete his contract. If, however, arrangements can be made to meet the eighty per cent, on these estimates, he will consumate the work before the time specified in the contract. It will require about $4,800.00 to enable us to pay the balance of the eighty per cent, on contract. Superintending Architect, and some few incidentals. All of which is most respectfully submitted by your Committee. L. GREGG, Chairman; A. AT DINSMORE, M. F. LAKE, Building Committee. The above report was subsequently referred to a select committee, which subsequently submitted the following report thereon : Your Committee to whom was referred the report of the Building Com- mittee. beg leave to report that they have carefully examined said report, and find it satisfactory. We believe they have diligently and faithfully carried out the orders of the Board, and worked in all things lor the best interests of the University, and deserve the thanks of the Board. In the mat- ters especially requiring our examination, we state that in evei y settlement for extra work, we believe they have had in view a just regard for the rights of the contractors as well as of the University. The changes made from the original contract we regard as proper, and the extra expenditure well made. We regret that the condition of our finances would not justify their making still gerater additions. Tn regard to the items for extra work unsettled, we ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. o& Qnust leave t'liena to the superior wisdom and experience of the Building Com- mittee and Superintending Architect, on the one part, and the well estab- lished generosity of the contractor on the other- Should the Committee tin cl themselves unable to agree with the contractor, it might.be well to sub- mit such questions to the examination and ai bit-ration of disinterested parties. This, of course, would apply only i© matters of difference which arise under it he old Board of Trustees. In regard to the sum due the contractor on the monthly estimates, your -Committee are -of the opinion that the securities -of the late State Treasurer will m ah e every effort to pay us the amount necessary to meet this liability. We recommend that the Secretary write to the Governor, representing our condition, and urge upon him the importance of securing at thi> >um, Respectfully -submitted, I>. E. JONES. A. W. BISHOP. W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. Which Report was adopted by the Board. Treasurer Bishop presented his report on Current Expense Fund, which was referred to the Finance Committee. . A letter was received from E, B. & W. B. Moore, making a propo- sition to print the Third Annual Report of the Arkansas Industrial University, to do the work as well and on as favorable terms, and for the same kind of compensation as paid last year, and look to the State for their pay. On motion, it was ordered that the Secretary be authorized to con- tract with said parties upon such terms as might be agreed upon be" tween them and the Auditor of State, Secretary Dinsmore presented his report on the Following accounts: Labor Account, Account with State Treasurer, Abstract of all Ac- counts, which were referred to the Committee on Finance, The following resolution was adopted, to-wit: That we proceed to elect a Secretary and Treasurer, Prof. James Mitchell was put in nomination for Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial University, and was unanimously elected. Mr. Denton D. Stark was nominated and duly elected Treasurer of the Board, Treasurer Bishop presented his account for services as Treasurer for the sum of $200, State warrants, which was allowed and ordered to be paid. An account was presented by W. D. C. Botefuhr for the sum ot §2.40, currency, for repairs upon piano, which was allowed and or- dered to be paid. GO ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. The following was offered by Trustee Bishop, and concurred in : R -.solved , That the Collegiate and Preparatory Departments of the University be operated entirely separate and apart from each other, except so tar as may be necessary to call all the students statedly to- gether for devotional and other public exercises of the University; and that the usual ©ollege discipline of the country be observed throughout the Collegiate Departments. Resolved That the Normal Department be conducted in such a manner as in the judgment of the President of the University will best secure its efficiency. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the President of the University, with instructions to carry them into effect. Trustee Jones, Chairman of Committee on Branch Normal Col- lege, submitted their report : Your Committee, to whom was referred the matter of establishing a Branch Xormal College at some point east and south of Little Bock, in com- pliance with an act of the Legislature of 1873, appropriating $25,000 in State scrip, beg leave to report: That, owing to the unsettled condition of our State until quite a recent date, and the continued depreciation of State scrip, we have taken no steps to establish such College. We are of opionion, however, that it is now time that the attempt should be made to carry out the wishes of the Leg- islature, and recommend that a committee be appointed to take the necessary s‘eps to establish a Branch Normal School, and that the location be temporarily at Pine Bluff, .Jefferson county; and that the funds of the Branch Normal De- partment be held subject to the orders of the Chairman of said Committee for this purpose, that vouchers be kept for all moneys expended, and a report made to 'he Board of Trustees of all matters pertaining to said Normal Branch, at the next annual meeting, or oftener, if the Board should meet. [Signed,] D. E. JONES, J. M. JOHNSON, W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. Said report was adopted. The following was submitted and adopted : Resolved., That a committee, with the President of this Board as Chairman, be appointed for the purpose of organizing and conducting a Branch Normal College. Committee : Gov. A. H. Garland, D. E. Jones and W. E. Thomp- son. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 01 The Finance •Committee reported on the following account : A. W, BISHOP, Treasurer, i Of ACCOUNT WITE?. ^HE ^KAN£A£ jpDU^lAL IJn] VERITY. BUILDING FUND. 1874. Dr. July 1 To balance on hand from last report, .w..$ 2,631 13 7 ■“ Cash from M. A. 'Cohn, part of sum placed in his hands for disbursement in the year 1872, 53 50 u 7 u Cash from State Treasurer,. 10,000 00 Aug. 8 u Cash from Secretary Board of Trustees, 4,990 00 « 8 -C-i do do do 4,990 00 Sept. 2 u do do do 6,960 00 11,659 40 Oct. 13 a do do do t “ 13 u do do do > * . . , . , . ..t 5,000 00 “ 31 u do do do V.V.V* . . ... 5,500 00 Nov, 3 u do do do 1,140 15 Dec. 2 u do do do , 9,000 00 1,379 92 « 12 u do do do , 1875 Jan. 4 u do do do 6,000 00 “ 8 u do do do 795 68 Feb. 4 u do do do v v - 572 50 n 27 u do do do 2,000 ^ 00 March 3 u do do do ^ . §v# ., ..... 1,000 00 “ 5 u do do do 1,000 00 “ 19 u do do do 1,000 00 April 17 a do do do 2,000 00 “ 19 u do do do .. . . . . . 1,200 00 u 22 u do do do 1,000 00 ^ 24 u do do do v v 1,000 00 May 3 a do do do ........... 901 65 $81,773 93 62 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. IN ACCOUNT WITH HE )A.F(KAN£A£ JNDU£TF(IAL ^NIVER^ITY. BUILDING FUND. 1874. Cr. July 16, Aug. 10. By Cash Sec N Touch. No. 16, to Oliver & Mayes...$ 8,850 74 do do do 17, to Oliver & Mayes... 8,740 17 “ 10. do do „ do 18, to A. Hendry 18, to L. Gregg 150 00 ^ 11. do do do 3 70 Sept. 12. do do do 42, to W.Z. Mayes, 10,823 54 u 23. do do do 43, to A. Hendry 150 00 Oct. 12. do do do 47, to A. Hendry 110 00 12. do do do to Oliver & Mayes... 11,841 11,869 54 Nov. 7. do do do 56, to VV Z. Mayes & Co. 57, to Oliver & Mayes. . 01 u 7. do do do 4 SO 89 “ 7. do do do 74, to A. Hendry 150 00 Dee. 12. 1875. do do do 76, to W. Z. Mayes & Co. 9,126 54 Jan. 6. do do do 106, to W. Z. Mayes & Co. 6,662 62 “ 7. do do do 116, to A. Hendry 175 00 Feb. 6. do do do 128, to A. Hendry 100 00 “ 18. do do do 127, to W. Z. Mayes & Co. 141, to VY. Z. Mayes & Co. 3,086 1,868 43 Mar. 8. do do do 23 “ 10. do do do 142, to A Hendry 100 00 “ 10. do do do 154, to W. Z. Mayes & Co. 150 00 “ 10. do do do 155, to W. Z. Mayes & Co. 604 00 Apr. 20. do do do 160, to \V. Z. Mayes & Co. 2,690 33 J 20. do do do 161, to A. Hendry, 50 00 Mav 4. do do do 197, to W. Z. M-tyes & Co. 1,945 63 “ “ 4. do do do 198, to A. Hendry 90 00 « 5. do jdo do 199, to W. Z. Mayes & Co. 600 00 $80,418 37 Balance to credit of University June 17, 1875 $1,355 56 REPORT OF COMMITTEE. We have examined the above Treasurer’s report, and find the same to he correct. [Signed,] A. W. DINSMORE. D. E. JONEN W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. Adopted. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 63 The Committee on Finance submitted the following report on the Secretary’s report of State Scrip now in the hands of the State Treas- urer, Current Expense Fund. We have examined the Secretary’s report, and find the same correct. P. E. JONES, VV. E. THOMPSON. Committee. STATE SCRIP ACCOUNT. CURRENT APPROPRIATION. 1874. Dr. Julv 6. To State Scrip on hand, part of current appropri- 1874. Cr. July 7. By warrant No. 1, L. Gregg, $ 20 00 “ 7. " do do 3, M. F. Lake, 20 00 “ 7. do do 4, A. W. Bishop 17 50 “ 7. do do 5, A. W. Dinsmore 27 50 u 7. do do 6, D. E. Jones, 35 00 “ 7. do do 2, J. M. Johnson 60 00 Nov. 14. do do 7, J. Holcomb 4 00 1875. Mar. 18. Cash, $440 70, carried to account, pro- ceeds of. 1,384 55 Apr. 7. By warrant No. 9, A. W. Dinsmore 107 50 “ 10. do do 8, M. F. Lake, 57 50 “ 10. Cash $2,862 85, current expense ac- count, proceeds of $9,235 00 9,235 00 June 15. Current expense account, proceeds of, $19 62 39 25 •SOLD .-\T DIFFERENT TIMES : “ 15. By warrant No. 10, D. I). Stark & Co.... 150 00 “ 15. do do A. W. Bishop, 200 00 $11,357 80 REPORT OF COMM LT TEE. We have examined the above account, and find the same correct. [Signed,] A. W. DINSMORE, D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Finance Committee. Adopted. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. The Committee on Finance presented the following Report oin Treasurer’s Current Expense Account with the Arkansas Industrial tJniversity r We hare examined the fallowing Report,, and land tlie same to Be ©orreet z [Signed,]. x A. W„ DENS MORE, D. E. JONES, W.. E. THOMPSON, Finance Committee Which,- on motion was adopted’ by the Board, A,. W. BISHOP, Treasu'r, 5N ACOOUX'ir WITH ^HE ^KAjNEA? |j^DUETRIAL ‘I/piVE^HY. CURRENT EXPENSE ACCOUNT. 1874. July 0L Aug. 10. Sept. 10. 18. To cash on hand from last report. 971 01 * do from Sec. Board Trustees,, part payment of interest due on Bonds of town of Fay- etteville,. July 1st, 1874.., 500 00 w do from Secretary — tuition and matricula- tion fees — 669 09 “ do from sale of farm products 25 35 * do Tuition and Matriculation fees 105 59 a 30, u do collected on tuition and matriculation fees due on year ending. July 3, 1874.. 449 95 Oct. 2, Cash from Dep. Sec .tuition and matriculation fees 99 35 u 24, do do do do do 61 85 Nov. . 7. do do do do do 15 09 a 10, do do do do do 20 09 u 23. do do proceeds of farm 5 64 u 23. do do do ...... 45 09 tt 23. do do tuition and matriculation lees 15 09 Bee. 3. do do proceeds of farm..... 16 50 u 3. do do tuition and matriculation fees 39 09 u 14, do do do do do 175 00 t 16, do do do do do 221 65 1875. Jan, 6, Cash from Bep. Sec. tuition & matrie. fees for ’74 37 15 u 7. do do do do' do 40 50 u 7. do do do do do 19 90 Feb. 3. do do do do do 52 70 U 10. do do do do do 23 50 ii 22. do do do do do 15 50 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. Go 1875. Dr. Mai*. 18. Cash from sale of $1,384 50, State scrip, part of appropriation for current expense for year ending June 5, 1874 $ 44^ 70 44 25. Cash from Dep. Sec., tuition and matric. fees... 245 00 u 25. do do do do ... 20 00 April 5. do do do do ... 103 50 *• 8. do do do do ... 26 50 9. do do do do ... 15 00 “ 10 Cash from sale of $9,235 State scrip, part of ap- propriation for current expense fund, June 30, 1874 2,862 85 u 22. Cash from 'Dep. Sec., tuition and matric fees... 58 00 “ 29. do do do do ... 23 00 “ 31. do do do do ... 50 32 June 9. To proceeds of sale of State scrip. $11,000, part of appropriation for current expense fund 4,354 16 “ 15. To cash proceeds of sale of $39 25 State scrip, at different times during the year 19 62 u 15. To cash, interest on Washington county bonds.. 6,000 00 “ 15. To cash, interest on Fayetteville bonds.... 1,200 00 <* 21. To cash, interest on Fayetteville bonds 500 00 $19,714 70 A. W. BISHOP, Treasurer, IN ACCOUNT WITH ■J” HE ^.F(KAN£A£ JNDU£TF(IAL ^NIVER^ITY, CURRENT EXPENSE ACCOUNT. 1874. No. Cb. July 7. 1 By Sec’ys warrant, order J. M. Johnson $ 60 00 u 7. 2 do do M. F. Lake 10 25 u 7. 3 do do A. W. Bishop 7 00 u 7. 4 do do M. A. Cohn , 189 00 u 7. 5 do do A. W. Bishop 5 55 a 7. 6 do do A. W. Dinsmore...^. 27 00 u 7. 7 do do D. E. Jones 41 50 u 7. 8 do do W. D. C. Botefuhr.. 50 00 u 7. 9 do do W. J. Waggener.... 2 25 u 9. 10 do do W. H. Gillam 20 00 u 14. 11 do do W. D. C. Botefuhr.. 106 66 u 14. 12 do do Botefuhr & Springer 10 00 <* 14. 13 do do W. Lebran 199 90 u 14. 14 do do W. D. Wright 2 60 it 14. 15 do do E.B.& W.B. Moore 16 00 5 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 66 18' 1 4 No. Cr, Aug. 12. 20 By S-ecy’s Warrant. ord’ei ~A. W. Bishop „...$ 1 00> tt 12, 21 .do do J. IT. Bell 25 06 tt 12, 24 do do A. W. Dinsmore 9 36 u 12, 26 do do J e m i ga n & B o t efu h r 58 95 u ia. 2a do do- E. C. Absalom'. — . 34 06 tt 14. 22 do do Beed & Ferguson... 37 44 tt 14. 25 do do Madison Babcock... 93 96 Sep. 8. 27 do do A, W. Bishop... 19 05 u 8.. 28^ do do A. W. Bishop 2 25 tt 10. 3>5 do do E. B. & W. B. Moore 42 66 a 10. 36 do do A. W. Dinsmore 15 59 u 10. 33; do do C. M. Oliver 3 50 u 10. 37 . do do A. W. Bishop 5 71 Sep. TO. 40 By i Peer’s warrant. order ' A . W. Bishop... 137 76 tt 10. 41 do do J. B. Bai n water. . 4 72 u 10. 44 do do A. W. Bishop... 26 56 it 10. 30 do do A. S. Gregg..., 90 06 tt 11. 20 do do Jernigan ABotefuhr 7 50 u 11. 34 do do Jernigan & Boteftrhr 10 30 it 11. 31 d o do J. H. Bell 30 06 a 11. 45 do do E. C. Absalom 8 06 a 11. 30 do do (). O. Gray • 13 25 a 12. 38 do do O. C. Gray 82 06 tt 17. 32 do do Baum Bros.... 4 00 Nov, 5. 51 do do C, II. Leverett 100 00 tt 6. 67 do do A, W. Bishop 10 51 tt 0 . 68= do do E. C. Absalom 8 15 it 0 . 60 do do J. H. Bell 18 03 a 6. 70 do do E. S. Shook 10 00 a 6. 71 do do A. W. Bishop 47 40 « 6. 72 do do E. C. Barnett. 4 00 tt 6. 73 do do H. G. Coors . 12 00 tt 7. 48 do do N. P. Gates 200 00 tt 7. 52 do do James Mitchell 150 00 tt 7. 49 do do O C Gray 200 00 a 7. 60 do do M. Coffey 7 60. tt 7. 63 do do J. B. Bain water 4 12 it 7. 54 do do W. D. C. Botefubr. 75 00 tt 10. 64 do do E C. Absalom...... 21 25 tt 10. 66 do do E. S. Shook. ....... A. 7 97 tt 11. 55 do do Jernigan & Botefuhr 57 25 ' tt 12. 58 do do T L Thompson. A.. 30 37 tt 12. 50 do do T . L Thompson.. , 75 00 tt 12. 61 do . do Wm. Askew 8 70 It 12. 62 do do John Bell 11 18 tt 14. 65 do do Eldridge & Bro 3 13 tt 21. 59 do do Miller & Allen 8 40 Dec: 4. 88 do do C. A. Pape.... 8 00 tt 4. 90 do do E. S. Shook.. 5 00 *6 4. 91 do do 11. G. Coors 6 00 tt 4. 92 do do T. L. Thompson . . 25 74 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 67 1874. Ko. Or. Dec*. 5, 75 11 y Secy’s warrant order I). Appleton — $ 1 IS • .4 5. 77 do do 4 . 5. 83 4© do U 5. 89 do do 5. 79 do). do •U 5. 84 do •do do •ii 5. 93 ■do •a 5. 86 do do •Ci 7. 87 do do a 7. 85 do do ■ik 8. 81 do do ■a 11. 80 do do u 12. 53 do do Dec. 12. 94 -do do •• 17. 82 do do 1875. Jan. 6. 97 do do X. 6. 95 do do u 6. 101 do do u 6. K3 do do XX 7. 118 do do XX 7. 123 do do XX 7. 125 do do xx 7. 99 do do XX 7. 100 do do XX 7. 122 do do XX 7. 98 do do XX 7. 124 do do u 7. 119 do do XX 7. 117 do do XX 8. 104 do do XI 8. 107 do do XX 8. 110 do do 9. 120 do do XX 9. 105 do do XX 9. 114 do do XX 9. 102 do do XX 9. 120 do do XI 12. Ill do do XX 12. 108 do do xi 12. 121 do do xi 16. 115 do do X. 20. 113 do do Feb. . 5. 133 do do •* ' 5. 134 do do 4» 5. 135 do do 44 5. 136 d S. Shook 5 00 u 5, 212 do do H. O. Coors 6 00 ii 5, 213 do do A, W, Bishop 1 75 u 5, 214 do do D. C, Bolinger 8 80 a 5, 215 do do Jolin Ayres 8 80 u 5, 216 do do Miss S. E. Harris . 8 80 u 5, 217 do do Miss E. Bridgford.. 8 80 u 5, 218 do do H. O. Coors,,, 8 80 u 5, 219 do do M. Coffey,, •3 55 it 5, 220 do do A. W. Bishop 41 82 u 5, 221 do do M, Oarrett 24 75 a 5, 222 do do P. M, Cox 1 60 u 19, 188 do do O. C. Orav,, 566 66 u 28, 191 do do Mary R, Oorton,,, 566 66 June 5, 189 do do N. P. Gates..,,,, 700 00 u 17, 193 do do Mrs. F. L. Sutton.. 200 00 a 17, 190 do do James Mitchell 500 00 a 17, 234 do do A. W. Bishop... 14 00 44 7, By cash paid Treasurer Bishop Building fund. . . . 12,684 63 Aug. 8, do do do do . 4,990 09 “ 11, do do do do . 4,990 09 Sep. 5, do do do do . 6,960 00 “ 8, By Fayetteville coupon is, current expense fund. . . 1,200 OO “ 10 , By cash paid Treasurer Bishop, current ex. fund. . > 669 09 - 10, do Farm . . . . 25 35 “ 18, do current expense fund . . , 1 05 59 Oct. 2, do current expense fund. 95 35 * 3. do paid Treasurer Bishop, back tuition ...... 449 95 “ 13, do do do building fund... . 11,659 49 “■ 29, do do do building fund... , 5,000 09 <* 31, do do do building fund. . 5,500 09 “ 31, do do do tuition . 61 85 Nov. 6, do do do building fund . . . 1,140 15 “ 7. do do do current expense. 15 09 “ 23, do do do current expense. 15 09 “ 23, do do do farm 45 09 Bee. 2, do do do building fund. . . 9,000 09 “ 3, do do do old tuition 39 00 “ 3, do do do farm 16 50 Nov. 10, do do do far »n . . 5 64 kC 10, do do do tuition 20 09 Bee. 14, do do do tuition 175 00 “ 16, do do do tuition 221 65 Nov. 17, do do do building fund... 1,379 92 1875. Jan. 4, do do do building fund . . . 6,000 OO “ 6, do do do old tuition 37 15 “ 8, do do do building fund . . . 795 68 Mar. 4, do do do building fund 3,572 50 Feb. 3, do do do tuition 52 70 “ 9, do # do do tuition 23 50 “ 22, do do do tuition 1 5 50 “ 22, do do do tuition 40 50 A U KANSA S IND US TRIAL UNI VERSIT Y. 73 1875. Feb. 22, By rash paid Treasurer Bishop, tuition $ 191 90 Mar 25, do do do tuition 245 00 “ 25, do do do tuition 20 00 Apr. 5, do do do tuition 103 50 “ 7, do do do building fund 2,000 00 “ 7, Fayetteville coupons, pd Treas. Bishop eur. expense 800 00 “ 7, Washington co. coup. do do 4,000 00 May 4, Bv Cash paid to Treasurer Bishop, building fund 6,105 65 “ 5, Washington co. coupons, pd Treas. Bishop, cur. ex. 4,000 00 “ 5, Fayetteville coupons, pd Treasurer Bishop, cur. ex. 400 00 June 10, By cash paid to Treas Bishop, proceeds of $11,000 4,354 16 11 15, By cash paid to Treasurer Bishop, tuition 172 82 Total amount $134,998 60 We have examined the above account, and find the same correct. D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Finance Committee. The report was received and adopted by the Board. FARM ACCOUNT OF SECRETARY. 1874. Dr. July 7, To amount of estimate for annual expenses $800 00 Sep. 9, To 5 bushels rye at 8* cents, J. R. Wilson 4 25 “ 9, To 3 bushels rye at 85 cents, J. A. Benbrook 2 55 “ 9, To 6 bushels rye at 85 cents, F. Mays 5 10 “ 9, To 1 bushel rye at 85 cents, P. R. Smith 85 “ 9, To cash received from Prof. Thompson, corn and fruit 10 88 u 10, To 2 bushels rye at 85 cents, Dr. Graham 1 70 “ 10, To cash received from Prof. Thompson, produce 25 35 Oct. Si, To 34 bushels rye at 85 cents, Prof. Leverett 2 97 “ 31, 'To 104 bushels peaches at 25 cents. Prof. Leverett 2 56 “ 31, To cash from Prof. Thompson, sundries sold 18 31 Nov 16, To cash from Prof Thompson, sundries sold 16 50 a 10, To cash from Prof Thompson, sundries sold 5 60 “ 23, To cash from Prof. Thompson, sundries sold 45 00 Aggregate $941 63 74 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. FARM ACCOUNT OF SECRETARY. 1874. Cit July 7, By amount paid W J. Wag£cner, labor $ 2 25 “ 14, do do M. I). Wright, labor 2 CO Aug 21, do do John Bell, labor 25 00 Sep. 9, do do John Bell, labor 30 oo “ 9, do do C. M. Oliver, labor 3 50 Oet. 16, do do tor blue grass seed 57 25 “ 16, do do sundry students lor September 30 37 “ 16, do do M. Coffey, smithing 7 60 “ 16, do do Win. Askew, labor 8 70 « 16, do do J. if. Boll, labor : 11 1 H ‘‘ 16, do do E. S. Shook, labor. 7 97 “ 16, do do J. H. Bell, labor in September 18 03 Fee. 4. do do sundry students by Prof. 1 hompson 25 74 1875. Jan.. 6, do do sundry student's by Prof. Thompson 80 80 Feb. 5, do do sundry students by Prof. Thompson 6 40 Mar. 4, do do sundry students by Pro!. Thompson 11 72 ‘‘ 4, do do J. H. Bell 9 00 Apr. 7, do do M. Garrett, labor *. 7 00 “ 7, do do sundry students labor 50 77 7, do do J. H. Bell, labor W. Mcllroy, for mule •> o Co “ 7, do do j a 10 May 5, do do M. Coffey, smithing 3* 55 do do sundry students, labor 41 82 “ 5, do do M. Garrett, labor sundry students, labor 24 ' 75 June'15, do do 41 86 15, do do J. H. Bell, corn 10 00 “ 3 15, do do M. Garrett, labor. 81 87 C 15, do do sundry students, labor’ tor June. .... 83 44 “ 15, do do A. B. Gordon, cider mill 1 50 “ 15, do do J. H. Bell, labor 2 * 25 “ 15, do do produce sold 14P r.< 63 . “ 25, do do returned to treasury 260* 02 $941 63 REPORT OF COMMITTEE. Approved by Committee on Finance. D. E. JONES, \V. E. THOMPSON. Committee. b ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 75 FURNITURE ACT OF SECRETARY. 1S74. Dr. July 7. To amount of estimate for the year $50 00 1874. Cr. July 12. By amount paid Botefuhr & Springer $10 00 1875. June 21. By amount returned to treasury 40 00 $50 00 Idle above account is approved by the Finance Committee. D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Finance Committee LIBRARY ACT OF SECRETARY. 1874. July 6. To amount of annual estimate Dr. 1874. Aug. 25. By amount paid for maps and globe ,,.$ Cr. 9.3 90 Dec. 7, do do Appleton & Co. for books... 1 13 “ 7. do do G. VV. Williford, text books.. 23 50 “ 7. do do 11. Gr. Coors, librarian 6 00 1875. Jan. G. do do 11. GL Coors, librarian 6 00 Feb. 5. do do LI. Gr. Coors, librarian 5 ou “ 5. do do Prof, (rates, text books Pres. Bishop, register 10 50 “ 5. do do 6 24 “ 5. do do Pres. Bishop, school register 6 00 “ 5. do do Pres. Bishop, school books. 21 60 Mar. 4. do do II G. Coors, librarian 6 25 “ 4. do do Peed & Ferguson, freight H. G. Coors, librarian....... Q O 50 April 7. do do G 00 “ 7. do do Caldwell & Cline, map boards 12 00 May 5. do do II. Gr. Coors, librarian 0 00 4). do do Prof. Gates, Physiology 2 52 June 15. do do II. G. Coors, lib. May & June 9 60 u 21. do do returned into treasury 123 26 — $350 00 Approved by Committee. D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Committees 76 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. APPARATUS AC’T OF SECRETARY. 1874. Dr. July 7. To amount of annual estimate $1,009- 00 1874. Or. Sept. 19. By am't pa id Prof. Gray for compass ... $ 82 09 Dec. 4. do W . A . Ba n k s , p h a n ta s m ig o r i a 75 00 1875. Jan. 6. do for drafting instruments.... 11 20 Mar. 4. do Geo. Lake, surveyor's chain 4 50 April 7. do W. J. Waggener, carp, work 8 00 “ 7. do Prof. Gates, for microscope 104 00 June 15. do returned to treasury 715 30 * $1,000 00 Approved by Committee. D. E. JONES. W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. CHEMICAL AC’T OF SECRETARY. 1874. Dr. July 6. To amount of estimate for ensuing year $500 00 1874. • Cr. Dec. 4. By amount bill paid S. F. Paddock., $' 8 40 1875. June 25. By amount returned to treasury 491 60 $500 00 Approved by Committee, D, E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Committee, ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. BUILDING ACT OF SECRETARY. 1874. July 7. To cash brought forward from last yea .. $12,684 66 u Aug. 8. To cash received from State Treasurer... 4,990 00 u U 8. do do do do 4,990 00 ‘‘ Sept. 6. do do do do 6,960 00 Xf Oct. 13. do do do do 11,659 40 u u 29. do do do do 5,000 00 u <4 31. do do do do 5,500 00 •u Nov. 6. do do do do » . * 1,140 15 a Dec. 2 do do do do v 9,000 00 “ « 17. do do do do 1,379 92 1875. Jan. 1. do do do do 6,000 00 U u 8. do do do do „ . 795 68 u Mar. 4. do do do do 3,572 50 •u a pri! 7, do do do do 2,000 00 May 4. do do do do ,, ... 6,101 65 Tot a 1 . . . . 93 Vs7i (a. ■ 7 ’ ' July 16. Bv cash p d Oliver & Mayes on June est. $ 8,850 74 Aug. 17. do Oliver & Mayes, July estim’t 8,740 17 17. do A. Hendry, architect.,,...... 150 00 '■ 17, do Telegram to Van Osdel 3 70 Sept. 10. do W. Z. Mayes & Co., Aug. est. 10,823 54 10, do A. Hendry, architect. 150 00 Cl 29. do A. Hendry, architect 110 00 ■u 29. do Oliver & Mayes, Sept. est... 11,841 54 .Nov. 6. do W. Z. Mayes & Co., Oct. est. 11,869 01 <1 6. do A. Hendry, architect,., • 150 00 u 6. do Ol i ver & Mayes, armorv ...... 480 89 Dec. 4. do W. Z. Mayes & Co., Nov, est 9,126 54 1875, Jan. 6. do W, Z. Mayes &Co., Dec. est. 6,662 62 a 6. do A. Hendry, architect,,,,. 175 00 Feb. 6. do W Z. Mayors & Co., Jan, est. 3,086 43 Cl 6. do A. Hendry, architect 100 On Mar. 4. do W. Z. Mayes & Co., Feb. est. 1,868 no Z.Q u 4. do A. Hendry, architect 100 00 Cl 4. do W. Z. Mayes, pressed brick 604 00 u 4. do W. Z. Mayes, laying brick . . 150 00 A pri 1 6. do W. Z. Mayes & Co., March est. 2,690 33 u 6, do A. Hendry, architect . ..... 50 00 May 5. do W . Z. Mayes & Co. April est., 1,945 63 5. do A. Hendry, architect 90 00 V. E. THOMPSON, Committee. EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNT. 1874. Dr. July 6. To amount of estimate for ensuing year, including $200 00 for mathematics $11,700 00 1874. July 6. By amount paid Prof. Botefuhr past year $ Cr. 50 00 a 11. do do Botefuhr past year 106 66 a ' 11. do President Bishop, past year 5 55 Oct. 6. do Prof. Gates, salary 200 00 u . 6. do do Gray salary 200 00 a 6. do do Thompson, salary 75 00 u 6. do do C. H. Leverett, salary.... 100 00 u 6. do do Jas. Mitchell, salary 150 00 a 6. do Mrs. F. L. Sutton 50 00 a 6. do Prof. Botefuhr 75 00 18 Jan. 75. 6. do do P. Gates, balance ... 500 00 a 6. do do O. 0. Gray, salary... ... 366 66 1 00' a 6. do do T. L. Thompson, salary... 425 u 6. do do C. H. Leverett, salary 466 66 § t-{ 6. do do Jas. Mitchell, salary 350 00 a 6. do Mrs. Sutton, salary 150 00 a 6. do Prof. Botefuhr, salary 91 66 J a 6. do Miss Mary R. Gorton, salary... 566 66if a 6. do Pres. Bishop, salary, 900 oo' Mar, . 4. do W. J. YVaggener, tutor 30 00 April 7. do H . G. Coors, tutor 2 40 - a 7. do D. C. Bolinger, tutor 2 50 a 7. do Miss E. Bridgford 2 40 a i . do Miss S. E. Harris 2 80 Li 6. oo John Ayres 4 40 Li 7. do S. E. Williford, tuition refunded 5 00 Li 7. do President Bishop, salary 900 00 ii 7. do Prof. U. FI. Leverett, salary... 566 66f ii 7. do do O. C. Gray, salary 566 66* a 7. do do N. P. Gates, salary 700 00 a 7. do do James Mitchell, salary.... 500 00 a 7. do Miss Mary R. Gorton, salary... 566 66| a 7. do Prof. W. D. C. Botefuhr, salary 166 66 1 Li 7. do Mrs. F. L. Sutton, salary 200 oo' ARKAXSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 79 1875. Cr. May 5. By ain’t paid D. C. Bolinger, tutor 8 80 ll 5. do John Ayres, tutor 8 80 t. 5. do Miss E. Bridgford 8 80 u 5. do Miss S. E. Harris 8 80 n d > H. G. Coors, tutor 8 80 June IT do I). C. Bolinger, tutor 14 00 15. do 11. Gr. Coors tutor. 14 00 J mi. 15. d 0 John Ayres, tutor 14 00 u 15. do Miss E. Bridgford, tutor 14 90 15. do Miss S. E. Harris, tutor 14 00 a 15. do President A. W. Bishop, salary... 900 00 a 15. do Professor 1ST. P. Gates, salary 700 00 n 15. do Professor James Mitchell, salary.... 500 00 ll 15. do Miss Mary R. Gorton, s dary 566 66 ll 15. do Mrs. F. L. Sutton, salary .. 200 00 15. do Professor W. I). C. Bo efuhr salary.. 166 66f ll 15 do Professor C. II. Lcverett salaiy 566 66J u 15 do Professor O. C. Gray, salary 566 66| .1 '5 do W. D. C. Bot efuhr salary, German. ,. 125 00' Jan. 20 do returned to treasury . 1,249 41 o o -A 00 A p p ro ved by Co mini ttce . D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. INCIDENTAL ACT OF SECRETARY. 1874. Dr. July 6. To amount of estimate for Janitors $ 350 00 u 6. do do Treasurer 5('0 00 u 6. do do Secretary 500 00 “ 6. do do Board meetings 1000 00 “ (5. do do Stationery 250 00 “ 0. do do Incidentals 100 00 $ 2,700 00 1874 Cr. July 7, By amount paid Trustee Johnson, expenses :$ “ 7. do Trustee Johnson, State scrip. ... “ 7. do Trustee Lake, State scrip c - 7. do Trustee Lake, Currency (50 00 60 00 20 00 10 25 so ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 1874. Ce. July 7. By amount paid M. A. Cohn, agent. Currency $ 189 00 U / . do Trustee Dinsmore, Cum icy.. 27 u > U 7. do Trustee Dinsmore, State serin 27 e)U u 7. do Tru8i.ee Joncs T State scrip 35 00 u 7. do Trustee Jones, Currency - 41 50 u 7. • do Trustee Gregg, Scrip 20 00 u 7. do Orator Gil lam Currency 20 00 u 7, do Trustee Bishop, Currencv 17 50 (C 13. do Band instruments,, old debt 199 99 u 15. do E . B. & W. B. Moore, printing 16 00 Ans:. 20. do Freight on books 1 00 u 20. do Reed & Ferguson, old debt 3 / 44 a 24. do Freight on books 9 30 u 20. do Incidental Acct Jernigan & Botcf'uhr 58 95 Sept. 8. do President Bishop, postage 19 05 u- 8v do President Bishop, incidentals 2 25 u 8. do Jernigan, old debt 7 50 u- 8. do A. S. Gregg, freight ordnance 90 00 u 8>. do E. C. Absalom, repairs 31 00 Ur 8. do Baum & Bros., barrels 4 00 u 8. do Jernigan & Botefuhr 10 30 u 8. do E. B k W. B. Moore advertising 42 60 u 8. do Secretary, books and freight 15 59 u 8. do President Bishop, postage 5 7 -> u 8. do O. C. Gra 3 ',p , ckg and shiphig books 13 25 u 8. do- Railroad and freight on ordnan e 137 70 a * 8. do Rainwater, lumber 4 72 u 8. do A. W. Bishop, freight 26 50 u 8. do E. C Absalom, repair 8 00 Kov. 6. do Miller & Allen, repairs 8 40 Ur 6. do Rainwater, lumber 4 12 U 0. do E. C. Absalom, repa rs 21 25 u 6. do Eld ridge k Bro., Stationery 3 13 u 6. do A. W. Bishop, postage . 10 51 u 6. do E. C. Absalom, repairs. 8 15 u 6. do Janitors, by President Bishop. . . . 47 40 u 6. do II. C. Barnett, brooms . . . 4 00 ll 6. do H G. Coors, Librarian 12 00 u 6. do E. S. Shook, Janitor 10 00 Dec. 4. do Trustee Lake, postage 1 00 iL- 4. do Baum & Bros., sundries 50 U 4. do A W. Bishop, postage 2 50 U 4. do Van Buren Press, advertisement... 17 50 a 4. do P. Van Winkle, old account 11 11 u 4. do FI. C. Absalom, repairs 6 35 u 4. do B. F. Wallis, Janitor 8 00 u 4. do C. A. Pape, Janitor 8 00 u 4. do VV. J Waggener, Janitor . 10 00 u 4. do E. S. Shook 5 00 u 4. do W . Z. Mays, bill by old Board 42 00 u 4. do S. F. Paddock sundries 12 85 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 81 1875 Jan. fi. do W. F. Coors, Janitor $ 3 00 U 6. do W.J, Waggener, Janitor 10 00 U 6. do E. C Absalom, repairs 5 50 u 6. do M. Coffey, smithing . 8 80 ll 6. do C. Pape Janitor 8 00 u 6. do W. F. Coors Janitor 3 00 u 6. do A. W. Bishop, postage 4 75 (l 6. do M. Coffey, repairs 6 75 u 6. do John Ayres, work on armory 1 45 u 6. do E. B. & W. B. Moore advertising 30 00 u 6. do Sam Bard, old work 19 00 u 6. do Botefuhr & Springer, seats 24 90 a 6. do E. S. Shook Janitor 5 00 6. do B. F. Wallis, Janitor 8 00 6. do John on & Curtis, sheep pelts 2 00 Feb. f>. do Jerriigan & Botefuhr, sundries . . . 5 90 a 5. do E. S. Shook, Janitor 5 00 a f). do C. Pape Janitor 8 00 u 5. do W. II. Lockhart 8 00 a 5- do \V . J. Waggener 9 00 a 5* do W. F. Coors 3 20 u 5. do C. Jackson & Co., privy boxes... 6 50 u 5. do A. W. Bishop, monthly report 8 00 March 4 do W. F. Coors, Janitor 5 30 u 4. 'do A. W. Bishop, postage 5 00 l 4. do H. C. Barnett, brooms 1 50 u 4. do C. E. Pape, Janitor 8 00 a 4. do E. S. Shook, Janitor 5 00 u 4. do W. H. Lockhait, Janitor 8 00 u 4. do E. B. &\V. B. Moore, advertising 6 00 u 4. do J P. Martin, Janitor 4 50 l. 4 do W.J. Waggener, Janitor 1 50 April 7. do J. Johnson, sheep pelt 50 u 7. do E. S. Shook, Janitor 5 00 u 7. do W. H. Lockhart, Janitor 8 00 u 7. do C. E Pape, Janiior 8 00 u 7. do W. F. Coors, Janitor 5 00 u 7. do J. P. Martin Janitor 8 40 u 7, do President Bishop, report of accts 4 00 u 7. do Stone & Albright 4 43 u 7. do A. W. Bishop, postage 4 45 u 7. do Trustee Lake, per diem, scrip 57 50 u 7. do Trustee Dinsmore, j^er diem, scrip 107 50 u 7. do Trustee Dinsmore, expenses, cur. 100 35 u 7. do Trustee Gregg, expenses, currency 43 25 « 7. do Trustee Lake, currency 57 00 May 5. do Jernigan & Botefuhr, meichandise 6 65 u 5. do Botefuhr & Springer, merchandise 5 57 a 5. do C. Jackson & Co., merchandise... 1 04 u 5. do Democrat, advertising 25 00 u 5. do J. P. Martin, Janitor 8 07 6 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 82 1875. Cr. 31 ay 5. By amount paid C. E. Pape, janitor ...$ 8 00 I u 5. do AY. F. Coors Janitor 00 u 5. do Jay Simmons, Janitor 8 00 u 5. do L. Duke, repairs Stone Albright & Co., merchandise.. 6 41 u 5. do 7 25 u 5. do E. S. Shook, Janitor. . . 00 u 5. do A. AY. Bishop, postage I 75 ! iC 5. do Dr. P. M. Cox, incidentals 1 60 June 5. do C. E. Pape, Janitor 4 oo | u 5. do Adams & Bro., incidentals 50 u 5. do E. B. & VAR B. Moore, advertising.. 40 00 (( 5. do AY. Z. Mays & Co. r stage 12 50 (( 5. do A. AY. Bishop, postage and printing . 14 45 u 5. do N. P. Gates, incidentals. . . . 20 u 5. do AY. F. Coors, Janitor 75 u 5. do C. Jackso.", footlights Q 90 u 5. do AY. F. Coors, work on armory 00 u 5. do Sundry students, work on grounds.. 8 95 June 21. do returned to treasury . 34 8 2,450 32 00 Approved by the Com mi tree. D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON. STATIONERY ACT OF SECRET’RY 1874. Or. July 6. To amount of estimate for ensuing year $ 250 00 Dec. 4. To amount paid Stone Albright & Co $ 11 00 44 4. do AYiiliford 37 30 44 4. 1875. do B. F. 31oore 6 00 Jan. 6. do It. & T. A. Ennis 23 40 44 6. do Freight on books 1 60 44 G. do For bill stationery, SeereFry 8 20 April 7. do Caldwell & Cline, stationery 23 45 3!ay 5. do Caldwell & Cline stationery 12 £0 Jun. 15. do Caldwell & Cline, stationery returned to treasury 15 75 44 21. do 110 80 $ 250 00 Approved by the Committee, I). E. JONES, W. F. THOMPSON. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY ■ 8 $ STATE SCRIP ACT OF SECRETARY. A ATT CURRENT EXPENSE FUND WITH STATE TREASURER 1874. Dr, Julj' 24. To amount State Scrip deposited with State Treas- urer to our credit by old Treasurer, Current Expense Fund $15,000 00 1875. Cft, May 4. By ain’t Scrip ordered per D. E. Jones, .$11, 000 00 June 21. By balance in Treasurer’s hands, subject to order of Secretary 4.000 00 $15,000 00 Approved by Committee. D, E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. LABOR ACCOUNT. 1874. Dr, July 6 No estimate made — carried to Farm Account $517 83 1874. Cr. In month of July, paid for preceding year, .... . . 25 00 in month of Juiy, paid for preceding year 4 85 In month of September 33 50 In month of October 76 25 In month of November . 25 24 In month of December 1 36 75 1875. In month of January 20 72 In month of February 61 77 In months of March and April 66 57 In months of May and June 166 67 $517 83 Approved by Committee. D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Committee-. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY' $4 CURRENT EXPENSE ACCOUNT-OF SECRETARY. 1874. No. Vouch. July' 7. 1, By warrant to J. M. Johnson, trustee expenses, $ 60 00 u 7. do M. F. Lake, trustee expenses,.. 10 20 a 7. do A. YV. Bishop, trustee expenses 7 00 u 7. L do M. A. Cohn, agent of Board... 180 00 a 7. 0, do A. W. Bishop, salarv 5 55 u 7. 9, do A. YV. Binsmore, trus. & comin’u 27 00 u 7. G do B. E. Jones trustee expenses .. 41 50 u 7. N do YV. 1). C. Botetuhr, sai. last y’r 50 00 u 7. 9, do W. J Waggoner, labor on farm 2 25 u 7. lu ? do Bev. W. li. Gillam, orator, exp’s 20 00 u 7. ii, 00 W. JL). C. Botetuhr, salary . . . 106 66 u 7. 13, do LeBrun, bal. on band instruni’ts 199 9u it 7. lo, do Botefuhr & Springer, furniture 10 00 u 7. H do M. B. Wright, tiling saws 2 60 a 7. 1^, do E. B. & W. B. Moore, printing... 16 00 Aug. 12. lu, do L. Gregg, telegram 8 70 12. do A. YV. Bishop, cu’ge on reports . 1 00 a 12. 2i, do J. H. Bell, labor on farm 25 00 u 12. 22, do Reed & Ferguson, lumber 87 44 u 12. 28, do E. (J. A bsalom, repairs, vouch. 45 34 00 >6 12. do A. W. Binsmore, incidentals. . 9 30 12. ZOy do Madison Babcock, maps &globes 93 90 it 12. 26, do Jernigan & Botefuhr, sundries 58 95 Sept. 8. 37, do Pres. Bishop, postage on rep’ts 19 05 a 8. 3s, do President Bishop, sundries 2 25 a 8. 3d, do Jernigan & Botefuhr, cutting rye 7 50 u y. ti \J, do A. S. Gregg, fr’t on arms & am’n 90 00 u y. 8i, do J. H. Bell, labor on farm 30 00 a y. o2, do Baum & Bros., barrels 4 00 u y. o3, do C. M. Oliver, work on farm 3 50 u y. 04:, do Jernigan & Botetuhr, sundries . . 10 30 u y. 3o, do E. B & YV. B. Moore, advertising 42 60 a y. 8o, do Sec’y Binsmore, blank books, &c 15 5y u y. 87, do President Bishop, postage. . . . 5 71 u y 88, do Prof. Banks, compass 82 00 u y. 3y, do 0. 0. Gray, pek’g & ship’g books 13 25 u y. 40, do A. W. Bishop, R R frt ord &arms 137 70 it y. 41, do Jno. Rainwater, lumber 4 72 u 9. 44, do A. W. Bishop, fr’srht on reports 26 50 a y. 4o t do E. C Absalom, repairs 8 00 Nov 9. 48*; do Prof N. P. Gates, salary 200 00 u * 9. 40 _ J do Prof. O C. Gray, salary 200 00 a 6. 00 _ y do Prof. T. L. Thompson, salary.. 75 00 tt (5. 5l do Prof. C. H. Leverett, salary. ... 100 00 u (5. oz do Prof. James Mitchell, salary — 150 00 t. 6. s 3 ; do Mrs. F. L. Sutton, salary 50 00 a 6. 54, do Pr >f. YV. B. C-. Botefuhr, salary 75 00 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 85 1874. No. Vouch. ov. 6. 55, By warrant to Jernigan & Botefuhr, grass seed$ 57 25 a 6 58, do Prof. Thompson, sun. stud. lab. 30 37 a 6. 59, do Miller & Allen, repairs on ord’ee 8 40 u G. Go, do M. Coffey, smithing 7 60 a 6. «1, do Wra, Askew, labor on farm . . . 8 70 a 6. 6-> do J. H. Bell, labor on farm. . . . 11 18 ll 6. 63, do Rainwater, lumber.. . 4 12 il . 6. 61, do E. C. Absalom, work on armory 21 15 .1 6. 65, do Eldridge & Bro. stationery. . . 3 13 41 6. 68, do E. Shook, labor on farm 7 97 a G. 07, do President Bishop, postage . . . 10 51 a 6. 68, do E. C. Absalom, repairs. 8 15 a 6. 68, do J. H. Bell, labor on farm E. S. Shook, janitor 2 months. 18 03 a 6. 70, do 10 00 a G. 71, do Fresid’t Bishop, sundry janitors 47 40 G. 72, do II. C. Barnett, brooms 4 00 “ G. 73, do 11. G. Coors, librarian 2 months 12 00 >oc. 4. 75 , do I). Appleton, books 1 13 a 4. i C do Stone, A 1 bright & Co., static n’ry 24 20 u 4. 78 , do M. F. Lake, postage 1 00 il 4. 79 , do B. F. Moore, printing ... 6 00 a 4. 80, do W. A. Banks, apparatus . 80 00 il 4. 81 , do Baum & Bros., incidentals . . . 50 .1 4. 82 , do G.VV.Williford,station’y & books 60 80 il 4. 83. do President Bishop, postage.... 2 50 il 4. 84, do Van Buren Pres-, advertising 17 50 it 4. 85, do P VanWinkle, lumber 11 11 il 4. 86. do E. C. Absalom, repairs 8 10 il 4. 87, do B. F. Wallis, janitor 8 00 il 4. 88, do E. Pape, janitor 8 00 a 4. 89, do W. J. Waggener, 10 00 a 4. 90, do E. S. Shook, janitor. 11. G. Coors, librarian ...... 5 00 , do S. F. Paddock, chemicals...... 21 25 “ 4. 1875. 94, do W. Z. Mayes, ac’t al’d by old B’d 42 00 an. 6. 95, do R. & T. A. Ennis, stationery... 23 40 u 6 . 96, do Cravens & Smith, freight Secretary Dinsmore, books 1 60 a 6 . 97, do 8 20 a 6. 98, do II. G. Coors, librarian G 00 a 6. 99, do C. A. Pape, janitor W. F. Coors, janitor 8 00 u 6 . 100, do 3 00 u 6 . 101, do A. W . Bishop, post’g & legal fees 4 75 ti 6. 102, do M. Coffey, repairs and irons. 6 75 n G. 103, do John Ayres, work on armory 1 45 a G. 104, do E. B. & W. B. Moore. avertisnFt 30 00 i. 6 . 105, do Sam. Bard, advertisement. . . . 19 00 a 6 . 107, 108, do Prof. N. P. Gates, salary Prof. O. C. Gray, salary 500 00 a 6. do 366 66 a 6 . 109, do Prof. T. L. Thompson, salary . . 425 00 86 ARKANS is INDUSTRIAL university. 1875. Uo. Vouch. Jan. 6. 110, By warran t to Prof. C. II. Leverett, salary . . $ 466 66 d 6. Ill, do Prof. James Mitchell, salary . . 350 00 u 6. 112, do Mrs. F. L. Sutton, salary 150 00 u 6. 113, do Prof. W. D. C. Botefuhr, salary 1 669 u 6. 114, do Miss Mary It. Gorton, salary 566 66 c. 6. 115, . do A. W. Bishoo, salary 900 00 a 6. 117, do Botefuhr & Springer, seats 24 90 u 6. 118, do E. S. Shook janitor 5 00 a 6. 119, do B. F. Wallis, * janitor .. . 8 0o u 6. 120, do Johnson A Carter, sheep pelts 2 00 a 6. 121, do O. C. Gray, instruments 11 20 a 6. 122, do W. F. doors, cutting wood . . ■ 3 00 u 6. 123, do Prof. Thompson farm labor. . . . 30 30 ' l 6, 124, do W. J. Waggoner, janitor 10 00 a 6. 125, do E. C. Absalom, repairs 5 50 u 6. 126, do M Coffey, smithing 8 80 Feb. 6. 129, do Jernigan & Botefuhr, sundries 5 90 it 6. 130, do Farm labor, per Bishop, 6 46 6. 131. do N”. P. Gates text books 10 50 6. 132, do E. S. Shook, janitor 5 00 6. 133, do C . E Pape, janitor . . . 8 00 (. 6. 134, do W. H. Lockhart, janitor 8 00 6 135, do VV. J . Waggener, janitor 9 00 l i 6. 136, do H. G. Coors, librarian 6 00 tt 6. 137, do W. F. l oors, janitor 3 20 it 6. 138, do A. W. Bishop, books 20 24 “ 6. 139, do C. Jackson & Co., privy boxes 6 50 6. 140, do President Bishop, books 21 60 Mar. 4. 143, do \V T . F. Coors, janitor. 5 30 a 4. 144, do President Bishop, postage. . . . 5 00 i. 4. 145, do II. C . Barnett, brooms 1 50 i. 4. 148, do C. E Pape, janitor 8 00 St 4. 147, do IP. G. Coors, librarian 6 25 a 4 148, do E S. Shook, janitor.. 5 00 a 4. 149, do J. H. Beil, labor on farm 9 00 a 4. 150, do W. H. Lockhart, janitor 8 00 a 4. 151, do Democrat, printing 6 00 Mar 4. 152, do W. J . Waggener 30 00 u 4. 153, do Sundry students, per Bishop.. 11 75 u 4. 156, do Keed & Ferguson, freight 3 50 t 4. 157, do J. P. Martin, Janitor 4 50 a 4. 158, do W. J. Waggener, Janitor 1 50 it 4. 159, do O. C. Gray, surve\ ors chain . . 4 50 a 4. 160, do E. C. Absalom, repairs 6 55 April 7. 162, do M. F. Lake, expenses as trustee 57 00 tt 7. 163, do L. Gregg, expenses as trustee 43 25 u 7. 164, do A. W. Dinsmore, tr’stee, com'n 100 35 u 7. 165, do M. Garrett, farm labor 7 00 u 7. 166, do J. Johnson, sheep pelt 50 a 7. 167, do Sundry students, farm labor... 50 77 u 7. 168, do W. J. Waggener, tutor 30 00 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 87 1875. JSTo. Vouch. April 7. 160, By warrant to E. S. Shook, Janitor 5 00 u 7. 170 do J. H. Bell, care of mules 3 00 i . 7. 171 do II G. Coors, tutor 2 40 “ 7. 172 do W. F. Coors, Janitor 5 00 u 7. 173 do W. FI. Lockhart, Janitor 8 00 u 7. 174 do C. E. Pape, Janitor 8 90 u 7. 1 75 do II. G. Coors, Librarian 6 00 u 7. 176 do J. P. Martin, Janitor 8 40 a 7. 177 do I). C. Bolin o'er, tutor 2 40 u 7. 178 do Miss E. Bridgford, tutor. . . . 2 40 u 7. 179 do Miss S. E. Harris, tutor 2 80 u 7. 180 do W. Mcllroy, mule hire 1 00 a 7. 181 do John Ayres, tutor 4 40 a 7. 182 do Pres. Bishop, report of aects 4 00 a 7. 183 do W. J. Waggener, phil. aphatus 8 00 7. 184 do Stone Albright & Co. incidnt’ls 4 43 u 7. .185 do Caldwell mmittee on Finance reported on thn Treasurer's account of interest on County and City bonds as follows: We have examined the following statement of the Treasurer on interest due on bonds, and find it correct. A. W. DINSMORE, D. E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON, Committee. Received and adopted. TREASURER’S ACCOUNT OF INTEREST ON BONDS OF THE COUNTY OF WASHING- TON AND TOWN OF FAYETTEVILLE. 1874. Dr. Aug. 10. To coupons on Fayetteville bonds, interest due July 1st, 1874 $ 1,200 00 1875. March 1. To coupons on Fayetteville bonds, interest due January 1st, 1875 1,200 00 “ 1, To coupons on bonds of Washington county, inter- est due July 1st, 1874 4,000 00 “ To coupons on bonds of Washington county, inter- est due January 1st, 1875.... 4,000 00 Amount $10,400 00 1874. Cr. Aug. 10. By cash, cr. to current expense account.. $ 500 00 1875. Jan. 15. By cash, cr. to current expense account. 7,200 00 June 21. By cash, cr. to current expense account.. 500 00 $ 8,200 00 Balance on coupons $ 2,200 00 Which is now on deposit with D. D. Stark & Co.— see Exhibit “A,” appended. The Committee on Finance submitted the following report on Peabody fund : We have examined the statement of the Peabody fund, and find the same ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 01 correct, and we recommend that it be held subject to the order of the President of the University, A. YV. D1NSMORE, D, E. JONES, YV. E. THOMPSON, Committee. Received and adopted by the Board. TREASURER’S PEABODY FUND STATEMENT. 1875. Dr. To amount received from Dr. B. Sears, Agent of Peabody fund .$500 00 1875. No. Voucher. Cr. Jan. 13. 1. “ 13. 2. “ 16. 3. “ 16. 4. By am’t paid W. J. Waggoner, normal student.. $ 50 00 By am’t paid for text books for normal students 25 20 By am’t paid Eva McCart. a normal student 50 00 By am’t paid Mrs. Jennie Rich, normal student... 12 00 Balance $137 20 ,$362 80 On motion, it was ordered that the Executive Committee have two hundred copies of the Annual Report bound in boards, and eight hun- dred with paper covers, for distribution. The Finance Committee presented their report upon the report of the Faculty referred to them, and reported their estimates for neces- sary appropriations for the ensuing year: REPORT OF COMMITTEE. ESTIMATED CURRENT EXPENSES FOR THE ENSUING YEAR, AS SUGGESTED BY THE SECRETARY. Salaries of professors $15,000 00 Expenses of farm. 1,000 00 Estimate for janitors 600 00 Estimate for philosophical apparatus 500 00 Estimate for engineering and mathematics 500 00 Estimate for chemicals 1,500 00 Estimate for salary of Secretary, State scrip 500 00 Expenses of Trustees and Committeemen 1,000 00 Estimate for stationery 200 00 Estimate for postage 150 00 Estimate for printing. 200 00 $21,150 00 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 92 KaTI M ated receipts for the ensuing year. Cash on hand $ 2,000 00 Tuition and matriculation fees 2,500 On Interest on Washington county bonds 8,000 00 Interest on Fayetteville bonds 2,400 00 Coupons over due 2,200 00 Balance State scrip, current expense fund, at4Uc . 1,120 00 $18,220 00 Leaving a balance to be supplied by appropriation of. $ 2,930 00 ESTIMATE OF AMOUNTS NECESSARY FOR COMPLETION OF UNIVERSITY BUILD- ING, IMPROVEMENT OF GROUNDS, &C. Improvement of University grounds.. . « $ 1,000 00 Bell for tower l.<>00 00 2 cisterns, capacity 1,200 gallons 800 00 2 torce pumps — pipes, hose and cocks « 435 00 Well house and buckets 35 00 116 window curtains (shades) 330 00 120 seats for chapel, at $7 50 each 900 00 Fitting up chapel, elevating floor, stage, &c 500 00 81 double cane bottom chairs 134 00 3 chandeliers, side lights and lamps for chapel «... 300 00 3 chandeliers, with lamps for corridors 200 00 4 bracket lamps for offices 30 00 2 chandeliers and lamps for cloak room 50 00 1 chandelier and lamp, side light for library 60 00 Book and cabinet cases for library * 600 00 Tables and desks for library 100 00 Center table for office 25 00 Library and reading books, periodicals agricultural, mechanical and sientific 800 00 Shops and tobls for mechanical department « 1,000 00 Amount necessary to meet contract on completion of U uiversity bTding 31,800 00 Balance of estimate for current expenses for the year after disburse- ment of all incomes 2,930 00 Total amount necessary to be met by appropriation, unless payment of U. S. bonds and currency deposited with Stoddard Bros be made ... 4,0329 00 A. W. DINSMORE, D. E. JONES. W. F. THOMPSON. The report was. on motion, received and adopted by the Board. The Board took a recess till 8 p. ra. AFTER RECESS. Present— J . M. Johnson, presiding; Bishop, Lake, Gregg, Jones, Thompson and Dinsmore. The following was submitted and adopted : Resolved , That the Secretary be instructed to address Gen. A. W. Bishop and Rev. VV.C. Stout asking copies of their addresses delivered on commence- ment day in University hall, for publication in the annual report. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 93 0>i motion of Trustee B shop, it was ordered that the Executive Co nmitteo pass upon the account of D. I). Stark & Co* for interest due on money advanced. President A. VY\ Bishop, Chairman of the Executive Committee, presented the following report of said Committee, viz: To the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial University : Your Committee respectfully report that subsequently to the last annual ses*- sion of the Board of Trustees, they duly elected Under the power vested in them, Col O. C Gray, A. M , late President ol St John’s college, as professor of Mathe- matics and Civil Engineering, and Professor Janies Mitchell, A. B., late of Cane Hill c dlege as professor of History and English Literature, and employed Pro- fessor \Y. D. C Boteluhr as teacher of German for one term. After the death of Professor T. L. Thompson, Which sad event took place on the 3d of February last, it became necessary to employ students to some extent to aid the teaching force of the University. This teaching was confined mainly to the Preparatory department, and was successfully done. Your Committee further report that their principal du y during the year has been the auditing and ordering the pay- ments of the current accounts against the University, all of which so far as your committee are advise l. h ive been actc 1 upon, and when reasonable and just, have been paid. A* W. BISHOP, Chairman Ex. Com. L. GREGG, A. VV. DIN SMOKE, J. M. JOHNSON* On motion, the report was approved and adopted* PROCEEDINGS ON THE DEATH OF PROF. T. L. THOMPSON* The following preamble and resolutions were submitted by Presi- dent Bishop* Whereas, T. L. Thompson, professor of Theoretical and applied Chemistry in the University, died suddenly, of pneumonia on the 3d day of February last, Resolved , That this Board are profoundly sensible of the great loss the Uni- versity has thus sustained* and they take occasion to put upon record their high regard for and united confidence in Professor Thompson as an instructor and a man. His acquaintance with the specialty that he taught was conspicuous ; his clearness and facility in illustration and experiment gratifying to a high degree \ and the institution will be peculiarly fortunate if it secures his equal as a suc- cessor* The preamble and resolutions were adopted. The Comittee on Finance reported as follows upon the following abstract of accounts presented by Secretary Dinsmore, and referred to them : The following abstract showing the expenditures as compared with the ap- propriations made by the Board at its last annual meeting, has been examined ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. U and found correct, and we recommend the balances to be turned back into the* treasury . I). E. JONES, W. E. THOMPSON. Which was approved and adopted. ABSTRACT OF ANN. APPROPRIA- TIONS AND EXPENDITURES. Dr. Cb exp’nded Unexpnded Exhibit A Ca«h received, and turned over to $134,998.60 SCO. 00 .. B the Treasurer Farm estimate $134,998.60 539 98 $ 260 02 “• C Furniture estimate 50.00 10 00 40.0. > “ D stationery estimate 250.00 139 20 110.80 “ E Library, estimate 350 00 226.74 123.26 *• F Apparatus estimate 1,000 00 284 70 715 30 “ G Estimate for chemicals 1 500 .00 8.40 491.60 “ 11 Building fund, cash received : 81.773.03 80.418.45! 1 .355 48 ; [l Educational estimate : 14 700.00 13,450.60; 1,249.41 « J Janitor $350 1 Mis’laneous Treasurer 500 | and Secretary 500 f T of 1! j 2,450,00 2,415.68; 34.32 K Irfdent’ls Bd me’ting 1000 | Postage 100 j Labor account charged in farm No Est. ! 517.83; “ L account State warrant, current expense account with State Treasurer i 1 i 1 15,000.00 1 11,000.00| * 4.000 00 ^Deposited with State Treasurer. A. W. BISHOP, Treasurer, IN ACCOUNT WITH ^HE J/\f|KAN£A£ JnDU^TF(IAL I VERITY. NORMAL BRANCH FUND. 1875. Du. June 17. To cash on hand May 2, 1875, drawing interest at 6 per cent, per annum $ 2,414 1G “ 17. To State scrip on hand of Normal Branch Fund, deposited as follows : With D. D. Stark, Fayetteville 13,011 75 With Merchants' National Bank, Little Lock,,. 8,000 00 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 95 On motion of Trustee Dinsmore. Prof. O. C. Gray was duly elected to fill permanently the chair of Mathematics and Civil Engineering and Prof. James Mitchell the chair of History and English Literature in the Arkansas Industrial University. On motion of Trustee Bishop, Mrs. F. L. Sutton was appointed Preceptress of the Training School for the ensuing year. The following schedule of salaries was adopted for the ensuing year : President of the University $2,700 CO Principal of the Normal Department .. 2, ICO 00 Professor Ancient Languages and Literature. 1,700 00 Professor Mathematics and Civil Engineering 1,700 00 Professor Theoretical and Applied Chemistry 1,700 00 Professor History and English Literature 1,700 00 Preceptress Normal Department 1,700 00 Instructress Tmining School 800 00 Professor of Music 500 00 On motion of Trustee Jones, the following Trustees were appointed as the Executive Committee for the ensuing year: Messrs. Dinsmore, Johnson, Gregg, Lake and the President of the University On motion of Trustee Jor.es, Messrs. Gregg, Dinsmore and Lake were continued as Building Committecvfor the ensuing year. On motion, Messrs. Jones, Dinsmore and Thompson were consti- tuted as Finance Committee for the ensuing year. On motion, Messrs. Johnson, Walker and Lake were appointed a Committee on By-Laws for the year. The Committee on By-Laws recommended that Art. 1, See 2 of our By-Laws be so changed that the Board shall hereafter meet on Wednesday of commencement week, at 12 m in the University build- ing. Adopted by the Board. The following was introduced by Trustee Thompson, and adopted. Resolved , That all male beneficiaries who may heieafter be appointed in the University, with the exception of Noimal students, shall be required to take a course in Agriculture aud Mechanics, with permission to select such other studies as circumstances would allow. The following was submitted by Trustee Jones: Resolved, That the resignation of Gen. A. W. Bishop, President of the Arkansas Industrial University, now lying upon our table, be and the same is hereby accepted. 96 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. Resolved , That in accepting the resignation of President Bishop, the Trustees of the Arkansas industrial University feel it hut just to express their commendation of the energy with which he has performed the duties of his office, and his indefatigable efforts both personal and epistolary to awaken a gen- eral interest throughout the State in the practical success of the University ; and w T e hereby tender him our best wishes for his success in life, wherever his lot may be cast, and in whatever sphere or profession he mav elect. All of which was adopted by the Board. The following was submitted by Trustee Jones : Resolved , That the selection of a President of the Arkansas Industrial University be for the present, postponed, and that the Executive Committee ot our Board be authorized to employ a suitable person to till the chair at a salary not exceeding $3,000 per annum. The following resolution was introduced by Trustee Jones: Resolved , That ex-President Bishop be requested to .present our claims to the Governor and the Legislature, and urge upon them the great necessity and importance of making the necessary appropriations to enable us to complete the building and carry on the University in all its departments. Adopted. On motion of Trustee Gregg, the acting President and Secretary of the Board are hereby authorized to approve and sign the Journal. On motion, the Board adjourned sine die. [Signed] A. W. DINSMORE, Secretary. J. M. JOHNSON, President pro tem. RULES AND BY-LAWS FOR THE OF THE JAf(KAJS£A£ ll^DU^TRIAL N I V £ R £ i T Y WITH A NORMAL DEPARTMENT TDEUEIN ARTICLE I. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. Section 1. All meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be held at the seat of the University, in \N ashington county, Arkansas. Sec. 2. The regular annual meeting of the Board shall be held on Monday of commencement week of each year. Sec. 3. Special meetings, when necessary, may be called by the President or any three (3) members of the Board petitioning the President, who shall mail to each member of the Board or personally serve him with a copy of such call at least twenty (20 ) days before the day of meeting : Provided , 1 hat the business to be attended to at such meeting shall be specified in such call or notice. ARTICLE II. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Section 1. First . Calling roll of members. Second . Reading of minutes of previous meetings. Third. Receiving reports of standing committees. Fourth. Consideration of communications. Fifth. Report of officers. Sixth. Reports of special committees. Seventh. Consideration of unfinished business. 7 AUKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY . ARTICLE III. BULKS 0-f DEBATE. Section. 1. In discussion and the disposition of business, the Board shall be governed by the parliamentary rules and usages governing- deliberative- bodies. Sec. 2. Every resolution offered shall bo- reduced to writing and sent to the Secretary’s table. ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS AND APPOINTEES OF THE BOARD. Sec. I. The officers of this board shall consist of its President, Treasurer and Secretary. Section. 2. The Board maj', from time to time, appoint such subordinate- officers and employes as they may deem necessary to carry on the institution ARTICLE V. TERM OF OFFICE Section 1. The Treasurer and Secretary shall be elected biennially at the regular annual meeting hereinafter provided for that purpose, and hold their offices until their successors are chosen and qualified. Sec. 2. All other officers and employes shall be appointed at such time, in such manner and for such term as the Board shall by resolution in each case direct, and lie subject to removal for cause, at the pleasure of the Board. ARTICLE VI. DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT. Section 1. The President shall cast his vote in case of a tie on all question* or propositions submitted to the Board, "and — upon calling any member to the chair— may participate In debate. ARTICLE VII. DUTIES OF THE TREASURER. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive ali moneys from the hands of the Secretary, and such other funds as may be turned over to him by the State Treasurer, as financial agent. Sec. 2. He shall pay out money only on warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Board and approved by the President or by the chairman of the appropriate committees of the Board. Sec. 3. He shall make a semi-annual report to the Board of all financial t ransactions since his last report. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. m v kc. 4. He shall give good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the Board «r the Executive Committee, in the sum of ($20,000) Twenty Thousand dollars, ARTICLE VIII. DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY, Section 1 . The Secretary shall open an office at Fayetteville and be present at all meetings of the Board ot Trustees, and perforin such duties as appertain to bis office ; to keep all books and papers belonging to his office in good order and subject to inspection at the pleasure of the members of the board and others interested. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to receive all moneys, from every source due this institution, and receipt for the same, and tarn the same over to the Treasurer of the Board at the expiration of each and every month, taking his receipt therefor. Sec. 3. He shall collect all tuition and matriculation fees, giving his receipt therefor in duplicate. Sec. 4. He shall immediately make an Inventory of all property belonging to the University, of whatsoever kind it may be, and its apparent value, and make proper entries thereof in his book, dividing it under as many appropriate headings as are necessary to distinguish and keep properly the accounts of separ- ate branches of the institution, and include in his next report and each report thereafter the amount, nature, value, enhancement or depreciation in value, etc., of such property, also include any property added or diminished since his last report. Sec. 5. He shall be custodian of all ai.d every kind of property belongin r to the Arkansas Industrial University, and in no event shall )ie part with any of said property to any person whatever, unless he first obtain said person’s receipt therefor, which shall be his voucher . Sec. 6. He shall purchase stationery by the quantity and as low as possible, and upon the requisition of the President, Faculty and other officers entitled thereto, he shall furnish sufficient stationery to said persons for their use as such officers, filing their requisitions as his vouchers. Sec 7. All papers taken by the Secretary shall be in duplicate, but all papers given out shall be but single. Sec. He shall also procure the necessary blanks for all departments of the University and furnish them to the officers requiring them upon their application . Skc. 9. He shall keep his accounts and make out his report as in the man her adopted in the Quartermaster’s Department, United States army (except a& to time of making such reports. ) All reports of property shall be in duplicate, one copy to be retained by the Secretary and one turned over to the Board and by them to be transmitted to the Secretary of State for safe keeping. Sec. 10. He shall, in his annual report in June in each and every year, sub- mit estimates to the Board for the ensuing j^ear. Sec. 11 He shall keep separate accounts of the following items, to-wit * Farm account ; Improvement account ; Furniture account; Stationery account. Library account ; Apparatus account; Permanent Building account; Cabinet an 0 100 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, \ Museum account; Chemical account; Labor account; Fuel account; Temporary Building account ( which shall cease when the new building is accepted and the present school buildings put to other and permanent uses ;) Educational account, and a Miscellaneous account. Snc. 12. He shall attend promptly to all orders made by the Board and. report thereon at the next meeting of the Board. Sue. 13. lie shall enter into good and sufficient security f >r the sum of Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars, to be approved by the Board or the Executive Committee. Sec. 14. lie shall countersign every warrant drawn for the payment of money, and no warrant paid shall be valid unless so couiversigned and approved by him, and proper entry made thereof under irs proper account. If the esti- mate to be drawn against is exhausted, then he shall refuse to countersign until such time as there m iy be funds to pay said warrant with. ARTICLE IX. DISABILITIES OF MEMBERS. Section 1. No trustee, supervisor of work or agent of this Board shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract made by or on behalf of the Board. ARTICLE X. STANDING COMMITTEES. Section 1. This Board shall elect the following Standing Committees : First — An Executive Committee, of five members Second — A Finance Committee, of three members; Third — A Committee on Buildings and Grounds, of three members; Fourth — A Committee on Rules and By-laws, of three members; and Fifth — A Committee of two on printing. ARTICLE XI. DUTIES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Section 1. The Executive Committee shall — for the purpose for which they were appointed — possess all the power of the Board; provided . that they shall not alter or amend the acts of the Board nor act upon any matter referred to any committee of the Board that may be intrusted with any special business, and shall be strictly confined to such business as cannot be left until the annual meeting of the Board. Sec. 2. The members of this committee shall hold their office for one year from the time of their election, and they shall submit the minutes of their proceedings, or make a report through their chairman to the regular meeting of the Board at Fayetteville of all their transactions since the last meeting of the Board. Sec. 3. The committee shall have power, from time to time, to employ ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY . 101 suitable persons for positions in the Faculty of the University in its various departments, and to make the necessary changes or modifications in the course of study and to adopt suitable textbooks. ARTICLE XII. DUTIES OF COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Sec. 1. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds shall consider and report upon all plans, specifications or proposals for the sale or exchange, repairs or improvements of the buildings or grounds belonging to the University, or for the erection of buildings or fences on the same, and for their convenient subdivisions, and all orders of the Board for the improvement on buildings and grounds (except the farm to be under the control of the Executive Committee) shall be under the control and charge of this committee. Sfc. 2. Bids for buildings and improvements exceeding the sum of one thousand.dollars ($1,000) shall he submitted to the Board for their approval or disapproval. ARTICLE XIY. COMMITTEE ON RULES AND BY-LAWS. Section 1. The Committee on Rules and By-laws shall perform and recom- mend, from time to time, by-laws for the government of the Board in its own business. ■ ARTICLE XV. AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS. Section 1 These by-laws may be amended, altered or repealed at regular annual meetings of the Board, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members present. Military Department ) Arkansas Industrial University, v Fayetteville, Ark , June 19th, 1875.) To the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial University . Sir: I beg leave to submit, for the consideration and action of the Board of Trustees, a brief resume of the operations of my depart- ment during the collegiate year ending June 19th, 1875 ; also some recommendations suggested by my experience, for increasing its effi- ciency There has been an average attendance for military instruction, of one hundred and forty students. Only three or four have been per- manently excused from military duty, and these, only by reason of physical disability. Of the aggregate in attendance, about one hun- dred and twenty have been enrolled, forming the three companies of. the battalion. The remainder, consisting of boys too small to bear arms, have been instructed in the principles of setting-up and march- ing. For this class the rules and regulations were relaxed, and drill has been considered more of an exercise than an acquirement. The cadets have attained fair proficiency in the school of the com- pany, and have received some instruction in battalion drill. I am not satisfied with the progress made but I consider it due to circumstances outside of my department, and over which I had no control. I have not been able to attain a high standard of discipline. The cadets have learned to some extent, the necessity of subordination, but in the higher order of discipline they are deficient. They lack habits of ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. m order, neatness, thoroughness and zeal. These virtues I have sought to inculcate, but the adverse influences manifested in the general man- agement of the school neutralized my efforts. The published regulations for the government of the military department, have, in the main, been carried out. The Faculty have given me much assistance, and, when the occasion demanded it, prompt support. Since the 1st of March, cadets ab-ent from, or late at roll-call and having no satisfactory excuse therefor, have been punished by drill on other than drill days and out of school hours . The Faculty authorized the measure upon my recommendation. I do not like the plan. It has proved entirely efficacious but the natural tendency is to biing drill into disrepute. Demerits have been given previous to the institution of this punishment, but there was no disgrace or inconvenience attend- ing these and they utterly failed to prevent the willful evasion of duty. Some other system was necessary and I reluctantly proposed punish- ment drill. I think the college laws should cover all cases of misde- meanor occurring in my department; but there is no virtue in law, when the penalties for infraction are not enforced. Theoretical instruction in tactics has been given the officers and non-commissioned officers of the battalion, as the advance in drill de- manded it. Lectures have been given on drill da}^s throughout the year, when the weather prevented out-door military exercises, and twice a week, in lieu of drill, during the sickly season of the winter term. These lectures embraced the subjects of discipline, army or- ganization, strategy, tactics and the operations of war from the time of Frederick to the present day. Of the one hundred and twenty cadets enrolled, only about one- sixth have provided themselves with uniform. About one-half wear the cap. I would respectfully recommend that all male students sub- ject to military duty be required to provide themselves with uniforms the coming 3 -ear. They can be procured at Fayetteville at the fol- lowing rates: Dress coat, $22 00 ; sack coat, $18 00; pants, 10 00 - cap, $1 25. The sack coat is more serviceable, and better adapted for general wear. It is to be preferred, when both cannot be obtained, to the dress coat. These articles of uniform can be procured in New York, ready made, fifty per cent, cheaper. At this rate, they cost no more than ordinary citizen’s clothing, and are much more’ durable. The adoption of a uniform would have a tendency to foster neatness* individual self-respect and good order. During the past 3 r ear there have been two militarj 7- exercises each week. This is not sufficient time to acquire any very great oroficiency ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. lOJf in drill, nor is it sufficient to develop a healthy interest among the cadets. Proficiency in drill, however, is neither the only or best result of military instruction. It is a powerful means of physical culture. It develops muscle and tends to a more correct deportment than any other exercise that can be adopted for a school. It generates habits of just subordination and manly self-control. It teaches the necessity of punctuality and faithfulness in the discharge of duty. At least three hours a week should be devoted to practical military' instruction. As cadets are required at all times to have their muskets and accoutrements in good order and condition, it is necessary that time be allowed for cleaning up. In view of all this I would respect- fully ask that I be allowed one hour four days of the week for the pur- pose of drill and discipline. With an armory nex' year capable of holding in military forma- tion, 150 to 200 men, I hope to secure more uniformity of instruction, and to attain thereby much greater proficiency In addition to thd regular exercises, practical and theoretical, compulsory with all cadets, I propose to organize classes for instruction in the bayonet exercise, and the use of the sword. The basement in the South wing of the new building would be the best room for the armory. The noise could not penetrate from thence to the disturbance of students at other oc- cupations throughout the building, and the South basement is more dry and light than the other, I would therefore recommend that it be finished off and appropriately fitted up as an armory. I would also respectfully suggest the advisability of having a large parade ground immediately in front of the University building. It could be seen from all parts of the town, and a fine lawn would form a pleasing foreground and exhibit to the best advantage the new build- ing. the grounds surrounding the parade might be laid off 1 and decor- ated with trees, shrubs, etc., etv\ I am, Very Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, EDWIN S. CURTIS, First Lieut- 2d Arty., Prof. Military Tactics After the death of Prof. T. L. Thompson, Superintendent of Farm, Mr. John H. Bell, a student of the University, was employed by the Board of Trustees to take charge and general management of the farm. It is but due to Mr. Bell to say that he has performed his trust with fidelity, and the condition of the growing crop, the orchard and grounds will attest his faithfulness and diligence. The following js his Report : Arkans's Industrial University, | Fayetteville, August 15, 1875. j To the Board of Trustees Arkansas Industrial University : In compliance with your request, I herewith transmit my report of the University farm since March 1st, 1875, the date on which I took charge. In front of the University building, about the last of March, some twenty acres were sown in Kentucky blue grass, but on account of the lateness of the season and the dry weather which followed, it cannot be considered a success. We have about twenty acres of corn, which, although planted late, is in fine condition, and promises an abundant yield. About the middle of March we received from Washington, packages of oats, clover and rye grass, together with packages of gar- den seeds. The oats and grass proved a failure, but the clover is remarkably fine. There are now growing in the garden, beets, peas, onions, beans, carrots, parsnips, cabbages, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables, most of which are doing well. The orchard is in fine condition — many of the trees bending under the load of choice fruit. The following are some of the varieties of apples now bearing in the University orchard : Belle Flower, Yellow June, Red June, Winesap, Shannon Pippin, Philadelphia Graft, Early Harvest, Maiden 7* 106 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY Blush, Ac. From the high character of this region as a fruit country, and the excellent quality of the fruit produced in our orchard, it would seem to he a move in the right direction to enlarge our orchard by planting varieties not now in use, as well as planting small fruits. Would it not be well to plant cherries, plums, strawberries, rasp- berries, currants, Ac. V Near the University farm as tine grapes of the different varieties are found as are to be seen anywhere within the limits of the United States. No one who has seen the profusion of wild grapes everywhere in Northwest Arkansas, can doubt that this is the home of the grape. I know of nothing that can be undertaken with more certainty of success in this country, than the culture of the grape. I would recommend the planting of a small vineyard during the coining year. I would also recommend the following additional improvements, most or all of which can be made by students' labor, and at a compar- atively small expense : The laying off of the farm into sections by means of cross-fencing; the clearing of some timbered land, so that we may begin the cultivation of the grasses; the thorough grassing of the grounds south of the University; the ornamentation of the grounds in front by planting trees, shrubs, Ac., ^and the establishment of permanent exterior fencing, using the rails for cross-fencing. During the spring months a large force of students was engaged in taking up trees and stumps around the new building. (The trees were made into rails.) Beside this work, there was a quantity of rubbish to be removed from about the building, such as rocks, timber, brick, Ac., which employed our force for some time. I present herewith a statement of debits and credits tor the months beginning with September, 1874, and ending with June, 1875 : UNIVERSITY I'A RM, Dr. To students’ labor for the month of September, 1874 $ 41 20 To students’ labor for the month of October, 1874 35 40 To students’ labor for the month of November, 1874 25 74 To students’ labor for the month of December, 1£74 30 30 To students’ labor for the month of January, 1875 6 40 To students’ labor for the month of February, 1875 20 70 To students’ labor for the month of March, 1875 61 77 To studeuts’ labor for the month of April, 1875 86 59 To students’ labor for the month of May, 1875 83 23 To students’ labor for the month of June, 1875 35 29 Total $436 68 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 107 ESTIMATE OF RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEM* BER 31st, 1875. UNIVERSITY FARM, Or. By cash for corn ...» $125 00 By cash for apples.... 97 50 By cash for wood.. 37 00 By cash for rails 9 00 By cash for potatoes 25 00 By cash for garden vegetables 15 00 Total $308 50 Besides the above credit items, the following may be added under the head of permanent improvements : (1.) Seeding in clover three-fourths acres. (2 ) Trimming up trees about the grounds. (3.) Making walks about the new building. (4.) Certain repairs on the farm. All of which- is respectfully submitted. JOHM H. BELL, In charge of Farm, PaREWELL 5AdDF(E££, DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT A. W. BISHOP, UPON RETIRING FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ARKANSAS IND U STRIA L UNI VEIiSITY. Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees , and Ladies and Gentlemen : On the sixth of* March last I tendered my resignation as President and Treasurer of this University, to take effect at the close of the present term Even a 3’ear ago, when the salaries ol the members of the Faculty were reduced from fifteen to twenty-five per cent , I was led to the contemplation of this matter, but as that reduction seemed inevitable for the time being, in consequence of the political complica- tions in the State, which had seriously impaired the finances of the University, I submitted to the situation, as did my co-laborers, without a murmur or a protest. In my individual case, however, it was a wide departure from the terms upon which I had agreed, six months before, to come here, and for this reason, and those of a private nature, I sub- sequently tendered my resignation, as I have indicated. To that tender I have since adhered, and I sever now my connection with this institution. By the new Board of Trustees, as well as the old, I have been cordially treated and fully sustained, and I close my official inter- course with them with a profound sense of kindness and regard. From my associates in the Faculty I part with peculiar regret. We have been bound together by a common toil. We have known no kinship with sinecures. Early and late, I do not consider it improper for me to say, we have labored for the upbuilding of this young insti- tution, and three hundred and fifty students who have been gathered within yonder walls during the past twelve months, mpst attest with ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 109 what - access. For myself, I leave the verdict to them, expressing only the regret that the appliances that every educational institution of the kind should have, have been so meager and unsatisfactory. To the students T likewise say a reluctant farewell. We came together mainly strangers. We part quite well acquainted. I gradu- ally came to know you j to see the unfolding of form and mind; the tireless industry of one; the quick perception of another, the easy grace or manly bearing of others still, and I may add the mischievous tendencies of others yet again, types of a class who, since school rooms were known and school masters dominated the situation, have apparently lived but to personify annoyance, and illustrate original sin. With all, however, I part in kindness, bespeaking for every one a future whose hope shall grow 7 into fruition, and the promise of to-day into the sustained performance of active, well ordered and suc- cessful lives. I come now’ to the present condition of this University, and here I propose to say nothing except with a view to its ultimate good, its permanent prosperity, for a* a citizen of the State I shall always interest myself, as far as I n ay be able, in its advancement. It is the germ of a new existence for Arkansas, and the struggling plant must not be permitted to wither or droop, much less die. This magnificent edifice just unfolding its possibilities, and growing now into perma- nent form, through the steady industry of w T ell directed labor, must not stand an embodiment of desolation, but with corridors thronged wdth students; halls resounding with the echoes of earnest voices; pillar and architrave proudly bearing up apparatus and library, cabi- net and museum; pavilion and tower all aglow with the lisrht of science and the myriad forms of attractive art, must verily become not only the one overshadowing object for miles around, but conspic- uous as a temple of learning, where the State even, can gather strength, and the Nation look approvingly upon one of the out- growths of the beneficent act of 1862. Nature has well disposed the site. The munificence of the general government has made the edifice possible, now 7 let the State furnish and embellish it. The county of Washington and town of Fayetteville have contracted to do all that can or should be expected of them, but they are not the body politic of Arkansas. The State at large has a deep and abiding interest in the University, and it is as solemn a duty on its part to adequately maintain it, as it is to pay the salaries of the officers who administer its government. The legislature of 1866 7 a cepted the grant of land and land scrip from the general government, authorized by the act of Congress 110 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. of July 2, 1862, “To provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanical arts/’ and now it is simply called upon to perform that part of the contract, which it then engaged to perform. The legislature of the State at its last session made a most unfor- fortunate mistake in this regard. It gave nothing for current ex- penses, when there should have been appropriated at least the equiv- alent of ten thousand dollars in currency per annum for the two years expiring June 30, 1877. That body did indeed make an appropriation of ten thousand dollars in scrip to complete the building and to pur- chase stoves and other heating apparatus therefor, but even this sum Was inadequate, and should have been doubled to accomplish the object sought, and I say T this with the poverty of the State full in view. I am cognizant also, as are we all, of the tribulation through Which the State has passed within the last eighteen months. I know how poor she is, but if in the re-habilitation of Arkansas there is any one interest for the nurture and support of which every nerve should be strained and every dollar expended, which within reasonable limits it is possible to obtain, that interest is the educational development of the State, and whose radiating centre should be the State University. We 3 ' earn for immigration. We hunger after capital. We long to sec these hills and valleys instinct with higher life; to hear the roar of the swiftly passing train, to listen to the music of the spindle and the loom; to see God in the superior works of his children, and many wonder why the tide that for } T ears has been sweeping over the Horthwest, fructifying all that it touched, does not set this way. It never will until the educat : on of the people is put in the fore front of effort and expenditure, and the State pursues a liberal policy with its public institutions. If extravagance is bad, and it is, parsimony^ is worse From the former you can recover. Out of the latter comes no hope. The one is an evil, the other is a curse. The one does something, if it does it partly wrong. The other does nothing at all f for parsimony is always below the level of efficiency^ struggle as it will, and the poor instructor, be he president, professor or what not, who is caught in its toils, will go shuffling through life a careworn and dependent man, and measurably inefficient, while the fault was not his own. And it will be a sad day for this University, if that day comes, when from inefficient financial support, it shall be compelled to lapse into a high school. What we have been laboring so far to estab- lish here, is not simply a College, but a University. What the gov- ernment of the United States expects to see is at least a College. What it demands , by^ reason of the acceptance of the gift, is a College —a College of agriculture and the mechanic arts, but where other ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 111 scientific and classical studies are not excluded, and with nothing less than this will it be satisfied, I have great confidence in the present Executive of the State, and who is also President of the Board of Trustees of this University, and I believe he will do everything in his power, and so will his co-laborers on the Board, to maintain this institution upon the high plane of its conception. What we need is money, and the practical thing to be done is to get it from the legislature when it sits next November. Nor do I believe that the effort to do so will be futile. At the last session many members were hampered and embarrassed by promises to their constituents to do everything as economically as possible, and in this regard they may have voted as they would not again. I believe they have the welfare of the State at heart, and desire its advancement. The question is one of means and ends, and it is no easy thing, with a bankrupt treasury staring at you, to wisely adapt the one to the other. Let us then hope for the best, and the University’s financial distress may pass away within the year. I come now to another subject of serious import to this institution and this community. On the second day of February, 1874, the House of Bepresentatives of the Congress of the United States, unanimously adopted the following resolution : “ Resolved , That the committee on education and labor is hereby instructed to enquireinto the condition and management of the agricul- tural and other colleges which have received grants from the United States under the act of July 2, 1872, and the acts in addition thereto; also to enquire in regard to the investment and security of the funds of these institutions, and whether their management is in accordance with the Constitution and Laws of the United States, and the condi- tion of the aforesaid grants.” In pursuance of this resolution a circular letter was sent to the presidents of all the colleges organized as this has been, and those officers were to respond to it as promptly as their convenience and the preparation of the necessary information would permit. The general scope, progress and management of these institutions were enquired about, and particularly the disposition made of the proceeds of the sale of the agricultural college scrip, donated by the general govern- ment. I reported in behalf of this institution, and on the 13th day of * January, 1875, the committee made its report to Congress, the sub- stance of which was, that the Attorney General was requested to report to the House of Eepresentatives what measures, if any, should be taken by the United States to secure from any State the fulfillment of its contract to preserve undiminished the principal of the fund derived 112 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. from the grant of land made by the United States for the support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and whether in his judgment the provisions of existing laws were sufficient to afford a remedy in the premises. A resolution embodying this was adopted, to which the Attorney General replied, that he knew of no remedy except that in cases where the United States are indebted to any State, which has suffered the fund to become diminished, and has failed to replace it, payment of the whole or a corr sponding amount of the debt might be withheld until the unpaid fund be made good. Arkansas is in this category for the government of the United States owes her a large sum of money which site is endeavoring to obtain, ai d (crtanly it could not be paid at a more opportune time for the State is in the very throes of financial agony, and all the wit and wisdom of her citizens w 11 be needed to -extricate her from the fearful embarrassments that are bearing her down. By the act of Congress of Juh 2, 1862, it is provided that all money derived from the sale of land and land scrip contemplated by this act. shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the State, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks, and that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, and the interest of which shall be invio- lably appropriated by each State, which may take and claim the benefit of the said act, and it was further provided that no portion of the said fund, nor the interest thereon, should be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings. Now, what is the connection of all this with the Arkansas Indus- trial University? Bear with me while I endeavor to tell. The old Board of Trustees thought it a matter of great importance that the permanent building of the University should be erected at the earliest feasible moment. The Agricultural College scrip to which the State was entitled had been sold at ninety cents per acre — a very advanta- geous sale for the University. The net proceeds to be employed as an endowment were $121,500, and there were two courses to pursue, either to purchase government bonds at a premium, or to place this sum of money in the bonds of the county of Washington and town of Fayetteville — $130,000 in all — which the University then held, and thus making those securities, which ran thirty years, and bore interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum, the permanent endowment of the University. The latter course was adopted, and this money was placed in those bonds at 93^ cents on the dollar, a rate adapted and ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 113 intended so to be, to the exact absorption of the money in the bonds* There was a precedent for this proc eding in the course pursued in the building of the Illinois Industrial University, and although the expe- dient may look like a device for steering very closety to the wind^ and appear to be a violation of even an express provision of the act of 1862. it is not so regarded by the general government, and no trouble will ever arise from this source, if the people of Washington county promptly pay the interest on these bonds. If they do not pay it, there will be trouble, embarrassment, a rigid investigation, and other very serious hindrances to the growth of the Universit}', that I do not care to contemplate, and I specially allude to this matter now, not alone for the purpose of showing how important it is that the interest on these bonds should be paid exactly when and as it accrues, but because the Legislature of the State at its last session passed an act in relation to the extension of time for the payment of taxes, which, as one of its consequences, is resulting in the failure, unavoid- able so far as the sheriff is concerned, to make a full and prompt collection of this interest. I have faith to believe, that in 1876 the deficiency that now exists will be made good, and if ii i«, all will be well at Washington. The government does not object to the fact that local bonds are the form that the endowment has taken. It only insists that the interest on these bonds shall be promptly and regularly paid. Washington county has secured the location of this University. All honor to the enterprise of her citizens for that. But her watchful- ness has just begun. It will avail very little simply to have even so magnificent an edifice as this. The building alone will never justify the builders. It must be armed cap-a-pie , and stand fully equipped with all the paraphernalia and devices of intellectual war. It must crown this hill, not with the solemn grandeur of a barren conception, or with that order of education that culminates in an academy or high school, but with the training of the college and university, and espe- cially with that distinctive order of culture, which we know as profi- ciency in the knoweldge of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. There is need also, let me say, for constant vigilance on the part of the citizens of Washington county, to hold this institution up to the demands of its conception. There is the same amount of interest to be paid on the bonds, whether there are one hundred students here, or five hundred, and whether those students pay out annually in Fay- etteville, ten thousand dollars, or fifty thousand. In adversity or prosperity, in growth or decay, the obligation is the same, and surely every intelligent citizen must see the great 8 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. m importance of the most complete harmony of action in stimulating the growth of that which is, or should be, the dominant interest of the town of Fayetteville, and a source of profit also to the county at large. There should grow up here the spirit so conspicuously seen in the older University towns of the country, and around professor and student should never cease to be thrown the genial and inspiring influences, that tell them that even the boys in the streets are their friends, and that the town at all times and under all circumstances is a unit when the welfare of the University is at stake. But, passing from the town and county to the State, or rather including all three, there is another subject of great moment for futuie consideration. Not to enter into details, I refer to what is known as the “Morrill Bill,” a proposed act of Congress that contemplates the appropriation of a portion of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands to this institution and others similarly endowed. The principal sum that Arkansas would receive, if this bill were to pass, would bring to this University an income of at least $20,000 a year, and with proper effort this much desired consummation may 3-et be brought about. Kentucky, especially through I)r. Bowman, President of the Agricultural and Mechanical Collge at Ashland, is particularly active in this matter. The Agricultural Colleges of a number of the other States have also had their representatives at Washington when- ever needed or thought to be. The Agricultural Congress of the country is committed to the support of some such measure. The Congress of the United States itself seems, regardless of party, dis- posed to give this revenue, in some form to the cause of education, and if the States shall earnestly unite their efforts, trustees and legislatures moving together in hearty accord, the grand object will be accom- plished. Then indeed will this University be placed above all cas- ualty and all solicitude, and not alone will gather here the youth of the State, but Texas, Southwest Missouri and that princely domain just bej^ond us,, which in the immediate future is destined to put on the garb of sisterhood, can reasonably be expected to send here many of their youth to receive that higher education, which the advanced statesmen of the country have been laboring for fifteen years to make general in the land. One other point and I am done. The act of Congress under which this University has been organized, special ly provides that the order of institution to be established, shall be one, which, without excluding other sciences, and including military tactics, shall have as its leading- object, the teaching of such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. In this vital matter the Arkansas Industrial University has not come up to the statute, and there are ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 115 reasons why hitherto it has been unable to do so. That so far these reasons have been regarded as good and sufficient at Washington, can safely be said. The State has been in an abnormal and disturbed con- dition for a considerable portion of the period that has elapsed since the University was founded. The general status of education in Arkansas has also been and sti’l is such, that the demand made upon the University by the youth ot the State has been for the usual collegiate or preparatory training, and again our means 1 ave been inadequate to develop that special feature of the law. without which the University loses the distinctive feature that Congress intended to give it. Twice have I annually stated the case to the Commissioner of Agriculture, and he has re- sponded that my reports were satisfactory. This delay, however, to bring the study of agriculture and the mechanic arts into the promi- nence that the law demands, must cease now at the earliest possible moment. It should be made one of the chief objects of official con- cern — the paramount object in fact — to organize the school of agri- culture and furnish facilities for instruction in a practical knowledge of the mechanic arts. It is a very grave question how much longer the General Government will be satisfied with apologies. It will soon look for the profits of its endowment, and they must be forthcoming. What is being accomplished is not in itself unsatisfactory, but it does not come up to the measure of just expectancy, and now in this time of State elation, and when enlarged ideas of the province of government are so necessary to be diffused throughout the body politic f when an advanced conception of agriculture should seize the farmer mind, and the mechanic arts have the sway that characterizes them in the North and East, let the citizens of the State see to it, that here, where the germ of a great power has taken root, the industrial classes can receive that education which a munificent Congress spe- cially designed for them. And as the scroll of the future is unrolled, and the quickened intelligence of the farmer and mechanic sees in science its strongest bulwark and surest defense, Arkansas, with her o-reat natural advantages will step well to the front in the array of States, and out of the Southwest will go a voice heard through the land, \ Sing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvelous things. ;Af(ka^;ba;5 J^DU^TRIAL *y jSl 1 VRR£1TY. This institution, established by act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, approved July 25, 1873, and located in the city of Pine Bluff, has commenced operation, and has now (September 1875) opened for the reception of students Its object is to afford the col- ored teachers of the State the requisite opportunity and training to fit them for performing the important duties efficiently and successfully, and free tuition is, therefore, given to such as may apply for admission upon their signing a pledge obligating themselves to teach for a term of at least two years in the public schools of the State. In connection with the Normal school proper, a preparatory department is attached, which may be attended by such youth as may be enabled after one years tuition, to enter the Normal school. The school in its term of sessions, course of study, discipline, etc., will conform to those of the Industrial University at Fayetteville, and is under the management of the Board of Trustees of that institution, the first term of each year beginning on the first Monday in September. Students will be expected to conform in all respects to the rules of the institution, in avoiding improper places and associations, in observ- ing proper study hour-*, and in general, conducting themselves in a genteel manner, otherwise they will not be permitted to remain in the institution. The building now occupied by the school is situated in one of the most eligible localities in the city of Pine Bluff, in the immediate vicinity of the Synagogue, Episcopal church, and public school buildings. It affords accommodations for over one hundred students, with ample grounds and suitable out-buildings attached, is AH KANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 117 well lighted and ventilated, making it one of the most pleasant and commodious school buildings in the State. Such additions and improvements will be made from time to time as may be found neces- sary or desirable. Pine Bluff, the site of the institution, is a thriving city of about three thousand five hundred inhabitants, situated on the Arkansas river in the cotton belt of the State, and not far from the geographical center of the colored population. In its recent progress in educational matters it is rivaled by but few cities in the State or country. It is accessible from all parts of the State by the Arkansas river, the P. B* L. E. & N. O. railroad, and Arkansas Valley stage line. The prospect of an early railroad connection with Little Eock is good Board, lodging, books and stationery may be obtained in the city on reason- able terms. It is desirable that all who contemplate attending the school should enter at the opening of the term, as classes will not be formed at other times. For additional information, address, J. C. COEBIN, A. M., Principal Branch Normal College. We shall be glad to have the address of every teacher in Arkansas; that we may send to each a copy of our Catalogue. Teachers coming to Fayetteville are cordially invited to visit the University for the purpose of examining our methods of instruction, as well as the true, condition and practical workings of the institution in all its depart- ments* It is earnestly hoped that a better understanding between the Facility and the teachers of the State may lead to more satisfactory results in the preparation of students for the work which will be required of them in the University. We have met in the past no greater annoyance or more serious obstacle to both teacher and student, than the irregular, immethodical and partial training of our pupils. Students are allowed to take irregular and fragmentary courses, forgetful of the fact that it leads to great trouble and annoj'- ance in classification, as well as to narrow and imperfect culture. If, for instance, the student desires to enter the Freshman class of the Classical Department, let him pursue such studies, and such alone, as shall, upon their completion, admit him to this Cass. If he desires to enter the College of Commerce, or to take the Engineering Course, let his preparation conform so far as possible, to the requirements of these courses. Candidates for the Normal Department of the Uni- versity will observe the requirements for admission to this Depart- ment, and govern themselves accordingly. We appeal to all the teachers in the State to come to our assistance in breaking up the irregularities of training, and establishing the benefits of order, method and system in preliminary instruction. TRANSPORTATION. Students desiring to attend the University, can by applying to Hon. Dudley E. Jones, Little Rock, or to Prof. James Mitchell, Secre- tary, at Fayetteville, obtain certificate* which will entitle them to travel at half fare over the MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILWAY; LITTLE ROCK AND FORT SMITH RAILWAY; ARKANSAS YALLEY STAGE LINE, From Pine Bluff to Little Roek, and from Fort Smith to Altus. Fare from Altus to Fayetteville, round trip % $9 00 Fare from Altus to Fayetteville, one way 5 00 Parties applying by letter will be particular in specifying the rout® they wish to travel. RELAT1NQ TO THE UNIVERSITY. OF CONGRESS. AN ACT DONATING PUBLIC 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 and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned 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 hundred and sixty : Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. Section 2. And be it farther enacted , That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States or subdivis- ions 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 a quarter 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 that quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 121 cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the pro- visions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share j said scrip to be sold by said States, and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever: Provided, That in no case shall an}’ 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 Territory 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 not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any ono of the States: And be it further enacted, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act, . Section 3. And be it further enacted , That all the expenses of mam agement, superintendence and taxes from the date of selection of said lands until their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong 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 pur- poses hereinafter mentioned. Section 4. And be it further enacted, That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States, to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in 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 moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in fifth section 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, and in such a manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively pre- scribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. Section 5. And be it further enacted , That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized, shall be made on the following condi- tions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, 8 * ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY m the previous assent of the several States shall bo signified by legisla- tive acts: First, If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon shall .by any act or contingency be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished ) and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes 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 experi- mental farms whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States. Second, No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly under any pretense 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 provisions of t his^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 previously sold, and 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 cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall &e transmitted by mail free, by each to all the other colleges which may be endowed under this act, and also one to the Secretary of the Interior. Fifth. 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 proportionally diminished. Sixth, No State while in a condition of rebellion 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 benefit of this act unless it shall express the acceptance thereof by the legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President. Section 6. And be it further enacted , That land scrip issued under rhe provisions of this act shall not be subject to location until after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 12 % Section 7. And be it further enacted , That the land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip, issued under the pro- visions of this act as are now allowed for the hxalion ’of military bounty warrants under existing laws; Provided , That maximum com- pensation shall not be thereby increased. Section 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. A|t y\CT TO AMEND THE FIFTH SECTION OF “ AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT DONATING PUBLIC LANDS TO THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES WHICH MAY PROVIDE COLLEGES FOR THE BENEFIT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS, ” APPROVED JULY 2, 1862. SO AS TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH THE PROVISIONS OF SAID ACT SHALL BE ACCEPTED AND SUCH COLLEGES ESTABLISHED. , Be it enacted by the Senate and House ■ of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That the time in which the soveral States may comply with the act of Juty second, eighteen hun dred and sixty-two, entitled “ An act donating public lands to the sev- eral States and Territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, is hereby extended, so that the acceptance of the benefits of said act may be expressed within three years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by said act may be provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the Commissioner of the General Land Office; Provided, That when any Territory shall become a State, and be admit- ted into the Union, such new State shall be entitled to the benefit of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. by expressing the ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. m acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the Union r and providing the college or colleges within five years after such acceptance, as prescribed in this act; Pro- vided further, That any State which has heretofore expressed its accept- anceof the act herein referred to, shall have the period of five years within which to provide at least one college, as described in the fourth section of said act, after the time for providing said college, according to the act of July second, eight en hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired. Approved July 23, 1866. OF THE STATE. GRANT PROM THE UNITED STATES. SECTION . SECTION. Assent of State to. State to perform conditions of. Transmission of act to Washington. When grant considered accepted. Lands and land scrip, how applied. FINANCIAL AGENT. Trustees, duties of. Trustees to turn property over, how. secretary and treasurer. Election of, how provided for. Treasurer to give bond. Removal of Secretary and Treasurer Compensation. 6 . 7. 8 . 9. 10 , 11 . 12 . 13. 14, 15. 16. 17. 18. Who shall be. Duties of. BOA HD OF TRUSTEES. 23. Buildings, how erected. Lands donated to University, how 24. RULES AND REGULATIONS. How prescribed. BODY CORPORATE AND POLITIC. Powers of and how formed. deeded. Property donated or bid, how dis- posed of. Value of buildings. Duties of Board . Expenses, how paid. Rights of action in behalf of Uni- versity, how provided for. General business of University, how to be conducted. Salary and wages. Trusteeships vacated. Board ot Trustees, of whom to con- sist. REMOVAL OF MEMBERS FROM BOARD Of 1 TRUSTEES. 25. How done. 26. Charges against, proceedings on. 27. Examinations and process. BRANCH NORMAL COLLEGE. 28 . How to be located . 29 . ( are and management of. 30. Property of. 31. Aid to, how protected. 32. General provision for protection of- GRANT FROM THE UNITED STATES. Section 1. The State of Arkansas hereby signifies her assent to the grant of land and land scrip authorized and contained in the act of Congress of the United states entitled “ An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,” approved July 2, 1862, and altogether on the terms and conditions in said act pro- vided, and also to the act of Congress entitled “An act to amend the fifth section of an act entitled ‘An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, ’ approved J uly 2, 1862, m ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. bo as to extend to the time within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted, and such colleges established,” approved July 23, 1866 Sec. 2. The State of Arkansas shall observe and perform the conditions in said enactment of July 2, 1862, contained and provided, that is to say : , First Th<‘ State of Arkansas will replace any portion of the fund provided by section four of said act, or any portion of the interest thereon, which shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, so that the capital fund shall remain forever undiminished, and will apply the annual interest thereon regularly without diminution io the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of the said act of Congress, subject o ly to the exception contained in section five of the act last referr 1 to. Second , The State of Arkansas further assenting, agrees that no portion of said fund, no" the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly under any pretense whatever to the purchase, erection, or preservation or repair of any building or buildings. Third , The State of Arkansas further agrees to provide at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of said act of Congress, and in accordance with the act amendatory of said act, and also to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold to which title of purchasers was valid. Fourth , The State of Arkansas further agrees that an annual leport shall be made regarding the progress of each college in accordance with paragraph four of section five of said act of Congress of July 2 , 1862 . Sec. 3. The secretary of State shall transmit to the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington, and cause to be filed in the office of said Commissioner, a duly authenticated copy of this act. Sec 4. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage, as an act of acceptance of the grant of Congress before referred to, and from the date of the same with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, as the time for providing of the colleges, as required by said aet of Congress of July 2, 1862. Act of January 31, 1866. (a ) Sec. 5 Such lands and land scrip as may accrue to this State by virtue of an act of the Congress of the United. States entitled “An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories, which (a.) A duly authenticated copy of this act was filed in the office of the Com- missioner of the General Land Office at Washington, D. C.. February 12, 18G7n ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 127 may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,” approved July 2, 1862, and the act amendatory thereof, shall, together with the avails thereof, be devoted and forever applied to the endowment and maintenance, under such laws or articles of incorpora* tion as may be by the General Assembly hereafter provided, of an institution of learning to be st 3 T led the “ Arkansas Industrial Univer- sity. ” wherein shall be taught, in addit on to the usual course of study prescribed in universities, the science and practice of agriculture, the mechanic arts, engineering, and military science and tactics; tui ion in such university to be as near as ma} 7 be without charge, and pupils to be apportioned to the several counties as the Legislature may pres- cribe ; Provided , There shall be established honorary scholarships without charge for the benefit of descendants of soldiers and seamen who served in the armies and Xavy of the United States during the late rebellion, preference being given to the descendants of such as died or were disabled in said service; and also one honorary scholar- ship to each county, to be selected for superior merit and proficiency from the public schools of such county. Act July 23, 1868, section two. FINA V €TA.L AGENT, Sec. 6. The Treasurer of State shall bt> a financial agent and trustee of said State, to apply for and receive of the United States Government all the land scrip to which this Sta e may be entitled by reason of her acceptance of the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act donating public lands to the several States and Ter* ritories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agiiculture and the mechanic arts,” approved July 2, 1862, and the act amendatorv thereof. Act March 27, 1871, section one. Sec. 7. The Treasurer of State is hereb}* fully empowered to offer and sell said land scrip in whatever market he can dispose of the same, or any part thereof, to the best advantage of said State, and with the proceeds of such sale to purchase interest-bearing bonds of the United States, such scrip to be sold at the highest market rates, and such bonds to be purchased at the lowest prices for which they can be had in any market ; or, if more advantageous, the Treasurer of State, as financial agent, may, upon the best practical terms, buy the bonds of Washington county, Arkansas, and the bonds of the town of Fayette- ville, Arkansas, issued for the purpose of securing the location of said Arkansas Industrial University at said town and county; Provided , Such financial agent shall be subject to the direction and control of the Hoard of Trustees hereinafter mentioned, and he shall not pay for ARKANSAS IJS/DUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 128 said bonds a greater sum per dollar than may be sanctioned by reso- lution of said Board. Act March 13, 1873. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Sec. 8. Upon the location of the Arkansas Industrial University as herein provided for, the Board of Trustees may employ such archi- tects and mechanics as may be thought best, and the general plan and specifications of such buildings as are to be erected before the regular meeting of the next General Assembly shall be agreed upon ; and the said Board shall give public notice and receive bids for the furnishing of material and erection of such buildings as a whole or in parts, as to them shall seem best; and they are empowered to appoint a committee or committees, of their own number, or of other discreet citizens, to receive bids and enter into contract or contracts for such materials and work, with power to reject bids deemed too high or of parties not solvent or sufficiently secured, and such further discre- tionary powers as may be deemed advisable ; and also to appoint such commissioners, architects or other superintendent of the buildings as may be necessary from time to time to inspect the same, and see that payments are not made upon the work unless the same comes fully up to the plan and specifications agreed upon by said Board ; payments to be made upon material and work according to contract, upon the certificate of the architect or inspector and the Building Committee, approved by the President of the Board, and out of the funds herein- after provided for. Sec. 9. Upon the assent of said Board to accept lands or other property upon the terms and for the purposes herein specified, the same shall be deeded by the subscribers or donors to the State of Arkansas for the use and benefit of said Industrial University. Sec. 10. All property or bonds donated or bid as herein provided for, and accepted by said Board of Trustees as aforesaid, shall consti- tute a part of the fund of said Industrial University, and such bonds shall be held by said financial agent, to be by him sold or deposited under the direction of said Board; Provided, That, if said bonds are offered for sale, they shall be first advertised in the countv where issued, and there offered for sale at such price as may be fixed by said Board, and they shall not thereafter be sold in any other market for a less sum than that at which they were offered in said county until they are again offered in the county at such reduced rates as are agreed upon, said bonds to be issued in equal numbers of five hundred and one thou- sand dollars each, with coupons for the amount of the accruing interest thereto attached, which bonds and coupons shall be procured by the ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 120 said financial agent, and each bond shall be presented to and signed by the presiding judge of such County Court, or the presiding officer of such town or City Council, and said bonds and coupons thereto attached shall be signed by the clerk of such county or the recording • •fficerof such town or city, and the overdue coupons of such bonds shall always be receivable for all taxes of the county or corporation by which they were issued. Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of said Board to cause to be erected, upon such location as they may select, with all practical speed, suitable buildings of a value fully equal to the donations, bids and subscriptions made b\ the county corporation and individuals where such subscribe tion is made, and said county or corporation shall not be required to pay interest on the bonds that may be issued by it more than one year, until said buildings are erected and a school organized therein; and should such county or corporation be required to pay more than one year’s interest on such bonds before such school is organized, the amount so paid shall be refunded to it by the State. And it is hereby made the absolute duty of the hoard of Supervisors of the county or corpo- ration council issuing such bonds to annually levy a tax and collect in currency or over-due coupons of such bonds a sum fully sufficient to pay all accruing interest on such bonds and incidental expenses con- nected therewith, and, upon failure to do so, it shall be the duty of any court of competent jurisdiction, upon the application of any one or more holders of such' bonds to compel such Hoard of Supervisors or Council forthwith to levy and collect such sums as will fully pay all such interest as herein provided for (6). Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of said Board of Trustees to have provided suitable furniture for said University, and to employ all nec- essary supervisors, professors and teachers, agents or servants required to organize and carry on such University according to the true spirit and intent of the acts of Congress in reference thereto, with a normal department therein, as in this act provided; but they shall observe strict economy, and incur no incidental expenses and fill no professor- ships not absolutely required in the earlier sessions of said Universtiy but they may from time to time, as the finances will allow, and the advancement and necessities of the institution require, fill other chairs, and add to the building furniture, libraries, apparatus and other things proper to the full operation and well being of a first-class university. ( b ) The Arkansas Industrial University was located under this act at Fay- etteville, in the county of Washington, in the latter part of the year 1871, the county of Washington voting one hundred thousand dollars and the town of Fayetteville thirty thousand dollars, in thirty year eight per cent bonds, to the University, upon condition that it should be located where it now is. The Uni- versity was formally opened for the reception of pupils January 22. 1872. ‘ 9 ISO ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY Sec- 13. The President of the Board and the financial agent herein named shall attend at the times and places herein named and required, and shall perform all such duties as are herein required or may be directed by said Board, without salary or fees, or any com- pensation whatsoever except such as they now receive for other services for the State; but their own and the Trustees’ necessary trav- eling expenses and board bills, and other necessary incidental expenses in carrying this act. into effect, shall be paid by the State, upon the official certificate of the person incurring such expense being approved by the President of the Board, which shall be a voucher in the office of the Auditor of State. Said Trustees shall each receive two dollars and fifty cents for each day necessarily consumed on duty as such Trustees, payable as above provided for. Sec. 14. The State of Arkansas, for the use of said University, shall have a right of action against any and all persons who may commit trespass against or upon any of the property or effects of said University or upon the breach of any covenant, contract or promise made with said School Board or any sub committee or agent appointed by such Board, proceedings may be prosecuted by the Prosecuting Attorney of the district, or such counsel as may be employed under the direction of said Board; and if sued all the law officers of the State shall, free of charge, defend said Board, their committees or agents, in all matters growing out of acts done in connection with the business of said University. Sec. 15. All things necessary tu be had or done to carry this act into full force and effect, and to completely organize and put in full operation the University herein provided for, and not specially named herein, shall be done by or under the direction of said Board of Trus- tees, and they and their committees and agentsshall keep full accounts of all expenditures; and the President of said Board, in his biennial report to the Governor, shall fully set forth the advancement and con- dition of the University, the extent of the real estate, improvements, and other property owned by it, and a detailed account of all expendi- tures made by such Board, or under its direction, in reference to any and all business connected with said University, and shall recommend such further legislation as the interest of the institution may require. Sec. 16 . Said Board of Trustees shall fix. and from time to time regula e the fees, allowances, salaries and wages to be paid architects, inspectors, professors, teachers, agents, committees, servants, or other necessary employees ; and they shall observe rigid economy in such expenditures, and each of said Trustees shall fake an oath, before entering upon duty to faithfully and diligently discharge his duties according to law. Act March 27, 1871. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY . 131 Sec. 17. All Trusteeships created by or under the provisions of the act of the General Assembly of the State, entitled “ An act for the location, organization and maintenance of the Arkansas Industrial University, with a Normal Department therein, ” approved March 27. 1871, are hereby vacated, and all the authority and power of said University, Trustees and Committeemen appointed or elected by or under them, are revoked. Sec. 18. Until further provided by law, the Board of Trustees of said University shall consist of Dudley E. Jones, L. Gregg, A. W. Dinsmore, James M Johnson, M. F. Lake, J. C. Walker and Wood E. Thompson, and the Governor of the State for the time being, and the President of said University, and they shall have all authority and necessary powers to cany out the provisions of said act, and all sub- sequent acts supplemental to or amendatory thereof. The Governor shall ex officio be President of said Board, and in his absence the mem- bers of the Board shall elect one of their number President. In case of a tie, the President of the Board, the President of the University, and Secretary of the Board by majority, shall cast the deciding vote; in all other cases they shall each have one vote as other members of the Board. A majority of said Trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time and send for absent members; Provided , If said Trustees shall fail to accept the positions herein tendered them, or if a vacancy should otherwise occur, when the Legislature is not in session, the same shall be filled by the Governor by appointment. Sec. 19. It is made the duty of each of said Trustees herein des- ignated to attend a board meeting at the University buildings, near Fayetteville, on the last Thursday in June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four (1874,) and they shall meet at said place annually there- after ; and they shall have power to hold adjourned meetings, when the business of the University actually requires it, or the President of the Board may call a meeting of the Board when he is satisfied the interests of the University require it, or when five members of the Board petition him so to do. Sec. 20. Each of the Trustees whose office is vacated by this act is required forthwith to turn over to the Treasurer of the State, or the President of said University, all moneys, title papers, books; stationery, and other property or effects, of every kind whatever, in his possession and belonging to said University, and it shall be the duty of said Presi- dent and Treasurer of State to give a receipt for said property, etc., and they shall severally thereafter be responsible for all they may respectively receipt for, and the same shall be held subj«ct to the order of the Board or the President thereof. Act May 30, 1874, sections 1, 2, 4 and 5. 132 ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. SECRETARY AND TREASURER. Sec. 21. At the annual meetings of said Board they shall elect one of their number Secretary and another Treasurer, and such committees as to them may appear necessary to carry out the provisions of the act aforesaid, and, until such elections are held, Dudley E Jones shall act as Secretaiy of said Board, and the President of said University shall act as. Treasurer, and he shall be responsible upon his official bond heretofore given for his acts as such Treasurer, and for all funds that may come into his hands belonging to said University, and A. W. Dinsmore, L. Gregg and James M. Johnson shall act as a building com- mittee, and shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as the former building committee of said Board. Ibid, section 3. Sec. 22. Such Treasurer shall give bond to the State of Arkansas, with approved security, in such sum as the Board shall adjudge amply sufficient to secure the funds of the institution from loss, which bond shall be filed with the Secretary of State. The Board shall have power to remove the Secretary and Treasurer, and they may allow them a reasonable compensation for their services, not to exceed the sum allowed herein to Trustees for the time actually employed. Said reasurer, under the direction of the Board, may draw from the Treas- urer of the State such sums as may be deemed necessary for the ready payment for building and other accruing expenses; Provided , He shall at no time draw or have on hand more than ten thousand dollars, and the same shall be paid out as the Board shall direct. RULES AND REGULATIONS. Sec. 23. Said Board of Trustees shall have power to prescribe all necessary rules and regulations for the government and discipline of said University, and prescribe the grade and number of honorary scholarships, and prescribe the rules by which scholars who are to be admitted free shall be elected equally from the various parts of the State, subject to such changes as the legislature may hereafter make. BODY CORPORATE AND POLITIC. Sec. 24. Said Board of Trustees are authorized and empowered to form themselves into a body corporate and politic, under the gen- eral laws of this State now existing, or hereafter to be put in force ; and upon the complete formation and organization of such a corpora- ion, they shall have and exercise all the powers and privileges, allowed by the Constitution and laws of the State to any like corpo- ration, in all matters pertaining to the location, organization, maiute- ARKANSAS IND US TllT A L UNIVERSITY 133 nance and regulation or support of said University. Act March 27. 1871. REMOVAL OF MEMBER FROM BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Sec. 2”>. Hereafter the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Indus- trial Hniversity, for an}" cause by them deemed sufficient, shall have power, by a majority vote, taken at any regular meeting, to remove any member from said Board : Provided , That no member shall be so removed without as many as five of such Trustees voting for such removal ; and when an}’ member of said Board shall be so removed, the votes of the Trustees shall be recorded, and the President of the Board shall make a certificate, showing the result of such vote, and transmit the same without delay to the Governor of the State, who shall at once declare the commission which had been issued to such removed Trustee vacated, and he shall appoint and commission some competent man to fill the vacancy so occasioned. Sec. 20. The said Board of Trustees are hereby fully empowered and authorized, either as a Board or through any committee they may select or appoint, to inquire into and fully investigate any and all charges that have been or may be preferred against any Trustee of said Board, or any member of any committee appointed by or under the direction of said Board, or any contractor, architect, builder, em- ploye, agent, or other person acting by agreement with, or authority of, or under said Board of Trustees or any of the committees of said Board, in any capacity whatever, and for the purposes of such investi- gations or inquiry, said Board or any committee appointed by them shall hold meetings in the State at such time and place as may be designated by the Board orb}’ the committee so appointed, and the Chairman of the Executive Committee of said Board for the time being shall have full and ample power to issue all necessary process for 'summoning and compelling the attendance before such Board or committee, and may impose upon all witnesses who refuse to obey such process or to testify fully and explicitly before such Board or committee in reference to any and all such matters as may be the subject of inquiry, all the pains and penalties that might or could be imposed upon such witness by the Circuit Court in any case, if he were to fail and refuse to appearand testify before the proper Circuit Court of his county, in a cause or matter legally pending therein, after being duly summoned to so appear and testify therein; and said process issued by the Chairman of said Executive Committee may be directed to any Sheriff, Coroner or Constable in this State, and if such officer fails, neglects or refuses to execute such process, he shall be subject to all the forfeitures, pains and penalties which might or would be im- m ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. posed upon him for failingj neglecting or refusing to serve necessary or proper process from a Circuit Court in his own county; and such fine, imprisonment and penalties as can be so assessed shall be enforced and carried out upon the order of such Chairman of the Executive Committee, which Chairman shall be required to have no commission to so act except as a member of the Board, and a certificate of his election or appointment to such place by the Board of Trustees or the President of such Board. Sec. 27. The material parts of all examinations and inquiries had by any committee shall be reduced to writing and laid before the Board for their action, and process under this act shall run in the name of the State, and officers and witnesses shall execute and obey the same without any advanced fees or compensation, and their accounts or claims for such service or attendance, or other costs arising in such investigation, shall be presented to said Board of Trustees, and they shall, through their President, order certificates issued upon their treasurer for reasonable compensation. Act April 5, 1873. BRANCH NORMAL COLLEGE. Sec. 28. The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial Uni- versity are hereby authorized to take into consideration the interests of the State, and especially the convenience and well being of the poorer classes, and to select a suitable site and locate thereon a branch Normal College, which location, owing to the principal college being- located in the northwestern portion of the State, shall be made soutlv east, or east or south of the county of Pulaski. Sec. 29. When said Branch Normal College shall be located, organized and put in operation, it shall be under the care and manage- ment of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial University, and said branch college shall in all things be governed by the same rules and regulations as said principal college, and pupils shall be admitted into it in like numbers, and upon the same conditions, and with like qualifications and recommendations as they are or shall be admitted into said principal college ; and it shall be the duty of said Board of Trustees, and they are hereby required to furnish said branch college with professors and teachers, and other necessary employes, equal in numbers, attainments and other desirable quali- fications to those furnished and employed in said principal Normal College now organized as a department in said University and they shall prescribe the same books, the same course of study, like training and proficiency as may be directed, adopted and required in- said princi- pal college, and they shall confer upon graduates thereof like honors, ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 135 commendations and degrees to those had or given in said principal Normal College. Sec. 30. All property purchased, bequeathed, donated or other- wise obtained for the purposes or uses of this branch college, shall be received and conveyed as prescribed in the act to which this is supplemental, and be forever held and appropriated for the uses, purposes and benefits of this branch College. Sec. 31.’ The said Board of Trustees are authorized, by them- selves or through any committee they may appoint, to receive aid in money, property, or other valuable effects for the benefit of said institution, from any and all individuals towns or other continuities or corporations, and all gifts, devises and donations that can be had to secure the location or to aid in erecting or maintaining said branch college. They are authorized to purchase such property and cause such buildings to be erected thereon as they may deem best consistent with the amount of means appropriated, or otherwise obtained for the use of this branch college. Sec 32. All the provisions of the act, to which this is a supple- ment, for the government of the Board of Trustees and the manage- ment of the University, not inconsistent with this supplement shall apply and be observed in the organization, government and mainte- nance of this branch college; the money appropriated to carry out the objects of this act shall be subject at all times to the order and control of said Board, to be drawn from the Treasurer of the State upon their order. The Treasurer shall receive from them all funds they may at any time wish to deposit, and return the same, or any part thereof, in such funds as they may deposit, upon the order of the the Board and the certificate of its President; and said Board of Trustees shall, as soon as practicable, j>r°cecd to the erection of buildings and the organization of said branch college. Act April 25, 1873. AN ACT CHANGING BOARD MEETINGS AND ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF REGENT FOR TIIE ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas: Section 1 . That, hereafter the annual meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industrial University shall bo at the Uni- versity buildings on Monday of the last week of the Commencement exercises of each year. Section 2. Be it further enacted , That said Board of Trustees are authorized to elect their Secretary of their own number, or such other competent person as they may deem proper, that the Secretary shall take charge and control of such property, perform all such labor and services, keep such books, and make such returns as the Board of Trustees may direct or require. Section 3. Be it further enacted , That said Board of Trustees may elect their Treasurer of their own number, or such other person as they may deem proper. Said Treasurer and Secretary shall each execute bond to the State of Arkansas for the use of the University with security approved by the Board, or the President thereof in vacation, in such sum as they may require not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the faithful performance of all the duties that may appertain to their respective offices, which bonds shall be filed in the office of Secretary of State. Section 4 . Be it further enacted , That said Board of Trustees are "hereby empowered, if the interest of the University require, to elect a Begent who shall be a practical farmer, to take control of the agri- cultural and mechanical departments, and who shall be Secretary of the Board, and he shall have the care and supervision of all the property appertaining to said University, and he shall be responsible or the preservation and management thereof ; he shall at all times be • ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 137 subject to the orders of the Board or removal thereby; and he shall from time to time, make such inventories of property, keep such books and make such reports as may be required by the Board, and perform such service in the management of the farm, orchard and mechanical departments or other labor, as may be directed by the Board, and he shall give bond and security as above required of the Secretary, for the faithful discharge of all the duties required of him, and he shall receive from the State a salary to be fixed by the Board, not exceeding one thousand dollars; Provided , That the said Recent shall not receive any other or further compensation for the discharge of the duties of Regent and Secretary. Section 5 . And be it further enacted , That a Board of Visitors for said University is hereby created, to consist of six gentlemen from different portions of the State, to be selected by the Governor, for their learning, integrity and business qualifications, whose duty it shall be to visit said University, at least once in each year, at such time as may be designated by the Governor, and as often as he may deem necessary, not exceeding once in each term. It shall be the duty of said Visitors to carefully examine into all the departments of said University, and fully report thereon to the Governor, and through him to the General Assembly, and suggest such changes, make such recommendations and . petition for such legislation as the interests of the University may require. Any three of said Board may form a quorum, and in discharge of their duties they, or any committee they may appoint of their own number, are fully authorized to call for and examine all books, papers, vouchers and reports in any manner appertaining to any department in said University, and they may examine on oath any member of the Board of Trustees or Faculty, any student or employe or other person in reference to the expenditure of moneys, the management of the University, its effects or any other matter or thing relating thereto. Said Visitors may elect their own chairman, and appoint of their number such com- mittees as they may deem proper, and their chairman is authorized to issue subpoenas and administer oaths, and they and each member thereof shall be allowed during all business hours to visit any and all class and other rooms, hear recitations, and observe the mode and efficiency of instruction and the discipline maintained in the different departments. Section 6 . It shall be the duty of the Boatd of Trustees to appor- tion the number of beneficiaries or scholars who are admitted as students in the University free of tuition, among the several counties of the State, according to population, and to notify the Judge of the County Court of each county of the number of beneficiaries appor- 9 * ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 13 * tinned to the county at least one month prior to the annual meeting of the County Court lor the purpose of levying taxes, and it shall be (he duty’ of the ( ounty’ Court at the annual meeting aforesaid, to appoint from actual residents and citizens of the county, the number of beneficiaries apportioned to the county, a preference being given to those noted lor diligence and proficiency in stud}’, and the appoint- ments so made shall be entered of record in the proceedings of said court. Any vacancies in the number of beneficiaries during the terms of the University, shall be filled by appointment by the Judge of the County Court. Any beneficiaries appointed as herein pre- scribed, shall comply with the rules and regulations provided by the Board of Trust* es in reference to beneficiaries in the University. It shall be the duty of the Judge of the County Court, immediately upon receiving notification from the Board of Trustees as above pro- vided, to give notice in the manner prescribed by law for the publi- cation of legal notices, of the number of beneficiaries allowed to the county, and of the time, manner and place of making appointments to the same, and no person shall be admitted to the said University as a beneficiary, who has not been appointed in accordance with the pro- visions of this section. Section 7. That upon the certificate of the respective Visitors approved by the Governor, the State shall pay all the necessary expenses the Visitors incurred in the discharge of their duties herein prescribed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March G, 1875. ARKANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF ARDENT SPIRITS NEAR THR A RK A NaAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas : Section 1 . That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give away vinous or ardent spirits within three miles of the Arkansas Industrial University, except the same be for medicinal purposes, as hereinafter provided. Section 2. Be it further enacted , That no person shall sell or give away any vinous or ardent spirits within three miles of said Univer- sity, unless he be a regular .practicing physician, and not until he has signed and sworn to an affidavit before the County Clerk of Washing- ton county, and shall have had the same duly recorded, which affidavit shall be in the following form : I, — - — — do solemnly swear that I am a regular practicing physician, that I will not sell or give away any vinous or ardent spirits to any one unless it be for medicinal purposes, and believe the kind and quantitv will be bene- ficial in the treatment of the disease under which the patient is suffering. Section 3. Beit further enacted, That no one shall be excused from the pena'ty of this act who may, contrary to its provisions, sell, or cause to be sold, intoxicating drink, by reason of its being put up as bitters, mixed with drugs, or vended as a medicine, except as provided in the foregoing sections. Section 4. Be it further enacted , That any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall be fined not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1875. ERRATA. Page 6, last line, read “ Ark., ” for “ Pa, ” Page 44, sixth line from the top, read “ the ” for “ sheT Page 92, thirteenth line from the bottom, read ‘*$40,329 00’* for “$4,0329 00^ INDEX. A PAGE. Aims and establishment of the Uni- versity 17 Account, Cash of Secretary 71, 72 Account of Treasurer 64, 65 Account Building Fund 61, 62 Account State Scrip 63 Account Farm, of Secretary 73 Account, Furniture, of Secretary.... 75 Account, Library, of Secretary 75 Account, Apparatus, of Secretary... 76 Account Chemicals, of Secretary... 76 Account, Building, of Secretary 77 Account, Educational, 78,79 Account Incidental 79, 80, 81 page. Account, Stationery, 82 Account, Labor, 83 Account, Current Expense of >ec- Account, Treasurer of Interest on Appropriations, Abstract of. 94 Address of President Bishop 108 Acts of Congress 120 Acts of Legislature 125 Apparatus 44 Admission, classical course 26 Admission, Engineering 30 Admission, Commercial 31 Beneficiaries Branch Normal College Board of Trustees, Report of.. Bishop, Pres., resignation of. Calendar for 1875-76 Commercial College Course of Study Course, Agricultural Course in Engineering Course, Normal Course, Preparatory Curtis, Lt., Report of. B 116 50 95 By-Laws and Rules. By-Laws changed Botefuhr, Account of. Band, Brass C / 20 I Contributions 23 I Cabinet 24 I Conduct of University. 27 j Clothing I.. 29 ; Committees appointed... 33 Committees standing.... 35 j Catalogue for 1875-76.... 102 | Corbin, Prof. D Department, Normal 19. 32 Discipline : 42 Department Military 23 Dinsmore Trusiee, Report Duties of Officers Du lies of Committees Establishment of University Endowment of University — Election of Professors Election of Secretary E 17 I Election of Treasurer 19 | Engineering 95 Executive Committee 59 j Estimate of appropriation*. 97 56 59 41 .. 43 .. 44 .. 45 .. 48 .. 95 .. 100 9 .. 116 53 98 ll)l 59 29 100 92 A RKANSAS INDUSTRIA L UNI VERS II ) . 142 F Farm Report 105 j Finance Committee 95 Funds 01 University 20 I Furniture Account 75 G General Information 41 l Gray, Professor. Election of. 95 Gregg, Trustee Report 54 | General Contract of University 45 H History and Literature, Prof. of..... 93 Harvey, Prof., Election of. 52 1 Information, General, 41 J Johnson Trustee, Pres, pro tem 50 | Jones, Trustee Report of. 58 L Location of University 18 Literary Societies 43 Lieut. Curtis’ Report 103 Laws of Congress and State 121 L. R. & F. S. R. R 119 M Military Department 46 I Music Department . 43 Meeting of Board 128 | Morrill Hill 114 Memphis and Little Rock R . R. 119 j Normal Department.. Normal College Number of Students. Property of University...... Peabody Fund President of Board, Duties. N 32 I New Board of Trustees - 44 116 I Number of Beneficiaries 22 16 | P 20 I Proceedings on death of Professor 91 | Thompson 93 98 j Proceedings of the Board.... . 50 Report of Building Committee Report on Normal Branch College Resignation of Pres. Bishop R 54 Rules and By-laws .60 Regulations for Military Dept. 95 97 46 Studies in Classical Course Studies in Agriculture Studies in Engineering , Studies in Commerce Studies in Normal Department. Societies. Literary S 24 \ Students, Number of... 27 I Secretary, Election of 29 I Stationery Account..... 31 I State Scrip Account.. 32 j Salaries of Professors... 43 | State, Laws of., 16 59 82 83 95 125 tl KANSAS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY IJfi T Terms and Vacations .... 20 Teachers of Arkansas 118 Tuition .... 22 Treasurer, Duties of 98 Training School .... 33 Trearurer. Election of. Transportation .... 119 Trustees. Board of. U Uniform * 48 V Vacations and Terms 20 | Vacancies in the Board 129 t