An Act to Provide for the Government of the State University, and to Repeal Chapter Fifty-
Seven of the Revised Statutes of Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Six.

[Approved April 8, 1851. Took effect July 8, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 205.]

tinued.

(2183.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, University con That the institution established in this State, and known as the University of Michigan, is continued under the name and style heretofore used.

(2184.) SEC. 2. The University shall provide the inhabitants Its objects. of this State with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of Literature, Science and Arts. (2185.) SEC. 3. The government of the University is vested Government in the Board of Regents. (2186.) SEC. 4. The Board of Regents shall constitute the Regents to be a body corporate, with the right as such of suing and being sued, of making and using a common seal, and altering the

same.

vested in Board of Regents.

body Corporate.

By-Laws, etc.,

Professors, etc.,

(2187.) SEC. 5. The Regents shall have power to enact Regents to make ordinances, by-laws and regulations for the government of the elect President, University; to elect a President, to fix, increase and reduce and fix salaries. the regular number of Professors and Tutors, and to appoint the same, and to determine the amount of their salaries: Provided, that there shall always be at least one Professor of Homoeopathy in the department of Medicine. (a)

President, Pro

(2188.) SEC. 6. They shall have power to remove the May remove President, and any Professor or Tutor, when the interest of fessors, etc. the University shall require it.

other Officers,

their compensa

(2189.) SEC. 7. They shall have power to appoint a Secretary, May appoint Librarian, Treasurer, Steward, and such other officers as the and prescribe interests of the institution may require, who shall hold their tion. offices at the pleasure of the board, and receive such compensation as the board may prescribe.

(2190.) SEC. 8. The University shall consist of at least three of what departdepartments:

1. A department of Literature, Science and the Arts;

2. A department of Law;

3. A department of Medicine;

4. Such other departments may be added as the Regents

ments University to consist.

(a) As Amended by "An Act to Amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to Provide for the Government of the State University, and to Repeal Chapter Fifty-Seven of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six,' approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one." Approved Feb. 12, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 232.

Regents to prescribe Course of

dents who do not

Collegiate Course.

shall deem necessary, and the state of the University fund shall allow.

(2191.) SEC. 9. The Regents shall provide for the arrangeStudy for Stu- ment and selection of a course or courses of study in the desire to pursue University, for such students as may not desire to pursue the usual collegiate course, in the department of literature, science and the arts, embracing the ancient languages, and to provide for the admission of such students without previous examination as to their attainments in said languages, and for granting such certificates at the expiration of such course or term of such students, as may be appropriate to their respective attainments.

sion for MeteoroLogical Tables.

To make provi- (2192.) SEC. 10. The Regents shall make provision for keeping a set of meteorological tables at the University, after the forms adopted and furnished by the Smithsonian Institution, the record of which shall be transmitted with their report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall embody the same into his report.

General direction of Institution.

Admission Fees.

(2193.) SEC. 11. The immediate government of the several departments shall be entrusted to the President and the respective faculties; but the Regents shall have power to regulate the course of instruction, and prescribe, under the advice of the Professorship, the books and authorities to be used in the several departments; and also to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usually conferred and granted by other similar institutions.

(2194.) SEC. 12. The fee of admission to the regular University course in the department of literature, science and the arts, shall not exceed ten dollars, but such course or courses of instruction as may be arranged under the provisions of What Students section nine of this act, shall be open without fee to the citizens of this State.

admitted without

Fee.

University to be open to Citizens

out charge.

(2195.) SEC. 13. The University shall be open to all persons of the State with resident of this State, without charge of tuition, under the regulations prescribed by the Regents; and to all other persons under such regulations and restrictions as the board may prescribe.

Moneys to whom paid, and how applied.

(2196.) SEC. 14. The moneys received from such source shall be paid to the Treasurer, and so much thereof as shall be necessary for the purpose, shall be expended by the Regents in keeping the University buildings in good condition and repair, and the balance shall be appropriated for the increase of the library.

Regents.

(2197.) SEC. 15. The Board of Regents shall make an exhibit Annual Report of of the affairs of the University, in each year, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, setting forth the condition of the University and its branches; the amount of receipts and expenditures; the number of Professors, Tutors and other officers, and the compensation of each; the number of students in the several departments, and in the different classes; the books of instruction used; an estimate of the expenses for the ensuing year; a full transcript of the journal of their proceedings for the year; together with such other information and suggestions as they may deem important, or the Superintendent of Public Instruction may require to embody in his report.

erected from in

sity Fund.

(2198.) SEC. 16. From the increase arising from the interest Buildings may be of the University fund, the Board of Regents may erect, from crease of Univer time to time, such buildings as are necessary for the uses of the University, on the grounds set apart for the same; but no such buildings shall be erected until provision shall be made for the payment of the existing indebtedness of the University, nor until one branch of the University shall be established in each judicial circuit of the State.

how expended.

(2199.) SEC. 17. The Board of Regents shall have power to Interest of Fund, expend so much of the interest arising from the University fund, as may be necessary for the improving and ornamenting the University grounds, for the purchase of philosophical, chemical, meteorological, and other apparatus, and to keep the same in good condition.

may establish

(2200.) SEC. 18. As soon as the income of the University Board of Regents interest fund will admit, it shall be the duty of the Board of branches. Regents to organize and establish branches of the University, one at least in each judicial circuit or district of the State, and to establish all needful rules and regulations for the government of the same. They shall not give to any such branch the right of conferring degrees, nor appropriate a sum excceding fifteen hundred dollars, in any one year, for the support of any such branch.

(2201.) SEC. 19. The Regents may establish and organize a nid. branch or branches, by the creation of a Trusteeship for the local management of the same, or they may in their discretion select for a branch, under the restrictions aforesaid, any chartered literary institution in the State.

(2202.) SEC. 20. The meetings of the Board may be called in Meetings of such manner as the Regents shall prescribe; five of them shall

Board.

Board of Visitors may be appointed.

constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less number may adjourn from time to time.

(2203.) SEC. 21. A Board of Visitors, to consist of three persons, shall be appointed biennially at the commencement of the collegiate year, by the Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. It shall be their duty to make a personal examination into the state and condition of the University in all its departments and branches, once at least in each year, and Their duties and report the result to the Superintendent, suggesting such improvements as they may deem important; which report shall be embodied into the report of the Superintendent.

Report.

Regents and

Visitors to be

penses.

(2204.) SEC. 22. The Regents and Visitors of the University paid their ex- shall each receive pay for the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid out of the University interest fund.

Orders on Treasurer how signed.

Repeal of Chap. 57 of Revised Statutes.

(2205.) SEC. 23. All orders on the Treasurer shall be signed by the Secretary, and countersigned by the President.

(2206.) SEC. 24. Chapter fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed.

Department of
Natural History

An Act Relative to the Department of Natural History in the University of Michigan.

[Approved May 11, 1846. Laws of 1846, p. 199.]

(2207.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of in the University. Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the various specimens of geology, mineralogy, zoology, botany, and all other specimens pertaining to Natural History belonging to the State, and now deposited in the University buildings, be, and the same are hereby transferred to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, to be held by said Board of Regents in trust for the use and benefit of the said University and its branches; and the said Board of Regents are hereby authorized to take, have and enjoy, the right, property, possession and control thereof, and make such disposition of the said specimens as may be most beneficial for the interests of the University and its branches aforesaid.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER LXXVI.

OF THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws Relative to the Establishment of a State Normal

School.

[Approved March 25, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 123.]

(2208.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Acts and conRepresentatives of the State of Michigan, That all acts done Education con

and contracts made by and with the Board of Education under and by virtue of "An Act to establish a State Normal School,"

tracts of Board of firmed.