been given of said vacancy by the superintendent of said seminary; and the cadets so elected shall be entitled to admission into the seminary at such time as the board of supervisors shall prescribe; and, provided further, that the selection of said beneficiary cadets shall be made from among those who have not themselves or whose parents have not the means of paying their expenses, which facts shall appear by the certificate of the president of said jury or board of directors; and that said beneficiaries, whose education is thus provided for, shall be required, at the close of their term at said institution, to pur- To teach school sue the occupation of teaching school within the State for two years for two yea years in thereafter, and shall be required to report such facts to the superinFour hundred tendent of said institution; that the sum of four hundred dollars be dollars approand the same is hereby annually appropriated for two years to maintain and educate each of said beneficiary cadets, payable quarterly, on the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth of June, thirtieth day of September and the thirty-first day of December, to the treasurer of said institution, upon the warrant of the governor; and that this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

D. sec. 2781; Act 1867, p. 255.

priated for expense of educating each beneficiary cadet.

pupils.

SEC. 1339. In addition to the students admitted from the representative and senatorial districts, as herein provided, there may be ad- Admission of mitted fifty pupils, possessed of the required qualifications, who desire to qualify themselves as teachers in private schools and academies, who shall ray such sum per session as the State board of education may determine, and purchase their own text-books.

Act 1869, p. 175, sec. 87.

treasurer.

SEC. 1340. The board of supervisors shall, at their first meeting, elect a secretary, who shall record, attest and preserve their proceed- Secretary and ings; and a treasurer, who shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, and in such sum as shall be determined by the board. Act 1858, p. 159.

Project of sys. tem of instruc

tion to be

SEC. 1341. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, immediately after their organization, to prescribe the course of studies to be pursued at the seminary, the number of professors, and to draw adopted. up a project of the system of instruction so adopted.

laws of the State. State seminary to be subject to the

Board of superSEC. 1342. The board of supervisors shall at all times conform to visors to con such laws as the legislature may from time to time enact for their form to the government, and the said seminary shall, in all things and at all times, be subject to the control of the legislature; and the said board of supervisors shall make an annual report to the legislature during the legislature. Report to be first week of the session, embracing a full account of the disburse- made by the ments and a general statement of the condition of said seminary.

control of the

board of supervisors.

No gambling house, etc., to

be established

within two miles of the university.

Professors to make survey of State.

etc.

SEC. 1313. No gambling-house or drinking-saloon, or store for the barter or sale of any kind of merchandise whatever, shall be established within two miles of said institution.

Act 1867, p. 303.

SEC. 1344. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the Louisiana State seminary of learning and military academy to require the professor of engineering and the professors of chemistry, mineralogy and geology to spend not less than four months of every year in making jointly a topographical and geological survey of the State of Louisiana, till the whole work is completed to the satisfaction of the legislature.

Act 1869, p. 71.

SEC. 1345. It shall be the duty of said professors of engineering Reports, maps, and chemistry to make, on the thirty-first day of December of each year, detailed reports, with the necessary maps and diagrams of their survey, to the superintendent of said institution, and that it shall be the duty of said superintendent to forward said reports, with his own annual report to the board of supervisors, for transmittal to the legislature in the annual report of said board.

SEC. 1346. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said instiDuty of super tution to consider the topographical and geological survey of the State, as herein provided for, as a part of the regular duties of said institution, and to superintend the same accordingly.

intendent.

Expenses.

Ten indigent young men to be educated gratuitously.

College to be

subject to visi tation by committee of the legislature.

SEC. 1347. Said professors of engineering and chemistry, etc., shall be allowed each the sum of five hundred doliars for necessary traveling expenses while in the performance of said duties, to be paid to the treasurer of said institution on the warrant of the president or vicepresident of said board of supervisors.

CENTENARY COLLEGE AT JACKSON.

SEC. 1348. It shall be the duty of the faculty of centenary college to have at all times in the institution, and to educate gratuitously ten indigent young men, to be designated by the governor of the State. D. sec. 1626; Act 1855, p. 333.

SEC. 1349. The college shall be subject to visitation by a committee of the legislature; and whenever the trustees shall fail to perform any duty required of them by the law, or whenever they shall establish a chair of theology or make sectarian dogmas any part of their course of study, then, and in either of the above cases, the bond herebond due the tofore given by them to the State shall be due, and the treasurer shall proceed to collect it, with legal interest from the time of such forfeiture. SEC. 1350. The board of trustees of said college shall, after the year

In certain contingencies the

State to be collected.

eighteen hundred and fifty-five, receive from each congressional dis- A certain num ber of indigent trict three indigent students, free from charge for tuition, in addition pupils to be received in the to the number of indigent students now required by law to be edu- college. cated in said college; said indigent students to be nominated by the governor of the State; provided, that no more than twelve students Provided. shall at any one time be domiciliated within the walls of said college under the provisions of this section, Each pupil so received shall be entitled to four years' tuition, and no indigent student to be admitted in said college before he has arrived at his thirteenth year. D. sec. 1627; Act 1855, p. 123.

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.

Administrators

SEC. 1351. The university established in the city of New Orleans shall be known by the name of the university of Louisiana. It shall be under the control and supervision of eleven persons, to be known of the universi ty of Louisiana. as the administrators of the university of Louisiana, of which body the governor of the State, the chief-justice of the State and the mayor of New Orleans, shall be ex officio members, and the remaining members shall be appointed every four years by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. They shall receive no compensation for their services.

D. sec. 1628; Act 1860, p. 54.

ers of the board

tors.

SEC. 1352. The administrators and their successors shall be and forever remain a body politic and corporate, by the style of the "admin- Corporate pow istrators of the university of Louisiana," and by that name shall have of administra perpetual succession, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all courts and places whatsoever; and may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure; and shall also be able in law to take by purchase, gift, grant, devise and donation inter vivos or mortis causa, made by individuals or corporations, within this State or elsewhere, and to hold any real or personal estate whatever. They and their successors shall have power to grant, bargain, sell, lease, devise or otherwise dispose of (except by mortgage), all or any part of the real or personal estate as to them shall seem best for the interests of the university, excepting the buildings of the university, the library, apparatus and scientific collections, which shall only be conveyed after the consent of the legislature is first obtained. No mortgage shall ever be given on any of the property of the university, unless specially authorized by law for some specific purpose.

Act 1855, p. 417.

SEC. 1353. The university shall be composed of the following deDepartments of partments or faculties, to-wit: law, medicine, the natural sciences, letuniversity.

istrators.

ters, and college proper or academical department-all of which, as the resources of the university increase, shall be completed by the administrators, excepting the medical department, which shall be composed of and formed by the medical college of Louisiana, as at present organized and established by law; which said department, as hereafter provided for, shall be engrafted on the university, and be conducted as hereafter directed.

SEC. 1354. The administrators shall have the power to direct and Powers of the prescribe the course of study and the discipline to be observed in the board of admin- university; to appoint, by ballot or otherwise, the president of the university, who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the board, and perform the duties of a professor; to appoint professors, tutors and ushers to assist in the government and instruction of the students, and such other officers as they may deem necessary, they being removable at the pleasure of the board. They shali fix the salaries of the president, professors and tutors in the academical department, and fill vacancies in the professorships. Vacancies in the law or medical department shall be filled from persons first recommended to the administrators by the faculty of the deparment in which a vacancy may hapnot to be admin. pen. No professor, tutor or other assistant officer shall be an administrator of the university.

Certain persons

istrators.

Quorum.

Chairman of board to be elected.

filled.

SEC. 1355. Five of the administrators, lawfully convened, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, except for the disposal of real estate, and for the choice or removal of a president, professor or tutor, for either of which purposes there shall be a meeting of at least nine administrators.

SEC. 1356. They shall elect one of their number as chairman of the board of administrators once in every two years, or oftener, if they may deem it necessary, who shall preside over their deliberations.

SEC. 1357. They shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own Vacancies, how board until the meeting of the next legislature; and also, a majority of the whole board concurring, to declare vacant the seat of any administrator who shall absent himself from five successive meetings of the board. They shall meet on their own adjournment, or as often as they shall be summoned by the chairman, or, in his absence, by the senior administrator, whose seniority shall be accounted according to the ing meetings. order to be made out by the administrators at the first meeting after their nomination. Notice of the time and place of meeting shall be advertised in one or more newspapers published in the city of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and those residing in New Orleans shall be notified in writing of the time and place of every meeting.

Manner of call

SEC. 1358. They shall have power to make all ordinances and by-laws which to them shall seem expedient for carrying into effect Power to pass by-laws. the design contemplated by the establishment of this university, not inconsistent with the constitutions of the United States and of this State, nor with the provisions of their charter. They shall not make the religious tenets of any person a condition of admission to Religious test any privilege or office in the university, nor shall any course of religious instruction be taught or allowed of a sectarian character and tendency.

not to be made.

Power to confer literary honors

SEC. 1359. They shall have the right of conferring, under their common seal, on any person whom they may think worthy thereof, all lit- and degrees. erary honors and degrees known and usually granted by any univerDegree of bachsity or college in the United States or elsewhere. The degree of bach- elor of iaw and elor of law and doctor of medicine granted by them shall authorize cine to confer right of practicthe person on whom it is conferred to practice law, physic and surgery ing law or medicine. in this State.

doctor of medi

Diplomas, how

D. sec. 127, 1359, 1360, 2684, 2685; 30 A. 97, SEC. 1360. All diplomas granted by them shall be signed by the president of the university, the chairman of the board and the profes- signed, sors of the department in which the student may have been graduated, and by such other officers of the university as may be provided for by the laws of the university. In the medical department there fessors in medical department. shall never be less than seven professors, which number shall be increased only at the suggestion and recommendation of the faculty of that department.

D. sec. 127, 2685.

Number of pro

Preparatory department.

SEC. 1361. They may, if deemed necessary, establish a preparatory or grammar school, to be attached to the university, and procure suitable buildings for the same; appoint tutors and ordain by-laws for the discipline and government of the primary department, and may also attach to the university such other institutions, literary or scientific societies, schools and professorships, as to them may seem advisable; literary socieall of which, so far as relates to instruction, shall be under the control university. of the board.

Power to attach

ties, etc., to the

Session.

SEC. 1362. There shall be but one session in each year, to be of eight months' duration, commencing on the first day of November and ending on the thirtieth day of June. Students regularly matriculated in the college proper, and candidates for degrees, shall be required to devote at least one session to each of the classes-freshman, sopho- Course of more, junior and senior-before graduating, unless their proficiency may, after satisfactory examination before the administrators, entitle them to enter a higher class. Every candidate for the degree of bachelor of arts shall be required to devote a full session to the senior course.

studies.