permit to be solicited money from pupils in any school under his charge for any purpose not connected with the school. [New.] ARTICLE XX. CORNELL UNIVERSITY. Section 550. Cornell University continued. 551. Objects of Cornell University. 552. Trustees. 553. Ex-officio trustees of Cornell University. 554. Elective trustees. 555. Election by board of trustees. 556. Election by alumni. 557. Nomination of trustees by alumni. 558. Conduct of election by alumni. 559. Alumnus defined. 560. Register of alumni of Cornell University. 561. Powers of trustees. 562. Property of Cornell University. 563. University may take and hold property. 564. Supplementary congressional appropriation. 565. Students of Cornell University. 566. Examination for state scholarships in Cornell Uni versity. 567. State veterinary college continued. 568. Object of New York State Veterinary College. Section 569. Tuition fees. 570. Property to be owned by the state; custody thereof. 571. Use of appropriations. 572. Report to the legislature. 573. Special policemen for Cornell University. 574. Instruction in agriculture. 575. Employment of teachers and experts. 576. State weather bureau. [General note.-This article is intended to include nearly all existing statutes in relation to Cornell University with some changes as seemed to be demanded for the purpose of revision. The subject of the land scrip fund is included in the state finance law and the weather bureau and the experimental station are included in the agricultural law. Several statutes relating to this university have become obsolete or superseded by later legis lation and are therefore repealed. It is intended to include here the present charter and all other general laws relating to the university except as above indicated. We intend by this article to repeal the following laws: L. 1863, ch. 511; L. 1865, ch. 585; L. 1866, ch. 481; L. 1867, ch. 174; L. 1868, ch. 554; L. 1872, ch. 654; L. 1880, ch. 317; L. 1882, ch. 147; L. 1886, ch. 614; L. 1887, ch. 291; L. 1891, ch. 56; L. 1894, ch. 153; L. 1895, ch. 87; L. 1895, ch. 598; L. 1896, ch. 238; L 1897, ch. 120; L. 1897, ch. 689.] § 550. Cornell University continued. The corporation known as Cornell University, located at Ithaca, is continued. [New.] § 551. Objects of Cornell university. The leading object of Cornell university shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, including mili. tary tactics, in order to promote the liberal and practical educa tion of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. But such other branches of science and knowledge may be embraced in the plan of instruction and investigation pertaining to such university, as the trustees thereof may deem useful and proper. Persons of every religious denomination, and of no religious denomination, shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments. [L. 1865, chap. 585, § 4, rewritten without including the amendment made by chap. 223 of L. 1898, which is included in § 521 of the revision under the powers of the trustees of the university.] § 552. Trustees.-Cornell university shall be governed, and all its corporate powers exercised by thirty-nine trustees. Twelve trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The trustees in office when this chapter takes effect shall continue therein for the terms for which they were respectively chosen. An elective trustee shall hold over until his successor is elected. [New, except the second and fourth sentences, which are taken from L. 1865, chap. 585, § 2, as amended by L. 1896, chap. 238.] § 553. Ex-officio trustees of Cornell university.—The governor, the lieutenant-governor, the speaker of the assembly, the presi dent of Cornell university, the state superintendent of public instruction, the president of the state agricultural society, the state commissioner of agriculture, and the librarian of the Cor nell library, shall be ex-officio trustees. The oldest lineal male descendant of Ezra Cornell shall also be a trustee during his life. [L. 1865, chap. 585, part of § 2, as amended by L. 1896, chap. 238, rewritten without intended change.] § 554. Elective trustees.-There shall be thirty elective trustees, twenty of whom shall be elected by the board of trustees, and ten by the alumni of the university; but at no time shall majority of the board be of any one religious sect or of no religious sect. [L. 1865, chap. 585, part of § 2, as amended by L. 1896, chap. 238, rewritten without intended change.] § 555. Election by board of trustees.-At each annual commencement the board of trustees shall elect by ballot four trus tees. The term of each trustee elected by the board shall be five years from the annual commencement at which he is elected. The board may at any meeting elect trustees to fill vacancies among the members elected by them, and a trustee elected to fill a vacancy shall hold for the remainder of the unexpired term of his predecessor. The election shall be by ballot and fifteen ballots must concur in an election. [L. 1865, chap. 585, part of § 2, as amended by L. 1896, chap. 238, rewritten and changed so as to provide that the trustees elected to fill vacancies shall hold for the remainder of the unexpired term. The present law is silent on this subject. It seems to us desirable that this discrepancy should be removed.] § 556. Election by alumni.-The alumni of Cornell university shall meet annually at Ithaca, New York, on the day before commencement, and elect by ballot two trustees, whose terms of office shall be five years from the annual commencement at which they were elected. The alumni shall at the same time and place elect by ballot, as many more trustees as may be necessary to fill va cancies among the number previously elected by them. A person elected to fill a vacancy shall hold for the remainder of the unex pired term. [L. 1865, chap. 585, part of § 2, as amended by L. 1896, chap. 238, rewritten without intended change, except that the last sentence is added for the purpose of remedying what is an apparent defect in the present law.] § 557. Nomination of trustees by alumni.-Ten or more alumni may file with the treasurer of the university, on or before the first day of April in each year, written nominations of each trustee to be elected by the alumni at the next commencement. Nominations shall be designated as nominations "for full term " or " to fill vacancy" as the case may be. Forthwith after such first day of April a list of such candidates shall be mailed by the said treasurer to each of the alumni at his or her address. [L. 1865, chap. 585, part of § 2, as amended by L. 1896, chap. 238, rewritten without intended change.] § 558. Conduct of election by alumni.-Each alumnus may vote for trustees at said election by transmitted ballot in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the alumni at their said annual meeting at Ithaca and approved by the board of trustees of the university or its executive committee. The ballot shall indicate which candidates are voted for for full terms and which to fill vacancies. The two candidates for full terms, and the candidates to fill vacancies to the number of vacancies to be filled, having the highest number of votes on the first ballot shall be elected, provided that no candidate shall be so elected |