5. In ascertaining the best method of tillage and farm manage ment, and improvement of live stock. 6. In preparing and printing for free distribution pamphlets, bulletins and leaflets, for the dissemination of agricultural knowledge, including the results of such investigations and experi ments and such other information as may be deemed desirable and profitable in promoting the agricultural interests of the state. [L. 1897, chap. 128, part of § 1.] § 575. Employment of teachers and experts.-Cornell University, with the approval of the state commissioner of agriculture, may employ and at pleasure remove teachers, experts and necessary clerical assistants, for the purposes of the last section; and with the like approval may fix and pay their compensation. All work by the persons so employed shall be under the general supervision and direction of the state commissioner of agricul ture. [L. 1897, chap. 128, part of § 1.] § 576. State weather bureau.-The state meteorological bureau and weather service shall hereafter be known as the state weather bureau, and shall be under the control and management of Cornell University. The university may appoint a director of the bureau, but he shall not receive any compensation for his services. The university shall continue upon its grounds at Ithaca, the central office and station for meteorological observation and experiment and shall if practicable establish and supervise one or more volunteer weather stations in each congressional district of the state in co-operation with the chief of the United States weather bureau, for the purpose of increasing the usefulness of the weather service of the state and of the United States. The sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be annually appropriated to be paid to Cornell University by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, issued on the vouchers of the treasurer of the university, for necessary clerical services at such central office, for printing and distributing reports of the results and operations of such bureau, in such manner as shall be most serviceable to the people of the state, and for the purchase, preservation and repair of proper and necessary instruments for the work of such bureau, for the reasonably necessary traveling and incidental expenses of the director in the performance of his duties, and for such other expenses as may be necessary for the efficient administration of the bureau. [L. 1893, chap. 338, § 86, rewritten and changed by placing the whole subject under the jurisdiction of the University.] ARTICLE XXI. THE UNIVERSITY. Section 600. Definitions. 601. The University. 602. Objects. 603. Regents. 604. Offices. 605. Duties of chancellor. Section 606. Duties of secretary. 607. Executive committee. 608. Meetings. 609. Ordinances, by-laws and rules. 610. Records to be under seal and public. 611. Fees and gifts. 612. Regents may take testimony. 613. Copies or extracts. 614. Departments and their government. 615. Report by regents. 616. State examinations, credentials and degrees. 617. Admission and fees. 618. Diplomas and degrees. 619. Institutions in the University. 620. Visitation. 621. Registration. 622. Reports of institutions. 623. Grants of State money. 624. Grants to schools and libraries. 625. Charters. 626. Provisional charters. 627. Limited charters. 628. Limitations on incorporations. 629. Stock or business corporations. 630. Powers of chartered institutions. Section 631. Change or suspension of charter. 632. Rechartering. 633. Dissolution. - 634. Supension of operations. 635. Trusts to institutions, cities or villages. 636. Accumulation and restoration of trust funds. 637. Unauthorized use of the name college or university. 638. Misdemeanors under this article. 639. Felonies under this article. 640. Certiorari to review regents' proceedings. [General note.- This article contains a general revision of the University law, with additions. The subject of libraries and museums has been transferred to the article on libraries, and several new provisions have been included herein. The article also includes some provisions now in independent statutes, and others included in University ordinances. The principal powers and duties of the regents are included in this article, but many other provisions are found elsewhere in the chapter, particularly those relating to libraries, museums and academic departments in union schools.] Section 600. Definitions.-As used in this chapter: 1. "Chartered means incorporated by the regents or under a general or by a special law. 2. "Secondary " refers to the four years of instruction between elementary school and college. "Secondary school" includes any school or department under visitation of the University which gives one or more years of secondary instruction. 3. "High schools" are public schools admitted to the University and requiring for admission the completion of the elementary school course or its equivalent, and giving a four-year course of secondary instruction designed for general education. "Academies " are similar chartered schools not supported by local taxation. Similar schools giving less than the full four year course are known as one, two or three year high schools or academies. 4. "Colleges" are chartered institutions requiring for admission not less than a four year high school or academic course or its equivalent, and having adequate libraries, museums, laboratories and other equipment and facilities, and at least six professors or their equivalent, who give their entire time to one or more registered courses in the liberal arts and sciences, leading to a bachelor's degree. 5. "Universities" are endowed and chartered institutions with examining and degree-conferring powers, which give courses leading to higher degrees in the general or philosophic faculty and in not less than three special schools and which have faculties, libraries, museums, laboratories, and other equipment and facilities adequate for specialized instruction of students prepared by previous college training, and for conserving, advancing and disseminating knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences by research and publication. 6. "Special schools" are professional, technical and other schools, either departments of a university or independently chartered, whose distinctive object is to train for particular |