prescribe. The actual and necessary traveling expenses of non-resident members in attending the annual meeting of the board may be audited by the auditing committee thereof, and paid by warrant on the treasurer out of the general fund of the university.

SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall prescribe rules for the government of the university in all its branches, elect the requisite officers, professors, instructors and employes, any of whom may be removed for cause, as well as fix the salary and term of office of each, prescribe the studies to be pursued and the text-books to be used, and determine the qualifications of applicants for admission to the various courses of study; but no instruction, either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics, shall ever be allowed in any department of the university, and no sectarian or partisan test shall ever be exercised or allowed in the appointment of trustees, or in the election or removal of professors, teachers or other officers of the university, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatsoever. The board of trustees shall also have power to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usual in universities, or as they shall deem appropriate; through by-laws, to confer upon the faculty the power to suspend or expel students for causes therein prescribed; to possess and use for the benefit of the institution all property of the university; to hold, manage, lease, or dispose of, according to law, any real or personal estate, as shall be conducive to the welfare of the institution; to expend the income placed under their control, from whatever source derived; and finally to exercise any and all other functions properly belonging to such a board and necessary to the prosperity of the university in all of its departments.

SEC. 7.—At the close of each fiscal year the trustees, through their president, shall make a report in detail to the Governor, exhibiting the progress, condition and wants of the university and of each school or department thereof, the courses of study in each, the number of professors and students, the amount of receipts and disbursements, together with the nature, costs and results of all important investigations, and such other information as they may deem important or as may be required by any law of this state or of the United States.

SEC. 8. The president and professors of the university shall be styled "The Faculty," and shall have power, as such body, to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the trustees for the government of students, to reward and censure students as they may deserve, and generally to exercise such discipline, in harmony with the said regulations, as shall be necessary to the good order of the institution; to present to the trustees for degrees and honors such students as are entltled thereto,

and in testimony thereof, when ordered by the board, suitable diplomas, certificates, or other testimonials, under seal of the university and the signatures of the faculty. When, in course of time, distinct colleges or departments of the university are duly organized and in active operation, the immediate government of such departments shall, in like manner, be entrusted to their respective faculties.

SEC. 9.—The President of the University shall be president of the several faculties and the executive head of all the departments. As such, subject to the board of trustees, he shall have authority to give general direction to the instruction and investigations of the several schools and departments, and, so long as the interests of the institution require it, he may be charged with the duties of one of the professorships.

SEC. 10. To the end that none of the youth of the state who crave the benefits of higher education may be denied them, and that all may be encouraged to avail themselves of the advantages offered by the university, tuition shall be as nearly free as posstble, and it shall be wholly free to such students from each county as are selected and appointed by the board of county commissioners therein.

SEC. 11.-After any student has graduated from either of the chief departments of the university, and received the degree of bachelor of arts, of letters, of philosophy or of science, and has had a subsequent experience as a successful teacher of a public school in Wyoming for a period of one school year, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have authority to countersign the diploma of such teacher after such examination as to moral character, learning and ability to teach as to the said superintendent may seem proper; and such graduate so tested shall, after his diploma has been countersigned by the State Superintendent as aforesaid, be deemed qualified to teach in any of the public schools of this state, and the diploma so countersigned shall be his certificate of such qualification until annulled by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

SEC. 12.—In order that the university may be kept “in a condition of full efficiency," as required by the terms of Section sixteen of Article seven of the Constitution of the State of Wyoming, there shall be assessed upon all taxable property of the state in each year, as heretofore, a tax of one-eighth of a mill on each and every dollar of the assessed valuation of such property, which tax shall be levied, collected and paid to the State Treasurer in the manner provided by law for the levy, collection and payment of other state taxes. Said tax, when so paid to the State Treasurer, shall be paid to the Treasurer of the said

board of trustees upon the warrant of the State Auditor, to be issued upon request of said board of trustees.

SEC, 13.—" The University of Wyoming" having been designated by the Secretary of the Interior as the proper institution to receive and expend the moneys appropriated by an Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, established under the provisions of An Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," until such time as there may be an agricultural college established in this state, separate and apart from the said University of Wyoming, assent is hereby given to all the terms and conditions of said Act of Congress, and grants of money, authorized and made by said Act, by the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, relative to the establishment of agricultural experiment stations, or any other Act for like purposes, are hereby assented to and accepted by the State of Wyoming. Except where other designation is made by Congress, all moneys granted or donated by Congress in aid of scientific instruction or experimentation, and set apart by the Legislature for such use by the University of Wyoming, shall be accepted and received by the State Treasurer, and by him placed at the disposal of the Board of Trustees of the said University by transfer to the Treasurer of said Board, for disbursement in accordance with the provisions of the Act or Acts of Congress aforesaid."

SEC. 14.—All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15.—This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 10th, 1891.

BY-LAWS

For the Government of the Board of Trustees, the Faculty and Students of the University of Wyoming.

PART I.

By-Laws for the Government of the Board of Trustees.

SECTION I.

The Board of Trustees shall elect annually a President, Secretary and Treasurer.

SECTION II.

The President of the Board of Trustees shall preside over all meetings of the board, and perform such other executive duties as usually pertain to this office. In the absence or disability of the President, a presiding officer shall be selected by the Board of Trustees pro tem.

SECTION III.

The Secretary shall keep a correct account of all of the proceedings of the Board of Trustees, give due notice of all meetings when called by the President, or on request of the Executive Committee, and keep files of all important papers belonging to the Board; keep account of all funds of the University, and perform such other duties as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time direct.

SECTION IV.

The Treasurer of the Board shall hold and keep in his custody all moneys, funds, and securities of the University; and, in connection with the Executive Committee, shall invest all endowment funds of the University upon securities approved by the Board; and pay all warrants drawn by the Secretary under seal of the institution, and approved by the President of the Board. He shall keep a separate account of each fund belonging to the various departments; and present an annual report of the condition, income, amount and expenditures of said funds in detail. The Treasurer of the Board shall give bond, with approved

securities, for the faithful performance of his duties for double the amount likely to come into his hands.

SECTION V.

The Secretary and Treasurer of the Board shall receive such compensation for their services as the Board may allow.

SECTION VI.

The Board of Trustees at each annual session shall appoint an executive committee, consisting of the President and of the faculty, ex officio, and three trustees, who shall have general oversight of the interests of the university, during the interim of the sessions of the board; and perform such specific duties as may be assigned them by the board.

SECTION VII.

The following committees shall be appointed at the annual session of the board, to wit: On Faculty; On Grounds and Buildings; On Auditing Accounts; On Library, Apparatus and Museum; and such other committees as may be required for the careful consideration and transaction of the business of the university.

SECTION VIII.

The annual meeting of the board shall be held at the close of each scholastic year, and in connection with the commencement exercises of the university, and the trustees shall be governed in their deliberations by the usual parliamentary rules of order.

SECTION IX.

The non-resident members of the Board of Trustees shall receive their actual and necessary traveling expenses in attending all meetings of the Board of Trustees, called in due form, for the transaction of business at the university building. Said amounts shall be audited by the auditing committee thereof, and paid by warrant on the treasurer, out of the general fund of the university.

PART II.

By-Laws for the Government of the Faculty.

SECTION I.

I. The Faculty shall consist of a Prestdent, Vice President and such Professors as shall be appointed from time to time by the Board of Trustees.