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 whatever. The board of trustees shall 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 course 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 Univer

sity shall be styled "The Faculty," and shall have power, as such body, to enforce the rules and regulations adopted be 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 entitled 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. IO. 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 possible, 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. II. After any student has graduated from either of the chief departments of the University, and received the degree of bachelor ot arts, of letters, of philosophy or of science, and has had a subsequent experience as a success

ful 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 qualified to teach in any of the public schools of this State; and the diploma so countersigned shall be his certificate for 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.

The first annual report of the University, covering a period of about fifteen months, from January 1st, 1891, to March 31st, 1892, shows that a good, broad foundation has been established, and at the rate of progress, and with a continuance of the interest manifested thus far, the people have reason to expect a most excellent future for this State institution, and a course of study therein will form a most fitting conclusion to the studies now taught in the High Schools of the State. And if we as a people believe and realize that we have within ourselves in this State all the possibilities of a good University education, the self respect

this knowledge brings, is a valuable factor in the future development of the State.

The Wyoming School Journal, a monthly periodical published at Laramie, Wyo., by Prof. Henry Merz, is a new and valuable factor in the educational interests of the State and is worthy of an extended circulation.

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

This represents a wide-spread movement both in England and America, having as an object the acquirement by the people of the same information and instruction as is provided in the University courses, not complete, but as nearly so as regularly prescribed courses of study, lectures, organized societies and periodicals can contribute to that end, and resulting in the advancement of higher education both within and without the Universities.

"The Wyoming University Extension Association,” at Laramie, Wyo., having a membership including other cities and towns throughout the State, has been active in awakening interest in educational matters, including as a part of its work the organization of a State Teachers' Association, which brings one more good influence to the aid of the schools. The county institutes now provided by law are of great service to the teachers of the State and thus incidentally to the pupils, who are correspondingly benefitted by the interchange of ideas and methods by the teachers at these annual meetings.

STATE OF WYOMING,

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, CHEYENNE, September 22nd, 1892.

DEAR

County School Superintendent,

I would like to receive from you, to be included in the