for their services three dollars per day for each day employed, not to exceed twenty-four days in any one year, and five cents per mile for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in attending meetings of said board, which sum shall be paid out of the territorial treasury upon the vouchers of said board.
Powers of board.s. 5, c. 6, 1887.
§ 316. The said board of regents shall direct the disposition of all moneys appropriated by the territorial legislature or by congress, for the agricultural college or experimental station for Dakota territory, and shall have supervision and charge of the construction of all buildings provided for by law for said college and farm. The board of regents shall have power to employ a president and necessary teachers, instructors and assistants, to conduct said school and carry on the experimental farm connected therewith, and to appoint one of its members superintendent of construction of all buildings, who shall receive three dollars per day for each day actually and necessarily engaged in the discharge of his duties, not to exceed fifty days in any one year, which sum shall be paid out of the territorial treasury upon the vouchers of said board.
Claims, how audited and paid.s. 6, c. 6, 1887.
§ 317. The said board shall audit all accounts against the funds appropriated for the use of the agricultural college and experimental station, and the territorial auditor shall issue his warrant upon the territorial treasurer for the amount of all accounts which shall have been audited and allowed by the board of regents and attested by the president and secretary of the same.
Name of college-Design.s. 7, c. 6, 1887.
§ 318. The agricultural college established by chapter 3 of the session laws of 1881, shall be known by the name of the Dakota agricultural college. The design of the institution is to afford practical instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith, and also the sciences which bear directly upon all industrial arts and pursuits. The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, political, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, book-keeping and especially the application of science and the mechanic arts to practical agriculture in the field.
Course of study.s. 8, c. 6, 1887.
§ 319. A full course of study in the institution shall embrace not less than four years, and the college year shall consist of not less than nine calendar months, which may be divided into terms by the board of regents as in their judgment will best secure the objects for which the college was founded.
Salaries-Removals.s. 9, c. 6, 1887.
§ 320. The board of regents shall fix the salaries of the president, teachers, instructors and other employes and prescribe their respective duties. The board may remove the president or subordinate officers and supply all vacancies.
Facility.s. 10, c. 6, 1887.
§ 321. The faculty shall consist of the president, teachers and instructors, and shall pass all needful rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the college, regulating the routine of labor, study, meals and the duties and exercises, and all such rules and regulations as are necessary to the preservation of morals, decorum and health.
President.s. 11, c. 6, 1887.
§ 322. The president shall be chief executive officer of the agricultural college, and it shall be his duty to see that all rules and regulations are executed, and the subordinate officers and
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