The Annual Register

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Page 16 - An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 67 - Librarian in charge, to a total loss for the purposes of the Library; the person by whom such loss, destruction or injury has been occasioned, or who shall fail to make such return, shall be charged the full value of the book or article so lost, destroyed, injured or not returned ; and in case of the loss of a book, or its not being returned, if it belong to a set of two or more volumes, he shall be charged the value of the whole set, or as much as it may cost to perfect it, at the election of the...
Page 28 - The location of the University of Minnesota, as established by existing laws, is hereby confirmed, and said institution is hereby declared to be the University of the state of Minnesota. All the rights, immunities, franchises and endowments heretofore granted or conferred, are hereby perpetuated unto the said University, and all lands which may be granted hereafter by congress, or other donations for said University purposes, shall vest in the institution referred to in this section.
Page 70 - The law creating this survey is comprehensive. It embraces not only a strictly geological survey, including a complete account of the rocks and minerals of the State, and their chemical analysis, but also a natural history survey, comprising an examination of all species of trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, native or naturalized, and a complete account of the animal kingdom, as represented in the State, including all mammalia, fishes, reptiles, birds and insects.
Page 56 - The President may, upon the application of any established military institute, seminary or academy, college or university, within the United States, having: capacity to educate at the same time not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of the Army or Navy to act as superintendent or professor thereof...
Page 15 - That there shall be established in this territory an institution under the name and style of the University of Minnesota. SEC. 2. The proceeds of all lands that may hereafter be granted by the United States to the territory for the support of a University, shall be and remain a perpetual fund to be called the "University Fund," the interest of which shall be appropriated to the support of a University, and no sectarian...
Page 32 - ... separation of the natural epochs of secondary and superior education, and the ultimate liberation of the University from the elementary work of the former: and coinciding with this division, an advantageous assortment of studies, methods and discipline suitable to the two periods respe ctively. 4. A close and vital articulation of the University with the public school system of the State.
Page 90 - History of agriculture; brief reviejr of chemical composition and physical properties of air and water as related to the soil and vegetation; the chemical constituents and practical classifications of soils; properties, peculiarities, treatment and adaptations of each kind; reclamation and improvement of soils, including drainage, subsoiling, trenching, altering, fallowing, paring...
Page 24 - MINNESOTA,'" and for its location "at or near the Falls of St. Anthony." The State Constitution, adopted by the people on the thirteenth day of October, 1857, confirmed the previous action, as follows : " THE LOCATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA...
Page 28 - MINNESOTA,' and for its location ' at or near the Falls of St. Anthony." The State Constitution, adopted by the people on the 13th day of October, 1857, confirmed the previous action, as follows :. "The location of the University of Minnesota...

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