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Ex-officio members of

appointed by

the governor.

Provided.

Vice-presi

acts for the benefit of the seminary and academy which are incident to bodies corporate.

D. Sec. 1622. Act 1860, p. 67.

Sec. 1332. The governor of the State shall be ex officio presiboard of super- dent of the board of supervisors, and the chief justice of the visors. supreme court, the superintendent of public education and State engineer shall be ex officio members of said board; the remaining Members to be ten members thereof shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for four years, and they shall continue to exercise the duties of their office until their successors are qualified, and shall be removed by the same power and in the same manner as provided for in their appointment; the governor shall select said ten remaining members as follows: Where select-Three from the parish of Rapides, two from the parish of Orleans, and five from the remaining parishes; Provided, That not more than one member shall be selected from any one of the said remaining parishes; that said board shall elect one of the members, dent, his du- from the parish of Rapides as vice-president, to serve in the place and absence of the governor; that the three members from the parish of Rapides shall constitute an executive committee, to be how convened. convened by the president or vice-president, for the transaction of such urgent and important business as, in the opinion of the president or vice-president, can not be delayed till a meeting of Proceedings to the board of supervisors can be convened; that the proceedings to the board. of the executive committee shall be submitted to the board of supervisors for approval or disapproval at the first meeting of the said board subsequent to the meeting of the executive committee; and that the board of supervisors and the executive committee shall hold their meetings at any point designated by the president or vice-president of the board; Provided, That one meeting shall When held at be held annually at the State seminary and military academy, at the time of the commencement exercises of said academy.

ties.

Executive committee,

be submitted

Meetings.

where held. Provided.

the academy.

D. Sec. 1623. Act 1867, p. 25.

Sec. 1333. The board of supervisors shall have a stated meeting Board of su- at the said seminary and academy every year, on the second Monhave a stated day of June, and at such other times as the president of said meeting on the board shall deem necessary to convene them, a majority of the

pervisors to

second Mon

day of June every year.

Provided.

whole board constituting a quorum for the transaction of business; but if any supervisor shall fail to attend two consecutive meetings, it shall be deemed and considered a refusal to act as such, and upon such failure to attend being notified to the governor, he shall proceed to the appointment of his successor, in the same manner as hereinbefore prescribed; Provided, That if such failure be occasioned by sickness or temporary absence from the State, the provisions of this section shall not apply thereto : Provided, however, That any four members of the board, together with the president or vice-president, shall be a sufficient quorum for the

transaction of business.

D. Sec. 1624. Act 1860, p. 67.

to the board of

Sec. 1334. The board of supervisors shall have power to engage a superintendent and other professors, and all other officers Powers given necessary for conducting the literary, financial and civil concerns supervisors. and interests of the said seminary and academy, and to remove and displace the same at pleasure; to fix and regulate the salaries of the professors and all other officers, tuition fees and all other charges; to establish rules for the good government and discipline of the students; to prescribe the duties of all officers, servants and others; to confer diplomas, upon the recommendation of the superintendent and faculty, on students for proficiency in any branch of science or department of learning; and in general to make all rules and regulations which may be deemed necessary for the proper government of the said seminary and academy, and for promoting the objects for which it was founded; but nothing in this act shall be construed as obligating the State to pay any debts contracted by the board of supervisors, in case they should time exceed the appropriations made for the support of said seminary and academy.

branches of

dents styled

Sec. 1335. In the course of study pursued at the said seminary and academy, the board of supervisors shall cause instructions to be given in the military branches of science; the students Military shall be styled cadets, and shall compose a military corps, under science; stuthe command of the superintendent and such other professors as cadets. may be assigned to that branch of instruction. They shall constitute a guard to all public property, arms or munitions now there or which may hereafter be assembled there; and the superintendent shall receipt for all such property, arms or munitions, and obey all orders relative to their preservation or delivery he may receive from the governor of the State.

sue a commis

etc.

Sec. 1336. The governor of the State shall cause to be issued Governor to isto the superintendent a commission as colonel, and to such other sion as colonel, professors as may be assigned to command, commissions as majors, captains or lieutenants, according to the strength of the command; that such commissions shall not entitle the holders to any rank in the militia of the State, or to any claim whatever to compensation other than what is attached to their positions as profes

sors.

D. Sec. 1625.

penses of su

See. 1337. The reasonable expenses of the supervisors, in going to and attending the meetings of the board, shall be paid by the Certain exState; and it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to set pervisors paid forth in their annual report, the amount of such expenses, which by the State. amount shall be paid by the State treasurer, on the warrant of the auditor, who shall issue said warrant upon the certificate of the president or vice-president of said board; Provided, however, That said amount does not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars in any one year.

Sec. 1338. Each parish in the State shall have the right to delegate to the State seminary of learning and military academy, to remain four years, unless sooner graduated, a number of bene

When to report.

Proviso.

ficiary cadets corresponding with the number of representatives to which such parish is entitled in the house of representatives, acccording to the act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled An act to apportion the representation in the senate and house, in the general assembly of Louisiana, according to the second census, made in eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, under the eighth and sixteenth articles of the constitution; the police jury of each parish, and the board of school directors of the city of New Orleans, respectively, shall, at a regular meeting, to be held at least twenty days prior to the first Monday of September, elect such a number of beneficiary cadets as said parish or city may be entitled to as aforesaid, of such age and quali fications as may be prescribed by the board of supervisors of said seminary, and cause the cadet or cadets so selected to report in person at the seminary on or before the said first Monday of September; Provided, That such cadets as are now actually attending the seminary from any parish, or from the city of New Or leans, shall be included in the number to which said parish or city is entitled; And, provided further, That in case of any vacancy in the delegation of any parish, or of said city, an election to fill the same shall be held at the first meeting of said jury or board Vacancy, how of directors, after notice shall have been given of said vacancy by the superintendent of said seminary, and the cadets so elected shall be entitled to admission into the seminary at such time as the board of supervisors shall prescribe; And, provided further, That the selection of said beneficiary cadets shall be made from among those who have not themselves, or whose parents have not the means of paying their expenses, which facts shall appear by the certificate of the president of said jury or board of directors; and that said beneficiaries, whose education is thus provided for, shall be required, at the close of their term at said institution, to pursue the occupation of teaching school within the State for two years thereafter, and shall be required to report such facts to the Four hundred superintendent of said institution; that the sum of four hundred priated for ex- dollars be and the same is hereby annually appropriated for two years to maintain and educate each of said beneficiary cadets, payable quarterly, on the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth day of June, thirtieth day of September, and the thirty-first day of December, to the treasurer of said institution, upon the warrant of the governor, and that this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

filled.

To teach school for two years in the State.

dollars appro

pense of educating each beneficiary cadet.

pupils.

D. Sec. 2781. Act 1867, p. 255.

Sec. 1339. In addition to the students admitted from the repAdmission of resentative and senatorial districts as herein provided, there may be admitted fifty pupils, possessed of the required qualifications, who desire to qualify themselves as teachers in private schools and academies, who shall pay such sum per session as the State board of education may determine, and purchase their own text-books. Act 1869, p. 175, § 87.

Treasurer.

Sec. 1340. The board of supervisors shall, at their first meeting, elect a secretary, who shall record, attest and preserve their Secretary and proceedings, and a treasurer, who shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, and in such sum as shall be determined by the board.

Act 1858, p. 159.

tem of instruc

adopted.

pervisors to

Sec. 1341. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, Project of sysimmediately after their organization, to prescribe the course of tion to be studies to be pursued at the seminary, the number of professors, and to draw up a project of the system of instruction so adopted. Sec. 1342. The board of supervisors shall at all times conform Board of suto such laws as the legislature may, from time to time, enact for conform to the their government, and the said seminary shall, in all things and at State. State all times be subject to the control of the legislature, and the said seminary to be board of supervisors shall make an annual report to the legislature control of the during the first week of the session, embracing a full account of Report to be the disbursement and a general statement of the condition of said seminary.

Sec. 1343. No gambling-house or drinking-saloon, or store the barter or sale of any kind of merchandise whatever, shall established within two miles of said institution.

Act 1867, p. 303.

laws of the

subject to the

Legislature..

made by the

board of su

pervisors.

for No gambling be be established

house, etc., to

within two miles of the

university.

make survey

Sec. 1344. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the Louisiana State seminary of learning and military academy to require the professor of engineering and the professors of chem- Professors to istry, mineralogy and geology to spend not less than four months of State. of every year in making jointly a topographical and geological survey of the State of Louisiana till the whole work is completed to the satisfaction of the legislature.

Act 1869, p. 71.

etc.

Sec. 1345. It shall be the duty of said professors of engineering and chemistry to make, on the thirty-first day of December of each year, detailed reports, with the necessary maps, diagrams of Reports, maps, their survey to the superintendent of said institution, and that it shall be the duty of said superintendent to forward said reports, with his own annual report, to the board of supervisors for transmittal to the legislature in the annual report of said board. Sec. 1346. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said Duty of superinstitution to consider the topographical and geological survey of the State as herein provided for, as a part of the regular duties of said institution, and to superintend the same accordingly.

Sec. 1347. Said professors of engineering and chemistry, etc.,

be allowed each the sum of five hundred dollars for necessary

intendent.

traveling expenses while in the performance of said duties, to be Expenses. paid to the treasurer of said institution on the warrant of the president or vice-president of said board of supervisors.

CENTENARY COLLEGE AT JACKSON.

Ten indigent

Sec. 1348. It shall be the duty of the faculty of centenary young men to college to have at all times in the institution, and to educate gratuitously.

College to be subject to vis

mittee of the

gratuitously, ten indigent young men, to be designated by the governor of the State.

D. Sec. 1626. Act 1855, p. 333.

Sec. 1349. The college shall be subject to visitation by a comitation by com- mittee of the legislature, and whenever the trustees shall fail to legislature. perform any duty required of them by the law, or whenever they shall establish a chair of theology or make sectarian dogmas any part of their course of study, then, and in either of the above cases, the bond heretofore given by them to the State shall be due, and the treasurer shall proceed to collect it, with legal interest from the time of such forfeiture.

In certain conbond due the

tingencies the

State to be collected.

A certain

Sec. 1350. The board of trustees of said college shall, after the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, receive from each congresnumber of in- sional district three indigent students, free from charge for tuition, to be received in addition to the number of indigent students now required by in the college. law to be educated in said college; said indigent students to be

digent pupils

Provided.

Administra

tors of the uni

nominated by the governor of the State; Provided, That no more than twelve students shall at any one time be domiciliated within the walls of said college under the provisions of this section; each pupil so received shall be entitled to four years' tuition, and no indigent student to be admitted in said college before he has arrived at his thirteenth year.

D. Sec. 1627. Act 1855, p. 123.

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.

Sec. 1351. The university established in the city of New Or leans shall be known by the name of the university of Louisiana. It shall be under the control and supervision of eleven persons, to be known as the administrators of the university of Louisiana, of versity of Lou- which body the governor of the State, the chief justice of the State, and the mayor of New Orleans, shall be ex officio members, and the remaining members shall be appointed every four years by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. They shall receive no compensation for their services. D. Sec. 1628. Act 1860, p. 54.

isiana.

Corporate

powers of the board of administrators.

Sec. 1352. The administrators and their successors shall be and forever remain a body politic and corporate, by the style of the "Administrators of the University of Louisiana," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all courts and places whatsoever; and may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure; and shall also be able in law to take by purchase, gift, grant, devise and donation, inter vivos or mortis causa, made by individuals or corporations, within this State or elsewhere, and to hold any real or personal estate whatever. They and their successors shall have to grant, power gain, sell, lease, demise or otherwise dispose of (except by mortgage) all or any part of the real or personal estate, as to

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