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N E W.Y O R K
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ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS,
1853,
♦,44-
ALBANY:	i
PRINTED BY CHARLES VAN BENTHUYSENj No. 407 BROADWAY.
1853.President,
John delafieivd,
of Oaklands, Seneca county*
Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
Hon. JOHN A. KING,
Jamaica, Queens county.
Secretary of the Board of Trustees,
JOEL W. BACON,
of Waterolo, Seneca county.
Treasurer $
Ni B. KIDDER,
of Geneva, Ontario dounty;At a meeting of the Board of trustees cohvbfted oh the'
5th iff M&y, . the ordinances, rules and regulation^of\hd
New-. York State Agrictdiural' College were adopted and
ordered to be printed.
John Delafield of Oaklandsj near Geneva, Joel W,
Bacon of Waterloo, and N. B. Kidder of Geneva, were
Appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions to the
capital stock. The Trustees, respectively, were author-
ized to receive subscriptions in the Districts of the State
where they severally reside, and transit the Same to the
Commissioners*AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE THE
Neni-flork State Agricultural College.
Famsed April 15, 1853.
The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. John Delafield, Henry Wager, B. P. John-
son, William Kelly, John A. King, N. B. Kidder, Joel
W. Bacon, William Buel, Tailmadge Delafield, Robert
J. Swan, and such other persons as shall or may be
associated with them for that purpose, are hereby con-
stituted and created a body politic and corporate by
the name, style and description of the “New-York
State Agricultural College,” and the said corporation
shall have and enjoy all the corporate rights and privi-
leges enjoyed by any incorporated college in the State
of New-York, and shall be subject to the provisions
and exercise the powers and duties contained and set
forth in the second article of the fifteenth chapter, title
one, of the Revised Statutes.
§ 2. The farm and grounds belonging and attached
to the said college, shall consist of not less than three
hundred acres.
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§ 3. The plan of instruction shall embrace the follow-
ing branches of knowledge: practical and scientific
agriculture, chemistry and its manipulations so far as
it may be usefully connected with agriculture, mathe-
matics and mechanics, surveying and engineering,
geology and botany, the practical management of the
farm, of the dairy, and of the various kinds of live
stock; also such other branches of knowledge as may
be deemed useful and proper.
§ 4. The persons named in the first section of this
act shall be and form the first board of trustees.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.3
The Powers and Duties of the Trustees of Colleges.
(Revised Statutes, 4th edition, page 867.)
The trustees of every college to which a charter shall
be granted by the State, shall be a corporation.
The trustees shall meet upon their own adjournment,
and as often as they shall be summoned by their chair-
man, or in his absence by the senior trustee, upon the
request, in writing, of any other three trustees.
Notice of the time and place of every such meeting
shall be given in a newspaper printed in the county
where such college is situate, at least six days before
the meeting; and every trustee resident in such county
shall be previously notified in writing, of the time and
place of such meeting.
Seniority among the trustees shall be determined
according to the order in which they are named in the
charter of the college; and after all the first trustees
shall become extinct, according to the priority of their
election.
The trustees shall not exceed twenty-four, nor be
less than ten in number; and a majority of the whole
number, shall be a quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness.
The trustees of every such college, besides the gene-
ral powers and privileges of a corporation, shall have
power:
1.	To elect by ballot, their chairman annually;
2.	Upon the death, removal out of this State, or other
•vacancy in the office of any trustee, to elect another
in bis place by a majority of the votes of the trustees
present;4
S.	To declare vacant the seat of any trustee, who
shall absent himself from five successive meetings of
the board;
4.	To take and hold by gift, grant or devise, any real
or personal property, the yearly income or revenue of
which shall not exceed the value of twenty-five thou-
sand dollars;
5.	To sell, mortgage, let and otherwise use and dis-
pose of such property in such manner as they shall
deem most conducive to the interests of the college;
6.	To direct and prescribe the course of study and
discipline to be observed in the college;
7.	To appoint a president of the college, who shall
hold his office during good behavior;
8.	To appoint such professors, trustees and other
officers, as they shall deem necessary, who, unless
employed under a special contract, shall hold their
offices during the pleasure of the trustees;
9.	To remove or suspend from office the president
•and every professor, tutor or other officer employed
under a special contract, upon a complaint in writing,
by any member of the board of trustees, stating the
misbehavior in office, incapacity or immoral conduct of
the person sought to be ‘removed, and upon examina-
tion and due proof of the truth of such complaint, and
to appoint any other person in place of the president or
other officer thus removed or suspended;
10.	To grant such literary honors as are usually
granted by any university, college or seminary of learn-
ing in the United States; and, in testimony thereof,
to give suitable diplomas, under their seal and the
signature of such officers of the college as they shall
deem expedient;5
11.	To ascertain and fix the salaries of the president,
professors, and other officers of the college;
12.	To make all ordinances and by-laws necessary
and proper to carry into effect the preceding powers;
13.	Every diploma granted by such trustees shall
entitle the possessor to all the immunities which, by
usage or statute, are allowed to possessors of similar
diplomas granted by any university, college or semi-
nary of learning in the United States.
General Powers and Privileges of Corporations.
(Revised Statutes, page 1172, edition 4.)
§ 1. Every corporation, as such, has power:
1.	To have succession by its corporate name for the
period limited in its charter, and, when no period is
limited, perpetually.
2.	To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any
court of law or equity.
3.	To make and use a common seal, and alter the
same at pleasure.
4.	To hold, purchase and convey such real and per-
sonal estate as the purposes of the corporation shall
require, not exceeding the amount limited in its
charter.
5.	To appoint such subordinate officers and agents
as the business of the corporation shall require, and to
allow them a suitable compensation.
6.	To make by-laws, not inconsistent with any
existing law, for the management of its property, the
regulation of its affairs, and for the transfer of its
stock.6
§2. The powers enumerated in the preceding sec-
tion shall vest in every corporation that shall hereafter
he created, although they may not be specified in its
charter, or in the act under which it shall be incorpo-
rated.
§ 3. In addition to the powers enumerated in the
first section to this title, and to those expressly given
in its charter, or in the act under which it is or shall
be incorporated, no corporation shall possess or exercise
any corporate powers, except such as shall be neces-
sary to the exercise of the powers so enumerated and
given.
(From Art. 5, Chap, 15 of 4th ed. R. S., p. 870.)
No religious qualification or test shall be required
from any trustee, president, principal or other officer of
any incorporated college or academy, or as a condition
for admission to any privilege in the same.
No professor or tutor of any incorporated college or
academy shall be a trustee of such college or academy.
No president of any such college, or principal of any
such academy, who shall be a trustee, shall have a vote
in any case relating to his own salary or emoluments.
No president, principal or other officer of any such
college or academy shall be a regent of the university.
No trustee of a college or academy shall act as a
regent of the university, and no regent of the univer-
sity shall act as trustee of any college or academy;
and if any such trustee shall be appointed a regent, or
a regent shall be appointed a trustee, he shall elect in
which office he will serve, and give notice of such
election to the authority by which he shall be appointed,
within sixty days from the time of his appointment,
otherwise such appointment shall be void.Every college and academy that shall become sub-
ject to the visitation of the regents shall make such
returns and reports to the regents, in relation to the
state and disposition of its property and funds, the
number and ages of its pupils, and its system of
instruction and discipline, as the regents shall from
time to time require.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed
to alter, or in any manner affect any charter heretofore
granted by the Legislature, or by the regents of the
university to any college or academy.
(Session Laws of 1840, Chap. 318, passed May 14, 1840.)
§ 1. Real and personal property may be granted and
conveyed to any incorporated college or other literary
incorporated institutions in this State, to be held in
trust for either of the following purposes:
1.	To establish and maintain an observatory;
2.	To found and maintain professorships and scholar-
ships ;	••
3.	To provide and keep in repair a place for the
burial of the dead ;
4.	For any other specific purposes comprehended in
the general objects authorised by their respective
charters. (See the act.)
Session Laws of 1848. 'Extract from an act passed April
11, 1848.
§ 2. There shall be paid from the Treasury, on the
warrant of the Comptroller, out of the revenue of the
Literature Fund, to the several academies and schools
embraced in the apportionment that may be made by
the Regents of the University, the sum of fifteen thou-
sand dollars, a»d the further sum of twenty-five thpu-8
sand dollars from the income of the United States
Deposit Fund, being in all forty thousand dollars, in
each of the years 1849 and 1850. Such apportionment
to be made by the Regents, among the said academies
and seminaries of learning throughout the State, in pro-
portion to the number of each who shall have pursued
the requisite studies to entitle them to share in said
distribution.
(The above appropriation was continued for the year
1851, by section 1 of Session Laws, 1849, chapter 301,
and Session Laws, 1852, p. 646.)
Ordinances.
First. The government and management of the col-
lege and farm, shall be under the direction and con-
trol of the President of the corporation, who shall be
responsible to the trustees for the general management
and well being of every department: all matters of
discipline and arrangement shall be under the control
of the president, and all professors, teachers, officers,
pupils and other persons employed shall be under his
supervision and direction.
Second. Professors shall be appointed by the board of
trustees to fill such departments as the trustees may
deem expedient. The professors shall, in conjunction
with the president, superintend vigilantly, the moral
conduct, industry and progress of each student, and
other person employed in the college or on the farm.
The professors shall at the close of every month report
to the president the condition of their respective
classes, in such form as the president may from time
to time require.9
Third. A chairman and secretary shall he elected
annually to perform such duties as the act of incorpo-
ration or the action of the board may require.
Fourth. A treasurer shall be elected by the trustees.
It shall be the duty of the treasurer to hold and care-
fully preserve all bills, notes, bonds and mortgages, or
other evidences of debt, or obligations or securities for
personal or real estate belonging to or held by the
college; he shall receive and deposit in bank, all
moneys received from any source for account of the
by college. He shall pay all drafts or orders on him made
by the chairman of the Finance Committee, which drafts
shall always be drawn payable to the order of the said
treasurer, and be specially endorsed to the party entitled
to receive the amount expressed in such draft or order;
he shall prepare and present to the president on the first
day of every month, a full and detailed statement of
all moneys received and paid by him for or on account
of the New-York State Agricultural College, and exhi-
biting the true balance of cash on the said last day of
each month.
Fifth. A finance committee consisting of three mem-
bers shall be - annually elected by the Board, whose
duty it shall be to audit all accounts against the
College, and to invest upon approved securities any
surplus money belonging to the institution, and gene-
rally to supervise its finances.
Sixth. On or before the tenth day of January in each
year, a report shall be prepared by the trustees, stating
their proceedings, operations and expenditures, and
including the last day of December then passed : the
management of the farm, progress of the studehts; al-
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so setting forth suggestions for the advancement and
improvement of the institution, if deemed necessary.-
Capital Stockt
The capital stock of the New-York State Agricultu-
ral College shall be sixty thousand dollars, with liberty
to increase the same whenever, and as often as the
trustees may deem necessary for the advantage of
the corporation.- The said stock shall de divided into
shares of fifty dollars each, and shall be transferable
in such manner as the board of trustees may direct.
The said corporation may commence operations
when forty thousand dollars shall have been sub-
scribed, and fifty per cent on each share subscribed
for shall have been paid in.
The trustees shall appoint commissioners to receive
subscriptions for said capital stock at such times and
under such rules as they shall prescribe.
Instruction.
The chief object of the corporation is to provide a
system of instruction essential and practically useful
to the agricultural interests of the State—to combine
theory with practice—to afford wholesome discipline
to the mind—accumulation of knowledge and habits
of labor and industry.
The farm connected with the college, containing not
less than three hundred acres of varied soil, will be
managed with a view to the results of a mixed hus-
bandry, varied as the interests of the farm may require.
The year shall be divided into two sessions. The
first session shall commence on the first Monday of
April and continue to the first day of October. This
period embraces the most important practical fieldu
operations, and will necessarily be occupied in the
practice of the manual operations of husbandry, afford-
ing to the pupil a knowledge of the various depart-
ments of the farm, their uses and management,
The second session shall commence on the first
Monday in November and continue to the first day of
March following. During this session lectures on the
various sciences connected with agriculture will be
given. The chemical laboratory will be in operation.
The course of instruction shall continue for three
consecutive years, at the expiration of which, and
upon the recommendation of the president and profes-
sors of the said college the trustees may confer a cer-
tificate or diploma as is authorised by the tenth and
thirteenth sections of the Revised Statutes, set forth on
page 868 of vol. 1, 4th edition, sections 45 and 46, on
all students who have completed the full course of three
years, and received the recommendation above named.
The Preside lit or a Professor wi}l deliver a course of
lectures, during the Winter session, on the History and
general purposes of agriculture, and its improvements;
also, a course of lectures on law, as connected with
the agricultural interests, &c.
The Mathematical Professor will instruct the classes
in arithmetic, algebra as far as simple equations, the
first three books of Euclid, practical surveying and en-
gineering ; also, in natural philosophy, embracing the
phenomena of force and motion, sound, light and heat,
mechanical powers and their application, the available
power of steam, water, wind, animals and man, ap-
plied ; the principles applied in the make and shape of
farm implements and instruments ; also, in meteorol-
pgy, electricity, &c. He 'yvill instruct the classes in asystem of farm accounts, inculcating precision, me-
thod and accuracy.
The Chemical Professor will instruct the classes in
Inorganic chemistry, the principles of the science, its di-
visions, strongly indicating all such as hear upon agri-
culture or have any relation to the soil and the crops.
Organic chemistry, explaining the substances of vegeta-
ble origin and animal' origin, the germination and veg-
etation of plants, their food, management, application
of food or manures and means for their production,
with economy; the analysis of simple and complex
substances, applying the same to the analysis of soils,
manures and farm products, and other subjects imme-
diately useful to the practical farmer. He shall ana-
lyse all matters that may be required or indicated by
the President.
The Professor of Natural History shall instruct the
classes in Geology, classification of rocks, their groups
and formation, the soils derived from them, changes
and upheavals of the earth’s surface, effects on climate,
effects of drifts, forming hills and vallies, agricultural
peculiarities dependent thereon. He will also instruct
the classes in Botany, illustrating the character and na-
ture of agricultural plants, weeds, edible vegetables,
examination of seeds, their germination, growth and
reproduction; the anatomy and functions of plants,
their values to the farmer for economic purposes, &c.,
&c. He will also instruct the classes in Zoology, its
general principles, divisions and subdivisions, dwelling
more particularly on the third group or articulata, and
fourth class; Insects, their structure, changes and ha-
bits; the injuries inflicted on vegetation, &c., &c.
The Professor of Practical Agriculture shall instruct
the classes in all the various field operations; in the
economical application of the labor of man, horse aiiu13
steam power; the value, suitability and application of
various manures and fertilizers; the breeding, rearing,
feeding and fattening of live stock; the management
of the dairy; the arrangement, construction and uses
of farm buildings; the action and practical uses of all
implements, machinery and tools employed in agricul-
ture; the system of drainage, &c., &c.
As soon as practicable, shall be added a Professorship
of Veterinary Practice. The Professor shall instruct'the
classes in the divisions of the animal kingdom, their
structure, character and habits; dwelling particularly
on the anatomy of farm animals, peculiarities of con-
struction and the functions of the various parts arid
organs; the various diseases incident to domestic ani-
mals, their general causes, mode of attack and treat-
ment; the treatment and management of all stock
and stable management; the business and duties of
the forge, connected with the comfort and greater use-
fulness of animals, &c.
Admission.
Each candidate for admission into the New-York
State Agricultural College must be able to read and
write the English language well, to perform with fa-
cility and accuracy the various operations of the four
ground rules of arithmetic.
An acquaintance with the branches of science taught
at the academies and colleges of our country will prove
a great advantage to the student on entering the Agri-
cultural College.
No student shall be admitted under sixteen years
of age.
No student shall be admitted unless he has passed a
satisfactory exariiination and given evidence that his
moral conduct is in like manner satisfactory.14
Each student on his admission into the college shall
subscribe an engagement in the following form :
“ I (A. ]^.), now aged	years and	months,
do hereby promise and agree, with the consent of my
parents or proper guardian, that I will faithfully ob-
serve and conform to all the rules, regulations and
orders of the New-York State Agricultural College,
Witness my signature this	day of	185 ,
[ Signature of the student.]
“Witness,
[The parent or guardian,]
Charges.
Until endowments or State patronage sh^ll permit a
more free distribution of knowledge, at a less cost, the
charge for instruction, with board and lodging, light?,
fuel and washing, will be three hundred dollars per
annum, one-half of which sum shall be regularly and
punctually paid, semi-annually, in advance.
Vacations.
There shall be two vacations in each year—one in
March the other in October; also, a recess of ten days
at the period of Christmas and the new-year,
Discipline.
In the administration and management of the col-
lege and farm, order and system should prevail, and a
rigid compliance with every ordinance, rule and regu-
lation be required and granted. Decorum must, of
necessity, guide eve?y inmate of the institution.
A careful and close observance of the following
rules and regulations, and all others which may from
time to time be issued, will uphold the character and
dignify of the corporation:15
The punishments to which a student shall be liabl
are comprised in the following divisions:
First.—1. Privation of recreation:
2.	Extra duties:
3.	Reprimands:
4.	Temporary suspension.	4
Second.^-l-. Dismission, with the privilege of resign-
ing:
. 2. Public dismission*
The first class of punishments may be inflicted by
the president, or with his approbation. The second
class of punishments may be inflicted only in virtue of
a decision of the trustees convened for the examination
of the case.
As obedience and subordination are essential to the
welfare of the college, and to the comforts of all con-
nected With the institution, the Students, and every
person employed by the corporation, will he careful to
obey the -president, professors and teachers, or other
officers. Any refractory or disrespectful conduct will
be punished according to the degree of the offence.
No student shall bring, or cause to be brought with-
in the limits of the college property, nor shall he have
in his room, or otherwise in his possession or control,
any intoxicating drinks, on pain of being dismissed.
No games with cards, nor any kind of gambling,
shall be permitted within the college or the farm boun-
daries.
No student shall use tobacco in any way, within
the college buildings, farm yards, rick yards, hay and
straw yards, or within two hundred feet of any or either
such buildings or yards.16
Any student or person connected with the college,
who shall wantonly or carelessly damage or destroy
any property of or belonging to the college, shall make
good the cost of repairing and replacing such damage
or destruction, and be otherwise punished, according
to the#nature of the offence.
No student shall be absent from his room after nine
o’clock p. m. ; neither shall any student be absent from
the farm at any time without leave from the.president;
if the offence is repeated a second time, notice shall be
given to the parent or guardian, and upon the next
offence the punishment may be dismissal from the
institution.
Any student who shall be guilty of an immoral act,
shall be dismissed from the college, or otherwise pun-
ished, as the board may order.
No profane or indecent language or oaths shall be
tolerated, and every offence under this rule shall be
punished in the discretion of the president.
It is expected by the trustees and officers of the in-
stitution, that every person connected with the college
will carefully abstain from all irregular conduct, that
the honor and high character of the college may be
protected and preserved by a proper appreciation of
propriety and decorum, which will always command
the esteem of every upright citizen.
The president shall keep a register of all delinquen-
cies and punishments which may occur within the
limits of the college property, and shall report the same
annually to the board of trustees.
If any student shall consider himself aggrieved or
wronged by an officer or by a fellow-student, he shall
present a complaint to the president, who is hereby17
required to examine into the said complaint, and take
measures for redressing the wrong complained of.
Should the complaining party be refused redress, he
may appeal to the hoard of trustees for relief. No al-
tercation or strife between any of the students shall be
tolerated, nor any breach of social intercourse. Every
offending person shall be punished, and every aggriev-
ed or injured person shall be protected in his rights and
honor.
The strictest attention to study shall be given by
students; likewise to all other duties. •
No debts shall be contracted by any of the students,
with any person or persons, while such student is con-
nected with the college.
Professors and teachers shall be held accountable for
the regular and orderly conduct of their respective
classes, while under their instruction, and shall report
to the President every violation of the college rules and
regulations within his knowledge or observation.
Each professor at the head of a separate depart-
ment shall have charge of and be accountable for the
instruments, apparatus and other property, supplied for
the use of his department; causing them severally to
be kept in perfect order, and ready for use at all times.
Professors and teachers shall devote themselves during
each session to instruction and such appropriate duties
as the President may direct, and the good of the insti-
tution may require.
* . ,
Interior Police Regulations.
Hours for daily duties :
Every student shall rise at 5 o’clock A. M,, from the
first of April to the 30th of October and at 6 o’clock
A. M. for the remainder of the year. The signal for
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breakfast shall be given at half past five A. M., from
1st. April to 30th October, and at half past six A. M.,
for the remainder of the year.
The signal for dinner shall be given at meridian,
throughout the year.
The signal for supper shall be given at five o’clock
P. M., from 1st April to 30th Oct., and at six o’clock for
the remainder of the year.
All lights shall be extinguished in the students’
rooms at or before 10 o’clock throughout the year.
The hours for study, labor, and for the other duties,
will be regulated and declared by the President.
Students shall carefully attend to the disposition of
their clothing in their respective rooms, in drawers, clo-
sets or trunks: this is to be done daily when rising from
bed. They shall clean their candlestick or lamp,
arraUge ileatly their bed and bedding, and place their
rooms respectively in neat order for the daily inspec-
tion of the president Or his assistant: this duty must
be completed before the hour of breakfast.
The laundress shall take clothes for necessary cleans-
ing, every Sunday and Thursday morning, before the
hour of breakfast.
No student shall throw water or dirt from his window1
at any time.
No person resident on the college premises shall use
any musical instrument upon Sunday, nor in study
hours, on any other day.
Every morning, during the breakfast hour, a proper
person shall visit the students’ rooms, sweep and
cleanse them from dust, removing all the collected
dirt to such place as shall be allotted therefor. When
fires are used the same person shall see that they are19
safe during the absence of the occupants of rooms; and
at least once in every week shall wash the floor of each
room, and all such wood-work as may need cleansing,
and whatever else is necessary to preserve cleanliness
and order.
No noise or loud talking shall be made within any
buildings or erections of the college, nor any scuffling
or improper or irregular conduct.
No person shall enter the college buildings during
the hours of study, except on duty; no student shall
introduce a visitor during study hours on any pretence
whatever.
The Sick.
Students requiring medical aid shall report them-
selves to the president, who shall, when necessary, or
required by the students, send for the physician or sur-
geon appointed by the trustees to attend and prescribe
for such as may require it. None but experienced,
well educated physicians and surgeons holding diplo-
mas from well established medical colleges shall hold
the appointment above named.
College Commons.
One of the professors shall act as inspector of the
commons, and report to the president all deficiencies
In the fare, and every infraction of the mess rules.
The inspector will preserve order and a rigid obser-
vance of rules and decorum at the hours of repast.
He shall appoint one or more carvers, as may he ne-
cessary, who shall aid the inspector in maintaining
order and decorum, and shall report all violations of
the same.
When the signals are made for breakfast, dinner and
supper, the students shall assemble in classes or divi-20
sions near the mess room. Each class or division shall
proceed in order, two and two, to their respective tables
and each student shall uniformly occupy the same seat.
Quiet and order must prevail at all the meals, and af-
ter a sufficient time for full refreshment, the students
shall rise together and depart from the hall in the same
order as they entered.
If any student shall consider any article of fare to
he spoiled or unfit for use, he may report the fact to the
inspector, who shall state the same to the president.
No society or association, or combination shall be
permitted or organized among the students unless
authorised by the president.
Library.
A member of the college faculty or a student shall
be appointed librarian, to act under such regulations as
the president shall prescribe.
The librarian shall be accountable for the books or
other property belonging to the library department.
He shall, therefore, deny admittance to all persons
except at such times and under such circumstances as
he may deem necessary for the protection of the above-
named property.
The librarian shall attend at the library for the pur-
pose of receiving and delivering books at such times
as the president shall prescribe.
No book shall be taken from the library without the
knowledge and presence of the librarian.
No person except members of the institution and its
officers shall be allowed to draw books from the library,
and for every book drawn a receipt shall be given,21
No book shall be detained from the library more than
fourteen days.
All persons who draw books from the library shall
be responsible for the damages done to them, to be
estimated by the librarian or other person appointed by
the president,
All books drawn from the library shall be returned
on or before the first day of March and on or before
the first day of October in each year, that the librarian
may report the condition of the library.
It is recommended that every student shall keep
himself supplied with the following articles:
1	Great coat of blue cloth.
1	Dress coat, vest and trousers.
2	Blue trousers for winter.
6	Trousers for summer, white.
2	Blue working jackets for winter.
4 "White working jackets for summer.
1	Blue cloth cap, 1 glazed cap, 1 dress hat.
3	Black cravats or stocks.
2	Pairs of boots, 1 pair of shoes.
7	Shirts, 7 pairs of winter stockings, 7 pairs sum-
mer stockings.
6 Pocket handkerchiefs, 1 canvass clothes bag.