Laws of the State of New Hampshire
Chapter 4216
Passed June Session, 1866
An Act to incorporate the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
SECTION 1.New-Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts established and objects defined. SEC. 2.
Government thereof vested in trustees. SEC. 3.
Trustees, to appoint. a secretary and faculty of instruction. SEC. 4.
No trustee to receive compensation for his services. SEC. 5.
Trustees to make annual report and transmit copies to other colleges an to U. S. Secretary of Interior. SEC. 6.
Trustees authorized to locate and establish said college in connection with Dartmouth College, and make contracts in relation to terms of connection, and to the furnishing of experimental farm, and buildings,libraries, laboratories, and instruction, and as to legacy from David Culver, and may furnish tuition to indigent students, and make provision for free lectures. SEC. 7.
Funds derived from sale of land scrip to be invested in registered bonds of New-Hampshire or the United States, and the state Treasurer to have custody of the same, and pay over income to the treasurer of the college. SEC. 8.
The -Governor may call first meeting of trustees. SEC. 9.
Act to take effect on its passage. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened: SECTION 1.
That a College is hereby established, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Now- Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, whose leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, in conformity to an act of Congress, entitled "An act donating land to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, approved July 2, 1862," and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend to final judgement and execution, and shall be vested with all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the liabilities incident to corporations of a similar nature. SEC. 2.
The general government of this College shall be vested in nine trustees, five of whom shall be appointed, one from each Councillor District, and commissioned by the Governor, with the advice of the Council, and four by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, and be so classified and commissioned that the offices of three trustees shall become vacant annually. SEC. 3.
The trustees shall appoint a Secretary, who shall keep a full and fair record of their proceedings, and a Treasurer, who shall give bonds for the faithful discharge of his duties, in such sum as the trustees may require; and may receive such Compensation for his services as they may deem reasonable. They shall also appoint a Faculty of Instruction, prescribe their duties, and invest them with such powers, for the immediate government and management of the institution, as they may deem most conducive to its best interests. SEC. 4.
No trustee shall receive any compensation for his services, but expenses reasonably incurred by him shall be paid by the College. SEC. 5.
The trustees shall make an annual report to the Legislature of the financial condition, of the operations and progress of the College, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, including State, industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail, free, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of the act of Congress herein before mentioned, and also one copy to the United States Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 6.
The trustees are authorized and empowered to locate and establish the College incorporated by this act, at Hanover, in this State, in connection with Dartmouth College, and with that corporation to make all necessary contracts, in relation to the terms of connection therewith, subject to be terminated upon a notice of one year, given at any time after fourteen years, and to its furnishing to the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts the free use of an experimental farm, of all requisite buildings, of the libraries, laboratories, apparatus and museums of said Dartmouth College, and for supplying such instruction, in addition to that furnished by its professors and teachers, as the best interests of its students may require; and also as to any legacy said Dartmouth College may receive from the estate of the late David Culver. The said trustees are also authorized and directed to furnish, so far as may be practicable, free tuition to indigent students of the College, and to make provision for the delivery of free lectures in different parts of the State upon subjects pertaining to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. SEC. 7.
All funds derived from the sale of the land scrip issued to the State of New-Hampshire by the United States, in pursuance of the act of Congress herein before mentioned, shall be invested in registered bonds of the State of New-Hampshire, or of the United States, which shall be delivered to the State Treasurer, who shall have the custody of the same, and pay over the income thereof, as it may accrue, to the treasurer of the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. SEC. 8.
His Excellency, the Governor, may call the first meeting of the trustees, by sending to each a written or printed notice of the time and place of holding the same, ten days before the day of meeting. SEC. 9.
This act shall take effect upon its passage. Austin F. Pike,
Speaker of the House of Representatives Daniel Barnard,
President of the Senate. Approved July 7, 1866. Fredrick Smyth, Governor.