Regents may invest and reinvest.

SEC. 3. The regents of the University of California are authorized and empowered to invest and reinvest any or all the funds of the University of California in such manner and upon such security as they may deem best for the interest of the University of California; provided, that they shall in good faith respect all the conditions and limitations of such endowments and donations as have been made under conditions or limitations.

SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

An Act authorizing and empowering the regents of the University of California to convey certain

lands.

[Approved March 9, 1883; 1883, 62.]

This act empowered the regents to reconvey to Henry Cogswell certain land on San

Francisco city front previously conveyed by him to the regents in trust.

An Act making an appropriation of eleven thousand dollars for the protection and improvement of the buildings and grounds of the state university.

[Approved March 9, 1883; 1883, 80.]

The purpose of the act appears from the title; it took effect immediately.

ARTICLE III.

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.

1425. University controllod by regents.

SEC. 1425. The university is under the control of a board of regents, consisting of twenty-two members; but the president of the university, for the time being, shall be a member of the board of regents, by virtue of his office. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 33; took effect July 6, 1874.]

Regents are executive officers: Sec. 343, ante.

1426. Sixteen regents appointed by the governor.

SEC. 1426. Sixteen members of the board are appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Their term of office is sixteen years.

1427. Six other regents, appointment of.

SEC. 1427. Six members of the board hold by virtue of other offices, as provided in section three hundred and fifty-three.

1428. Vacancies.

SEC. 1428. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the board, the governor must appoint some person to fill it, and the person so appointed holds for the remainder of the term.

1429. President of the board.

SEC. 1429. The governor is president of the board.

1430. Quorum.

SEC. 1430. Seven members constitute a quorum of the board.

1431. Regents receive no compensation.

SEO. 1431. The members receive no compensation.

1432. General powers and duties of regents.

SEO. 1432. The powers and duties of the board of regents are as follows: 1. To meet at such times and places as their rules may prescribe, or at the call of the president of the board;

2. To control and manage the university and its property;

3. To prescribe rules for their own government, and for the government of

the university;

4. To adopt and prescribe rules for the government and discipline of the

cadets;

5. To receive, in the name of the state, or of the board of regents, as the case may be, all property donated to the university;

6. To choose a president of the university, the professors and other officers and employees of the university, prescribe their duties, fix and provide for the payment of their salaries;

7. To fix the qualifications for admission to the benefits of the university; 8. To fix the admission fee and rates of tuition;

9. To appoint a secretary and treasurer, prescribe their duties, and fix and provide for the payment of their compensation;

10. To remove, at pleasure, any officer, professor, or employee of the university;

11. To supervise the general courses of instruction, and, on the recommendation of the several faculties, prescribe the authorities and text-books to be used in the several colleges;

12. To confer such degrees, and grant such deplomas, as are usual in universities, or as they deem appropriate;

13. To establish and maintain a museum;

14. To establish and maintain a library;

15. To take immediate measures for the permanent improvement and planting of the university grounds;

16. To keep a record of all their proceedings;

17. Through the president of the university, to report to the governor the progress, condition, and wants of each of the colleges embraced in the university; the course of study in each, the number of professors and students, the amount of receipts and disbursements, together with the nature, cost, and results of all important investigations and experiments, and such other information as they may deem important. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 33; took effect July 6, 1874.]

1433. Income arising from endowment at disposition of regents.

SEC. 1433. The entire income arising from the endowment is subject to the trusts at the disposition of the board of regents for the support of the university. 1434. Fund to be set apart for current expenses.

SEC. 1434. For the current expenditures of the university specific sums of money must be set aside out of the funds at their disposal by the board of regents, which are subject to the warrants of the president of the board, drawn upon the treasurer of the university in pursuance of the orders of the board of regents. 1435. Funds may be drawn from state treasurer.

SEC. 1435. All moneys which may at any time be in the state treasury subject to the use of the board of regents may be drawn therefrom by the president of the board, upon the order of the board, in favor of the treasurer of the university. Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873–4, 35; took effect July 6, 1874.]

1436. Construction of buildings.

SEC. 1436. The regents must cause to be constructed such buildings as are needed for the use of the university.

1437. Plan of buildings.

SEC. 1437. The plan adopted in the construction of buildings must provide separate buildings for separate uses, and so group all such buildings that a central building may bring the whole in harmony as part of one design.

1438. Bids for construction and furnishing buildings.

SEC. 1438. The construction and furnishing of the buildings must be let out to the lowest responsible bidder, after advertisements for not less than ten days in at least two daily newspapers published in the city of San Francisco; but the regents may reject any bid, and advertise anew.

1439. Temporary buildings.

SEC. 1439. Until the university buildings are ready for use, the regents may make temporary arrangements for buildings at Oakland.

ARTICLE IV.

SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS.

1449. Qualifications and choice of secretary.

SEC. 1449. A practical agriculturist, competent to superintend the working of the agricultural farm and to discharge the duties of secretary of the board of regents, must be chosen by the board as their secretary.

1450. Residence and duties of secretary.

SEC. 1450. The secretary must:

1. Reside and keep his office at the seat of the university;

2. Keep a record of the transactions of the board of regents, which must be open at all times to the inspection of any citizen of this state;

3. Have the custody of all books, papers, documents, and other property which may be deposited in his office;

4. Keep and file all reports and communications which may be made to the university appertaining to education, science, art, husbandry, mechanics, or mining;

5. Address circulars to societies and others, soliciting information upon the latest and best modes of culture of the products adapted to the soil and climate of the state, and on all subjects connected with field culture, horticulture, stockraising, and the dairy;

6. Correspond with established schools of mining and metallurgy in Europe, and obtain information respecting the improvements of mining machinery adapted to California;

7. Correspond with the patent office at Washington, and with the representatives of the government of the United States abroad, to procure contributions to agriculture from these sources; receive and distribute seeds, plants, shrubbery, and trees adapted to our climate and soils, for the purposes of experiment; 8. Obtain contributions to the museums and the library of the university; 9. Keep a correct account of all the executive acts of the president of the university;

10. Keep an accurate account of all moneys received into the treasury or paid therefrom;

11. Distribute the seeds, plants, trees, and shubbery received by him, and not needed by the university, equally throughout the state, to farmers and others who will agree to cultivate them properly and return to the secretary's office a reasonable proportion of the products thereof, with a statement of the mode of cultivation, and such other information as may be necessary to ascer tain their value for cultivation in the state;

12. Publish from time to time in the newspapers of the state, free of charge information relating to agriculture, the mechanic arts, mining, and metallurgy

Stats. 1868, 248.

1451. Term and compensation.

SEC. 1451. The secretary holds office at the pleasure of and receives the compensation fixed by the board.

Stats. 1848, 248.

ARTICLE V.

ACADEMIC SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY.

1461. Academic senate.

SEC. 1461. The academic senate is composed of the faculties and instructors of the university.

Stats. 1867-8, secs. 18 et seq.

1462. General powers of.

SEC. 1462. The senate must conduct the general administration of the university, regulate the general and special courses of instruction, receive and determine all appeals from acts of discipline enforced by the faculty of any college, and exercise such other powers as the board of regents may confer upon it.

1463. Proceedings of.

SEO. 1463. Its proceedings must be conducted according to rules of order adopted by it, and every person engaged in instruction in the university may participate in its discussions; but the right of voting is confined to the president and the professors.

1473. University cadets.

SEO. 1473.

ARTICLE VI.

The students of the university must be organized into a body known as the "university cadets."

Stats. 1870, 119.

1474. Officers of cadets.

SEO. 1474. The officers of cadets, between and including the ranks of second lieutenant and colonel, must be selected by the chief military instructor, with the assent of the president of the university, and must be commissioned by the governor. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873–4, 35; took effect July 6, 1874.]

1475. Equipment of cadets.

SEC. 1475. The adjutant-general of the state must issue such arms, munitions, accouterments, and equipments to the university cadets as the board of regents may require and the governor approve. [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874; Amendments 1873-4, 35; took effect July 6, 1874.]

1476. Retired officers of.

SEO. 1476. Upon graduating or retiring from the university, such officers may resign their commissions or hold the same as retired officers of the university cadets, liable to be called into service by the governor in case of war, invasion, insurrection, or rebellion.

1477. Report of military instructor.

SEO. 1477. The military instructor must make quarterly reports to the adjutant-general of the state, showing the number, discipline, and equipments of

the cadets.

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1487. Object of school.

CHAPTER II.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

SEC. 1487. The state normal school, located at San José, has for its object the education of teachers for the public schools.

This chapter was for the most part condensed from Stats. 1870, 788 et seq. See Const. Cal.,

1488. Under control of board of trustees.

art. 9, sec. 6, authorizing normal school to be established as part of the common-school system.

SEC. 1488. It is under the management and control of a board of trustees, constituted as provided in Title I. of Part III. of this code.

See sec. 354, ante.

An Act to establish a branch state normal school.

[Approved March 14, 1881; Stats. 1881, 89.]

Branch state normal school at Los Angeles.

SECTION 1. There shall be established in the county of Los Angeles a school to be called the branch state normal school of California, for the training and educating of teachers in the art of instructing and governing in the public schools of this state.

Trustees, how appointed.

SEC. 2. The trustees of the "state normal school" are hereby appointed and created trustees of the said branch normal school, with full power and authority to select a site for the permanent location of said branch normal school in the county of Los Angeles. Said trustees shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, examine the different sites offered by the people of the county of Los Angeles for the location of the branch normal school buildings, and select therefrom a suitable location for said branch normal school buildings; and the site selected by them shall be and remain the permanent site for the branch state normal school; provided, that no buildings shall be erected in the county of Los Angeles until a deed in fee-simple of the land selected by the board of trustees of the state normal school shall be made to the state.

How governed.

SEC. 3. Said branch state normal school shall be governed and regulated by the same laws now governing and regulating the state normal school.

Appropriation.

SEC. 4. The sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund of the state not otherwise appropriated, for the building of said branch state nor

mal school.

Warrants, how drawn.

SEC. 5. The controller of state shall draw warrants from time to time, as the work shall progress, in favor of said board of trustees of the state normal school, upon their requisition for the same; provided, that the cost to this state for the erection of said branch normal school buildings shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated.

Money, how expended.

SEC. 6. The said buildings shall be erected, and the moneys hereby appropriated therefor expended, under the direction of the board of trustees of the state normal school, and all labor performed upon said buildings shall be done by the day's work.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

See act passed in 1883 appropriating money act: Stats. 1883, 281. The title of that act will to further the purpose indicated in the above be found in note to section 1507.

1489. General powers and duties of board.

SEC. 1489. The powers and duties of the board of trustees are as follows: 1. To prescribe rules for their own government, and for the government of the school;

2. To prescribe rules for the reports of officers and teachers of the school, and for visiting other schools and institutes;

3. To prescribe the course of study, and the time and standard of graduation; 4. To prescribe the text-books, apparatus, and furniture, and provide the same, together with all stationery, for the use of the pupils;

5. To establish and maintain training or model schools, and require the pupils of the normal school to teach and instruct classes therein;

6. To elect a principal and other necessary teachers, fix their salaries and

prescribe their duties;