Government and

not a member of any Faculty, and supply for the time being any vacancies thus created; and until the Regents otherwise direct he is charged with the duties of one of the professorships.

1391. The immediate government of the several discipline. colleges is intrusted to their respective Faculties, each of which must have its own organization, regulate its own affairs, and may recommend the course of study and the text books to be used.

Students.

Fees and rates of tuition.

Same.

Free scholarship.

1392. Any resident of California of the age of fourteen years or upwards, of approved moral character, may enter himself in the University as a student at large, and receive tuition in any branches of instruction at the time when the same are given in their regular course, on such terms as the Board of Regents may prescribe.

1393. An admission fee and rate of tuition fixed by the Board of Regents must be required of each pupil, except as herein otherwise provided.

1394. As soon as the income of the University shall permit, admission and tuition must be free to all residents of the State; and the Regents must so apportion the representation of students according to population that all portions of the State may enjoy equal privileges therein.

1395. If approved by the Board of Regents, scholarships may be established in the University by any persons for the purpose of private benefaction or of affording tuition in any course of the University, free from the ordinary charges, to any scholar in the public schools of the State who may distinguish himself in study, according to the recommendation of his teachers, and who passes the examination required

for the grade at which he wishes to enter the University.

NOTE.-Stats. 1870, p. 546.

may be

with

1396. The Board of Regents may affiliate with Colleges the University any incorporated college of medicine, aliated law, or other special course of instruction, upon such University. terms as may be deemed expedient; and such college may retain the control of its own property, have its own Boards of Trustees, Faculties, and Presidents, respectively; and the students of such colleges, recommended by the respective Faculties thereof, may receive from the University the degrees of those colleges.

NOTE.-Stats. 1867-8, Sec. 8, which is the basis of this section.

examination for

• 1397. The examinations for degrees must be an- Annual nual. Students who have passed not less than a year degrees. as residents in any college, academy, or school in this State, and who, after examination by the Faculty thereof, are recommended by them as proficient candidates for any degree in any regular course of the University, must be examined therefor at the annual examination; and on passing such examination may receive the degree and diploma for that course, and rank as graduates.

1398. All students of the University who have Same. been residents thereat for not less than one year, and all graduates in any course, may present themselves for examination in any other course at the annual examinations, and on passing such examination may receive the degree and diploma of that course.

1399. Upon such examinations each professor and Same. instructor of that course may cast one vote, by ballot, upon each application for recommendation to the Board of Regents for a degree.

Degrees to

graduates

1400. Graduates of the College of California, and

of affiliated of any incorporated college affiliated with the Univer

colleges.

Certificates of

sity, may receive the degrees from and rank as graduates of the University.

1401. The Board of Regents may also confer cerproficiency. tificates of proficiency in any branch of study upon such students of the University as upon examination are found entitled to the same.

Degrees.

Degrees in
Colleges of

1402. The proper degree of each college must be conferred at the end of the course upon such students as, having completed the same, are found proficient therein.

1403. The degree of Bachelor of Arts, and afterLetters. wards the degree of Master of Arts, in usual course, must be conferred upon the graduates of the College of Letters.

System of manual labor in connection with Agri

cultural College.

Sectarian,

etc., tests

1404. A system of moderate manual labor must be established in connection with the Agricultural College, upon its agricultural and ornamental grounds, for practical education in agriculture and landscape gardening.

NOTE.-Stats. 1867-8, p. 249, Sec. 4.

1405. No sectarian, political, or partisan test must prohibited. ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of Regents, or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the University, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatsoever; nor must the majority of the Board of Regents be of any one religious sect or of no religious belief.

NOTE. This Article is for the most part condensed from the Stats. of 1867-8, pp. 248-259, and Sees. 1-27, inclusive; see, also, Stats. 1870, p. CSS.

ARTICLE II.

ENDOWMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.

SECTION 1415. Endowment.

1415. The endowment of the University is:

ment.

1. The proceeds of the sale of the seventy-two sec- Endowtions of land granted to the State for a seminary of learning;

2. The proceeds of the ten sections of land granted to the State for public buildings;

3. The income derived from the investment of the proceeds of the sale of the lands, or of the scrip therefor, or of any part thereof, granted to this State for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts;

4. The income of the Fund set apart by "An Act for the endowment of the University of California," approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy, which is continued in force;

5. Donations.

NOTE.-See Act of Congress of July 2d, 1862, entitled "An Act donating land to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts." See, also, Secs. 3533-3536, inclusive, Article V, Chapter I, Title VIII, Part III of this Code, post; see, also, Report of Prof. O. P. Fitzgerald, Sup. Pub. Inst., for the years 1871-2, pp. 180, 181, et seq.; see Stats. 1867-8, Secs. 1-20.

ARTICLE III.

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.

SECTION 1425. University controlled by Regents.

1426. Sixteen Regents appointed by the Governor.

1427. Six other Regents, appointment of.

1428. Vacancies.

1429. President of the Board.

1430. Quorum.

1431. Regents receive no compensation.

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SECTION 1432. General powers and duties of Regents.

1433. Income arising from endowment at disposition of Re

gents.

1434. Fund to be set apart for current expenses.

1435. Funds may be drawn from State Treasury.

1436. Construction of buildings.

1437. Same.

1438. Same.

1439. Temporary buildings.

1425. The University is under the control of a

by Regents. Board of Regents, consisting of twenty-two members.

Sixteen
Regents

appointed
by the
Governor.

Six other Regents, appointment of.

Vacancies.

President of the Board.

Quorum.

Regents receive no compensation.

General powers and duties of Regents.

NOTE.-Stats. 1867-8, Secs. 1-11, et seq.; see, also, Secs. 343 and 353, ante.

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 members of the Board hold by virtue of other offices, as provided in Section 353.

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. The Governor is President of the Board.

1430. Seven members constitute a quorum of the Board.

1431. The members receive no compensation.

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;

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;