ARTICLE III. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. SECTION 1425. University controlled by Regents. 1426. Sixteen Regents appointed by the Governor. 1428. Vacancies. 1429. President of the Board. 1430. Quorum. 1431. Regents receive no compensation. 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. un controlled 1425. The University is under the control of a University Board of Regents, consisting of twenty-two members. by Regents. Regents 1426. Sixteen members of the Board are appointed Sixteen by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the appointed Senate. Their term of office is sixteen years. by the Governor. 1427. Six members of the Board hold by virtue Six other of other offices, as provided in Section 353. Regents, appointment of. 1428. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the Board Vacancies. 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. President of the Board. 1430. Seven members constitute a quorum of the Quorum. Board. 1431. The members receive no compensation. 1432. The powers and duties of the Board of Regents are as follows: Regents receive no compensation. 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; 4. To adopt and prescribe rules for the government and discipline of the Cadets; 5. To receive, in the name of the University and for its benefit, all property donated to it; 6. To choose a President, the professors, and other officers and employés 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, fix and provide for the payment of their compensation; 10. To remove at pleasure any officer, professor, or employé 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 diplomas 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 maintain a Preparatory Department, under such rules and regulations as it may provide, and to employ such teachers, and secure such buildings, by purchase or otherwise, as are necessary therefor; 16. To take immediate measures for the permanent improvement and planting of the University grounds; 17. To keep a record of all their proceedings; 18. To (through their President) report to the Gov- Same. ernor 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. Income from 1433. The entire income arising from the endow- arising ment is subject to the trusts at the disposition of the endowment Board of Regents for the support of the University. disposition at of Regents. Fund to be set apart for current 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, expenses. 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. 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, upon the order of the Board in favor of the Treasurer of the University. Funds may be drawn from State Treasury. tion of 1436. The Regents must cause to be constructed Construcsuch buildings as are needed for the use of the Univer- buildings. sity. 1437. The plan adopted in the construction of Same. 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. The construction and furnishing of the build- Same. ings must be let out to the lowest responsible bidder, after advertisement for not less than ten days in at Temporary buildings. least two daily newspapers published in the City of San Francisco; but the Regents may reject any bid, and advertise anew. 1439. Until the University buildings are ready for use the Regents may make temporary arrangements for buildings at Oakland. Qualifications and choice of Secretary. Residence and duties of Secretary. ARTICLE IV. SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. SECTION 1449. Qualifications and choice of Secretary. 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. 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, stock raising, and the dairy; 6. Correspond with established schools of mining Same. 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 shrubbery 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 ascertain 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. compensa 1451. The Secretary holds office at the pleasure of Term and and receives the compensation fixed by the Board. tion. ARTICLE V. ACADEMIC SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY. SECTION 1461. Academic Senate. 1462. General powers of. 1468. Proceedings of. 30*-VOL. I. |