them shall seem best for the interests of the university, excepting the buildings of the university, the library, apparatus and scientific collections, which shall only be conveyed after the consent of the legislature is first obtained. No mortgage shall ever be given on any of the property of the university, unless specially authorized by law for some specific purpose.

Act 1855, p. 417.

of university.

Sec. 1353. The university shall be composed of the following departments or faculties, to wit: law, medicine, the natural Departments sciences, letters, and college proper, or academical department; all of which, as the resources of the university increase, shall be completed by the administrators, excepting the medical department, which shall be composed of and formed by the medical college of Louisiana, as at present organized and established by law; which said department, as hereafter provided for, shall be engrafted on the university, and be conducted as hereafter directed.

board of ad

Sec. 1354. The administrators shall have the power to direct Powers of the and prescribe the course of study and the discipline to be observed ministrators. in the university; to appoint by ballot, or otherwise, the president of the university, who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the board, and perform the duties of a professor; to appoint professors, tutors and ushers to assist in the government and instruction of the students, and such other officers as they may deem necessary, they being removable at the pleasure of the board. They shall fix the salaries of the president, professors and tutors, in the academical department, and fill vacancies in the professorships. Vacancies in the law or medical department shall be filled from persons first recommended to the administrators by the faculty of the department in which a vacancy may happen. No professor, No professor, sons not to be Certain pertutor, or other assistant officer shall be an administrator of the administrauniversity.

tors.

Sec. 1355. Five of the administrators, lawfully convened, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, except for the dis- Quorum. posal of real estate, and for the choice or removal of a president, professor or tutor, for either of which purposes there shall be a meeting of at least nine administrators.

board to be

Sec. 1356. They shall elect one of their number as chairman Chairman of of the board of administrators once in every two years, or oftener, elected. if they may deem it necessary, who shall preside over their delib

erations.

how filled.

Sec. 1357. They shall have power to fill all vacancies in their Vacancies, own board until the meeting of the next legislature, and also, a majority of the whole board concurring, to declare vacant the seat of any administrator who shall absent himself from five successive meetings of the board.

calling meet

They shall meet on their own adjournment, or as often as they shall be summoned by the chairman, or in his absence, by the Manner of senior administrator, whose seniority shall be accounted according ings. to the order to be made out by the administrators at the first meeting after their nomination. Notice of the time and place of

Power to pass by-laws.

meeting shall be advertised in one or more newspapers published in the city of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and those residing in New Orleans shall be notified in writing of the time and place of every meeting.

Sec. 1358. They shall have power to make all ordinances and by-laws which to them shall seem expedient for carrying into effect the design contemplated by the establishment of this university, not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States and of this State, nor with the provisions of their charter. They shall not make the religious tenets of any person a condition of admission to any privilege or office in the university, nor Religious test shall any course of religious instruction be taught or allowed of a sectarian character and tendency.

not to be made.

Power to confer literary

Sec. 1359. They shall have the right of conferring under their honors and de- common seal, on any person whom they may think worthy thereof, all literary honors and degrees known and usually granted by any university or college in the United States or elsewhere.

grees.

Degree of bachelor of

law and doctor

The degree of bachelor of law, and doctor of medicine, of medicine to granted by them, shall authorize the person on whom it is conconfer right of ferred to practice law, physic and surgery in this State.

practicing law or medicine.

Diplomas, how signed.

D. Sec. 127, 1359, 1360, 2684, 2685.

Sec. 1360. All diplomas granted by them shall be signed by the president of the university, the chairman of the board, and the professors of the department in which the student may have graduated; and by such other officers of the university as may be provided for by the laws of the university. In the medical medical de department there shall never be less than seven professors, which number shall be increased only at the suggestion and recommendation of the faculty of that department.

Number of

professors in

partment.

Preparatory department.

D. Sec. 127, 2685.

Sec. 1361. They may, if deemed necessary, establish a preparatory or grammar school to be attached to the university, and procure suitable buildings for the same, appoint tutors and ordain by-laws for the discipline and government of the primary department, and may also attach to the university such other institutions, attach literary literary or scientific societies, schools and professorships, as to to the univer- them may seem advisable; all of which, so far as relates to instruction, shall be under the control of the board.

Power to

societies, etc.,

sity.

Session.

Sec. 1362. There shall be but one session in each year, to be of eight months' duration, commencing on the first day of Novemder, and ending on the thirtieth day of June. Students regularly matriculated in the college proper, and candidates for degrees, shall be required to devote at least one session to each of the Course of stud- classes, freshman, sophomore, junior and senior, before graduating, unless their proficiency may, after satisfactory examination before the administrators, entitle them to enter a higher class. Every candidate for the degree of bachelor of arts shall be required to devote a full session to the senior course.

ies.

Privilege

granted to students.

Sec. 1363. Any student not desiring to pursue all the studies taught in the academical department shall be entitled to an exam

ination on any branch of learning pursued in the regular course, and if found proficient, shall receive a certificate under the seal of the university.

of students.

Sec. 1364. There shall be an annual examination of the stu- Examination dents in the academical department of the university, a commencement day for conferring publicly degrees on the graduates of that department, and of the law and medical departments.

treasurer and

Sec. 1365. The board of administrators shall appoint a treasurer and secretary, to continue in office for four years. The Duties of treasurer shall keep a true and fair account of all moneys by him secretary. received and paid out.

The secretary shall attend the board of administrators, and shall keep a fair journal of the meetings and proceedings of the board, in which the yeas and nays, on all questions, shall be entered, if required by any of the administrators present. Every administrator shall always have access to all books and papers of the corporation, and be permitted to have copies of them.

legislature

versity.

Sec. 1366. The legislature shall have all the power to visit Powers of the and inspect the university by a committee of their own body to over the unibe appointed for that purpose; to control by law the corporation, and to repeal their charter; and may require a full report of the situation of the affairs of the university at any time.

tors to hold no

Sec. 1367. No person who shall accept the office of adminis- Administratrator of the university shall act as trustee, president, principal other office in or tutor, or hold any office in any other school, academy, or col- the university. lege in the State.

property of

lege to the uni

tain condi

sions relative

Sec. 1368. All of the real and personal estate whatsoever be- Transfer of longing to the medical college of Louisiana, is hereby transferred medical colto and vested in the university of Louisiana; Provided, The ad- versity on cerministrators of the university appropriate the sum which the real tions. and personal estate of the medical college cost to the purchase of Provided. philosophical and chemical apparatus for the use of the college, and the medical college, as it is now organized, is herein and hereby incorporated with and made a part of the university of Louisiana, and shall constitute the only medical department of the university. The professors now filling the chairs in that school Certain provishall constitute the medical faculty of the department of medi- to the medical cine of the university, and fill the same chairs in the university now filled by them in the medical school of Louisiana, and hereafter be under the government of the board of administrators of the university. The requisites for admission, the examination of candidates for their degrees in the medical and law departments, the management of pecuniary concerns, the salaries of the professors, the tuition and the terms of admission, shall be under the exclusive control of the faculty of the departments respectively.

college.

Sec. 1369. The department of law shall consist of three or Law departmore professors, who shall be required to give a full course of ment. lectures on international, constitutional, maritime, commercial and municipal or civil law, and instruction in the practice thereof.

Sec. 1370. The faculties of the university may admit, free of Indigent charge, such number of indigent young men of the State, of good be educated. abilities, and correct moral deportment, as they may deem expedient.

young men to

Medical department to

have access to the charity hospital.

Manner in

which scholars prepared at

Sec. 1371. The medical department of the university shall at all times have free access to the charity hospital of New Orleans, for the purpose of affording their students practical illustrations of the subjects they teach.

D. Sec. 406.

Sec. 1372. Any scholar who shall have prepared himself at any other school or academy in this State, and is desirous of entering the academical department of the university, shall be perother schools mitted so to do, if, on examination by the academical faculty, he shall be found competent, and may enter, according to his progress in science, such class as his knowledge and examination may justify.

university.

Exemption

from militia

Sec. 1373. The students attending the university, the presiand jury duty. dent, professors, tutors, and under officers of the same, shall be exempt from militia duty, and from serving on juries.

The board of administrators

turn

over to the medical de

Sec. 1374. The board of administrators of the university of of the univer- Louisiana be, and they are hereby instructed to turn over to the ana to this medical department of the university of Louisiana the east wing building of the university, originally designated for a department of letters, until otherwise ordered by the legislature; Provided, of the univer- That the board of administrators of the said medical department of the university of Louisiana, shall assign two rooms in the said building for the use of the New Orleans academy of sciences.

partment the

east building

sity.

Provided.

learning may

Act 1861, p. 181.

INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING GENERALLY.

Institutions of Sec. 1375. The president and trustees of any institution of deposit certain learning established in the State of Louisiana, which is or may be money in hereafter incorporated as a body politic, in conformity with the State treasury. constitution and laws of this State, who may wish so to do, can

deposit in the treasury of the State of Louisiana all sums of money intended solely for the uses and purposes of such institu Said moneys, tions of learning; and all sums so deposited shall be invested in the bonds or obligations of the State of Louisiana or of the United States, and the interest accruing thereon, as realized, shall be paid over to such corporation or again invested as they may desire.

how invested.

or donations to

fessorship may

Act 1855, p. 330.

Sec. 1376. Should any endowment be made either by donaEndowments tion, inter vivos or mortis causa, to establish a professorship in any establish pro- institution of learning in the State, duly incorporated, on the be deposited in principal being deposited in the State treasury, the same shall be the same man- invested, and the interest as realized shall be paid over as stipu lated in the preceding section; and it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts and the State treasurer to make the

ner.

investments to the greatest advantage and interest of said insti

tution.

D. Sec. 682.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

cil authorized

etc.

Sec. 1377. The common council of the city of New Orleans Common counare authorized and requested to establish one or more public to establish schools in each district, for the gratuitous education of the chil- public schools, dren residing therein; to enact ordinances for the organization, government and discipline of the same, and to levy taxes for their support, as to them may seem proper.

Act 1855, p. 331; Act 1870, No. 6, p. 12; Act 1871, No. 8, p. 42; Act 1873, No. 86, p. 73; Act 1874, No. 123, p. 217.

to be made by

Sec. 1378. The council shall make a report annually to the Annual report superintendent of public education of the disposition of the council. school fund, and communicate all other information respecting public education which they may possess and which may be called for by him.

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