fund should expressly show that they embody the results of the station's experimental work. General bulletins of information, circulars containing directions for the use of fertilizers, spraying, etc., which are compiled from well-known sources of information or embody the general or local experience of practical men, and other compiled publications, should not be charged to the Hatch fund. The expenses of tests and local demonstrations of established results of experimental work or improved practice are not proper charges against the Federal funds for the stations. In keeping the station books and vouchers and in making up the financial reports strict attention should be paid to the rulings of the department, the published scheme of classification of accounts, and the instructions printed on the first page of the financial schedule and in connection with the several abstracts thereof. When changes are made of accountants or clerks, the requirements of the department regarding the details of expenditure and accounting should be brought to the attention of the new incumbents, and care should be taken that approved methods of accounting shall not be changed without consideration of the department's requirements. PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF HATCH AND ADAMS ACTS [Extract from report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1913] Efficient station work demands an atmosphere of fairness and justice and reasonable security to the staff. It furthermore requires stability of policy and the highest possible measure of continuity in work and in personnel. Money spent on discontinued or interrupted projects is usually very largely wasted. The director of the station, as the guiding head, is mainly responsible for the success of the station. A good station and a good director go together. The station director deserves to be sustained and supported by the governing board in carrying out the general policy after it is approved by them. A change in the director is inevitably a temporary shock to the work, often interrupts projects, causes changes in the policy and personnel, and creates an era of uncertainty; hence a change is not justified except when clearly indicated by incompetency or inability. In the discharge of its functions in administering the Federal funds and in seeing that they are properly used, the Department of Agriculture should not fail to take cognizance of so important and vital a change as that of director. The Adams Act directs that the Secretary of Agriculture shall each year ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory, whether it is complying with the provisions of this act and is entitled to receive a share of the annual appropriation. It authorizes the Secretary to withhold certification, thus suspending payment, and to report the matter to Congress. While the right of the colleges to direct the stations within their States and select the members of the station staff is recognized, radical changes in the personnel or policy of the station, except for good and valid reasons, should, it is believed, be held to be unwarranted interference of the governing board with the conduct of the station. Such action fails to recognize the cardinal principles of efficient administration and places an institution in a position of inability to properly employ the Federal funds. It is believed that such a condition does not warrant the Federal Government in continuing to advance funds to the college or its experiment station, and should lead to the withholding of funds until conditions favorable to their effective use are restored. ORDER No. 8547. ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL, The Postal Laws and Regulations, edition of 1913, are amended by the addition of the following as Section 504: 504. All correspondence, bulletins and reports for the furtherance of the purpose of the act approved May 18, 1914 (see paragraph 2 of this section), entitled "An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and the acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture” may be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the PostmasterGeneral, from time to time, may prescribe, by such college officer or other person connected with the extension department of such college as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate to the Postmaster-General. (Act of June 30, 1914.) * * 2. There may be inaugurated in connection with the college or colleges in each State now receiving, or which may hereafter receive, the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862 * (12 Stat., 503), and the act of Congress approved August 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 417), agricultural extension work which shall be carried on in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture. * Cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise. (Act of May 8, 1914.) * * 3. Upon designation to the Postmaster-General by the Secretary of Agriculture of a college officer or other person connected with the extension department of a state agricultural college receiving the benefits of the act of July 2, 1862, and the acts supplementary thereto, by whom the correspondence, bulletins and reports mentioned in paragraph 1 of this section are to be transmitted, the Third Assistant Postmaster-General shall authorize the postmaster at the postoffice where the extension department of such college is located to accept from the officer or person so designated such correspondence, bulletins and reports for free transmission in the mails. 4. In the upper left corner of the envelope or wrapper containing such correspondence, bulletins, or reports shall be printed over the words "FreeCooperative Agricultural Extension Work-Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, the name of the agricultural college and the name of the postoffice at which the matter is to be accepted free, followed by the name and title of the college officer or person designated to transmit such matter, and in the upper right corner the words "Penalty for private use to avoid payment of postage, $300?" The designated college officer or person is not authorized to furnish such envelopes for use as return envelopes by individuals or concerns from whom replies are requested. 5. Only such correspondence, bulletins, and reports as are for the furtherance of the purposes of the act of May 8, 1914, set forth in paragraph 2 of this section, and are mailed at the authorized postoffice by the college officer or other person duly designated may be transmitted free under the provisions of this section. All such correspondence, etc., to be entitled to free transmission, must be conducted under the name of such designated college officer or person. Correspondence with autograph signature may be mailed sealed, but all other matter shall be presented unsealed. 6. When in doubt as to whether any particular matter presented for mailing under the provisions of this section is entitled to be transmitted free, the postmaster shall submit a sample to the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, Division of Classification, and pending decision may dispatch the matter if the sender makes a deposit to cover the postage at the proper rate. The deposit will be refunded if the matter is held to be entitled to free transmission. A. S. BURLESON, STATE LEGISLATION CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE XI SEC. 3. All lands, including the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in any township donated for the benefit of public schools in the Act of the Thirty-eighth Congress, to enable the people of Nevada Territory to form a State Government, the thirty thousand acres of public lands granted by an Act of Congress, approved July 2, A. D. 1862, for each Senator and Representative in Congress, and all proceeds of lands that have been or may hereafter be granted or appropriated by the United States to this State, and also the five hundred thousand acres of land granted to the new States under the Act of Congress distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the several States of the Union, approved A. D. 1841, provided that Congress make provision for or authorize such diversion to be made for the purpose herein contained; all estates that may escheat to the State; all of such per centum as may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands; all fines collected under the penal laws of the State; all property given or bequeathed to the State for educational purposes, and all proceeds derived from any or all of said sources, shall be and the same hereby are solemnly pledged for educational purposes, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses; and the interest thereon shall, from time to time, be apportioned among the several counties as the Legislature may provide by law; and the Legislature shall provide for the sale of floating land warrants to cover the aforesaid lands, and for the investment of all proceeds derived from any of the above-mentioned sources in United States bonds or the bonds of this State, or the bonds of other States of the Union, or the bonds of any county in the State of Nevada; provided, that the interest only of the aforesaid proceeds shall be used for educational purposes, and any surplus interest shall be added to the principal sum; and provided further, that such portion of said interest as may be necessary may be appropriated for the support of the State University. [As amended. Proposed and passed at the Twenty-fourth Session of the Legislature, March 3, 1909, Statutes of 1909, page 340; agreed to and passed at the Twenty-fifth Session, February 14, 1911, Statutes of 1911, page 453, and approved and ratified by the people at the general election of 1912.] Sec. 4. State University. The Legislature shall provide for the establishment of a State University which shall embrace departments for agriculture, mechanic arts and mining, to be controlled by a Board of Regents, whose duties shall be prescribed by law. Sec. 5. Normal School. The Legislature shall have the power to establish Normal schools, and such different grades of schools, from the primary department to the University, as in their discretion they may deem necessary, and all professors in said University, or teachers in said schools of whatever grade, shall be required to take and subscribe to the oath as prescribed in article fifteen of this Constitution. No professor or teacher who fails to comply with the provisions of any law framed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be entitled to receive any portion of the public moneys set apart for school purposes. Sec. 6. Educational Special Tax. The Legislature shall provide a special tax, which shall not exceed two mills on the dollar of all taxable property in the State, in addition to the other means provided for the support and maintenance of said University and common schools. Sec. 7. Board of Regents Constituted. The Governor, Secretary of State, and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, for the first four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, constitute a Board of Regents to control and manage the affairs of the University, and the funds of the same, under such regulations as may be provided by law, but the Legislature shall at its regular session next preceding the expiration of the term of office of said Board of Regents provide for the election of a new Board of Regents and define their duties. [Prior to 1891 the Board of Regents of the State University consisted of three members, elected by the people, as provided for by the Act of February 7, 1887. The Act of March 19, 1891, provided that "the Board of Regents of the State University shall consist of three elective members, as now provided by law, and of the Governor and Attorney-General, who shall be ex officio members of said board." Respondent, as Attorney-General, claimed by virtue of said act to be a Regent of the State University: Held, that respondent is not entitled to discharge the duties of Regent because he has not been elected to that position in the manner provided by the Constitution and the Act of 1887. State, ex rel. Mack, v. Torreyson, 21 Nev. 517, 518, 521, 524, 526, 527; 34 Pac. 879.] Sec. 8. Mining Department Organized. The Board of Regents shall, from the interest accruing from the first funds which come under their control, immediately organize and maintain the said mining department in such manner as to make it most effective and useful; provided, that all the proceeds of the public lands donated by Act of Congress approved July second, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for a college for the benefit of agriculture, the mechanic arts, and including military tactics, shall be invested by the said Board of Regents in a separate fund to be appropriated exclusively for the benefit of the first-named departments to the University as set forth in section four above; and the Legislature shall provide that if through neglect or any other contingency, any portion of the fund so set apart, shall be lost or misappropriated, the State of Nevada shall replace said amount so lost or misappropriated in said fund so that the principal of said fund shall remain forever undiminished. Sec. 9. Sectarian Instruction Prohibited. No sectarian instruction shall be imparted or tolerated in any school or university that may be established under this Constitution. Sec. 10. No Funds Used for Sectarian Purposes. No public funds of any kind or character whatever, state, county, or municipal, shall be used for sectarian purposes. CHAP. CI-An Act accepting the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July 2, 1862, and amended and approved April 14, 1864. Approved March 9, 1865 SECTION 1. The provisions of the Acts of Congress entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and amended and approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred sixty-four, are hereby accepted by the State of Nevada, and said State, by virtue of the provisions of this Act, agrees and obligates itself to comply with the provisions of said Acts of Congress. SEC. 2. The Governor is hereby instructed to transmit a certified copy of this Act to the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Interior of the United States. CHAP. XVI-An Act in relation to and accepting the lands granted to the State of Nevada by the Government of the United States. Approved February 13, 1867 SECTION 1. The State of Nevada hereby accepts the grants of lands made by the Government of the United States to this State, in the following Acts of Congress, to wit: "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July 2, 1862, as amended and approved April 14, 1864, and as extended July 4, 1866, by "An Act concerning certain lands granted to the State of Nevada," upon the terms and conditions of said Acts expressed, and agrees to comply therewith. SEC. 2. The State of Nevada hereby accepts the grants of lands made by the Government of the United States to this State in the Act of Congress entitled "An Act concerning certain lands granted to the State of Nevada, approved July 4, 1866, upon the terms and conditions in said Act expressed, and agrees to comply therewith. SEC. 3. The State of Nevada hereby accepts all grants of public lands heretofore made by the Government of the United States to this State, upon the terms and conditions so granted, as modified in the Act of July 4, 1866, above in this Act referred to. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO PUBLIC LANDS GRANTED WHEREAS, The grant of thirty thousand acres of land to this State from the public domain for each Senator and Representative in Congress from this State, amounting in the aggregate to ninety thousand acres, was made by the Congress of the United States, by virtue of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, approved July second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two; and the Act amendatory thereof, approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four; and |