172.470. Rights of students — military training endowment.

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172.470. Rights of students — military training endowment. — To effect the leading objects of the colleges as herein established, it is provided that the students and members thereof shall be admitted to the library, museums, models, cabinets and apparatus, and to all lectures and instructions of the university which now exist or may hereafter exist, and to all other rights and privileges thereof, in a manner as full and ample as are the students of any other department in said university; and to provide for instruction in military tactics, as herein required, it is enacted that in case a system of military education shall be established by Congress, the University of the State of Missouri is hereby required by law to make the necessary provision for carrying out the plan so established in connection with the institution; and furthermore, there is hereby established and created a perpetual fund, to be styled the "Fund of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts", to be derived from the sale or lease of the three hundred and thirty thousand acres of land granted by Congress to the state of Missouri by virtue of an act approved July 2, 1862, entitled "An act donating lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts", and from all additions to the same from public or private bounty, the principal of which fund shall remain forever inviolate and undiminished, to be invested in the manner herein specified, and the income thereof shall be placed at the disposal of the board of curators of the university of the state; three-fourths of which income shall be for the support of the College of Agriculture aforesaid, and the remaining one-fourth for the support of the University of Missouri-Rolla, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the acts of congress aforesaid.

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(RSMo 1939 § 10828)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 9671; 1919 § 11568; 1909 § 11139