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 § 292. All specimens of natural history and geological and mineralogical specimens which are or hereafter may be collected by the territorial geologist or by any others appointed by the territory to investigate its natural and physical resources, or donated by any person, shall belong to and be the property of the university, and shall form a part of its cabinet of natural history, which shall be under the charge of the professor of that department.

§ 293. The president of the university shall make a report on the fifteenth day of September preceding the meeting of the legislative assembly, to the board of directors, which shall exhibit the condition and progress of the institution in its several departments, the different courses of study pursued therein, the branches taught, the means and methods of instruction adopted, the number of students, with their names, classes and residences, and such other matters as he may deem proper to communicate.

§ 294. The board of directors shall, on the first day of October preceding each regular meeting of the legislative assembly, make a report to the superintendent of public instruction, which report, with that of the president of the university, shall be embodied in the said superintendent's report to the legislative assembly. The report of the board of directors shall contain the number of professors, tutors, and other officers, with the compensation of each, the condition of the university fund, and the income received therefrom, the amount of expenditures and the items thereof, with such other information and recommendations as they may deem expedient to lay before the legislative assembly.

§ 295. The directors shall receive no compensation except for actual expenses in traveling to and from their places of meetings, and also their actual expenses while discharging any other duties in connection with their office.

§ 296. The board of directors shall from time to time fix the salary of the president, professors and teachers of said university, and shall certify the same to the territorial auditor, and it shall be the duty of the territorial auditor to draw warrants on the territorial treasury upon the certificate of the secretary of said board of directors that the amount is due for such salary fixed by said board, and that the service therein mentioned was actually performed

§ 297. There is hereby established in this territory, at the city of Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks, an institution of learning by the name and style of the "university of North Dakota."

§ 298. The government of the university shall vest in a board of regents, to consist of six members, five of whom to be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the council, and the governor shall, during the term of his office, be a