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Educational Institutions. factures, architecture, and commerce, and such branches included in the college of letters as shall be necessary to proper fitness of the pupils in the scientific and practical courses for their chosen pursuits, and in military tactics; in the normal department the proper instruction and learning in the theory and art of teaching, and in all the various branches and subjects needful to qualify for teaching in the common schools; and as soon as the income of the university will allow, in such order as the wants of the public shall seem to require, the said courses in the sciences and their application to the practical arts shall be expanded into distinct colleges of the university, each with its own faculty and appropriate title. The college of letters shall be co-existent with the college of arts, and shall embrace a liberal course of instruction in language, literature and philosophy, together with such courses or parts of courses in the college of arts, as the regents of the university shall prescribe.

§ 307. The university shall be open to female as well as to male students, under such regulations and restrictions as the board of regents may deem proper, and all able-bodied male students of the university, in whatever college, may receive instruction and discipline in military tactics, the requisite arms for which shall be furnished by the territory. After any person has graduated at the university, and after such graduation, has successfully taught a public school in this territory for sixteen school months, the superintendent of public instruction shall have authority to countersign the diploma of such teacher after such examination as to moral character, learning and ability to teach, as to said superintendent may seem proper and reasonable. Any person holding a diploma granted by the board of regents of the territorial university of North Dakota, certifying that the person holding the same is a graduate of said university, shall, after his diploma has been countersigned by the territorial superintendent of public instruction as aforesaid, be deemed qualified to teach any of the public schools of this territory, and such diploma shall be a certificate of such qualifications until annulled by the superintendent of public instruction.

§ 308. No student who shall have been a resident of the territory for one year next preceding his admission shall be required to pay any fees for tuition in the university, except in the law department and for extra studies. The regents may prescribe rates of tuition for any pupil in the law department, or who shall not have been a resident as aforesaid, and for teaching extra studies.

§ 309. The regents shall each receive the actual amount of expenses in traveling to and from and in attendance upon all meetings of the board, or incurred in the performance of any duty in pursuance of any direction of the board; accounts for such expense, duly authenticated, shall be audited by the board and be paid on their order by the treasurer out of the university fund income. No regent shall receive any pay, mileage or per diem except as above described.

§ 310. The said board of regents shall make rules, regulations and by-laws for the good government and management rules, of the university; and of each department thereof; prescribe rules and regulations for the admission of students; but every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination to be prescribed by the board, and shall be rejected if it shall appear that he or she is not of good moral character; require any