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 applicant for admission in the normal department, other than such as shall, prior to admission, sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching common schools in this territory for at least one year, to pay or to cause to be paid such fees for tuition as the board may deem proper and reasonable.

§ 311. The board of regents shall from time to time fix the salary of the president, professor 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 treasurer upon the certificate of the sec­retary of said board of regents, that the amount is due for such salary fixed by said board, and that the services therein mentioned were actually performed.

§ 312. The government and management of the agricult­ural college and experimental station of the territory of Dakota, located at Brookings, in Brookings county, is hereby vested in a board of regents, to be known as the agricultural college board of regents.

§ 313. The said board of regents shall consist of five mem­bers besides the governor of the territory and one member of the territorial board of agriculture, who shall be ex-officio mem­bers of the board, shall be nominated by the governor, and by and with the advice and consent of the legislative council, appointed on or before the third Monday in February of each biennial session of the legislature. The territorial board of agriculture, at the regular annual meeting of said board, shall elect one member thereof to be ex-officio a member of said board of regents, who shall hold for the term of one year. The governor shall have power to fill all vacancies in said board which occur when the legislature is not in session, and the members of said board shall hold their office until their successors are appointed and qualified as provided in this act.

§ 314. The governor shall cause to be issued to each of said regents a commission, which shall be under seal of the territory. At the first meeting of said board the members thereof shall take and subscribe the oath of office required of all civil officers of the territory, and shall then proceed to elect a president and treasurer, and the president of the college shall be secretary of the board, but shall have no vote in the board. A majority of said board shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall require a bond of its treasurer and fix the amount thereof.

§ 315. The board of regents shall hold its meetings at the agricultural college, and fix the time of holding the same, providing there shall not be to exceed six regular meetings in each year. The members of the board shall receive as compensation