Board of Regents of the Oregon Agricultural College and Experiment Station.

Hon. J. H. Ackerman, State Supt. of Pub. Instruction, Salem, Oregon. Hon. B. G. Leedy, Master of State Grange.....Tigardville, Oregon.

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD.

Hon. George E. Chamberlain, Governor of the State of Oregon:

MY DEAR SIR:-I have the honor to submit the annual report of the condition of the Agricultural College of the State of Oregon for the year ending on June 30, 1905.

ATTENDANCE.

The attendance during the year has been the largest in the history of the institution; the enrollment being 680, representing all the counties of the State of Oregon, and from the indications, the attendance for the coming year will be much larger than that of the past.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

Up to July 1st, 1905, there have been received the following sums of money from the following sources:

The $25,000.00, referred to as received under the Morrill Act, is an appropriation made by Congress under the law passed on August 30th, 1890, in substance as follows:

"That there shall be and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each state and territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts now established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid there

after to each state and territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their application in the industries of life, and to facilities for such instruction."

Therefore the income of the College from this fund must be expended in instruction, experimentation and illustration in agriculture and in the mechanic arts, and in underlying and relating science and literature.

IRREDUCIBLE FUND.

The Act of 1862, passed by Congress, is 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."

Section 1 of this act provides that for the support of such colleges there shall be granted "an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each state in quantity to equal thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in Congress to which the states are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860; provided that no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act."

Section 4 requires: "That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid by the states to which lands are apportioned, and from the sale of land script, herein before provided for, shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished and the interest of which shall inviolably be apportioned by each state which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the state may provide, in order to promote the liberal and practical education. of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life."

Section 5 of said act provided: "That the grant of land and land script hereby authorized, shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as the provisions herein before contained, the previous consent of the several states shall be signified by legisla