Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College established. "Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, that where any local or independent system is repealed by and in the same manner provided in this Act, the territory formerly included in such independent system shall become and constitute a school district of the county in which it is located, and shall enjoy the same privileges and shall be governed by the same laws as other school districts in said county, including the authority to levy local taxes for school purposes; provided that the rate for such taxation shall not exceed the rate allowed by law to other similar school districts; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to a municipal or independent local school system of a municipality having a population of 200,000 or more, according to the last or any other United States census.' Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 27, 1927. To read. MIDDLE GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL AND ME- No. 343. An Act to establish a College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, as a branch of the University of Georgia, to be known as the Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College, to define its purposes, powers and privileges, to provide for its location, to provide for the transfer of the property of the Twelfth District Agricultural and Mechanical School to the trustees of the University of Georgia for the use and benefit of said. college, to provide a board of trustees for said college, to prescribe their power and duties, and for other pur poses. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same: College to be Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College established. Section 1. That there be and there is hereby established on site of 12th in connection with the University of Georgia, and forming M. School. County. Trustees; residence, appointment, terms. one of the branches or departments thereof, a college of agriculture and mechanic arts, to be known as the Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College, to be located on the tract of land on which the Twelfth District Agricultural and Mechanical School is now located, in the County of Bleckley. Sec. 2. The local board of trustees of said Middle GeorLocal Board of gia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College shall be composed of twelve members, three of whom shall be appointed for a term of six years by the chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Georgia from among the members of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia; the other members of the board of trustees of said college shall be appointed by the Governor of this State. Three thereof shall be citizens of the County of Bleckley, and the others shall be citizens of this State, residing outside of said County of Bleckley. The term of office of such trustees shall be six years, but each trustee shall be subject to removal by the Governor at any time with cause. In making the first appointments under this Act, the appointments shall be arranged by the Governor so that said board shall be made up of groups as nearly equal as practicable, appointed for two, four, and six years respectively, and thereafter all subsequent appointments shall be either for the balance of an unexpired term, in case of a vacancy, or for the full term of six years in case of a succession to a fully expired term, as the case may be. Vacancies from nonattendance. Sec. 3. Whenever it is made to appear to the Governor that any member of the board of trustees of said college has failed to attend two successive meetings of said board without rendering an excuse in writing which is satisfactory and accepted by the board, it shall be the duty of the Governor to declare his place vacant, and to fill the same in the manner herein before provided for filling vacancies. Sec. 4. The members of the board of trustees of said college, for their attendance on each meeting of the board Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College established. or any committee, shall be allowed their actual railroad Railroad expenses by the nearest route, and not over $4.00 per day. expenses. board. Sec. 5. Seven members of said board of trustees shall Quorum. constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Said Officers of board shall have power to select one of their members as chairman, and also to select a secretary and such other officers as may be necessary. officers and Powers. Subject to University Sec. 6. Said board of trustees shall elect a president, Election of vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and faculty, and such faculty. other officers as may be necessary in and for said college, and shall establish such departments, courses of study and Trustees. curriculum as they may think proper for the successful operation of said college. They shall have authority to grant certificates and diplomas, and to exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges necessary or proper in the discharge of their duties; and they shall have power to fix the salaries of all officers and members of the faculty and to fix all tuition and other fees, and to prescribe all necessary rules and regulations for the government of said board, the officers thereof, the members of the faculty, students, and employees of said college, subject, however, to the control of the trustees of the University of Georgia. Supervision of University. Sec. 7. The Chancellor of the University of Georgia. shall have supervision of the said Middle Georgia Agri- by Chancellor cultural and Mechanical Junior College, and of its management and operation as a department of the University of Georgia. All diplomas and certificates issued by said college shall be countersigned by said Chancellor, who shall cause a record of the same to be kept in his office at Athens. Sec. 8. Tuition in said college shall be free to all residents of this State. The trustees may limit the number of students from time to time, according to the capacity and means of the institution, and shall make such rules of admission to equalize, as far as possible, the privileges of said college among the counties according to population. Free tuition. Tuition of nonresidents. Courses of study. Faculty, etc.. of 12th Dist. A. & M. School included. Work to be done by students. Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College established. Sec. 9. All non-residents of the State of Georgia shall pay such tuition as students as the board of trustees of said. college may fix, and no non-resident students shall be admitted to said college to the exclusion of students who are citizens of this State. Sec. 10. The courses of study in said Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College shall consist of practical treatises or lectures on agriculture in all of its branches and on the mechanical arts, and in the practicable application of the principles of the science of agriculture and of the mechanical arts by manual training and by work on the college farm and in the college workshop, and such other studies as are usual or proper in a college of agriculture and mechanic arts. In the study of agriculture in said college special emphasis shall be placed on stockraising, dairying, and the production of beef, pork, and poultry, and also upon farm management and farm market ing. Sec. 11. The Board of Trustees of said college shall cause to be maintained, as a preparatory department of said college, the present course of study and general organization of the Twelfth District Agricultural and Mechanical School, so far as it is practicable to do so, in the promotion of the general aims of the college. The faculty and students of said preparatory school shall be a part of the faculty and students of such Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College, and under the management and control of the board of trustees of such college, and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by said board, subject, however, to the control of the board of trustees of the University of Georgia. Sec. 12. All work on, in, and about said college, or on the farm, or in the barns and shops connected with said college, whether it be farming, building, care of the stock, or work of whatever kind, shall be, as far as practicable, performed exclusively by the students of said college under such regulations for the proper division and alternation in such Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College established. Accounts to Transfer of property of 12th Dist. A. & M. School. work as may be provided by the trustees. The president of said college shall keep an account of all receipts from the be kept. sale of the products of the farm and shops which are not consumed in said college each year, and the trustees shall set aside such portion thereof as they may deem advisable, as a fund to pay the students for labor they have performed. Sec. 13. The board of trustees of the Twelfth District Agricultural and Mechanical School are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to transfer and convey to the trustees of the University of Georgia the title to all property, real and personal, of the said Twelfth District Agricultural and Mechanical School for the use and benefit of the said Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College, by a good and sufficient deed, and the trustees of the University of Georgia are hereby authorized and directed to accept the title to said property, to take the possession thereof, and to hold the same for the use and benefit of the said Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College, as a branch and department of the University of Georgia. The board of trustees of the University of Georgia are also authorized to receive, accept, and hold such donations, gifts, contributions, legacies, and devises of any and all kinds of property which may be given, devised, or contributed to the said Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College or for the benefit, use, or maintenance of said college, and to hold the same for the uses and purposes for which donated, devised, or contributed. Sec. 14. The curriculum of the Middle Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical Junior College shall be so coordinated with the State College of Agriculture at Athens as to provide for the entrance of the students and graduates of such college into the classes of said State College of Agriculture without examination. Curriculum. Sec. 15. Said Middle Georgia Agricultural and Me- co-operation chanical Junior College shall work in co-operation with the with DepartState Department of Agriculture, and the board of trustees culture. ment of Agri |