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Bills and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution

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adapted to that purpose and shall deliver annually a course of not less than twenty lectures on the theory and practice of school teaching, said lectures to be open to all practical teachers free of any charge. 8. It shall be the duty of the Regents of the State University to admit into connection with that board and to participation in all the benefits conferred by this act any college which may hereafter exhibit evidence of having complied with the provisions of this act and apply for admission; and if the application of any college shall be rejected, the said college shall have a right to appeal to the circuit court of the county of Sangamon who shall hear such an appeal in a summary way, and whose decision shall be final. 9. It shall be the duty of the heads of all the existing colleges of this State to meet at Springfield on the call of the Governor within three months after the passage of this act to exhibit to the Governor and Secretary of State evidence of their right to the benefit of this act. And so many of them as may have been found by the Governor and Secretary to have complied with the provisions of this act shall proceed to organize themselves into a board to constitute the "Regents of the University of the State of Illinois, SI of which the Governor shall be ex-officio President, and the Secretary of State the Secretary of the board. 10. The Regents of the University shall have the power of conferring the academic degrees usually conferred by the colleges of this country, except that of Bachelor and Master of Arts in course, and degrees in Theology or Divinity. They may also award premiums and bestow marks of honorary distinction upon successful teachers, pupils, writers, and friends of popular education out of any means placed at their disposal for such purposes. It shall be the duty of the Regents of the University, at their first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and from time to time, to alter and amend the same as experience shall suggest, a course of studies for the department of popular instruction, and to determine the requisite qualifications for admission to this department, and every student completing with honor this course of studies in any college coming within the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive from the faculty of such