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college a certificate or diploma of his having diligently and successfully pursued the prescribed course of studies. The said Regents shall also have power to prescribe such other rules and regulations for the successful carrying out of the provisions of this act as to them shall seem necessary, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this State. 11. All services rendered by the Regents of the University under this act shall be to the State strictly gratuitous, except those of the Secretary of State, and he shall only receive such additional clerk hire as the legislature may deem just to grant him. 12. Each college president connected with the University shall make a report to the Secretary of State annually, at least one month previous to the time fixed by law for the Secretary to report on common schools to the Governor, stating the manner in which the college and seminary funds have been appropriated, the number of pupils instructed gratuitously in accordance with this law, and communicating such other information relative to the interests of popular education as may be called for. In case any college shall neglect to make such report or shall in other respects fail to perform the duties required by this act, such college shall not thereafter be entitled to receive any portion of the college and seminary funds hereby appropriated by this act, such failure to be adjudged by the Regents in such manner as shall be prescribed by such by-laws as shall be enacted by them. 13. Each college President shall deliver at least five popular lectures in each year, at such points as the Regents shall designate, on the theory and practice, or the subject matter of popular education, and co-operate with the Secretary of State in his efforts to give popularity and efficiency to system of common school education established in this State. 14. The annual meetings of the Board of Regents shall be on the second Monday in each year. 15. Each college shall appropriate at least two hundred dollars per annum, provided it receives so much under this act, over and above the salary of the professor of popular education, in promoting a knowledge of agriculture, Chemistry, Botany, Geology and Mineralogy.