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3d. An university fund, to consist of the college or university fund of this state, to be used for the benefit and interest of the university, on the following conditions, to-wit: 1st* So soon as the six trustees above named, by themselves or others, shall have secured the twenty-thousand dollars above named, in donations or otherwise, for the benefit and use of the institution, the treasurer of the state shall pay to the treasurer of the board, twenty thousand dollars from the college or university fund of this state, for the use of the agricultural and mechanical department. 2d. When the six trustees first above named shall have so secured and obtained one or more additional sums, to the amount of at least ten thousand dollars each, such a like sum shall be paid over by the state treasurer, out of the college or seminary fund, to the treasurer of the board of trustees, and so on in sums of ten thousand dollars or more, until the trustees shall have so obtained or secured a sum total or amount equal to the whole college or seminary fund of this state. 13. The expenses of all agricultural and horticultural experiments made and prosecuted by the institution, shall be paid out of the donation fund herein provided for; and in no case shall the funds supplied by the state be paid out for any experimental process, but only for ordinary instruction usual in educational universities, and in such courses of study and instructions as shall be fixed and adopted by the trustees and government of the institution. 14. Any future appropriations of money or lands that shall be made by congress to this state, in accordance with the memorials and petitions of the Illinois league, as published in the report of said league, for the promotion of industrial education and art, shall be, and hereby are appropriated and set apart to the use and trust of the corporation herein created, to be used in promoting the general object and purposes of the university. :J$t>. The board of trustees are hereby vested with full power to appoint and assign the duties of all officers of instruction in pte university, and to provide by by-laws for the appointment M all such other officers, servants, and employers, as shall be deeped by the said board of trustees requisite for the faithful