VII. There shall be attached to the Academy the following Professors, Instructors, and Assistants, viz. :—

1 Professor of Military and Civil Engineering.

1 Assistant Professor of Military and Civil Engineering.

1 Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy.

1 Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. 1 Professor of Mathematics.

3 Assistant Professors of Mathematics.

1 Professor of Ethics and English Studies, who shall be Chaplain. 1 Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology.

1 Professor of Drawing.

1 Professor of French.

1 Commandant of Cadets, Instructor of Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Tactics.

2 Assistant Instructors of Cadets in Artillery, Cavalry, and Infantry Tactics.

1 Sword Master.

VIII. The Trustees shall appoint a Treasurer, who, besides the money transactions of the Academy, shall, under the directions of the Superintendent, have charge of the public land and buildings thereon, and all the repairs and improvements of the same, and shall make such purchases for the Academy as may be directed by the Superintendent, and shall make all accounts and returns relative to public property under his charge.

IX. The Trustees shall appoint a Commissary to furnish such articles for the Cadets as the Superintendent shall direct, including clothing, provisions, &c. He shall present his accounts to the Treasurer for settlement monthly.

X. The Superintendent shall appoint a clerk for himself, and have the confirmation of the assistant clerks, one each, appointed by the Treasurer and Commissary.

XI. The Superintendent, the members of the Academic Staff, Surgeon, Treasurer, and Commissary shall be commissioned as officers of the militia of the State, and shall rank according to their grades and dates of appointments. They are not to assume, nor are they subject to be ordered upon, any duty beyond the line of their professions as Superintendent, Instructor, &c., but by the authority of the Governor of the State.

Their assimilated rank shall be as follows:

1. Superintendent, the rank of Colonel.

2. The Instructor of Tactics and the Professors, regular members of the Academic Board, the rank of Major.

3. The remaining Professors, the first Assistant Professors and the Surgeon, the rank of Captain.

4. All other members of the Staff, the Treasurer and Commissary, the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

5. The Cadets shall be non-commissioned officers of said militia.

XII. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees, with the exception of the Governor of the State, to attend the annual examination of the Academy and report to the said Governor for the information of the legislature at the commencement of the next succeeding session, the actual state of the discipline, instruction, police, administration, financial affairs, and other concerns of the institution.

XIII. No compensation shall be made to the Trustees, beyond the payment of their expenses for board and lodging while at the Military Academy, and an allowance not to exceed eight cents per mile for travelling from their homes to the Academy and back to their homes.

XIV. No person who has been a Cadet at the Military Academy, and dismissed, shall ever be appointed a trustee of the institution; nor shall any graduate be so appointed previous to the expiration of seven years from the period of his graduation.

ACADEMIC BOARD.

XV. The Academic Board will be composed as follows:-
The Superintendent,

and the Professors of Drawing and French only upon matters strict

ly pertaining to their departments of instruction.

XVI. The Superintendent shall preside at the meetings of the Board, and in his absence, the next senior member.

XVII. The Academic Board shall be convened as often as the Superintendent may judge necessary.

XVIII. A majority of the voting members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

XIX. Unless called on by the Superintendent to act upon other matters concerning the Academy, the Academic Board shall confine its duties to the examination of candidates for admission, and of the students at the times prescribed by the regulations; the arrangement, for the approval of the Trustees, of the order of instruction in the several branches of each course of studies, and the time to be employed in each branch; the arrangement of the order in which the several classes shall present themselves at the examinations; the deciding on the merits of the Cadets and granting diplomas; the recommendation of the students found deficient, for further trial, also of individuals for restoration to the Academy; the recommendation, for the approval of the Trustees, of the text-books best suited for each department of instruction, giving in each case a succinct statement of the reasons which urge the introduction of a new text-book, or the substitution of one for another; the recommendation for purchase of all such books, maps, models, instruments, and apparatus as may be necessary in the different departments of instruction for the purposes of tuition; to reporting from time to time on the system of studies and instruction pursued, and proposing any improvements therein that experience may suggest.

XX. The Superintendent will designate a member of the Academic Board to act as its Secretary and keep a correct record of its proceedings, which record shall be carefully kept in the office of the Superintendent, and transmitted by him to his successor. In case

of the absence of the member so designated, at the time a meeting of the Board is held, the presiding officer will then appoint another member to act in said Secretary's stead for the time being.

XXI. Any person connected with the Academy, not a member of the Board, may be required by the Superintendent, in the name of the Board, to attend its meetings for the purpose of giving information, or expressing opinions, but not to vote in any decision of the Board.

ADMISSION OF Cadets.

XXII. The number of Cadets in the Military Academy shall be two hundred, arranged in three distinct annual classes, corresponding with the three years of study; seventy appointments shall be made the first year, one-half of the vacancies shall be filled the second year; and the full number completed the third, and every succeeding year.

XXIII. Examinations by the Academic Board for admission into the Academy shall be competitive, for which purpose the Governor and Council shall nominate each year for examination, a number of candidates greater by one-half, than the number of appointments to be made that year; the nominations to be so made, as near as may be, that each two-hundredth portion of the population of the State shall have its representative in the Academy. In case of the failure of any portion to furnish a candidate, the Governor and Council shall fill the vacancy from the State at large to represent said portion.

XXIV. The State shall pay the travelling expenses and board at the Academy, of nominees examined and not accepted.

XXV. The nomination of candidates shall be made annually between the 15th of March and the 15th of June. The candidates shall present themselves to the Superintendent of the Academy between the 20th and 25th of June.

XXVI. Candidates for admission into the Military Academy will be examined in reading distinctly; writing correctly; English Grammer, to analyze and construe an English sentence correctly; in Arithmetic, the four ground rules, vulgar and decimal fractions, extraction of square root, and ratios and proportions; in Algebra, to include quadratic equations of one unknown quantity; in Plane Geometry; Descriptive Geography, particularly of the United States, and the History of the United States.

XXVII. No candidate shall be admitted who is under 16, or more than 21 years of age, or who is below 5 feet in height, or who is deformed or afflicted with any disease or infirmity which would render him unfit for the military service, or who may bring with him at the time of presenting himself any disorder of an infectious or immoral character.

XXVIII. No married person shall be a Cadet.

XXIX. A Medical Board composed of the Surgeon of the Academy, and two other medical men selected by the Governor and Council, shall assemble at the Academy from the 25th to the 30th June annually to examine carefully and thoroughly into the physical qualifications of the candidates for admission.

XXX. No Cadet shall receive his warrant until after the January examination next ensuing his admission, and then only upon the certificate of the Academic Board that he has passed that examination in a satisfactory manner, and that his moral and military conduct previously thereto has in like manner been satisfactory.

XXXI. Each Cadet, before receiving his warrant, shall, in presence of the Superintendent, or some person deputed by him, subscribe an engagement with the consent of his parent, or guardian, that he will serve as an officer of the militia of the State six years, if required by the authorities of the State, and when so required, within twenty-five years after his leaving the Academy, provided his health, or absence from the State does not prevent the service.

It may be deemed expedient that one-half only of the six years service, shall be rendered in a time of peace, with liability to render the remaining three years in time of war.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION.

XXXII. The studies which shall be pursued, and the instruction which shall be given at the Military Academy are comprised under the following heads:

1st. Mathematics-This course will comprehend Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Surveying, Descriptive Geometry, Analytical Geometry, and Differential and Integral Calculus as far as applicable to Civil and Military Engineering, and to the elements of Mechanics and Astronomy.

2d. Natural and Experimental Philosophy-To embrace Mechanics, Optics, a short course of Astronomy, including the use of the instruments; and the Steam-Engine; in Mechanics, to have the elements of Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics, taught by the simplest methods, avoiding a too complicated course of Analytical Mechanics.