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The full Board of Trustees consists of fifteen members, representing the original Board, and fifteen members on the part of the State appointed by the Governor, five from each of the three counties. The Governor of the State and the President of the College are members es- officio. In 1888, by Act of the Delaware Legislature, the Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station was established in connection with the College under the provisions of an Act of Con- gress approved March 2d, 1887, commonly known as the Hatch Bill, appropriating $15,000 annually for the purpose of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States use- ful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture and to promote scientific in- vestigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of Agricultural Science un- der direction of the College or Colleges established in each of the States and Territories in ac- cordance with the provisions of the Morrill Bill. Delaware College is beneficiary also under a further Act of Congress, known as the New Morrill Bill, approved August zoth, 18go, which appropriated for the year then current $15,- 000 to each State for the Land Grant Colleges and provided for the increase of the appro- priation by $1,000 each vear until it should reach $25,000 a year. Delaware College receives an- nually four-fifths of this appropriation, one-fifth, in accordance with the provisions of the bill, being applied to the maintenance and support of the College at Dover for the education of col- ored students. i The appropriations provided for in this Act are to be applied to instruction in Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, the English Language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic sciences with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction. Stimulated by the increased income provided by this last Act, Delaware College has, within the past few vears, enlarged her corps of instructors and greatly increased her equipment of ap- paratus and appliances, so that she is now vastly better able than ever before in her whole his- tory to perform her appointed duty. The buildings of the College, situated in an ample and beautiful campus, shaded by trees as old as the institution itself, consist of the recently improved Dormitory, a large brick struc- ture originally the sole College building for all purposes, and still occupied, not only for lodgings, 16
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