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Initiative Measure No. 9

RELATING TO CONSOLIDATION OF STATE INSTITU- TIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

To Be Voted Upon at the General Election, November 3, 1914.

Published by the Secretary of State, 1914.

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THE NUMBER AND FORM IN WHICH THE QUESTION

WILL BE PRINTED ON A SEPARATE OFFICIAL

BALLOT ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Initiative Measure No. 9

A BILL To Propose by Initiative Petition:

A Law Entitled: "An Act to provide for the consolidation of the State University, now located at Missoula, the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now located at Bozeman, and the School of Mines, now located at Butte, together with such departments of the said institutions as may be organized hereafter, under the name and style of the University of Mon- tana, and to provide for the appointment of a Commission to select a place of permanent location for the consolidated institu- tions, and to permanently locate the University of Montana at either Bozeman or Missoula, as may be decided by the said Commission."

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For Initiative Measure No. 9.

Relating- to Consolidation of State Institutions of Higher Education.

Against Said Measure No. 9.

"Section in, Revised Code as Amended:

"The manner of voting on measures submitted to the peo- ple shall be: By marking the ballot with a cross in or on the diagram opposite and to the left of the proposition FOR WHICH the voter desires to vote."

Published by the Secretary of State, June, 1914.

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CO. HELENA. MONTANA

A BILL To Propose by Initiative Petition :

A Law Entitled : '"An Act to provide for the consolidation of the State University, now located at Missoula, the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now located at Bozeman, and the School of Mines, now located at Butte, together with such departments of the said institutions as may be organized here- after, under the name and style of the University of Montana, and to provide for the appointment of a Commission to select a place of permanent location for the consolidated institutions, and to permanently locate the University of Montana at either Boze- man or Missoula, as may be decided by the said Commission."

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF MONTANA:

Section i. That the State University at Missoula, the Col- lege of . Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Bozeman, the School of Mines at Butte, and such departments of said institutions as may hereafter be organized, shall constitute the University of Montana, under the name and style of "The University of Montana."

Section 2. From and after August 1, 1915, said University shall be consolidated and located at either Missoula or Bozeman, Montana, or within five miles of either of said places. Said location shall be determined in the manner hereinafter provided.

Section 3. On or before March 1, 1915, there may be filed with the Secretary of State on behalf of Bozeman and Missoula, or either of them, properly executed documents specifying a tract or tracts of land available for the site of said University within five miles of such city, and the terms on which the State Board of Education may obtain the same for the site of said University in case it is located in or near said city.

Section 4. That on or before March 1, 191 5, a committee composed of the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or a ma- jority of them, shall appoint a commission of five members to be chosen from the Presidents of the State Universities which are consolidated and include within their consolidation an Agricultural College endowed by the Federal Government; which commission shall by a majority of all of its members select a permanent

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location of said University of Montana in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Section 5. That said comimission shall meet and organize at the State Capitol, at Helena, Montana, and determine the location of said University, and shall on or before August 1, 191 5, file with the Secretary of State its report in writing, desig- nating the place of said location. Upon the filing of said report the place therein designated shall be the seat of said University.

Section 6. Immediately upon the location of the said Uni- versity being so determined, it shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to procure, by purchase or otherwise, at the place of location, not less than one thousand acres of land, in- clusive of any lands owned by the State of Montana, as a site for said University.

Section 7. The State Board of Education shall have such powers as may be necessary to carry the provisions of this law into effect.

Section 8. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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