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shall bear and pay, as they have heretofore done, all the charges and expenses of and incident to the maintenance of the said College, including its buildings, furniture, furnishings, and apparatus of every kind, and all other annual outgoings, including also the salaries of its Principal, Professors, Lecturers, and officers. But it is hereby provided that the University Court, to be established under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, shall be entitled to make and levy an annual assessment upon and from the same to and for the benefit and use of the General University Fund, sufficient, in the judgment of such Court, to meet the proportion justly pertaining to the Dundee College of the amount properly payable out of a University fund for defraying the expenses of and incident to the transaction of the business, including Meetings of the University Court, University Council, and Senatus Academicus, and the expense of Elections and of Graduations, in so far as the Matriculation, Graduation, and Registration Fees received by the University from Students of Dundee College may be insufficient to meet the proportion assessed upon the College; further, that Matriculation, Graduation, and Registration Fees received by the University from others than the Students of Dundee College shall be available for University purposes at St Andrews as heretofore. The Council of the Dundee College shall regularly transmit to the University Court a copy of their annual Accounts as audited under the provisions of the Deed of Endowment of said College.

4. Subject to the provisions of the statute, the Council of Dundee College shall elect to the University Court from time to time such number of Representatives as the Scottish Universities Commissioners may fix and allow, and such elected person or persons shall become and be members of the said Court accordingly; but subject thereto, none of the other conditions of section 15 of the said Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, shall apply to Dundee College, or its Principal or Professors; provided always that none of the Representatives of Dundee College elected under the provisions of this Article, shall be entitled to sit and vote in the University Court while any matter falling under Article 8 hereof is under consideration.

5. All bequests, gifts, or legacies (afterwards called gifts) that may hereafter be made to or for behoof of Dundee College, or for establishing or maintaining any new or other Chairs therein, shall be applied and administered by the Council of said College, provided, as regards gifts for establishing or maintaining any new or other Chairs therein, that the University Court shall be entitled, in the interest of the whole University, to direct any appropriation of the same by the Council in or in connection with Dundee College in any manner not inconsistent with the terms of the gift.

6. The Dundee College and its Principal and Professors, including

any persons to be appointed to Chairs now vacant or under the provisions of the Universities Act to be hereafter established (all afterwards called Professors), are and shall be recognised as part of the University of St Andrews, and said Professors shall become and be members of the Senatus Academicus, and shall have the same tenure of office and the same privileges as the other Professors of the said University, and shall be subject to the same jurisdiction and authorities; provided always that the matter of pensions, as regards Dundee and its Professors, shall be adjusted and settled by the Scottish Universities Commissioners, established by the said Universities Act, as in all the circumstances such Commissioners may think just and right. On the death, resignation, retirement, or removal of any Professor, the Council of the Dundee College may appoint his successor, subject to the approval of the University Court, and so far as consistent with and subject to the provisions of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, the same rule shall apply to appointments to Chairs that may hereafter be instituted, in the event of the Donors of the Endowments for such Chairs designating the Council as Patrons, or making the gift to the Dundee College or its Council without any special designation of Patrons.

7. The Council of Dundee College shall have no power or jurisdiction over or in regard to the University teaching in the College, save a power to see that the fundamental purposes and conditions of its Deed of Endowment are faithfully adhered to and carried out; nor shall they have any power or jurisdiction on or over the courses for Graduation, the fees for Classes forming part of these courses, or any other academic matters ejusdem generis with those named; but declaring always that provision may continue to be made by the Council, for Evening Classes in and connected with the said College, and for implementing the Agreement with Sir David Baxter's Trustees concerning the Technical Institute; and that the Council shall be entitled to exercise the same powers and control as heretofore over and in regard to said Classes and Agreement; and declaring also that the University Court shall, as far as possible, watch over, extend, and develop the College as opportunity arises, on the lines of its foundation. Further, the University Court shall be entitled to employ the services of any Dundee Professor in St Andrews, with the consent of such Professor, and of the Senatus Academicus, and of the Council of Dundee College, and the University Court may employ the services of any St Andrews Professor in Dundee, with the consent of such Professor, and of the Senatus Academicus, and of the said Council.

8. All the funds and estates at present belonging to the University of St Andrews as now existing, or to either of its present Colleges, shall continue to be appropriated to University and

College uses respectively in St Andrews, and all funds which are, or shall be vested in or bequeathed to the said University, or to either of the said Colleges, by any deed or writing dated on or before the 31st December 1890, shall, if bequeathed for specific purposes, be appropriated to the purposes for which they have been bequeathed, and, if bequeathed without designation of a specific purpose, shall be devoted to the further endowment of the offices of the Principals, Professors, Lecturers, and Class Assistants, and to other University or College uses in St Andrews; and all funds thereafter gifted or bequeathed to either of the Colleges of the University of St Andrews at St Andrews shall also be devoted to the use of the College in St Andrews to which they are gifted or bequeathed.

9. As regards gifts or bequests to be made by any Deed or Writing dated after 31st December 1890, to the University generally, or without the designation of any particular College or specific purpose, all Colleges of the University shall participate therein in such proportions and manner as the University Court shall

from time to time fix.

10. Subject to the provisions of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, the Scholarships, Fellowships, and Bursaries now attached to the Colleges and the University of St Andrews shall continue to be tenable only by Students studying at St Andrews, and the Scholarships, Fellowships, and Bursaries existing at Dundee shall be tenable only by students studying there. 11. All Meetings of the University Council shall be held at St Andrews, and all Ordinary Meetings of the University Court and of the Senatus Academicus shall also be held at St Andrews.

The University College of Dundee was founded and endowed in 1880 by the late Miss Baxter of Balgavies, and the late Dr John Boyd Baxter.

The College started with five Chairs-Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Engineering, Classics and Ancient History, English and Modern History. To these have since been added Biology, Anatomy, Botany, and Physiology; and provision has also been made for the teaching of Modern Languages and the Fine Arts.

As a corporate body, the University consists of a Chancellor, Rector, three Principals, Professors, Registered Graduates and Alumni, and Matriculated Students; while its government is vested in the University Court.

CHANCELLOR.

The Chancellor is elected for life by the General Council of the University, of which he is President. He is the official head of the University. Any change proposed by the University Court

must receive his sanction. He is entitled to confer Academical Degrees upon persons found qualified by the Senatus.

CHANCELLORS OF THE UNIVERSITY since its Foundation.

1411. Henry Wardlaw, 1440. James Kennedy, 1465. Patrick Graham, 1478. William Schivas, 1497. James Stuart, 1509. Alexander Stuart, 1514. Andrew Foreman, 1522. James Beaton, 1539. David Beaton, 1547. John Hamilton, 1572. John Douglas, 1576. Patrick Adamson, John Graham, 1591. James Lindsay 1606. George Gladstones, 1615. John Spottiswoode, 1638. John Louden, 1661. James Sharp, 1679. Alexander Burnet, 1684. Arthur Ross, 1697. John Murray, 1724. James Brydges, .

1746. Prince William Augustus, 1765. Thomas Hay,

1788. Henry Dundas,

1811. Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1814. Robert Dundas,

1851. GEORGE DOUGLAS CAMPBELL,

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VICE-CHANCELLOR.

The Vice-Chancellor is nominated by the Chancellor, and discharges, in the Chancellor's absence, the duties of his office, in so far as regards the conferring of Degrees.

RECTOR.

The Rector is elected, for a period of three years, by a general poll of the Matriculated Students of the University; and in case of an equality of votes for two or more candidates, the Rector is chosen from among such candidates by the Chancellor. The next election will take place on the fourth Thursday of November,

1892. The Rector is President of the University Court. appointments have been

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There is a Principal in each of the Colleges. Each presides over his own College, and the Principal of the United College is also the Principal and resident head of the University, and President of the Senatus Academicus.

UNIVERSITY COURT.

A. CONSTITUTION.

The University Court was instituted by the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858; but its membership was largely increased and its powers were greatly extended by the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889. As thus reconstituted, the Court consists of the following seventeen members :-(a) The Rector. (b) The Principal of the University. (c) The Principal of St Mary's College. (d) The Principal of University College, Dundee. (e) An Assessor nominated by the Chancellor. (f) An Assessor nominated by the Rector. (g) The Provost of St Andrews. (h) The Provost of Dundee. (i) Four Assessors elected by the General Council. (j) Three Assessors elected by the Senatus Academicus. (k) Two representatives of the Council of University College, Dundee. Seven members of the Court constitute a quorum. The Rector and his Assessor continue in office for three years; but in the event of the Chancellor or Rector ceasing to hold office, his Assessor shall continue to be a member of the University Court until an Assessor is nominated by the new Chancellor or Rector, and no longer. The other Assessors continue in office for four years, but all Assessors are eligible for re-election. No Principal

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