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  V 1880. Further to endow the College and to enable it to purchase
  apparatus, machinery, implements, and a library; to maintain the =
  Normal Department, and to defray other necessary expenses, the »
  General Assembly imposed a tax of one-half cent on each hundred ¥
  » dollars of the assessed value of all property in the State liable to
    taxation for State revenue and belonging to its white inhabitants.
` lli   T I880. The Classical and Normal Departments, and the Academy ,
    were added. _
"     1882. The College Building, the First Dormitory, and the Presi-
  if ‘ dent’s House were completed. e
  ' 1885. The Commandant’s House was reconstructed. I
  Y 1887, To enlarge by experiments and to diffuse the knowledgé {
  of agriculture, an act of Congress established, under the direction
  F ¤,¥` - of the Agricultural and Mechanical College in each State, an Agri-
  ,· · cultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support $15,000
  !_ per annum. _
  1887. The Department of Civil Engineering was established,
  " ‘ I an experimental farm of forty-eight acres purchased, and the T
i` A » College G-reenhouse built.
it   vi · 1889. The Experiment Station Building was completed. ·
  — 1890. The Second Dormitory was completed. .
ll   1890. For “the more complete endow1nent" of Agricultural
 it ii . W ,. and Mechanical Colleges, an act of Congress appropriated to each iv-
 Qi State $15,000 for the year ending _Tune 30, 1890, and the same sum
l ’ with an increase of $1,000 per annum for ten years, after which ‘
  I the maximum of $25,000 should continue without change. Of the
·L_ ` amount thus annually appropriated the University receives 85 per
A cent. and "The Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute" for V
·! colored people at Frankfort I5 per cent.
f" 1891. The Department of Mechanical Engineering was estab- V
_ lished. .
( 1891. The Department of Anatomy and Physiology was estab-! V
* lished. T?  
_ • I __ 1892. The Mechanical Building and Workshops were completed.  
1894. Greenhouses for the Experiment Station were built.
` 1894. The Department of Physics was established.
l 4-· " 1895. The Annex to the Mechanical Building and the Insecta-
l ii rium for the Station were built.
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