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for a first-class University." Kentucky University claiming
and retaining the foricer site of the College, the sole property
of the latter, after the severance was an incomne of $9,900
derived from the land grant.


     1850. The City of Lexington offered the City Park of
fifty-two acres, as a new site for the College, and also $30,000
in bonds, and the County of' Fayette offering $20,000 besides,
the General Assembly ratified the selection of the site made by
a majority of the Commission, and located the College permantly
in Lexington.


     1850. To provide teachers for common Schools of the State
and for other Schools, the General Assembly added to the College
a Normal Department, which should admit, besides other students,
one from each representative district every year free of tuition.


     1850. 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.


     1550. The Classical and Normal Departments, and the
Academy added.

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    1882. The College Building, the First Dormitory, and the
President's house comnleted.


     1555. The Commandant's house reconstructed.


     1S57. To enlarge by experiments and to diffuse the knowledge
of Agriculture, and act of Congress established, under the
direction of the Agricultute and. Mechanical College in each State
an Agricultural Experiment Station, appropriating for its support
$15,000.00 per annum.


     1S87. The Department of Civil Engineering established an
Exnerimental farm of forty-eight acres purchased, and the College
greenhouse built.