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consequent upon the Civil War, rendered it necessary for the College
to apply to the state for aid. The state came to the assistance of the
College, becoming part owner of the land and property of the corpora-
tion, binding itself to an annual appropriation for its support and
thus securing the right of representation on the Board of Control.
Since that time several changes have been made in the composition
of the Board. At present it is constituted as follows: the Governor
of the state is ex-officio President of the Board; the other state officers
who are ex-officio members are the Comptroller, the Treasurer, the
Attorney-General, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Delegates. Besides this representation, the Governor
appoints six visitors, and the stockholders elect five.

In 1887 Congress passed a second important act in aid of the agri-
cultural interests of the country, appropriating $15, 000 a year to
each state for the establishment and maintenance of an agricultural
experiment station. The Maryland station was located on the Col-
lege farm, and was made a separate department of the College. In
1892 the board of trustees so far separated it from the College as to
put it under a special director, who is directly responsible to the Board.

Again, in 1892, the Federal Government showed its disposition to
favor the colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts. By the act
of that year a sum of $15, 000, to be increased by $1000 each year
until the sum of $25, 000 was reached, was granted to each state to
be applied to the further equipment and support of the agricultural
and mechanical colleges. Maryland, as was the case in all the states
in which there is a considerable negro population, in order to comply
with the terms of the act of Congress, divided this fund between the
State Agricultural College and a somewhat similar institution for
the education of negroes. This college is located at Princess Anne,
on the eastern shore of Maryland.

During the years since the Maryland Agricultural College has been
started, it has done much to foster a study of the natural wealth which
the state contains in its soils, both by training young men as agricul-
turalists to a higher realization of the agricultural needs of the com-
munity and by the researches which have been carried on by the mem-