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NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1920

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ALL FUNDS EXPENDED FOR SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AND
SPECIAL STATE ACTIVITIES UNDER ITS MANAGEMENT.

NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1920

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ALL FUNDS EXPENDED FOR SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AND
SPECIAL STATE ACTIVITIES UNDER ITS MANAGEMENT--Concluded.

     ¹The state university cash fund is composed of the following items: Student fees, which consist of matriculation, library and laboratory charges; women's dormitory (board and lodging); sales of live stock. dairy and other products; official certificates; special services and receipts from sale of hog cholera serum. The receipts from the whole field of general and special activities in which the university is engaged are covered in this fund.
     ²The legislature, from time to time, has placed under the supervision of the board of regents of the state university various activities other than instructional, viz.: Agricultural extension (farmer's institutes), geological survey, botanical survey, hog cholera serum manufacture and sale, state entomologist, Nebraska conservation and soil survey, Nebraska legislative reference bureau, Curtis agricultural school and agricultural experiment substations located at North Platte: Scottsbluff and Valentine. In 1917, the legislature made a special levy of 3/4 mill to provide for special university activities.
     ³The legislature of 1869 provided for an annual tax of one mill for the support of the university. In 1871 it was made one-fourth of one mill; in 1877 it was fixed at three-eighths of one mill, and in 1899 the present annual levy of one mill was provided.
     ⁴Of this amount $164,245 was reimbursement by the U. S. government for expenses of the S. A. T. C.
     ⁵Of this amount $217,186 was reimbursement by the U. S. government for expenses of the S. A. T. C.
     NOTE.-The legislature of 1913 provided for a referendum on the question of removal, or extension of the university campus, and for an annual levy for six years of a three-fourths mill tax, the proceeds of which could be expended for land and improvements only.