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Agricultural School Legislation
Upon learning that United States Congressmen planned to enact legislation designed to fund creation of agricultural schools, Oklahoma's lawmakers positioned their State to receive such funding. [1] Legislators wrote and approved an act requiring "establishment and maintenance of agricultural schools of secondary grade" in each one of the state's judicial districts. The institutions were to support "agricultural experimental stations" and provide "short courses for farmers" in connection with school operations.[2] |
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1. "Agricultural School For Lawton? Williams Bill Provides $50,000 For Its Establishment Next Year. One In Each Court District--Legislature Would Have One Institution in Each Superintendent Court Jurisdiction," Daily News Republican, April 22, 1908; "Sign University Contract Monday Final Landing Of Baptist School In Sight," Daily News Republican, July 25, 1908, 1.
2. "To Put into Force Section Seven of Article Thirteen of the Oklahoma Constitution requiring the Teaching of the Elements of Agriculture, Horticulture, Stock Feeding, and Domestic Sciences in the Common Schools; to Create a Harmonious System of Agriculture and Industrial Education for Oklahoma; to Provide for the Establishment of Departments of Agricultural Instruction in the State Normal Schools and for the Chair of Agriculture for Schools in the Agricultural and Mechanical College; and to Provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of Agricultural Schools of Secondary Grade in Each Supreme Court Judicial District with Branch Agricultural Experimental Stations and Short Courses for Farmers in Connection therewith, and Declaring an Emergency," S. B. No. 109, Session Laws of Oklahoma (1907-1908), 13-20.
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