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Power to confer degrees.

Ad eundem degrees.

Power to grant certificates of proficiency.

Examination Committee.

Fees to be carried to General Fee Fund.

Visitor.

College Professors to be University Professors.

Lands described in Schedules, how to be dealt with.

the purpose by the Senate; and on every such examination the candidates shall be examined in as many branches of knowledge as the Senate shall consider the most fitting subjects of such examination. 19. The said Senate, and no other body in the colony, shall have power, after examination, to confer the several degrees of Bachelor and Master in Arts, and Bachelor and Doctor in Law, Medicine, and Music; and such reasonable fees shall be charged for the degrees so conferred as the Senate shall from time to time direct; and the Senate shall have power to confer each of the said degrees as an ad eundem degree. 20. The Senate shall have power, after examination, to grant certificates of proficiency in such branches of knowledge as the Senate shall from time to time by statute or regulation made in that behalf determine. And, in addition to the examination of candidates for degrees, the Senate may cause from time to time to be held examinations of persons who shall have prosecuted the study of such branches of knowledge, and who shall be candidates for such certificates of proficiency as aforesaid; and on every such examination the candidates shall be examined by Examiners appointed by the said Senate ; and every such candidate as shall be declared by the Examiners to be entitled to receive such certificate shall receive from the Chancellor, or in his absence the Vice-Chancellor, a certificate under the seal of the University; and such reasonable fees shall be charged for such certificates as the Senate may from time to time direct. 21. In every year the reports of all Examiners of candidates for degrees, scholarships, matriculation, and certificates of proficiency shall, as soon as may be after each examination, be considered by an Examination Committee consisting of the Chancellor as Chairman and of as many of the Examiners for the year as there shall be University Colleges, one such Examiner being elected by the Professorial Board of each College, and according to the finding of such Committee the names of successful candidates shall be announced by the Chancellor. 22. All University fees shall be carried to one General Eee Eund for the payment of the expenses of the said University, and shall be accounted for as part of the revenue of the said University. 23. The Minister of Education for the time being shall be the Visitor of the said University and of all its University Colleges,, and shall have full power and authority to do all those things which pertain to Visitors as often as to him shall seem meet. 24. The persons who are Professors at the time of this Act coming into operation in the Otago University and in the Canterbury College, and all persons hereafter to be appointed Professors in the University Colleges coming within the provisions of this Act, shall be Professors of the JNfew Zealand University, and shall be eligible for appointment as Examiners of the University, but not necessarily to the exclusion of Lecturers in the Colleges, or other persons for the time being residing within the colony. APPLICATION OV ENDOWMENTS. 25. Whereas it is expedient to determine the application of the lands referred to in section seven of " The University Endowment Act,, 1868 :" Be it therefore enacted that the land described in Schedule A to this Act shall remain vested in the Council of the University of Otago, hereinafter to be called the Otago University College ; and that the land described in Schedule B to this Act shall, on the coming into operation of this Act, vest in the Council of the Canterbury University College; and that the land described in Schedule C hereto shall, until the Council of the Auckland University College is established, be managed and administered under "The University Endowments Act, 1868," as endowments for the Auckland University College,,.