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23. The said Senate shall have power, after examination, to confer the several degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor, in Arts, Law, Science, Medicine, Music, and also in such other departments of knowledge, except Theology, as the said Senate, by statutes and regulations in that behalf, shall from time to time determine, and such reasonable fees shall be charged for the degrees so conferred as the Senate shall from time to time direct. 24. The Senate shall have power to confer any of the said degrees as Ad JSundem Degrees. And all degrees so conferred by the University of New Zealand established under " The New Zealand University Act, 1870," shall be taken and deemed to have been conferred by the University as constituted by this Act. But no Ad Eundem Degree shall, without the consent of Convocation in each case, entitle the holder thereof to be or become a member of Convocation. 25. The said Senate shall have power, after examination, to grant certificates of proficiency in such branches of knowledge as the said 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. 26. All fees shall be carried to one General Fee Fund for the payment of the expenses of the said University, and shall be accounted for as part of the revenue of the said University. 27. The Colonial Treasurer shall every year pay out of the Consolidated Eevenue the sum of three thousand pounds as a fund for maintaining the said University, and towards defraying the several stipends which may be appointed to be paid to the several officers and servants to be appointed by such University, and towards paying the expenses of such scholarships, prizes, and exhibitions as shall be awarded for the encouragement of students in such University, and towards providing a library for the same, and towards discharging all necessary charges connected with the management thereof: Provided that the annual grants made to the affiliated institutions at Wellington, Auckland, and Nelson, may be continued for a period not exceeding three years from the date of the passing of this Act, and that, excepting such annual grants for the three years aforesaid, no grants shall be made out of the said sum of three thousand pounds by way of subsidy to any affiliated institution. 28. The said Senate shall, during the month of April in every year, report the proceedings of the University during the previous year to the Governor, and such report shall contain a full account of the income and expenditure of the said University, audited in such a manner as the Governor may direct; and a copy of every such report, and of all the statutes and regulations of the University, shall be laid in each year before the General Assembly. 29. The Governor of the Colony for the time being shall be the Visitor of the said University, and shall have authority to do all things which appertain to Visitors in such manner as shall be from time to time directed by the Governor, with the approval of the Senate of the said University. 30. The powers vested in the Council, Chancellor, and Vice-Chancellor of the University, as constituted under " The New Zealand Act, 1870," shall remain in force, anything in this Act notwithstanding, until the Senate of the University, as constituted under this Act, shall have been duly constituted and convened by the Governor in Council.

Enclosure 2 in No. 8. Memobandtjh. The objects sought to be obtained by the Bill are, — 1. To establish a University on the model of the London University, adapted to the circumstances of the Colony. 2. To make the University an examining and not a teaching body. In the opinion of the Council and Representatives, it is desirable to secure this, not by direct prohibitory enactment, but by not taking power to discharge teaching functions. 3. To continue for a limited time the subsidies to certain specified institutions. 4. To retain in force everything done, and every obligation incurred by the Council as at present constituted, until altered by the Senate to be constituted by the proposed measure.

No. 9. The Hon. J. Vogkel to Mr. Tattceed. Sic,— General Government Offices, Wellington, 18th April, 1874. I have just (1.20 p.m.) received your letter of yesterday's date, enclosing certain documents, as to which you state that it will be convenient to obtain the opinion of the Government before twelve o'clock on Monday, and also to have the opinion of the Attorney-General upon certain points. lam afraid that the time is too limited to enable me to comply with your request. The Attorney-General is in Court to-day, and 1 believe he will be so on Monday. I will, however, send the papers to him, and will ask him if he can manage to look through them at once. "Without the Attorney-General's opinion, it would be impossible for the Government to come to any immediate conclusion. I wish you, however, to understand that I am anxious to meet your wishes.