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LAW DEPARTMENT BUILDING.

THE LAW SCHOOL OF THE TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. By Lamar C. Quintero. ' I "HE Law Department of Tulane University of Louisiana was organized in 1847, and has been in successful operation ever since. The University itself, founded upon an endowment of the late Paul Tulane, was established by law by Act No. 43 of the Session of 1884, which was ratified by a con stitutional amendment April 17, 1888. By virtue of this legislation, the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund became ad ministrators in perpetuity of the University of Louisiana, agreeing to devote their atten tion and income to its development and to establish thereon the Tulane University of Louisiana. The Medical College of Louisiana, the par ent of the University of Louisiana, was estab lished in 1834. Governor Roman granted a convenient lecture-room in the State House for the use of the professors; and George

Eustis, Secretary of State, afterwards ChiefJustice, in a liberal and statesmanlike official report addressed to the Legislature, warmly recommended the College to the fostering care of the State. The act incorporating the Faculty of the College, approved April 2, 1835, is evidence of the wisdom of the legis lators of that time.1 The success and fame of the College induced the Convention of 1845, when it established the University in New Orleans, to constitute the Medical Col lege the Medical Department of the Univer sity. The Constitution of 1852 re-ordained and maintained the University as already 1 The introductory address on the establishment of the College was delivered by Dr. Thomas Hunt, Professor of Anatomy, Dean of the Faculty, the earliest and most active of the founders. The first degrees in science and learning ever conferred in Louisiana were conferred in March, 1836, by the un endowed Medical College.