. History of the University of Michigan . r control, and forforty-six years had declined obedience to anyand all acts of the Legislature which they,upon mature discussion and consideration, haddeemed against the best interests of the insti-tution; and the Court had sustained them inthat position, denying, on e\ery occasion whenasked, its right to interfere with their Board of Regents and the Legislature Another case to which the University was aparty may be mentioned, although it does notbear directly upon the question. The statelong ago borrowed the University fund, usingit for its
. History of the University of Michigan . r control, and forforty-six years had declined obedience to anyand all acts of the Legislature which they,upon mature discussion and consideration, haddeemed against the best interests of the insti-tution; and the Court had sustained them inthat position, denying, on e\ery occasion whenasked, its right to interfere with their Board of Regents and the Legislature Another case to which the University was aparty may be mentioned, although it does notbear directly upon the question. The statelong ago borrowed the University fund, usingit for its own purposes, and thereby incurred adebt of equal amount to the University, onwhich interest was to be paid at stated neither then nor afterwards did the Legis-lature declare \\hat rate of interest should bepaid on the fund. However, the Auditor-Gen-eral at the time computed the interest at sevenper cent., which was then the legal rate, andhis successors for more than forty years fol-lowed his example. But in 1896 the Auditor-. THE CAMPUS FROM IHE METHODIST CHURCH STEEPLE derived their power from the same supremeauthority, namel), the Constitution. TheBoard of Regents was the only corporationwhose powers were defined therein; in thecase of every other corporation provided forin the Constitution, it was expressh providedthat its powers shall be defined by law. Noother conclusion was, in his judgment, possible,than that the intention was to place the insti-tution in the direct and exclusive control ofthe people themselves, through a constitutionalbody elected by them. The maintenance ofthe power in the Legislature would give to itthe sole control and general supervision of theUniversity, and make the Regents merelyministerial officers, with no other power than tocarry into effect the general supervision whichthe Legislature might see fit to exercise, or, inother words, to register its 1 Sterling v. Regents of the University, no Mich. Reports, 369- General refuse
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