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# 20 U.S.C. § 48 - Salary and removal of Secretary and assistants

## Text

The Secretary and his assistants shall, respectively, receive for their services such sum as may be allowed by the Board of Regents; and shall be removable by the Board of Regents whenever, in their judgment, the interests of the institution require such removal.

(R.S. § 5584.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 5584 derived from act Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, § 7, 9 Stat. 105. Provisions which related to semi-annual payments on the first day of January and July have been omitted.