The state board of agriculture is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a department at the Michigan agricultural college, to be known as the department of veterinary science.

     The said state board of agriculture may provide suitable accommodations for class and demonstrating rooms; may appoint such professors of veterinary science and such tutors, demonstrators and other instructors as may from time to time be necessary; may furnish all necessary apparatus and appliances for the study of veterinary science; may prescribe and regulate the course of study; may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary, and may grant to each student satisfactorily completing the prescribed course of study a diploma and confer upon each such student the degree of "Doctor of Veterinary Science."