Secretary's report.

Additional

LAW REGARDING REPORTS.

1883, p. 184, No. 173, SEC. 1. The secretary of the State board of agriculture shall report to the legislature at every regular session thereof, and to the governor on the first Wednesday of January of each year when the legislature is not in session, which report shall embrace all statements, accounts, statistics, prize essays, and other information relative to agriculture in general. proceedings of the State board of agriculture, of the State agricultural college and farm, of the State agricultural society, and of the county and district agricultural societies, to be approved by the board; that eight thousand copies of this report shall be printed and bound annually prior to the first day of June and shall be immediately placed at the dis posal of the State board of agriculture; four thousand copies to be distributed by the secretary of said State board of agriculture as the board shall direct, and the remaining four thousand copies to be distributed prior to the first day of September after publication by the secretary of the board, to the secretary of the State agricultural society, to the secretary of the State grange and to the secretaries of the various district and county societies, as equally as may be according to the population of said counties, to be by said secretaries distributed among the various viewing committees of county and district fairs, giving one volume of said report to each of said committees as shall be present and discharge the duties of the office on the day of the county and district fairs; and in addition to the foregoing there shall be a number of copies of said report equal to the number of reports bound as joint documents, which shall be disposed of in the same manner as the joint documents; also a sufficient number of copies to supply crop correspondents with one copy each, which shall be distributed by the Secretary of State.

SEC. 21 (1877, No. 170, §12). Enacts that there shall be pubcoples of report. lished such a number of copies (additional to those otherwise provided for of the reports of the several officers, boards of officers, and institutions making reports, as they may desire, not exce ding five hundred copies, to be distributed by them in their discretion: Provided further, That the board of State auditors may in their discretion order an additional number of copies of any of said reports published, not exceeding three hundred copies, which shall be placed at the disposal of the officers making the reports.

Annual reports.

ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE OFFICERS-BOARDS, AND PUBLIC INSTI

TIONS.

§ 354. (231.) SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the several officers and boards of officers of this State, and also of the several public institutions thereof, from whom annual reports are now or may hereafter be required, to make their respective annual reports to the governor, and for the period covered by the fiscal year for the treasury, as established by section one of this act, and to cause their respective reports to be placed in the hands of the printer of the laws of this State, for publication, as soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year.

reports.

§ 355. (232.) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of each of said officers Publication of to examine and correct the proof-sheets and superintend the publi cation of his report, and each of said boards shall appoint one of its members or some other suitable person, who shall superintend the publication of its report.

STATE INSTITUTIONS AND REGULATIONS RELATING THERETO.

tions.

§ 412. 1881, p. 247, June 2, Sept. 10, Act 206. SECTION 1. State instituThe People of the State of Michigan enact, That all educational, charitable, reformatory, and penal institutions, supported wholly or in part by the State, shall be known as State institutions.

§ 413. SEC. 2. The board of each State institution shall, by the Report to first day of November preceding the regular sessions of the legisla- governor. ture, make out and present to the governor a detailed statement of the operations of the institutions for the two fiscal years closing on the thirtieth day of the preceding September, which shall include the report of the superintendent, warden, or other proper chief officer, for the same period, and a report of the treasurer of all receipts and disbursements made during the same period, which report shall be furnished the State printer for publication by the first day of November of the year when made. That such reports shall show at the time of making the same, in detail, the number and names of the various professors, superintendents, officials, and all other regular employés, and the wages or salary paid to each, and what, if any, other emoluments are allowed, and to whom. The boards of each State institution, which is essentially educa- Report to tional in character, shall also annually, before the first day of of public November, make out and present to the superintendent of public instruction a manuscript report showing:

First, The condition of the educational interests of the institution;

Second, The number and names of the various professors, tutors, and instructors;

Third, The number of students or pupils in the several departments, and in the different classes;

Fourth, The courses of study pursued, and the books of instruction used;

Fifth, Such other information and suggestions as said board may deem important, or the superintendent of public instruction. may request, to embody in his annual report.

superintendent

instruction.

Inventory, how

§ 414. SEC. 3. That the board of each State institution shall cause a full and accurate inventory, in duplicate, to be taken at the made. close of its fiscal year next preceding the regular biennial session of the legislature, by the officer in charge, which shall specify the number of acres of land and the value thereof, the number, kind, and value of buildings, the various kinds of personal property and the value thereof, which inventory shall be signed by the officer making the same, and certified as correct by the board for which it is made, one copy of which shall be made in a proper record book to be kept for that purpose in the institution, and the other shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state by the first day of

Record of receipts and expenditures, how kept.

Accounts to be audited by board of auditors.

Board to recommend appropriations.

Reports of

November of the year when made. Any board of any State institution may in its discretion cause such property to be appraised on oath, by two disinterested and competent appraisers, to be appointed for that purpose by the board, and a summary of each inventory made shall be published in the biennial report.

§ 415. SEC. 4. Every educational, charitable, penal, and reformatory institution, shall, in proper books for that purpose, keep a regular account of all moneys received and disbursed, and the receipts from and expenditures for and on account of each department of business, or for the construction of buildings, or the improvement of the premises; and in those institutions where farming and gardening operations are carried on, the accounts shall be so kept as to show, as near as practicable, the cost of carrying on the farm or garden and the quantity and value of the productions of the same, with the cost of live stock raised or fattened for the use of the institution, and the quantity and value thereof, and where manufacturing operations are carried on, the cost and result of each separate branch of manufacture, and the quality and value of all manufactured articles sold or used in the institution, so as to clearly exhibit the receipts and expenditures in each department of business carried on in the institution, and the cost of educating and maintaining each student or inmate therein. That the accounts of receipts and disbursements in all State institutions shall conform as near as may be practicable to a uniform system, and to accomplish this result the auditor general is authorized to prescribe such a system of accounts as he shall deem proper for said institutions, which shall secure as near as may be such uniformity.

§ 416. SEC. 5. The accounts of members of boards of State institutions for official expenses and services, or either, where allowed by law, shall first be certified to be correct by the board to which the member belongs, and then shall be audited by the board of state auditors and paid from the general fund.

§ 417. SEC. 6. The boards of State institutions shall, in their biennial reports, recommend what amounts in its opinion are needed for the next two years for ordinary current expenses and for special purposes by the institution so reporting, with the reasons for such recommendations.

SUNDRY LAWS.

SUGAR BOUNTY.

§ 2330 (1881, No. 268, SEC. 3). The State board of agriculture sugar industry. shall direct their secretary to receive reports of results, and said secretary shall collect such reports and the process by which such results are obtained in the culture of sugar cane, corn stalks, and beets, and the manufacture of sugar from the same, and report the same in full to the board and said board shall incorporate the same in their annual report.

Bounty, how paid.

§ 2331. SEC. 4. There shall be paid from the treasury of the State as bounty, to any individual, company, or corporation, upon the report and determination of the board of agriculture, as provided for in section three, the sum of two dollars for every hundred

pounds of merchantable sucrose sugar manufactured by said individual, company, or corporation in this State, from sugar cane, corn stalks, or beets grown therein, and said bounty shall be paid upon each year's results for the term of five years from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to all individuals, corporations, or companies entitled to the same under this act: Provided, That the person receiving such bounty shall make a report to the State board of agriculture, duly verified, of all the parts of the process employed in the manufacture of such sugar, together with a definite statement of the yield: And provided further, That it shall contain at least eighty per cent. crystallized sugar, as determined by the polariscope, under the direction of the State board of agriculture.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

§ 11, § 12, § 15, § 16, § 19, and § 20 (1877, No. 170, Sections 2, 3, Public docu6, 7, 10, and 11) provide that there shall be published of the "Public ments. Acts," "Local Acts," "Journal of the Senate," "Journal of the House," "Joint Documents," report of the secretary of state on births, marriages, and deaths, and report of the secretary of the State board of health, a sufficient number of copies to supply with one copy each, State officers, their deputies, and libraries, offices and libraries of State institutions, members and libraries of State boards, etc., etc.

§ 36 (1875, No. 25, SEC. 1) enacts that the State librarian, upon U. s. statutes. receipt of the statutes of the United States, shall send one copy to

the library of the agricultural college.

§ 7214 (1881, No. 116, SEC. 11) enacts that the college library Court reports. shall be given one copy of each issue of the State supreme court

reports.

Section 5471 provides for duplicate collections made from the Geological colgeological survey of the State being given to the college museum.

MEMBERS OF BOARDS PROHIBITED FROM BEING INTERESTED IN

CONTRACTS.

lections.

public institu

certain con

§ 9355. 1873, p. 141, Apr. 17, Act 107. SECTION 1. The Peo- officers of ple of the State of Michigan enact, That no trustee, inspector, tions not to be regent, superintendent, agent, officer, or member of any board interested in having control or charge of any educational, charitable, penal, tracts. pauper, or reformatory public institutions of this State, or of any county thereof, shall be personally directly, or indirectly interested in any contract, purchase, or sale made for, or on account, or in behalf of any such institution, and all such contracts, purchases, or sales shall be held null and void; nor shall any such officer corruptly accept any bribe from any persons interested in such contract; and it is hereby made the duty of the governor or other Removal for appointing power, upon proof satisfactory of a violation of the violation of provisions of this section, to immediately remove the officer or employé offending as aforesaid; and upon conviction thereof Fine. before a court of competent jurisdiction, the offender shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

this section.

Sale of fertil

izer at certain price.

INSPECTION OF COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.

Pub. Acts, 1885, No. 26, p. 20. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any person or persons who shall sell or offer for sale in this State any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of which exceeds ten dollars per ton, shall affix on the outside Packages, how of every package containing such fertilizer a plainly printed certifi

labeled.

File analysis,

etc., with secretary board of agriculture.

Sample.

License fee.

Proviso.

Analyses, by whom made and when,

Statement of,

in annual report board of agri. eulture.

Surplus fees.

Penalty for noncompliance.

cate, stating the number of net pounds therein; the name or trade mark under which such article is sold; the name of the manufacturer; the place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis, stating the percentage of nitrogen in an available form; of potash soluble in water, and of phosphoric acid in an available form (soluble or reverted) and the insoluble phosphoric acid.

SEC. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer is sold or offered for sale, the manufacturer, importer or party who causes it to be sold or offered for sale within this State, shall file with the secretary of the State board of agriculture a certified copy of the analysis and certificate referred to in section one, and shall also deposit with said secretary a sealed glass jar containing not less than two pounds of such fertilizer, with an affidavit that it is a fair sample of the article thus to be sold or offered for sale.

SEC. 3. The manufacturer, importer, or agent of any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of which exceeds ten dollars per ton as aforesaid, shall pay annually to the secretary of the State board of agriculture, on or before the first day of May, a license fee of wenty dollars for each and every brand of fertilizer he offers for sale in this State: Provided, That whenever the manufacturer or importer shall have paid this license fee his agents shall not be required to do so

SEC. 4. All such analyses of commercial fertilizers required by this act shall be made under the direction of the State board of agriculture and paid for out of the funds arising from the license fees provided for in section three. At least one analysis of each fertilizer shall be made annually.

SEC. 5. The secretary of the State board of agriculture shall publish in his annual report a correct statement of all analyses made and certificates filed in his office, together with a statement of all moneys received for license fees, and expended for analysis. Any surplus from license fees remaining on hand at the close of the fiscal year shall be placed to the credit of the experimental fund of said board.

SEC. 6. Any person or persons who shall sell or offer for sale any commercial fertilizer in this State without first complying with the provisions of sections one, two, and three of this act, or who shall attach or cause to be attached to any such package of fertilizer an analysis stating that it contains a larger percentage of any one or more of the constituents or ingredients named in section one of this act than it really does contain, shall upon conviction thereof be fined not less than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not less than three hundred dollars for every subsequent offense, and the offender shall also be liable for all damages sustained by the purchaser of such fertilizer on account of such misrepresentation.