of agriculture. SEC. 7. The State board of agriculture by any duly authorized Power of board agent is hereby authorized to select from any package of commercial fertilizer exposed for sale in this State, a quantity, not exceeding two pounds, for a sample, such sample to be used for the purposes of an official analysis and for comparison with the certificate filed with the secretary of the State board of agriculture and with the certificate affixed to the package on sale. brought. SEC. 8. All suits for the recovery of fines under the provisions Suits, how of this act shall be brought under the direction of the State board of agriculture. Approved March 20, 1885. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. authorized, etc. Pub. Acts, 1885, No. 81, p. 78. SECTION 1. The People of the State board of State of Michigan enact, That the State board of agriculture be agriculture and they are hereby authorized to provide from time to time in. bulletin form, for the dissemination among the people of this State, and through the medium of the public press the results of experiments made in any of the different departments of the agricultural college, and such other information that they may deem of sufficient importance to require it to come to the immediate knowledge of the farmers and horticulturists of the State. contain, etc. SEC. 2. The several professors of chemistry, zoology, botany, Who to prepare agriculture, horticulture, and veterinary science, shall each, at least articles, what to twice in each year, not excluding the president and other professors, prepare for publication an article embracing such facts as they may deem of public importance, a copy of which shall be similtaneously sent to each and every newspaper published in the State, and to such persons as the State board of agriculture may think proper; said professors to so arrange that at least one of said articles shall be sent out, as above provided, the first week of each and every month, in each and every year. accounts for SEC. 3. The board of State auditors shall, upon the approval of Auditing of the State board of agriculture, audit the accounts for printing, printing, etc. stationery, and postage incurred in the publishing and disseminating of said bulletins and the same shall be paid out of the general fund: Provided, That no account for printing the same in any Proviso. newspaper shall be allowed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LANDS. office author § 5254. 1875, p. 132, Apr. 22, Act 95. SECTION 1. The People Commissioner of the State of Michigan enact, That the commissioner of the State of State land land office in his discretion be, and he is hereby authorized and ized to examine empowered, to cause the lands hereinafter designated in this act to etc. be examined, and their value and condition ascertained. certain lands, examined. $5255. Am. 1879, p. 45, Apr. 29, Act 51. SEC. 2 The lands Lands to be which may be examined under this act are any of the lands owned, or held in trust, or otherwise by this State. agents. Appointment of § 5256. SEC. 3. Said commissioner is hereby authorized to appoint and designate the supervisors of each of the organized townships within which any of the lands to be examined may be located, as examining agents, whose duties in the premises shall be fully defined in a letter of instructions, which it will be the duty of said commissioner to furnish to each person who shall be appointed under this act: Provided, That if said commissioner shall deem it for the best interests of the State, he may, by and with the advice and consent of the governor, appoint one or more persons as such examining agents, to act in the place of any supervisors, to make examinations in unsettled and unimproved localities. Proviso. To furnish plats, descrip tions, etc., to agents. Reports of agents when lands have been tres passed upon. Board of control to carry out provisions its powers and duties. § 5257. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of the State land office to furnish each of said agents with plats and descriptions of all of the lands that it will be the duty of such agents to examine, together with all such other information and instruction relating to said lands, or to their duties as such agents, as may be sufficient to enable said agents, after careful personal examination of said lands, to report fully as to their character, value, and condition, at the time of the examination; and in case any of said lands have been trespassed upon and their value deteriorated thereby, said agent shall carefully estimate and report the amount and character of timber probably cut and removed, the date of the cutting, and by whom. § 5258. SEC. 5. The governor, the State treasurer, and the commissioner of the State land office, be and are hereby empowered of this act, and and constituted a board of control, to carry out the provisions of this act, to examine and act upon the reports made by the said agent or agents; and if in the opinion of the board the best interest of the State would be promoted by changing the price, or terms, of these lands, the said board may alter, by reducing or advancing the price per acre, or conditions of payment: Provided, That not less than twenty-five per cent. of the purchase money is paid at the time of purchase. And when the price and terms are so fixed, the said board shall fix the time when the change, if any, is made, will take effect, and cause the same to be published. Proviso. Compensation of agents. Commissioner may require bonds. Penalty for giving information before reporting. § 5259. Am., Ib., 1879, p. 45. SEC. 6. Said agents shall receive as compensation for their services such sum or sums as the board of State auditors shall determine and allow, including necessary expenses, which bills for services and expenses shall be itemized and sworn to and made upon forms furnished by the commissioner of the land office, the same to be paid out of the general fund, and apportioned to the several funds, according to the expenses attending the examination of lands belonging to the different classes herein mentioned, and the commisssioner of the State land office may, in his discretion, require said agents to give a good and sufficient bond for the faithful discharge of their duties, and file the constitutional oath of office; and any agent appointed under this act who shall give to any person any information in regard to the value of lands examined, or timber thereon before reporting the same to the commissioner of the State land office, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. GRANT ACCEPTED. § 5367. (3926.) 1863, p. 54, Feb. 25, Act 46. SECTION 1. The Grant accepted. People of the State of Michigan enact, That the grant of land accruing to the State of Michigan, under and by virtue of an act of congress, donating public lands to the several states and territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, be and the same is hereby accepted, in accordance with all the conditions and provisions in said act contained. SELECTION, CARE, AND DISPOSITION OF AGRICULTURAI COLLEGE LANDS. land grant Commissioners; § 5368. (3927.) 1863, p. 201, Mar. 18, Act 140. SECTION 1. Agricultural The l'eople of the State of Michigan enact, That the governor, the board. auditor general, secretary of State, State treasurer, attorney general, and commissioner of the State land office, shall constitute a board, to be known as the agricultural land grant board, and said board shall have the control and management of the selection, the Powers of. care and disposal of the lands granted to this State by act of congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, providing for the endowment of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Said board shall appoint one or more suitable commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select and locate, duties of. as soon as practicable, the quantity of land donated to this State by the act of congress aforesaid, and to make return of the lands so located to the commissioner of the State land office of Michigan, properly designated and described, and to notify the registers of the United States district land offices, for the districts in which the selection and location is made, of such selection as fast as the land is so selected. § 5369. (3928.) SEC. 2. The commissioner of the State land Description of office shall, as fast as such selections are made and returned to him, lands selected forward to the secretary of the interior of the United States, full to secretary of and complete descriptions of all such lands, and obtain the necessary title to the State of Michigan for the same. to be forwarded the interior. down, interest on balance. § 5370. (3929.) Am. 1869, p. 51, Mar. 16, Act. 3. SEC. 3. All Price per acre; of said lands, excepting as hereinafter provided, shall be sold for one-fourth not less than three dollars per acre, one-fourth of the purchase price to be paid at the time of purchase, and the balance at any time thereafter, at the option of the purchaser, with interest on the unpaid balance at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable annually into the State treasury, in accordance with, and subject to all the terms and conditions of payment, and forfeitures for nonpayment of all interest and taxes due thereon, as is now provided by the laws regulating the sale and forfeiture of primary school lands: Provided, however, That all of said lands which are valuable prin- Proviso. cipally for the timber thereon, shall be sold for not less than five dollars per acre, the whole of the purchase money therefor to be paid at the date of purchase. § 5371. (3930.) SEC. 4. The proceeds of the sale of said land Proceeds of sale, how applied. Commissioner of State land shall be applied and used according to the conditions of the act of congress granting the same to the State. § 5372. (3931.) SEC. 5. Whenever said lands, or any part of them, shall have been selected, certified to the commissioner of the State land office, withdrawn from market, and so marked on the plats, and certified by the register of any United States land office for the proper district, by authority of the commissioner of the general land office of the United States, the commissioner of the State land office may, by direction of said land grant board, sell said lands in quantities of not less than any legal subdivision, according to the original United States survey; and on such sale Commissioner being made, the commissioner of the State land office shall issue his certificate of sale in the usual form, setting forth the quantity and description of the land sold, the price per acre, the amount paid at the time of purchase, the balance due, with the annual rate of interest, and the time the interest is payable, as is required by law for the payment of interest on contracts for the purchase of primary school lands, and that the purchaser will be entitled to a patent from this State on payment in full of the principal and interest, together with all taxes assessed on such land. to issue certifi cates. Effect of certificate. Patents. How money received from sale of lands to How interest shall be disposed of. § 5373. (3932.) SEC. 6. Certificates of purchase issued pursuant to the provisions of law, shall entitle the purchaser to the possession of the lands therein described, and shall be sufficient evidence of title to enable the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, to maintain actions of trespass for injuries done to the same, or ejectment, or any other proper action or proceeding to recover possession thereof, unless such certificate shall have become void by forfeiture; and all certificates of purchase in force may be recorded in the same manner that deeds of conveyance are authorized to be recorded. § 5374. (3933.) SEC. 7. The governor of this State shall sign and cause to be issued, patents for said lands, as soon as practicable after payment is made in full of principal, interest, and all taxes, as aforesaid. § 5375. (3934.) Am. 1871, p. 87, Mar. 31, Act 68; 1875, p. 55, Mar. 26, Act 60. SEC. 8. The money received from the sale of be disposed of. said land shall be paid into the State treasury, and shall be placed in the general fund, but the amount thereof shall be placed to the credit of the agricultural college fund upon the books of the auditor general, and the annual interest thereon computed at seven per cent., shall be regularly applied under the direction of the State board of agriculture to the support and maintenance of the State agricultural college, where the leading object shall be-without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including miliLeading object tary tactics-to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. of college. Proceedings in case there is of land in the § 5376. (3935.) SEC. 9. The said land grant board shall, on not an amount finding that there is not in this State a sufficient amount of land belonging to the United States, subject to private entry, to make up the full amount of the land granted by said act of congress, notify the commissioner of the United States land office of the fact, State equal to the grant. and obtain, as soon as practicable, from the proper authority, permission to select an amount sufficient to make up such deficiency from United States lands in other states or territories of the United States, and shall send one or more commissioners into such states or territories to select the same, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe. locating, how § 5377. (3936) SEC. 10. The agricultural land grant board shall Expenses of certify, from time to time, to the auditor general the amounts paid. required to pay expenses of selecting and locating, and making returns of said lands, and the auditor general shall draw his warrant upon the State treasurer for the amounts thus certified, and the State treasurer shall pay the same out of the general fund. Said land grant board may make such rules and regulations, in Board may relation to the time and manner of selecting and locating the make rules and lands, making the returns, and keeping the accounts of expenses, as they may deem necessary and proper. All contracts and certificates of said board shall be signed by the chairman, and countersigned by the secretary of the agricultural land grant board. regulations. may require § 5378. (3937.) SEC. 11. In the sale of lands, the principal Commissioners value of which consists in the timber, the commissioner of the full payment State land office shall require the payment of the entire amount of for lands. purchase money at the time of purchase, or such portion of the same above one-fourth, as he may deem for the best interest of the State. LOCATION AND SALE OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LANDS. § 5379. (3992.) 1867, p. 326, Mar. 20, J. R. No. 28. WHEREAS, The legislature of this State, by an act approved March Preamble. eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. conferred upon the agricultural land grant board, consisting of the governor, the auditor general, secretary of State, State treasurer, attorney general, and commissioner of the State land office, the entire control and management of the selection, the care, and disposal of the lands granted to this State by act of congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; AND WHEREAS, It is for the interest of the State agricultural college, of the tax-payers of this State, and of the inhabitants residing in the vicinity of said lands, that these lands be sold at an early day, and the proceeds be applied to the endowment of the State agricultural college; AND WHEREAS, It is understood that the secretary of the interior of the United States will not issue patents for these lands until the amount is located; therefore, ted to locate Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State Board instrueof Michigan, That the agricultural land grant board be and the lands. same hereby are instructed aud directed to complete the location of these lands, and take the necessary steps to obtain patents therefor from the secre ary of the interior of the United States, and at the earliest day practicable place the said lands in market, and sell the same according to the provisions of an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection, care, and disposition of the lands donated to the State of Michigan, by act of congress, approved July second, |