LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR 1858.

President-CHARLES DICKEY, Marshall, Calhoun County. Treasurer-BENJAMIN FOLLETT, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co. Secretary-J. P. C. EMMONS, Detroit, Wayne County.

Members whose terms expire on the 31st of Dec., 1858.

Members whose terms expire on the 31st of Dec., 1859.

Emmett, Grand Traverse, Houghton, Huron, Ionia, Isabella, Lapeer, Mackinaw, Midland, Newaygo, Ontonagon, Saginaw, Sanilac and Tuscola, in which there is as yet no County Societies, or from which no report has been received, to show who was Secretary.

THE STATE LAWS

RELATIVE TO

THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

[From the Compiled Laws of the State, page 536.]

AN ACT to incorporate the Michigan State Agricultural Society. Approved March 31, 1849.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That all persons who now are, or may hereafter become associated for the purposes of this Act, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Michigan State Agricultural Society," for the purpose of promoting the improvement of Agriculture and its kindred arts.

Sec. 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the Society shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities contained in chapter fifty-five, title ten, of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, so far as the same may be applicable and have not been modified or repealed; but the real or persona estates which the said Society shall be authorized to take, hold and convey, over and above its library, and its scientific and agricultural collections, shall not, at any time, exceed in amount the value of twenty thousand dollars.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Michigan State Agricultural Society to transmit to the President of the Senate, for the use of the Legislature, in the month of January, annually, a report and statement of its proceedings, specifying the nature of the encouragement proposed by it, and the object for which, and persons to whom, premiums have been awarded; embracing also such accurate details of the modes of cultivation, of keeping stock, and of other important incidents, as will acquaint farmers and others with the precise manner in which the valu