SEC. 12. After said College shall have commenced its first term, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint visitors for the same, who shall perform the like duties required of such visitors by law, in reference to the State Normal School.

SEC. 13. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved February 12, 1855.

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LEGISLATION IN 1857.

The Legislature of the State, at the last session, made provision for further maturing and sustaining the Institution during the next two years, by the liberal appropriation of Forty Thousand Dollars, according to the terms of the following Act:

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AN ACT making an appropriation for the State Agricultural School, and to amend the act entitled "An Act for the establishment of a State Agricultural School," approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there be and there is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury of this State, the sum of forty thousand dollars, for the erection of buildings, purchase of furniture, apparatus, implements and library, payment of Professors and Teachers, and to improve and carry on the Farm, and other necessary expenses to be incurred in the successful operation of said School, during the years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven and eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; which sum shall be drawn from the Treasury on the presentation of the proper certificates of the Board of Education to the Auditor General, and on his warrant to the State Treasurer.

Sec. 2. Section second of the act entitled "an act for the establishment of a State Agricultural School," approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to wit: That there is hereby appropriated twenty-two sections of Salt Spring Lands, or the money arising from the sale thereof, referred to in article thirteen, section eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Michigan, for the purchase of land for such site and location, and the preparation thereof, the erection of buildings, the purchase of furniture,

apparatus, library and implements, payment of Professors and Teachers, and other necessary expenses, to be incurred in the establishment and successful operation of said School; which sum shall be drawn from the State Treasury on the presentation of the proper certificates of the Board of Education to the Auditor General, and on his warrant to the State Treasurer; but not to exceed in the whole amount the sum of fifty-six thousand, three hundred and twenty dollars, the minimum price of said twenty-two sections, unless the whole proceeds of the sales of said sections shall exceed that sum, and then not to exceed the amount of such proceeds.

Approved February 16, 1857.

LOCATION AND BUILDINGS.

On the 16th June, 1855, the President and Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society-present, A. Y. MOORE, President, J. C. HOLMES, Secretary, and Messrs. S. M. BARTLETT, PAYNE K. LEACH, JAMES BAYLEY, JUSTUS GAGE and JOHN STARKWEATHER-in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing law, selected the tract for the Agricultural Farm offered by A. R. BURR, Esq., of Lansing, consisting of 676 57-100 acres. The selection was approved, and the purchase made. The tract lies three and a half miles directly east from Lansing, and the avenue eastward, starting from the front of the Capitol, would pass in front of the College Buildings. It lies on both sides of the Cedar River, and is regarded as a judicious and admirable location, although it was nearly in a state of nature at the time of the purchase.

Under the Superintendence of Mr. S. M. BARTLETT, of Monroe, a College Building 100 feet by 50, and a Boarding House of nearly equal size, each three stories high, and of brick, have been erected.

To Mr. J. C. HOLMES great credit is due for his indefatigable exertions in all the incipient movements that have resulted in the establishment, so far, of the Institution.