State Agricultural Society incorporated. An Act to Incorporate the Michigan State Agricultural Society. [Approved March 31, 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 225 ] (1680.) 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. Privileges, and (1681.) SEC. 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the Society shall I Power possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to liabilities. the general liabilities contained in chapter fifty-five, title ten, of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, so See Chap. 73 far as the same may be applicable, and have not been modified or repealed; but the real and personal estate which the said What Property Society shall be authorized to take, hold, and convey, over and above its library and its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. it may hold Society. (1682.) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Michigan State Annual Report of Agricultural Society to transmit to the President of the Senate, See Sec. 1634. 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 valuable results recorded can be again obtained; and presenting such other matter as the Society may judge most useful in promoting a greater and more general progress in practical Agriculture. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. An Act in Aid of the Michigan State Agricultural Society. [Approved March 31, 1819. Laws of 1849, p. 240.] SECTION 1. (a) of Society in con miums, etc. (1683.) SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of such officers of the Duties of Officers Michigan State Agricultural Society, as it may elect for that ferring Prepurpose, annually to regulate and award premiums on such articles, productions and improvements, as they may deem best calculated to promote the agricultural and household manufacturing interests of the State, having special reference to the most economical or profitable mode of competition in (a) Temporary. It authorized an annual appropriation to the Society from the State Treasury for the first five years, including 1849. raising the crop or stock, or in the fabrication of the article offered: Provided, always, That before any premium shall be delivered, the person claiming the same, or to whom the same shall be awarded, shall deliver to the President of the Society, in writing, an accurate statement and description, verified in such manner as the officers aforesaid may direct, of the character of the soil, and the process of preparing it, including the quantity of manure applied in raising the crop, or the kind and quantity of food in feeding the animal, as the case may be, also the kind and cost of labor employed, and the total expense and total product of the crop, or the increase in value of the animal, with a view of showing accurately the resulting profit. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. transmitted to State. An Act to Provide for Publishing the Annual Report of the Michigan State Agricultural Society. SEC. 1, 2. (b) [Approved April 7, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 151.] Report to be (1684.) SEC. 3. The Michigan State Agricultural Society Secretary of shall transmit to the Secretary of State the Annual Report of said Society for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and every second year thereafter, embracing the same kind of information as is required in the third section of an act entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the Michigan State Agricultural Society," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Annual Report to be printed and bound. An Act Making an Appropriation to Aid the Michigan State Agricultural Society, and to Provide for Publishing the Annual Reports of said Society. SEC. 1. (c) [Approved February 14, 1853. Laws of 1853, p. 189.] (1685.) SEC. 2. That two thousand copies of the Annual Report of the Michigan State Agricultural Society be printed and bound annually, under the supervision of the Secretary of State, in the same manner and form as the Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and when so completed, the Secretary () Provided for Publishing the Annual Report of the Society for 1850 and 1851. of State shall reserve thirty copies for the use of the State How distributed. Library, and shall deposit with the Auditor General one copy for each organized township in this State, to be sent by him to each township for the use of the library thereof, and the remaining copies shall be forwarded by the Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, for the use of said Society, under the control of the Executive Committee. Joint Resolution relative to furnishing certain Laws, Jonrnals and Documents to the Michigan [Approved April 1, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 458.] Documents ciety. (1686.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following laws and documents be, and they are hereby donated to the Michigan State Agricultural Society (if it can be done without reprint, or injury to the State Library), to aid said Society in establishing Certain Laws and an Agricultural Library, at such place and under such regu- donated to Solations as the Executive Committee thereof may prescribe, viz. one copy of the Revised Statutes of 1838 and 1846, one copy of the Session Laws, one copy of the joint documents and journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of each Legislature since and including the year 1839, and also one copy of the Session Laws and documents of the present Legislature, and of each successive Legislature; and the Secretary of State is hereby authorized and required to transmit to the Recording Secretary of said Society the above named laws and documents as soon as practicable, who shall receive the same and place them in the Library aforesaid. This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Where County Agricultural So ally $100, or Bors to levy a An Act for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic Arts. (Approved March 16, 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 97.) (1687.) SECTION 1. In any county in this State where the ciety raise annu- inhabitants thereof have organized and established, or may more, Supervi hereafter organize and establish a Society for the encouragement and advancement of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic Arts, and shall raise from said Society annually the sum of one hundred dollars or over, for the promotion of the above objects, in said county which fact shall be certified by the President and Secretary of the Society under oath, and a certificate thereof shall be filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors; the Board of Supervisors of said county, at their annual session in each and every year, are hereby required to levy a tax of not less than one fortieth, nor more than one tenth of one mill on the dollar on the assessment roll of the county, which tax shall be collected and paid to the |