year, by the Secretary of the Board 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 such report to each of said committees as shall be present and discharge the duties of the office on the days of the county and district fairs. ACT RELATIVE TO THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, AS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1873. [Act No. 33.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the support of the Stae Agricultural College, to pay the arrearages of the same, to pay the expenses of the State Board of Agriculture, and for buildings and other improvements at the Agricultural College. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and the sum of thirteen thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, for the use and support of the State Agricultural College, and to pay the expenses of the State Board of Agriculture; also the sum of six thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars, to pay the arrearages of the State Agricultural College, which said arrearages shall be paid in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. SEC. 2. There shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury the sum of eighteen thousand dollars to erect and finish a president's house and two professors' houses; also eight thousand dollars to erect a green-house; also three thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars for the improvement of buildings and grounds at said College; also the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars for the library and chemical laboratory of said College, said amounts embraced in this section, aggregating thirty-one thousand two hundred and four dollars, to be paid, one-half of the same in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and one-half of the same in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; which said moneys provided for in this act, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction and control of the State Board of Agriculture for the purposes aforesaid, and shall be drawn from the treasury on the presentation of the proper certificates of the said board to the Auditor General, and on his warrant to the State Treas urer. SEC. 3. There shall be assessed upon the taxable property of the State in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventythree the sum of thirty-seven thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars, and in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four the further sum of twenty-eight thousand six hundred and two dollars, assessed and levied in like manner as other State taxes are by law levied, assessed, and paid, which tax when collected shall be credited up to the general fund, to reimburse to the same the sum to be drawn therefrom, as provided in sections one and two of this act. SEC. 4. This act shall take immediate effect. |