LAWS RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. 



CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. 



The Agricultural College of the State of Michigan was established in obe- 

 dience to a requisition of the Revised Constitution of the State, adopted 15th 

 August, 1850, which requisition may be found in Art. 13: 



" Sec. 11. The legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, 

 scientific, and agricultural improvement ; and shall, as soon as practicable, 

 provide for the establishment of an agricultural school. The Legislature may 

 appropriate the twenty-two sections of Salt Spring Lands now unappropriated, 

 or the money arising from the sale of the same, where such lands have been 

 already sold, and any land which may hereafter be granted or appropriated for 

 such purpose, for the support and maintenance of such school, and may make 

 the same a branch of the University for instruction in agriculture and the 

 natural sciences connected tlierewith, and place the same under the supervision 

 of the Regents of the University." 



ACT OF 0KGANIZATI0^■. 



The act of organization of the State Agricultural College was approved 

 February 12, 1855, and provided: 



1. That the president and executive committee of the State Agricultural 

 Society be authorized to select, sTibject to the approval of the State Board of 

 Education, a location and site for a State Agricultural College. 



2. To be within ten miles of Lansing. 



3. Not to cost over $15 an acre. 



4. The conveyance to be made to the State. 



*5. Appropriated twenty-two sections of Salt Spring lands for the purchase 

 of lauds, erection of buildings, etc. 



6. The College was committed to the charge of the State Board of Educa- 

 tion. 



?. Detailed objects of instruction; the date of begiuning and end of each 

 of the two scholastic terms of the year; provided for manual labor ; that tui- 

 tion should be free. 



8. A treasurer was to do the work now done by the secretary of the College. 



ACT OF REORGANIZATION. 



An act of reorganization was approved March 15, 1861, by which a State 

 Board of Agriculture was created and the care of the College placed in tlieir 

 hands. As amended the law now stands as follows, references being to How- 

 ell's Annotated Statutes 1882 and the laws of 1883 and 1885: 



*The minimum price for these Salt Spring lands, $56,3;:i0, was paid over at onQe to the State Board 

 of Education for tlie College. 



