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pouuds of merchantable sucrose sugar manufactured by said indi- 

 vidual, company, or corporation in this State, from su,a:ar cane, 

 corn stalks, or beets grown therein, and said bounty shall be paid 

 upon each year's results for the term of five years from the first 

 day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to all individuals, 

 corporations, or companies entitled to the same under this act: 

 Provided, That the person receiving such bounty shall make a 

 report to the State board of agriculture, duly verified, of all the 

 parts of the process employed in the manufacture of such sugar, 

 together with a definite statement of the yield: And provided 

 further, That it shall contain at least eighty per cent, crystallized 

 sugar, as determined by the polariscope, under the direction of the 

 State board of agriculture. 



PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



§ 11, § 12, § 15, § 16, § 19, and § 20 (1877, No. 170, Sections 2, li. Public doc«- 

 6, 7, 10, and 11) provide that there shall be published of the " Public ""*'°"- 

 Acts," "Local Acts," "Journal of the Senate," "Journal of the 

 House," "Joint Documents," report of the secretary of state on 

 births, marriages, and deaths, and report of the secretary of the 

 State board of health, a sufficient number of copies to supply with 

 one copy each, State officers, their deputies, and libraries, offices 

 and libraries of State institutions, members and libraries of State 

 boards, etc., etc. 



§36 {1875, No. 25, Sec. 1) enacts that the State librarian, upon u. s. statutes, 

 receipt of the statutes of the United States, shall send one copy to 

 the library of the agricultural college. 



§ 7214 (1881, No. 116, Sec. 11) enacts that the college library court reports, 

 shall be given one copy of each issue of the State supreme court 

 reports. 



Section 5471 provides for duplicate collections made from the Geological coi- 

 geological survey of the State being given to the college museum, 'ections. 



MEMBERS OF BOARDS PROHIBFIED FROM BEING INTERESTED IN 



CONTRACTS. 



§ 9355. 1873,]). 141, Apr. 17, Act 107. Section 1. The Peo- officers of 

 pie of the State of Michigan enact, That no trustee, insjiector, uom noTt^be 

 regent, superintendent, agent, officer, or member of any board interested in 

 having control or charge of any educational, charitable, penal, tracts. 

 pauper, or reformatory public institutions of this State, or of any 

 county thereof, shall be personally directly, or indirectly interested 

 in any contract, purchase, or sale made for, or on account, or in 

 behalf of any such institution, and all such contracts, purchases, 

 or sales shall be held null and void; nor shall any such officer cor- 

 ruptly accept any bribe from any persons interested in such con- 

 tract; and it is hereby made the duty of the governor or other Removal for 

 appointing power, upon proof satisfactory of a violation of the J/i^s'^secUon. 

 provisions of this section, to immediately remove the officer or 

 employe offending as aforesaid; and upon conviction thereof Fine, 

 before a court of competent jurisdiction, the offender shall be pun- 

 ished bv a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. 



