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Sec. 7. The State board of agriculture by auy duly authorized Power of board 

 agent is hereby authorized to select from any package of com- " ''^"''" *"''®- 

 raercial fertilizer exposed for sale in this State, a quantity, not 

 exceeding two pounds, for a sample, such sample to be used for the 

 purposes of an official analysis and for comparison with the certifi- 

 cate filed with the secretary of the State board of agriculture aud 

 with the certificate affixed to the package on sale. 



Sec. 8. All suits for the recovery of fines under the provisions suits, how 

 of this act shall be brought under the direction of the State board '""""s''*- 

 of agriculture. 



Approved March 20, 1885. 



AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



Pub. Acts, 1885, No. 81, p. 78. Section 1. The People of /A^ state boani nf 

 State of Michigan enact, That the State board of agriculture be amho^rVj^pd^ etc. 

 and they are hereby authorized to i^rovide from time to time in 

 bulletin form, for the dissemination among the people of this State, 

 and through the medium of the public press the results of experi- 

 ments made in any of the different departments of the agricultural 

 college, and such other information that they may deem of sufficient 

 importance to require it to come to the immediate knowledge of the 

 farmers and horticulturists of the State. 



Sec. 3. The several })rofessors of chemistry, zoology, botany, who to prepare 

 agriculture, horticulture, and veterinary science, shall each, at least comal^n,' et^*^^* 

 twice in each year, not excluding the president and other pro- 

 fessors, prepare for publication an article embracing such facts as 

 they niay deem of public importance, a copy of which shall be 

 similtaneously sent to each and every newspaper published in the 

 State, and to such persons as the State board of agriculture may 

 think proper ; said professors to so arrange that at least one of 

 eaid articles shall be sent out, as above provided, the first week of 

 each and every month, in each and every year. 



Sec. 3. The board of State auditors shall, u2)on the approval of Auditing of 

 the State board of agriculture, audit the accounts for printing, pHnttng! e°c. 

 stationery, and postage incurred in the publishing and dissemiuat- 

 ing of said bulletins and the same shall be paid out of the general 

 fund: Provided, That no account for printing the same in any Proviso, 

 newspaper shall be allowed. 



This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 



Approved May U, 1885. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LANDS. 



§ 5'^54. ISIS, p. 132, Apr. 22, Act 95. Section 1. The People commi^non^r 

 of the State of Michigan enact, That the commissioner of the State otnce^author- 

 land office in his discretion be, and he is hereby authorized and ized to examine 

 empowered, to cause the lands hereinafter designated in this act to etc.*" *" *' 

 be examined, and their value and condition ascertained. 



§ 5255. Am. 1879, p. 45, Apr. 29, Act 51. Sec. 2 The lands Lands to be 

 which may be examined under this act are any of the lands owned, '=^*"""''<'- 

 or held ill trust, or otherwise by this State. 



