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GRANT ACCEPTED. 



§5367. (3926.) 1863, jj. 54, Feh. 25, Act 46. Section 1. J^'Ae Grant accepted. 

 People of the State of Michigaji enact, That the grant of land accru- 

 ing to the KState of Michigan, under and by virtue of an act of 

 congress, donating public lands to the several states and territories, 

 which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two, be and the same is hereby accepted, in accordance with all the 

 conditions and provisions in said act contained. 



selection, care, and disposition of agriculturai college 



LANDS. 



§ 5368. (3927. ) 1863, p. 201, Mar. 18, Act 140. Section 1. Agricultural 

 The Peopile of the State of Michigan enact, That the governor, the {fo^^cf '■''°' 

 auditor general, secretary of State, State treasurer, attorney gen- 

 eral, and commissioner of the State land office, shall constitute a 

 board, to be known as the agricultural land grant board, and said 

 board shall have the control and management of the selection, the Powersof. 

 care and disposal of the lands granted to this State by act of con- 

 gress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, pro- 

 viding for the endowment of colleges for the benefit of agriculture 

 and the mechanic arts. Said board shall appoint one or more roinmi'sioners; 

 suitable commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select and locate, duties of. 

 as soon as practicable, the quantity of land donated to this State by 

 the act of congress aforesaid, and to make return of the lands so 

 located to the commissioner of the State land office of Michigan, 

 properly designated and described, and to notify the registers of the 

 United States district land offices, for the districts in which the 

 selection and location is made, of such selection as fast as the land 

 is so selected. 



§ 5369. (3928.) Sec. 2. The commissioner of the State laud Description of 

 office shall, as fast as such selections are made and returned to him, |o°'|f f oJ,^?,^jded 

 forward to the secretary of the interior of the United States, full to secretary of 

 and complete descriptions of all such lands, and obtain the neces- 

 sary title to the State of Michigan for the same. 



§ 5370. (3929.) Am. 1869, p. 51, Mar. 16, Act. 3. Sec. 3. All Price per acre; 

 of said lands, excepting as hereinafter provided, shall be sold for downnnteVest 

 not less than three dollars per acre, one-fourth of the purchase on balance, 

 price to be paid at the time of purchase, and the balance at any 

 time thereafter, at the option of the purchaser, with interest on the 

 unpaid balance at the rate of seven per cent, per annum, payable 

 annually into the State treasury, in^accordauce with, and subject to 

 all the terms and conditions of payment, and forfeitures for non- 

 payment of all interest and taxes due thereon, as is now provided by 

 the laws regulating the sale and forfeiture of primary school lands: 

 Provided, however, That all of said lauds Avhich are valuable prin- Proviso. 

 cipally for the timber thereon, shall be sold for not less than five 

 dollars per acre, the whole of the purchase money therefor to be 

 paid at the date of purchase. 



§ 5371. (3930.) Sec. 4. The proceeds of the sale of said land 



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