LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS. 



AN ACT making an appropriation to aid the Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural Society, and to provide for publishing the Annual Reports of 

 said Society. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That 

 there be and \& hereby appropriated out of the Treasury- of this State, 

 the sum of one thousand dollars, each year, for the years eighteen hun- 

 dred and fifty-three and eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to the Michi- 

 gan State Agricultural Society, for the payment of premiums ; to be paid 

 by the State Treasurer to the Treasurer of said Society, on the warrant 

 of the Auditor General: Provided, That the Treasurer of said Society 

 shall, on or before the fifteenth day of October in each year, make, sub- 

 scribe, and deposit with the Auditor General, his aflBdavit that said So- 

 ciety has raised for the year a like sum of one thousand dollars, by vol- 

 untary subscriptions and fees of membership. 



Section 2, That two thousand copies of the Annual Report of the 

 Michigan State Agricultural Society be printed and bound annually un- 

 der the supervision of the Secretary of State, in the same manner and 

 form as the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the 

 year eighteen hundred and fifty -two ; and when so completed, the Sec- 

 retary of State shall reserve thirty copies for the use of the State Li- 

 brary, and shall deposit with the Auditor General, one copy for each 

 organized township in this State, to be sent by him to each township 

 for the use of the library thereof, and the remaining copies shall be for- 



