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Treasurer of the Society shall file with the Auditor General his affida- 

 vit that the sum of one thousand dollars has been raised hy voluntary 

 subpcriptions or fees of membership, provide the sanie is done beforq, 

 the 1 5t.h day of October, for those years respectively. 



They also respectfully urge your honorable bodies to cause to be 

 printed two thousand copies at least, of the Annual Reports of the Mich- 

 igan State Agricultural Society for the years 1852 and 1853, to be dis- 

 tributed under such restrictions as may be deemed most conducive to the 

 objects of the Society. 



(Signed) JOSEPH ,R. WILLIAMS, Preset. 



TITUS DORT, 

 JAY R. MUNROE, 

 IRA H. BUTTERFIELD, 

 A. Y. MOORE, 

 F. V. SMITH, 

 C. W, GREEN, 

 THOMAS CLARK, 



Executive Committee. 

 J. C. HOLMES, Secretory. 



On motion. 



Resolved, That Messis. Dort, Shoemaker and Moore, be a committee 

 to urge upon the Legislature the propriety of carrying into immediate 

 effect the 11th section of the 13th article of the constitution of the 

 State relative to a State Agricultural School, with ad\ice that it be adop- 

 ted as a branch of the University, and placed under the control of the 

 Regents, that such instruction and lectures of the Professors of the Uni- 

 versity as is practicable, and desirable for the Agricultural School shall 

 be secured; that such measures be taken as will lead to the final estab- 

 lishment of a model and experimental farm ; that the permanent loca- 

 tion of said school and farm should be upon a tract or tracts, not Jess 

 than 640 acres of Universitv lands, which henceforth should be reserved 

 from sale ; and that in the view of this Society the contemplated school 

 and farm should not be established in immediate proximity to any exis- 

 ting educational institution ; and that the income of the salt spring or 

 other lands named in said section of the constitution be inviolably set 

 apart for the support of said school. 



