LAWS RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. 



CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. 



The Agricultural College of the State of Michigan was established in obe- 

 dience to a requisition of the Revised Constitution of the State, adopted 15th 

 August, 1850, which requisition may be found in Art. ]3: 



"Sec. .11. The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, 

 scientific, and agricultural improvement; and sliall, as soon as practicable, 

 provide for the establishment of an Agricultural school. The Jjcgislature 

 may appropriate the twenty-two sections of Salt Spring Lands now unappro- 

 priated, or the money arising from the sale of the same, where such lands 

 have been already sold, and any land which may hereafter be granted or appro- 

 priated for such purpose, for the support and maintenance of such school, 

 and may make the same a branch of the University for instruction in agri- 

 culture and the natural sciences connected therewith, and place the same 

 under the supervision of the Regents of the University." 



ACT OF ORGANIZATION. 



The act of organization of the State Agricultural College was approved 

 Feb. 12, 1855, and provided : 



1. That the president and executive committee of the State Agricultural 

 Society be authorized to select, subject to the approval of the State Board of 

 Education, a location and site for a State Agricultural College. 



2. To be within ten miles of Lansing. 



3. Not to cost over $15 an acre. 



4. The conveyance to be made to the State. 



*5. Appropriated -twenty-two sections of Salt Spring lands for the purchase 

 of lands, erection of buildings, etc. 



6. The College was committed to the charge of the State Board of Educa- 

 tion. 



7. Detailed objects of instruction ; the date of beginning and end of each 

 of the two scholastic terms of the year; provided for manual labor; that 

 tuition should be free. 



8. A treasurer was to do the work now done by the secretary of the College. 



♦The minimum price for these Salt Spring lands, $56,320, was paid over at once 

 to the State Board of Educatiou for the College. 



