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names or miinbcrs, unci sluill give an account of the preparation and enrich- 

 ing of the land, tlio planting, cultivation, harvesting, and yield of the crops 

 and disposition of tlio same; the management of the stock, with a careful 

 comparison of tiie cost of keeping, growth, and prolit of tlie several breeds 

 kept on the farm ; also, an account of the students' labor, specifying the 

 amount used in each of tiie several departments of the College, with other 

 details, in such a way that the reports, as issued from year to year, shall con- 

 tain a continuous history of the College, farm, and garden: Provided, That 

 the State Board of Agriculture shall deem the same practicable or advisable. 



Sec. 34. (Comp. Laws, § 3565.) All theswamp lands granted to the State of 

 Michigan by act of Congress, approved September twenty-eight, one thousand 

 eight iiundred and fifty, situate in the townships of Lansing and Meridian, in 

 the county of Ligham, and De^Vitt and Bath, in the county of Clinton, of 

 which no sale has been made, or for which no certificates of sale have been 

 issued by the Commissioner of the Land Office, are hereby granted and vested 

 in the State Board of Agriculture and placed in the possession of the State 

 Agricultural College, for the exclusive use and benefit of the institution, sub- 

 ject only to the provisions relating to drainage and reclamation of the act of 

 Congress donating the same to the State. 



Sec. 35. (Comp. Laws, §3566.) The State Board of Agriculture shall have 

 authority to sell and dispose of any portions of the swamp lands mentioned 

 in the preceding section of this act, and use the same or the proceeds thereof 

 for the purpose of draining, fencing, or in any manner improving such other 

 portions of said lands as it may be deemed advisable to bring under a high 

 state of cultivation for the promotion of the objects of the State Agricultural 

 College. The terms and conditions of the sale of the portions of the above 

 described lands thus disposed of shall be prescribed by the State Board of 

 Agriculture, and deeds of the same, executed and acknowledged, in their 

 official capacity, by the president and secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, shall be good and valid in law. 



Sec. 36. (Comp. Laws, §356?.) David Carpenter of Lenawee county; 

 Justus Gage of Cass county; Philo Parsons of Wayne county; Hezekiah Gr. 

 Wells of Kalamazoo county; Silas A. Yerkes of Kent county, and Charles 

 Rich of Lapeer county are hereby constituted and appointed the first State 

 Board of Agriculture. At their first meeting, which the Governor of the State 

 is hereby authorized and directed to call at as early a day as practicable, they 

 shall determine by lot their several periods of service, two of whom shall serve 

 for two years, two of whom shall serve for four years, and two of whom shall 

 serve for six years, respectively, from the third Wednesday of January last 

 past; when they are sui)erseded by appointments, in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of Section one of this act, or until their successors are chosen. 



Sec. 37. (Comp. Laws, § 3568.) Act number one hundred and thirty. Session 

 Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, being an act for the establishment 

 of a State Agricultural School, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict 

 with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 38. (Comp. Laws, § 3569.) This act shall take immediate effect. 



Approved March 15, 1861. 



