192 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



MILITARY OFFICERS. 

 Thiity-Ninth Congress, Session I, Chapter 299. 



Sec. 2(j. And he it further enacted, Tluit for tlie purpose of promoting 

 knowledge of military science among the young men of the United States, 

 the President may, ui^on the application of an establislied college or univer- 

 sity, within the United States, with sufiicient capacity to educate at one time 

 not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of the 

 army to act as President, Superintendent, or Professor of such college or 

 university; that the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed * thirty at 

 any time, and shall be apportioned through the United States as nearly as 

 practicable according to population, and shall be governed by general rules, to 

 be prescribed from time to time by the President. 



Approved July 28, 1866. 



Forty-Fourth Congress, Session I, Chapter 167. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Jiepresentatives of the United 

 States of America, in Congress assembled, That Section twelve hundred and 

 twenty-five of the Kevised Statutes of the United States be so amended as to 

 read: "But the number of officers so detailed to colleges shall not exceed 

 thirty at any time," instead of twenty, as in said section provided. 



Approved July 5, 18?G. 



Forty-Sixth Congress, Session I, Chapter 81. 



Ordnance Department. — That upon the application of any college, univer- 

 sity, or institution of learning incorporated under the laws of any State 

 within the United States, having capacity at the same time to educate not less 

 than one bundled and fifty male students, the President may detail an officer 

 of the army in the retired list, to act as President, Superintendent, or Pro- 

 fessor thereof, and such officer may receive from the institution to which he 

 may be detailed the difference between his retired and full pay, and shall not 

 receive any additional pay or allowance from tlie United States. 



Approved May 4, 1880. 



STATE ACCEPTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES GRANT. 



[Act No. 171, Laws 1859.] 



AN ACT to accept grants of land from the United States to this State, for 

 the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



Whereas, There is now pending before the Congress of the United States a 

 bill granting and donating to the several States portions of the public lands 

 for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and it is anticipated 

 that the same or some similar bill for such purposes will be passed and becom 

 a law at the present or some future session of Congress; therefore, 



(3924.) Sec. 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That this State 

 hereby accepts and assents to any such grant or donation of lands, or of land 

 scrip now made, or which may hereafter be made by Congress, to this State, 

 for those or the- like purposes, upon the terms, trusts, and conditions upon 



* As amended Act approved July 5, 1876. 



