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which such grant or donation is, or may be made ; which terms, trusts, and 

 conditions are hereby declared to be obligatory on this State, and the Gov- 

 ernor is hereby authorized to determino the value of such lands, and to select 

 the same, if that be in accordance with the act or acts of Congress, and to 

 report his doings in this behalf to the proper department of the Government 

 of the United States. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately. 



Approved February 14, 1859. 



[ Act No. 46, Laws 1863.] 



AN ACT for the acceptance of the donation of public lands made by act of 

 Congress, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, providing 

 for the endowment of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts. 



(3926.) Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the 

 grant of land accruing to the State of Michigan, under and by virtue of an act 

 of Congress donating public lands to the several States and Territories which 

 may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, 

 approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is 

 hereby accepted in accordance with all the conditions and provisions in said 

 act contained. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. 



Approved February 25, 1863. 



SELECTION AND DISPOSITION OF LANDS. 



[ Act No, 140, Laws 1863. ] 



AN ACT to provide for the selection, care, and disposition of the lands 

 donated to the State of Michigan by act of Congress, approved July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for the endowment of colleges for the ben- 

 efit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. 



(3927.) SECTioisr 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the 

 Governor, the Auditor General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney 

 General, and Commissioner of the State Land Office shall constitute a board, 

 to be known as the Agricultural Land Grant Board, and said Board shall have 

 the control and management of the selection, the care and disposal of the 

 lands granted to this State by act of Congress, approved July second, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-two, providing for the endowment of colleges for the benefit 

 of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Said Board shall appoint one or more 

 suitable commissioners, whose duty it shall be to select and locate, as soon as 

 practicable, the quantity of land donated to this State by the act of Congress 

 aforesaid, and to make returns of the lands so located to the Commissioner of 

 the State Land office of Michigan, properly designated and described, and to 

 notify the Registers of the United States District Land Offices, for the dis- 

 tricts in which the selection and location is made, of such selection as fast as 

 the land is so selected. 



(3928.) Sec. 2. The Commissioner of the State Land Office shall, as fast 

 as such selections are made and returned to him, forward to the Secretary of 



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