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year, such reports from district, county, town, city, or village 

 societies to be used as correspondence in compiling the reports 

 of the State association provided for in section sis. 



Sec. 8. Associations incorporated under this act shall, on 

 compliance with the requirements thereof, be entitled to all 

 the immunities, emoluments, and privileges accorded by law 

 to the agricultural societies of this State. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take immediate effect. 



Approved April 15, 1871. 



AN ACT to regulate the size of peach baskets. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan oiact, That 

 the quantity known as a box or basket of peaches shall contain 

 seven hundred and sixteen and four-fifths cubic inches, or one- 

 third of a bushel, strict measure. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. 



Approved April 13, 1871. 



AN ACT to amend section one of act number thirty-one of 

 session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled 

 "An act to regulate the size of dry or packing barrels for 

 fruit, roots, and vegetables," approved March eighth, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-nine, be and hereby is amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That 

 the quantity known as a barrel of fruit, roots, or vegetables, 

 shall be that quantity contained in a barrel made from staves 

 twenty-seven inches in length, and each head sixteen and one- 

 half inches in diameter, or ordinary flour barrel size. 



Approved April 13, 1871. 



