336 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[ No. 48. ] 



AN ACT to provide for the encouragement of the manufacture of beet 

 sugar and to provide a compensation therefor and to make an appro- 

 priation therefor. 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall 

 be paid out of the State Treasury to any person, firm or corporation 

 engaged in the manufacture in the State of Michigan of sugar from 

 sugar beets grown in the State of Michigan one cent per pound upon 

 each and every pound of sugar so manufactured under the conditions 

 aud restrictions hereinafter provided. 



Sec 2. No money shall be paid for sugar so manufactured unless 

 such sugar shall have been so manufactured in this State and from 

 beets grown in the State of Michigan, and unless such sugar shall con- 

 tain at least ninety per cent crystallized sugar, and the manufacturer 

 shall produce good and sufficient receipts and vouchers to show that 

 at least four dollars per ton of twenty hundred pounds has actually 

 been paid for all beets purchased containing twelve per cent of sugar, 

 said twelve per cent being the basis for valuation of the purchase price 

 of four dollars per ton. The quantity and quality of sugar upon which 

 all of said bounty is claimed shall be determined by the Commissioner 

 of the State Land Office, with whom all claimants shall from time to 

 time file verified statements showing the quantity and quality of sugar 

 so manufactured by them, the price paid the producer for the beets 

 actually produced in this State, upon which said bounty is claimed. 



Sec. 3. The persons, firms or corporations so intending to engage 

 in the manufacture of beet sugar in this State shall, before commenc- 

 ing the same, file a statement with the Commissioner of the State 

 Land Office setting forth their proposed undertaking, the capacity of 

 their manufactory, the number of tons of beets they intend to manu- 

 facture per annum, and request said Commissioner of the State Land 

 Office to appoint a suitable weighman and inspector as hereinafter pro- 

 vided. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the State Land 

 Office to appoint a resident weighman and inspector and such assistants 

 as may be necessary in each town where it shall appear to him from 

 the application of the persons, firms or corporations so engaged or 

 intending to engage in the manufacture of beet sugar, that such weigh- 

 man and inspector is needed, and in all cases where the output of 

 persons, firms and corporations engaged in the manufacture of beet 

 sugar in this State shall aggregate or exceed two thousand pounds 

 per day, and such weighman and inspector shall weigh all beets received 

 by such persons, firms or corporations engaged in the manufacture of 

 beet sugar, and keep an accurate account of the same, with each and 

 every purchaser of sugar beets and make such examination and test 

 as to the quantity and quality of the sugar so manufactured as he 

 may deem proper in arriving at the standard of sugar in each town, 

 so manufactured by such persons, firms or corporations. The sugar 



