Annual report of society. (2158.) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Michigan State Agricultural Society to transmit to the President of the Senate, for the use of the Legislature, in the month of January, annually, a report and statement of its proceedings, specifying the nature of the encouragement proposed by it, and the object for which and persons to whom premiums have been awarded; embracing, also, such accurate details of the modes of cultivation, of keeping stock, and of other important incidents, as will acquaint farmers and others with the precise manner in which the valuable results recorded can be again obtained; and presenting such other matter as the society may judge most useful in promoting a greater and more general progress in practical agriculture.1 SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Duties of officers of society in conferring premiums, etc. Proviso. An Act in aid of the Michigan State Agricultural Society. SECTION 1.2 [Approved March 31, 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 240.] (2159.) SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of such officers of the Michigan State Agricultural Society as it may elect for that purpose, annually to regulate and award premiums on such articles, productions, and improvements, as they may deem best calculated to promote the agricultural and household manufacturing interests of the State, having special reference to the most economical or profitable mode of competition in raising the crop or stock, or in the fabrication of the article offered: Provided always, That before any premium shall be delivered, the person claiming the same, or to whom the same shall be awarded, shall deliver to the president of the society, in writing, an accurate statement and description, verified in such manner as the officers aforesaid may direct, of the character of the soil, and the process of preparing it, including the quantity of manure applied in raising the crop, or the kind and quantity of food in feeding the animal, as the case may be, also the kind and cost of labor employed, and the total expense and total product of the crop, or the increase in value of the animal, with a view of showing accurately the resulting profit. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 See section 2160. 2 Temporary. It authorized an annual appropriation to the society from the State Treas ury for the first five years, including 1849. An Act to provide for publishing the annual report of the Michigan State Agricultural Society. [Approved April 7, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 151.] transmitted to State SEC. 1, 2.1 (2160.) SEC. 3. The Michigan State Agricultural Society shall Report to be transmit to the Secretary of State the annual report of said society Secretary of for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and every second year thereafter, embracing the same kind of information as is required in the third section of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Michigan State Agricultural Society," approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. An Act making an appropriation to aid the Michigan State Agricultural Society and to provide for publishing the annual reports of said society. SEC. 1.2 [Approved February 14, 1853. Laws of 1853, p. 189.] be printed and (2161.) SEC. 2. That two thousand copies of the annual report Annual report to of the Michigan State Agricultural Society be printed and bound bound. annually, under the supervision of the Secretary of State, in the same manner and form as the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and when so completed the Secretary of State shall reserve How distributed thirty copies for the use of the State Library, and shall deposit with the Auditor General one copy for each organized township in this State, to be sent by him to each township for the use of the library thereof, and the remaining copies shall be forwarded by the Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, for the use of said society, under the control of the executive committee. Joint Resolution relative to furnishing certain laws, journals, and documents, to the [Approved April 1, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 458.] documents do (2162.) Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of certain laws and the State of Michigan, That the following laws and documents mated to society. be and they are hereby donated to the Michigan State Agricult 1 Provided for publishing the annual report of the society for 1850 and 1851. 2 Made a temporary money appropriation. ural Society (if it can be done without reprint, or injury to the State Library), to aid said society in establishing an agricultural library, at such place and under such regulations as the executive committee thereof may prescribe, viz: One copy of the Revised Statutes of 1838 and 1846, one copy of the Session Laws, one copy of the Joint Documents and Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of each Legislature since and including the year 1839, and also one copy of the Session Laws and documents of the present Legislature and of each successive Legislature; and the Secretary of State is hereby authorized and required to transmit to the recording secretary of said society the above named laws and documents as soon as practicable, who shall receive the same and place them in the library aforesaid. This joint resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER LXXI. COUNTY AND TOWN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. Where county societies raise over, supervis ors may levy a tax. 16 Mich. 183. An Act for the encouragement of agriculture, manufactures, and the mechanic arts. [Approved March 16, 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 97.] (2163.) SECTION 1. In any county in this State, where the inhabannually $100 or itants thereof have organized and established or may hereafter organize and establish a society for the encouragement and advancement of agriculture, manufactures, and the mechanic arts, and shall raise from said society, annually, the sum of one hundred dollars or over, for the promotion of the above objects in said county, which fact shall be certified by the president and secretary of the society, under oath, and a certificate thereof shall be filed limited. with the clerk of the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors and paid: Provided, In any county where there are more than one Proviso. er to hold same of supervisors. expended for agricultural so (2164.) SEC. 2. The treasurer of the county shall keep the sum County treasurso raised subject to the order of the board of supervisors of said subject to order county. (2165.) SEC. 3. The said board of supervisors shall draw upon Moneys to bo the said treasurer for the sum so raised, and the same shall be benefit of county expended, under the direction of said board, for the benefit of clety. said society, in the purchase of premiums, the diffusion of valuable agricultural, manufacturing, and mechanical knowledge, or in such other way as shall, in the opinion of the board, be calculated to promote and encourage the important objects above specified. (2166.) SEC. 4. The act entitled "An act for the encouragement Certain act repealed. of agriculture," approved March second, eighteen hundred and 1844, p. 28. forty-four, is hereby repealed. the county may of county socie (2167.) SEC. 5. Any citizen of any county in which a society of Any citizen of the kind above named is or shall be organized, shall have a right become member to become a member thereof by complying with the rules and reg- ty. ulations of said society. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. An Act to authorize the formation of county and town agricultural societies. [Approved February 12, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 150.] town societies may be organized. (2168.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, How county and That any ten or more persons, inhabitants of this State, who shall desire to form a town or county agricultural or horticultural society, in any county, town, city, or village of this State, may make, sign, and acknowledge duplicate articles of association, before any officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds in As amended by Act 105 of the Laws of 1869, p. 174, approved April 8, 1869. Authorized to incorporate. Proviso. May hold real estate exempt from tax. this State, and file the same in the office of the secretary of the State society, and also in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the business of the society is to be conducted; in which articles shall be stated the name by which such society shall be known in law, the particular business and objects of such society, the number of trustees, directors, or managers who shall manage the same, and the names of such directors, trustees, or managers thereof, for the first year of its existence. (2169.) SEC. 2. Upon filing such articles of association as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed the same, and their associates and successors, shall thereupon and by virtue of this act become a body politic and corporate, by the name stated in such articles: Provided, No two societies shall assume the same name; and by that name they and their successors shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued; and they and their successors may have and use a common seal, which they may alter and change at pleasure; and they and their successors, by their corporate name, shall in law be capable of taking and receiving, purchasing and holding, exempt from taxation, real estate for the purpose of their incorporation, but for Limit for county no other purpose, to an amount not exceeding the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars in value if a county or district society, and Limit for other ten thousand dollars if a town, village, or city society, and of personal estate, for a like purpose, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars if a county or district society, and five thousand dollars if a town, village, or city society; and they may make all necessary by-laws for the management of such societies, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. 1 society. societies. Who to be stockholders. Election of officers and directors. 1 (2170.) SEC. 3. Any person who shall pay into the treasury of said society, annually, in such time and manner as the by-laws thereof shall direct, a sum of money not less than fifty cents nor more than one dollar, and subscribe to the articles of association, shall be a stockholder therein, and entitled to all the privileges and immunities thereof. (2171.) SEC. 4. The officers of said society shall consist of a president, a secretary, and a treasurer, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders of said society, and at least five directors, any number of whom shall hold their office for one, two, or three years, as may be provided in their articles of association, and shall be elected by the stockholders of said society, at their annual meet 1 As amended by Act 88 of the Laws of 1867, p. 124, approved and took effect March 23, 1867. |