of the proper fund all orders or drafts for moneys to be expended under the provisions of this act. Such orders or drafts to be drawn by the Auditor General on the certificate of the Secretary, countersigned by the President of the Board. No such certificates shall be given except upon accounts audited and allowed by the board at a regular meeting. Board of Educa how paid. Officers, how Pay of Members and Visitors. Education" to be (2225.) SEC. 18. The services, and all necessary traveling Expenses of and other expenses, already or hereafter to be incurred by any tion and Visitors, member of the Board of Education, or the Board of Visitors, shall be paid on the proper certificate out of any funds belonging to said institution in the hands of the Treasurer, until the erection and completion of the necessary buildings. The Principal, assistants, Teachers and other officers employed Instructors and in said school, shall be paid out of the Normal School interest paid. fund, and from receipts for tuition; and the services and expenses of the Board of Education, after the erection of the necessary buildings, and other expenses incident to said institution, shall be paid for out of the Normal School interest fund, in the same manner, as near as may be, as is required in regard to moneys drawn for the payment of the Principal or other Teachers. The members of the Board of Education and the Visitors shall be entitled to two dollars per day for their actual services, and to their necessary traveling and other expenses. (2226.) SEC. 19. For the purpose of rendering more efficient "The Board of their organization, and to enable them the more fully to carry body Corporate into effect the provisions herein contained, the members of the Board of Education, now holding their offices under the provisions of "An Act to establish a State Normal School," approved March 28th, 1849, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Board of Education," for the purposes herein contemplated, and subject to such modifications as may be made thereto, and in that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be, and they are hereby empowered to purchase, have, hold, possess and enjoy to themselves and their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects of every kind, and the same to grant, alien, sell, invest and dispose of, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all Courts in this State, to have and to use a common seal, and the same to change, alter and renew at pleasure, and to make such by-laws and regulations as they may deem proper for the well ordering and government of said Corporation and the transaction of its business: Provided, The same be not their powers, etc. To be subject to provisions of vised Statutes of 1846. Chapter 73. repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States. (2227.) Sec. 20. Said Corporation shall be subject to the Chap. 55 of Re provisions of chapter fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of 1846, so far as the same can apply, and are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. They shall have power to transact all necessary business at any meeting, a quorum being present; and meetings may be called in such manner as their by-laws may provide, and a quorum shall consist of a majority First Meeting, of the members. The first meeting under this act may be held at such time and place as may be directed by the Secretary, and no publication of notice thereof shall be necessary; and the attendance of a quorum shall render valid the Process against proceedings of such meeting. All process against said Corporation shall be served on the President or Secretary thereof. when held. Board, how served. Certain enact- Legislature may alter, etc., this Act. (2228.) SEC. 21. Sections four, fifteen, and sixteen of "An Act to establish a State Normal School," approved March 28th, 1849, and all of the provisions of said act, and the act supplementary thereto, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. (b) (2229.) SEC. 22. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and the Legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal the same by a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each House. Diplomas may be granted to gradu An Act Providing for Granting Diplomas to Graduates of the State Normal School. [Approved February 13, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 231.] (2230.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, ates from Normal That the Board of Instruction of the State Normal School are School. Diplomas to be Accompanied by authorized to grant to graduates of said institution diplomas, which, when signed by the members of the State Board of Education, shall be regarded as evidence that such graduates have completed the prescribed course of study in said institution. (2231.) SEC. 2. Each diploma so conferred shall be accomshall serve as panied by a certificate, signed by the Board of Instruction, which, when recorded in the office of the clerk of any township (b) It is believed that all the provisions of the Acts here referred to, not expressly repealed, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are re-enacted by it. They are, therefore, not given here. Certificate of in this State, shall serve the holder as a certificate of qualifi- qualification to cation to teach in any primary school of said township, until Teach. the same shall be amended (annulled) by the School Inspectors of such township under the provisions of law for annulling certificates. tion for School * chased. (2232.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, selection of loca That the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricultural Society be, and are hereby authorized to select, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education, a location and site for a State Agricultural School, within ten miles of Lansing; and subject to such approval, contract for Farm to be pu and purchase for the State of Michigan such lands, not less than five hundred acres, nor more than one thousand acres, in one body, for the purpose of an experimental farm and site for such Agricultural School: Provided, That the amount to be paid for such farm and site shall not exceed fifteen dollars per acre, and that the conveyance or conveyances be made to the State of Michigan. Salt Spring Lands appropriated for erection of Build ings, etc. (2233.) SEC. 2. That there is hereby appropriated twentypurchase of land, two sections of salt spring lands, or the money arising from the sale thereof, referred to in article thirteen, section eleven, of the Constitution of the State of Michigan, for the purchase of land for such site and location, and the preparation thereof, the erection of buildings, the purchase of furniture, apparatus, library and implements, payment of Professors and Teachers, and other necessary expenses, to be incurred in the establishment and successful operation of said school; which sum shall be drawn from the State Treasury on the presentation of the proper certificates of the Board of Education to the Auditor General, and on his warrant to the State Treasurer; but not to exceed in the whole amount the sum of fifty-six thousand, three hundred and twenty dollars, the minimum price of said twenty-two sections, unless the whole proceeds of the sales of said sections shall exceed that sum, and then not to exceed the amount of such proceeds. (a) On execution and approval of con General to draw for same. (2234.) SEC. 3. Upon the execution and delivery to the veyance, Auditor Secretary of State of the proper conveyance or conveyances of Warrant to pay the land, the purchase of which is provided for in the first section of this act, and the certificate of the Attorney General that he has examined the title to the same, and finds it unencumbered, and that the conveyance or conveyances are executed in due form, and a certificate from the President and Secretary of the Board of Education, that the same is in accordance with the contract or contracts for the purchase of the same, and that the location has been approved by them, the Auditor General shall draw his warrant or warrants on the State Treasurer for the amount of such purchase, in favor of the party or parties to whom such sum or sums shall be due, payable out of said salt spring lands, or money accruing from the sale of the same; and the said certificates in this section mentioned, shall be filed and preserved in the office of the Secretary of State. Agricultural College to be es purpose and (2235.) SEC. 4. Upon the purchase of such location and site, tablished, its there shall be established on such site, under the direction and design. supervision of the State Board of Education, an Agricultural School, by the name and style of the Agricultural College of (a) As Amended by "An Act making an Appropriation for the State Agricultural School, and to Amend the Act entitled, 'An Act for the Establishment of a State Agricultural School, Approve i February twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.'" Approved February 16, 1857, Laws of 1857, .p. 385. the State of Michigan, and the chief purpose and design of which shall be, to improve and teach the science and practice of agriculture. tion. Professors. (2236.) SEC. 5. The course of instruction in said college course of Instrucshall include the following branches of education, viz.: an English and scientific course, natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, geology, mineralogy, meteoralogy, entomology, veterinary art, mensuration, leveling and political economy, with book-keeping and the mechanic arts, which are directly connected with agriculture, and such others as the Board of Education may from time to time see fit to prescribe, having reference to the objects specified in the previous section; and the said board may Professorships. establish such professorships, and employ such Professors and Teachers, to be called the Board of Instruction of said college, for the instruction aforesaid, as they may judge best for such object: Provided. The sum paid such Professors and Teachers Compensation of for the first year after said college shall go into operation, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and for the next year, not exceeding the sum of six thousand dollars, and for any years thereafter, such a sum as the State Board of Education may deem necessary, for the successful operation of the institution. Tuition in said institution shall be forever free Pupils and Tuito pupils from this State, and any number of pupils may be admitted who shall apply from any part of this State: Provided, That in case more pupils apply than can be accommodated or taught, then said board shall adopt some equitable plan, giving to each county a number according to the ratio of population, as it shall appear from the census last taken; and in that case, those from each county shall be admitted in the order in which they shall apply, until the quota of such county be full. tion. (2237.) SEC. 6. There shall be two scholastic terms in each Terms of School. year, the first term commencing on the first Wednesday in April, and ending on the last Wednesday in October; the second term commencing the first Wednesday in December, and ending on the last Wednesday in February; and no pupil Pupils not to be shall be received for less than one term, unless by special than term, expermission from the Board of Instruction. received for less cept by special permission. (2238.) SEC. 7. The Board of Education, upon consultation Hours for labor, with the Board of Instruction, shall, from time to time, fix and study, etc. establish rules as to the number of hours which shall be devoted to manual labor and to study, which may be different in different terms or seasons; but during the first term in |