390.222 Agricultural college interest fund; use; excess; maintenance of certain departments.

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Sec. 2.

Any amount standing to the credit of the college in the agricultural college interest fund, June 30, 1901, may, in the discretion of the Michigan state board of agriculture, be used for building or other extraordinary expenses, and any amount raised by this act in excess of the amount needed for current expenses during any fiscal year may be used for building and other extraordinary purposes in the discretion of the said board: Provided, That no building or other extraordinary outlay shall be commenced until the accumulation under this act is sufficient to complete the building or other extraordinary undertaking:

Provided further, That the Michigan state board of agriculture shall maintain at all times a sufficient corps of instructors in all the courses of study of the agricultural college as at present constituted, so as to afford proper means and facilities for instruction and graduation in each of the courses of study of the said agricultural college, the same being known as the agricultural department, the mechanical department and the woman's department; shall support and maintain the upper peninsula experiment station, and such other experiment stations as have been established, including the printing and binding of all bulletins as at present provided by law, and shall make a fair and equitable division of the funds provided by this act in accord with the wants and needs of said courses of study and said experiment stations as they shall become apparent.

Should the state board of agriculture fail at any time to maintain any of said departments as herein provided, the terms of this act shall be suspended until further action by the legislature.

History: 1901, Act 232, Eff. Sept. 5, 1901 ;-- CL 1915, 1258 ;-- CL 1929, 7885 ;-- CL 1948, 390.222