CONTENTS. PAGE THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN AND THEIR FUNDS,. 1 THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL AND ITS FUNDS,. LAWS concerning the University of Michigan,... ....246 LAWS concerning the State Agricultural College,.....251 PART I. THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN, AND THEIR FUNDS; THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AND ITS FUNDS; HOUSE OF CORRECTION FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS; THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN, AND THEIR FUNDS. The lands set apart for the support of Public Schools in Michigan, comprise one thirty-sixth part of the entire territory of the State. Each township is divided into thirtysix sections of one mile square; and section 16 (a central section) was by an ordinance of the old Congress, in 1785, sequestered "for the support of public schools." The ordinance of 1787, for the government of the Northwestern Territory, declared that "SCHOOLS AND THE MEANS OF EDUCATION SHALL FOREVER BE ENCOURAGED." An act of 1804, making provision for the sale of lands in the Indiana Territory, comprising the present States of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, expressly reserved from sale section 16 in every township, "for the support of Schools." In 1805, the Territory of Michigan was organized, comprising the Lower Peninsula of the present State, and including what is now two tiers of towns on the north border of Indiana, and one tier on the north border of Ohio. In this act, all the rights secured by the above acts were confirmed. In 1828, Congress placed the School lands under the supervision of the Territorial Governor and Council, to protect and lease, so as to make them productive. Nowhere, and at no time, was any disposition shown by the General Government to annul these grants; and the Ordinance of 1836, admitting the State of Michigan into the Union, declares: |