Report Of The State Board Of Centennial Managers For The International Exhibition Of 1876

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Download or read book Report of the State Board of Centennial Managers written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Centennial Managers: For the International Exhibition of 1876 An Act to provide for paying the expenses of the supervision of such products of soil and mine, works of art, and manufactured articles as the citizens of Michigan may send to the Centennial Exhibition, to be held in Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Section 1. The People of the Slate of Michigan enact, That the Governor is hereby authorized to appoint a board consisting of four persons, representing the agricultural, pomological, mining, and manufacturing interest of this State, whose duty it shall be to supervise the forwarding to the place of the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, to be held between the months of April and October, in the year 1876, all articles, whether of art, or the products of the soil and mine, or of manufacture, that any of the citizens of Michigan may desire to send to Exhibition, and shall provide storage for them at the place of shipment, and make such arrangement for freight and conveyance as shall best serve the interest of the owners of said articles: Provided, That the cost of transportation shall he paid by the owners of the said articles. Sec. 2. The members of said Board of Managers shall be entitled for their services to a sum sufficient to defray their actual and necessary disbursements in the discharge of their duties, and for personal expenses while actually engaged in the performance of the duties of said board. Sec. 3. That the sum of $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated from the general fund for the purpose of paying the expenses of said board, as above stated. Sec. 4. Upon satisfactory vouchers of expenses incurred exhibited by the Managers to the Governor, it shall be the duty of the Auditor General, upon the requisition of the Governor, to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for such sum or sums not exceeding the amount hereby appropriated, as may he necessary to he used for the purpose hereinbefore prescribed. Sec. 5. The Governor shall be chairman of the Board of Managers, and shall have power to remove any of said Managers for good and sufficient cause, and to appoint others in their places. Sec. 6. This act shall take immediate effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.