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Excerpt from Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Vol. 6: Together With Reports of County Societies
Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there is hereby appropriated from the general fund for each Of the years eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, the sum of five hundred dollars, to be expended from time to time, whenever needed, for the purposes of said Society, in col leeting, embodying, arranging, and preserving in authentic form a library Of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials, illustrative of the history Of Michigan; to rescue from Oblivion the memory of its, early pioneers: to Obtain and preserve narratives of their early exploits, perils, and hardy ad'ventures; to secure facts and statements relative to the history, genius, progress, or decay of our Indian tribes; to exhibit faithfully the antiquities, and the past and present resources of Michigan; but no part of such annual appropriation shall ever be paid for service rendered by its officers to the society.
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