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+# MSU Thesis Class Version 2.9c 2021/05/07
+
+Copyright 2011-2021 by Alan Munn <amunn@msu.edu>
+
+This is a class file for producing dissertations and theses according to
+the Michigan State University Graduate School Guidelines for Electronic
+Submission of Master's Theses and Dissertations (March 2020).
+
+The class is based on the memoir document class, and thefore inherits
+all of the functionality of that class.
+
+## Installation:
+
+The msu-thesis class is part of both TeXLive and MikTeX, so you should either already have it or should be able to install it with your package manager.
+
+If you wish to install it locally, follow the directions below:
+
+Put `msu-thesis.cls`  into 
+
+`<local texmf>/tex/latex/msu-thesis`
+
+Put `msu-thesis.tex`, `msu-thesis.pdf` and the `samples` folder into
+
+`<local texmf>/doc/latex/msu-thesis`
+
+The samples folder contains a thesis test-file and
+a template.
+
+This package may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
+the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or
+any later version. The latest version of this license is in
+http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part
+of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.
+
+This package has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
+
+The Current Maintainer of this package is Alan Munn.
+
+This package consists of the following source file:
+ - `msu-thesis.cls`
+ 
+Documentation files:
+ - `msu-thesis.tex` 
+ - `msu-thesis.pdf`
+
+A template file: 
+ - `MSU-thesis-template.tex`
+ 
+A test file and a test bibliography:
+
+ `MSU-thesis-testfile.tex`
+ `MSU-theis-testfile.bib`
+
+
+Use at your own risk! Report bugs/problems/questions to [amunn@msu.edu](mailto:amunn@msu.edu) or use the [GitHub repository bug tracker](https://github.com/amunn/msu-thesis/issues).
+