the instruction of young persons in the ordinary and higher depart- Powers. ments of learning.

Sec. 4. The capital stock of said corporation shall be limited to ten thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars each; and the trustees are hereby authorized to receive subscriptions thereto, at such times and places as they or a majority of them shall designate. Said shares to be assignable and transferrable agreeably to such by-laws as the trustees may enact, and shall in law be considered personal property.

Capital.

Sec. 5. The board of trustees shall cause to be transmitted to Report. the Superintendent of Public Instruction, annnally, on or before the tenth day of November, a full statement of the condition of the institute.

Sec. 6. The trusteess of said association shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts contracted while they were in office, but no execution shall issue against the individual property of all the trustees until the property of the association shall first have been exhausted.

Sec. 7. The Legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act.

Approved April 2, 1850.

Liability.

[ No. 307. ]

AN ACT to provide for the publication of certain laws.

lisbed.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause the general laws of each session of the Legislature Where pub of this State, to be published in the Michigan Tribune, a German paper published in the city of Detroit: Provided, The publisher of said paper will publish such laws at the same price now paid to the State Printer for publishing the same laws.1

Sec. 2. The expense of publishing said laws shall be paid by the State Treasurer, on the certificate of the Secretary of State, and audited by the Auditor General, out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved April 2, 1850.

Pay.

ion.

[ No. 308. ]

AN ACT to incorporate the Niles Union Hall Association.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Incorpora of the State of Michigan, That Robert Wilson, James Brown, Harvey Palmer, Benjamin F. Fish and Alfred L. Dennison, and all persons who now are or may become associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Niles Union Hall Association, and by that name shall have succession, and be capable of taking and holding by gift or grant, or purchasing, holding and conveying by sale, lease or otherwise, any estate, real and personal, necessary for the purposes of said corporation: Provided, Said corporation shall only hold such real estate as shall be necessary for the objects of said corporation: Provided also, The amount of real and personal estate which said corporation may hold, shall not at any time exceed the sum of ten thou

Proviso

Objects.

by-laws.

sand dollars.

Sec. 2. The object of this association shall be to purchase a site and erect thereon a convenient edifice for the accommodation of public and private assemblies, and for lecture and reading rooms

Sec. 3. The government of said association, and the management Officers and of its affairs and property, shall be vested in such officers, and according to such rules and regulations as the by-laws thereof shall from time to time ordain: Provided, That such by-laws shall not conflict with any laws of this State and the constitution of the United States or of this State.

of affairs.

Sec. 4. The Legislature may at any time demand a statement of Statement the amount of property, real and personal, belonging to said corporation, and of the debts due to and from said corporation, and the purposes for which disbursements shall have been made; and shall also have the right to authorize one or more persons to inspect such general accounts in the books of said corporation.

General

powers.

Sec. 5. The said corporation shall possess the general powers usually granted to corporations for the purposes mentioned in this act, and in the name of its corporate title may sue and be sued,

Sec. 6. The corporators mentioned in this act, shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of any debts contracted by such corporation: Provided, The third subdivision of section four of an act to

provide for the assessment and collection of taxes, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, shall not apply to this corporation.

Sec. 7. The Legislature may at any time amend or repeal this act. Repeal Sec. 8. This act shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 2, 1850.

[ No. 309. ]

AN ACT relative to the New Buffalo and Laporte Plank Road
Company.

Time exten

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioners named in an act entitled "an act to incorporate the New Buffalo and Laporte Plank Road Company," approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred ded. and forty-nine, be and they are hereby authorized, within two years after the passage of this act, to proceed and estimate the length of the road proposed in said act, and cause books to be opened for the subscription of stock in said company, according to the provisions of an act entitled "an act relative to plank roads," approved March 13, A. D. 1848, and the proceedings shall be as valid as if had within the six months contemplated by the provisions of the act last aforesaid.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1850.

[ No. 310. ]

AN ACT to amend act number 188, session laws of 1849, entitled an act to provide for laying out a State Road from Ohio, north to the village of Hudson, approved March 31.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

4 amended.

of the State of Michigan, That section one of said act be amended secs. 1 and by striking out the names of Franklin Goodell and E. R. Parmelee. That section four be amended by striking out all between the word townships," in the third line, and the word "rods," in the fifth line,

Fec. 5 amended.

Sec. 7 amended

Sec. 8 amended.

Oath of

and insert instead thereof the following: "to assess all the estate,
real and personal, liable to taxation, within one mile of the line of
said road, east or west, as the case may be; and the supervisor of
the township of Hudson is also required to assess all the taxable
property on section eighteen in said town, within eighty rods of the
south line of said section; and the supervisor of the township of
Wright in Hillsdale county, is also further authorized to assess the
estate, real and personal, upon one tier of sections through the said
township of Wright, in addition to and adjoining said mile." That
section five be amended by striking out the whole of said section af-
ter the word "township," in the second line, and inserting in the
stead thereof the following: "to the said commissioner, upon an or-
der signed by him at any time after the same has been collected;
and the said commissioner shall have power, and it shall be his duty,
to lay out and expend the money upon the said road in such manner
as he shall deem best for the construction of said road: Provided,
That he shall expend ratably on that part of said road within the
township of Pittsford, all the moneys received by him for taxes as-
sessed upon property in the said township of Pittsford."
That sec-

tion seven be amended by striking out all between the word "cause,"
in the third line, and the word "and," in the seventh line, and the
following inserted in the stead thereof: "the said commissioner shall
be unable or neglect to act, the supervisors of the townships through
which said road runs, or a majority of them, shall have authority to
appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy, the appointment
of whom shall be filed in the town clerk's offices of the several
townships through which said road runs." That section eight be
amended by striking out the first line thereof, and insert instead
thereof the following: "in case the said commissioner shall." Said
act shall be amended by striking out the word "commissioners,"
wherever it occurs, and inserting instead thereof the word "commis-
sioner;" and by striking out the words "two dollars," where they oc-
cur, and inserting instead thereof the words "one dollar." The
said act shall be further amended by adding thereto, after section
nine, two new sections, as follows:

Sec. 10. The commissioner named in this act, or any other percommis'r. son appointed as commissioner on said road, shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed in article twelve of the constitution, and deposite the same with the town clerk of the township of Hudson.

"Sec. 11. The highway commissioners of any township shall not Highway have authority to take up, alter or discontinue any portion of said commis'rs State road upon which the State shall have expended appropriations, without the consent of the commissioner appointed to superintend the laying out such road and expending such appropriation."

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after

AN ACT to incorporate the Hungarian Mining Company of Michigan.

tion.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That William A. Pratt, Jno. W. Chase, Abner Sherman, Phillip Stevens, and others who shall be associated Incorpora with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Hungarian Mining Company of Michigan, for the purpose of mining, smelting and manufacturing ores, minerals and metals in the upper peninsula of Michigan: Provided, That nothing in this act con- Proviso. tained shall confer on said company any powers of banking or brokerage, exchange, dealing in money, purchasing any stock of any bank, or for any other purposes than herein particularly specified.

Sec. 2. The said company shall have corporate succession; its capital stock shall be two hundred thousand dollars, divided into ten thousand shares of twenty dollars each; and said company may acquire and hold such real and personal estate as the business of said company may require, to an amount not exceeding the capital stock; but said company shall not hold more than six hundred and forty acres of land in legal sub-divisions in the upper peninsula; and shall hold no real estate in the lower peninsula, except a ware house, lot and office, and such as may be necessary for smelting purposes.

Capital.

Real estate.

Officers.

Sec. 3. The officers of said company shall be stockholders therein, and shall consist of a president and board of six directors, of whom the president shall be one, a secretary and treasurer, who may at the pleasure of the company be one and the same person; and the said company may enact by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws By laws.