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Contract.

Proviso

Present contracts

not to be affected.

Limitation of tax.

Duty of supervisors in relation to

bonds.

Repeal.

of Hillsdale, or any committee now or which may be hereafter ap-
pointed by the said board to superintend the building of the court
house in said county, contemplated by the act to which this act is
supplementary, entitled "an act to authorize the board of supervi-
sors of the county of Hillsdale to loan money for the purpose of
building a court house with county offices," approved February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, are hereby required to
first advertise for proposals to furnish materials and perform the
work necessary in the erection and completion of said court house,
at least two successive weeks in the newspapers published in said
county, (before they shall purchase any materials or get any such
work performed,) and to let the furnishing such materials and per-
forming such work by contract to the lowest bidder or bidders there-
for that shall give good and sufficient security for the performance
of a contract to furnish materials or perform such work: Provided,
The said board of supervisors or such committee shall be authorized to
advertise for and receive proposals for furnishing materials or per-
forming such work in such parcels and classes as they may think
proper; but this section shall not be construed as to effect any
contracts for the purchase of materials for said court house, which
may
have been entered into before the passage of this act, by the
said board of supervisors, or any building committee by them ap-
pointed.

Sec. 2. The board of supervisors of sail county of Hillsdale shall not have authority to borrow money, issue orders, bonds, or raise by tax money for the purpose of balang said court house, or to pay any indebtedness incurred in buildin; the same, either upon a vote of the people of said county or otherwise, so that the whole amount of bonds, orders or taxes raised for such purpose, shall in the aggregate exceed the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars.

Sec. 3. The said board of supervisors, or any such committee by them appointed as aforesaid, are hereby prohibited from paying out, or selling, or otherwise disposing of any bonds or orders issued by them in building said court house, at less than their par value.

Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act, are hereby so modified as to conform to the provisions of this act, so far as applicable to the county of Hillsdale.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

Approved March 28, 1850.

| No. 176. ]

AN ACT to re-annex a portion of the township of Allendale to the townsip of Holland in the county of Ottawa.

tion.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Re-annexsof the State of Michigan, That township number five north of range number fourteen west, in the county of Ottawa, be and the same is hereby re-annexed to the township of Holland in said county. Sec. 2. That so much of section fifteen of act number eighty-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, as relates to of 1819, remaking and constituting township number five north of range number fourteen west, a part of the township of Allendale in the county of Ottawa, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 28, 1850.

Sec. 15 of act No. 84

pealed.

[No. 177.]

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AN ACT to organize certain townships, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Part of Monof the State of Michigan, That township four north of range four-ed to Fillteen west, be and the same is hereby set off from the township of Monterey and attached to the township of Fillmore, in the county of Allegan.

inore.

Ridgeway

Blissfield.

Sec. 2. That sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty- Part of four, thirty-five and thirty-six of the township of Ridgeway, be and attached to the same are hereby taken from the said township of Ridgeway and attached to the township of Blissfield, in the county of Lenawee. Sec. 3. That township number fifty north of range number thirty- Minesota eight west, in the county of Ontonagon, be and the same is hereby set off from the township of Ontonagon and organized into a separate township, by the name of Minesota; and that the first township meeting

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therein shall be held at the house now occupied by S. O. Knapp, and that the first township meeting for the election of township officers in the aforesaid township, shall be held on the first Tuesday of July next ensuing, at the place designated.

Sec. 4. That township eight north of range two east, in the county of Shiawassee, be and the same is hereby set off from town seven (7) north of range two (2) east, in said county, and organized into a separate township, by the name of Rush; and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house now occupied by Henry Rush in said township.

Sec. 5. That all that part of the township of Berlin in the county of St. Clair, comprised in townships number seven (7) and eight (8) north of range thirteen (13) east, be and the same is hereby set off from the township of Berlin and organized into a separate township, by the name of Lynn; and the first township meeting shall be held at the dwelling house now occupied by John Whalin in said township.

Sec. 6. That township number nine (9) north of range number autod. seven (7) west, and township number ten (10) north of range number seven (7) west, be and the same are hereby set off from the township of Montcalm and organized into a separate township, by the name of Fair Plain; and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the school house near Roswell Dudley's, in township nine (9) north of range number seven (7) west.

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Sec. 7. That so much of the townships of Woodbridge and Bird, in the county of Hillsdale, lying in townships nine (9) south of range two and three west, and the south tier of sections of townships eight south of range two and three west, be and the same are hereby set off from the said townships of Woodbridge and Bird, and organized into a separate townsip, by the name of Amboy; and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house now occupied by Amos S. Drakes in said township.

Sec. 8. That township number twelve north of range six (6) cast, Buena Vista and the fractional part of township number twelve (12) north of range number five (5) east, being all that lies east of the Saginaw river, and also that part of township number twelve (12) north of range four (4) east, that lies south and east of Saginaw river in

the county of Saginaw, be and the same are hereby set off from the township of Saginaw, and organized into a separate township, by the name of Buena Vista; and the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house now occupied by Curtis Emerson, in said township.

Sec. 9. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of section nine of this act be and the same is hereby repealed.

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Sec. 10. That all that part of town seven (7) north of range six- Part of town teen (16) west, in the county of Ottawa, lying on the north side Grand River, be and the same is hereby attached to the town Spring Lake.

of Lake.

Mason and

Oceana at

White River

Sec. 11. That all that portion of the county of Oceana, not embraced within the limits of the township of White River in said part of county, and all of the county of Mason, be and the same is hereby tached to attached to the township of White River. Sec. 12. That town ten (10) north of range thirteen (13) west, in T. 10, R. 13, the county of Ottawa, be and the same is hereby attached to the township of Chester.

attached to Chester.

attached to

Sec. 13. That town ten (10) north of range fourteen (14) west in T. 10, R. 14, the county of Ottawa, be and the same is hereby attached to the Ravenna. township of Ravenna in said county.

ganized.

Sec. 14. That fractional township forty-one north of range three Warner orand four east, and fractional township forty-two north of range three east, and fractional township four north of range three and four east, be and the same are hereby attached for township purposes to frac tional township forty-two north of range four east; and that the territory so described be and the same is hereby set off from the township of St. Mary in the county of Chippewa, and organized into a separate township, to be known and designated as the township of Warner; and that the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house of Ebenezer Warner, in the territory above described, on the first Monday of June, 1850.

organized.

Sec. 15. That all that part of township St. Mary, in the county Sugarlsland of Chippewa, known as Sugar Island, be and the same is hereby set off and organized into a separate township, to be known and designated as the township of Sugar Island; and that the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house of P. S. Church, in said. township, on the first Monday in June, 1850.

imal, or that shall assault or bite, or otherwise injure any person while traveling the highway, or out of the enclosure of the owner or keeper of such dog, such owner or keeper shall be liable to the owner of such property or person injured in double the amount of damages sustained, to be recovered in an action of trespass, or on the case, and it shall not be necessary in order to sustain an action, to prove that the owner or keeper knew that such dog was accustomed to do such damage or mischief; and upon the trial of any cause mentioned in this section, the plaintiff and defendant may be examTrial; de ined under oath, touching the matter at issue, and evidence may be be examined given as in other cases; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court by the evidence, that the defendant is justly liable for the damages complained of under the provisions of this act, the court shall render judgment against such defendant for double the amount Damages & of damages proved, and costs of suit; but in no case shall the plaintiff recover more than five dollars costs.

feudant may

costs.

Owner shall

be killed.

Sec. 3. The owner or keeper of any dog which has been chasing, cause dog to worrying, wounding or killing any sheep, lamb, swine or cattle, (not the property of such owner or keeper,) out of his enclosure, or which has assaulted or bitten any person while peaceably walking or riding out of the enclosure of the owner or keeper, shall, within forty-eight hours after having received notice thereof in writing, cause such dog to be killed: For every neglect so to do, he shall forfeit the sum of three dollars, and the further sum of one dollar and fifty cents for every forty-eight hours thereafter until such dog shall be killed, unless it shall satisfactorily appear to the court before which a suit shall be brought for the recovery of the said penalty, that it was not in the power of such owner or keeper to kill such dog. But no recovery shall be had unless it shall satisfactorily appear that such dog has done the mischief of which such owner or keeper has had notice as aforesaid.

Penalty for neglect.

Duties of supervisor.

Sec. 4. Whenever a citizen of any township where the trespass has been committed, shall make a complaint in writing, verified by his oath or other testimony, to the satisfaction of the supervisor thereof, that a penalty imposed by the provisions of this act has been incurred, he shall commence a suit for the recovery thereof in his name of office, and prosecute the same with due diligence; and the moneys

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