tween blocks numbers sixty-nine and seventy in the village of Byron, Alley vaca in Shiawassee county, be and the same is hereby vacated and annexed to the adjoining lots. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 3, 1848. ted. No. 218. AN ACT to authorize Harriet Woolcot and Isaac B. Hathaway to convey certain real estate. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Harriet Woolcot, administratrix, and Isaac B. Hathaway, administrator on the estate of Noah Woolcot, of the county of Washtenaw, deceased, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to convey certain village lots, lying and being in the village of Mooreville in said county, viz: lots number eight and nine in block number one north range one east, and lots number eight and nine, block two north, range one east, and lot number nine in block three north, range one east, also lots numbered four, five and six, in block one north, of range one west, according to the plat of said village of Mooreville, as recorded in the registers' office in the county of Washtenaw: Provided, That no such conveyance shall be of any effect unless the judge of probate of the said county of Washtenaw shall, under his hand and seal of his office, certify upon the back of said conveyance his approval of the same. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 3, 1848. No. 219. AN ACT to establish a state road from the village of Flushing, in the county of Genesee, to the village of Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That James Seymour, Ogden Clark State road. Duty of com'rs. Highway com'rs. State not liable, &c. and Alpheus Williams be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road, commencing at the village of Flushing in the county of Genesee, thence on the most direct and eligible route, to the village of Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw. Sec. 2. The commissioners named in this act shall file the surveys of so much of the above mentioned road in the office of the township clerk of each township through which said road shall pass as shall be laid out in such township, and it is hereby made the duty of the township clerks in the said townships to record the surveys of said road in the same manner that the surveys of township roads are directed by law to be recorded. Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of highways in the several townships through which said road shall pass, to open and work said road in the same manner and by virtue of the same law as township roads are required to be opened and worked. Sec. 4. The state shall not be liable for any expenses incurred or damages sustained by reason of this act, and in case the road mentioned in the preceding sections of this act shall not be laid out and established within three years from the passage of this act, the provisions therein contained shall be void. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 3, 1848. No. 220. Supervisors authorized AN ACT to authorize the county of Ingham to borrow a certain sum of money. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representato borrow tives of the State of Michigan, That the board of supervisors of the money. county of Ingham be and are hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of said county, at an interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, and for a term of time not more than ten years, a sum of money not exceeding one thousand dollars, for the purpose of finishing a jail in said county, and the said sum so borrowed shall not be ap plied to any other use or purpose than finishing said jail as aforesaid. Sec. 2. Whenever said board of supervisors shall have obtained said sum of one thousand dollars or any part thereof, for the purpose Am't rec'd from loan to be deposited above specified, the same shall be paid into the treasury of the county co. treasuto be drawn by the said board for the purpose above specified, in the "Y same manner as is provided for in cases of other contingent expenses of the county. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. No. 221. AN ACT supplemental to and amendatory of an act to provide for funding the outstanding internal improvement warrants of this state, and the interest due thereon, and also for liquidating and funding the amount of principal and interest actually due upon the part paid five million loan bonds. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That section five of said law be Actamended amended by inserting in the third line thereof, after the words "state lands," the words "primary school lands," Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. No. 222. AN ACT to incorporate the Jackson Mining Company of Jackson. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa corporated. tives of the State of Michigan, That William A. Ernst, John Wes- Jackson mitren, Abram N. Berry, Fairchild Farrand and Philo M. Everett, and nong co inothers who shall become associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the "Jackson Mining Company of Jackson," for the purpose of mining, smelting and manufacturing ores, minerals and metals in the upper peninsula of the state of Michigan. Sec. 2. The said company shall have corporate succession; its cap- Capital and ital stock shall be three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and said company may acquire and hold such real and personal estate in the upper peninsula of Michigan as the real estate. Officers. State tax, an nual report. 1st meeting. business of the company may require, to an amount not exceeding the capital stock of said company. Sec. 3. The officers of said company shall consist of a president, a board of five 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 levy assessments on the shares of its stock, and forfeit and sell the same for non-payment of any such assessment, in such manner as said company may by its by-laws prescribe: Provided, That one of the directors of said company shall at all times be a citizen and resident of the state of Michigan, upon whom service of all process against said company may be made, and the same shall be deemed a valid service thereof upon said Jackson Mining Company of Jackson. Sec. 4. The said company shall pay to the Treasurer of the state of Michigan an annual tax of one per cent. on the whole amount of capital actually paid in upon the capital stock of said company, and also upon all sums of money borrowed by said company, which tax shall be paid on the first Monday of July in each year, and shall be assessed upon the last preceding report of said company, and for that purpose the president and secretary thereof shall, on the first day of January in each year or within fifteen days previous thereto, make under their hands a return to the State Treasurer, verified by their several oaths, stating the amount which has been actually paid in on the capital stock of said company, and also the whole amount of money which at any time has been borrowed by said company, and said tax shall be in lieu of all other taxes on the personal property of said company, and in lieu of all other state taxes on the real estate of said company; and any investment of any portion of the nett profits of said company in the business of said company shall be considered as so much capital paid in, and shall be included in the returns to the State Treasurer hereinbefore required. Sec. 5. The first meeting of said company shall be held at such time and place as the persons named in the first section or any two of them shall appoint, by a notice to be published in one or more newspapers in the village of Jackson, at least thirty days before the time of such meeting. Sec. 6. Any inhabitant of this state shall have a lien upon the bitants of this stock, appurtenances and entire property of said company for all claims Lien of inhaand demands against said company to the amount of one hundred dol- state. lars or under, originally contracted within this state, which shall take precedence of all other claims or demands, judgments or decrees, liens or mortgages against said company. General pro Sec. 7. Said company shall be subject to the provisions of chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, so visions. far as the same may be applicable. Business of Sec. 8. The said company shall within six months after the first election of the officers thereof, by a vote of the board of directors, lo-fice. cate a business office of said company within the territorial limits of the state of Michigan, and file in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate specifying the place of such location, and all annual and other meetings of said company shall be held at such place as the bylaws of the company may designate and direct. Sec. 9. This act shall not be construed to confer on said company any banking powers or banking privileges, or for any transaction in brokerage or exchange, or dealing in money or bank notes, or in the purchase of any bank stock of any bank, or in the purchase of any public stock whatever, or for any other purposes than those particularly specified in this act. Banking pro hibited. Sec. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its Duration of passage, and shall continue in force for the term of thirty years. charter. Approved April 3, 1848. No. 223. AN ACT to incorporate the Union Church of Flushing. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Alfred Pond, James Hassie, Benjamin F. Warner, Simon M. Smith and John Hallock, together with such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors for that purpose, shall be and they are constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the "Union Church of Flushing," subject to the provisions relating to corporations contained in chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and Incorporat'n |