how filled.

Sec. 8. In case the above mentioned special commissioner Vacancy shall not accept of the appointment under this act, or a vacancy shall occur in the office of said special commissioner, or the said commissioner shall be removed for any cause, at any time, the county clerk, prosecuting attorney and county treasurer of Montcalm county, or a majority of said officers, are hereby authorized to remove said special commissioner, upon a satisfactory showing that he has not discharged the duties of the said office properly, and may appoint a special commissioner or fill such vacancy.

lands.

Sec. 9. The said special commissioner is hereby authorized Selection of to select the said three sections of swamp land, in legal subdivisions of forty acres and upward, from any of the swamp lands owned by the State in the county of Montcalm.

Sec. 10. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 18, 1863.

[ No. 130. ]

AN ACT to change the name of Emma D. Woodruff, of Grand
Rapids, Kent county, to Libbie E. Prince.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That
the name of Emma D. Woodruff, of Grand Rapids, in the county Name
of Kent, and State of Michigan, be and the same is hereby
changed to Libbie E. Prince.

Approved March 18, 1863.

[ No. 131. ]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Kalamazoo, and to repeal all inconsistent acts and parts of acts," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

changed.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section eleven of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the village Section of Kalamazoo, and to repeal all inconsistent acts and parts of acts," be so amended as to read as follows:

amended.

Review of Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the president and trustees

assessment

roll.

ment of tax.

once in each and every year, and immediately after the assessors have assessed the real and personal estate lying and being in said village, and before any tax shall be levied on the same, to give ten days notice, by publishing thereof, the time and place of reviewing said assessment roll, under the supervision of the president and one assessor, that any person or persons deeming themselves aggrieved, may be heard; and the roll may then and there be altered, if it shall be made to appear that any Apportion- person has been wrongfully assessed. After the expiration of the said ten days, the assessors, and the president and trustees shall immediately proceed to estimate, apportion and set down, in a column left for that purpose, opposite to the several sums set down as the polls and value of real and personal estate in the assessment roll, the respective sums, in dollars and cents, to be paid as a tax or assessment thereon, and shall then cause Roll to be said assessment roll, or a copy thereof, to be delivered to the marshal, marshal of said village, with a warrant annexed thereto, under rant annex- the hands and seal of said assessors, or a majority of them,

delivered to

with war

ed.

directing and requiring him to collect from the several persons named in said roll, the several sums mentioned therein set opposite their respective names, as a tax or assessment, and authorize him in case any of them shall refuse or neglect to pay such sums, to levy the same by distress and sale of his or her goods and chattels, together with the costs and charges of such distress and sale, and directing him to pay such moneys, when collected, to the treasurer of said village, by a certain day therein named, not less than forty days from the date of said Renewal of warrant, and said warrant may be renewed from time to time as the trustees may deem best; and when any assessment shall be made for any special improvement, it shall be legal, even if it is not made at the time of making the grand list, notice being given of the review of said assessment as herein provided.

warrant.

Sec. 2. That there be added after section fourteen, in said act, to stand as sections fifteen and sixteen, the following:

Sec. 15. If any parcel of land cannot be sold to any person

sold to be re-offered.

for the tax, interest and charges, such parcel shall be passed Lands not over for the time being; and after the advertised list has been offered, and before the close of the sale, all such descriptions as have not been sold shall be reoffered; and if on such second Corporation offer, or during the sales, the same cannot be sold for the amount aforesaid, the village trustees shall bid off the same for the village.

may pur chase the

same.

chased by corporation

Sec. 16. All lands bid for the village, as provided in the last Lands purpreceding section, shall continue liable to be taxed in the same manner as if they were not the property of the village, and such tax shall be a charge upon said land.

sections

Sec. 3. That sections fifteen and sixteen of said act be num- Number of bered seventeen and eighteen, and the numbers of all the sub-changed. sequent sections be altered so as to conform to the change made by the insertion of sections fifteen and sixteen, named in section two of this act.

Sec. 4. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 18, 1863.

[ No. 132. ]

AN ACT to amend act number two hundred and sixty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "an act for the incorporation of insurance companies, and defining their powers and duties," approved February 15, 1859, authorizing amendments of their articles of association or charters.

ded.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That act number two hundred and sixty-two of the session laws of Section adeighteen hundred fifty-nine, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following, to stand as section sixteen of said act:

the

may amend

association.

Sec. 16. Any such company formed under this act, shall have Companies power to amend their articles of association or charter, at articles of a meeting held according to the provisions of said charter or articles of association, upon giving a like notice of their inten

Proviso.

tion so to do, and of the time and place of meeting for that
purpose, as is required by section three of said act, and, also,
in case said company is conducted on the plan of mutual insur-
ance, mailing a circular notice thereof to each of the corpora-
tors at their last known post office address, at least three weeks
before said meeting: Provided, That said amendments shall be
submitted to the Attorney General, as provided in section nine
of said act, and his certificate therein required be obtained,
and said amendments shall be filed in the office of the Secretary
of State.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 18, 1863.

Section amended.

Duty of
State board

[ No. 133. ]

AN ACT to amend section four of "an act to provide for the establishment of school district libraries," approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred fifty-nine, relating to the purchase of library books.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section four of "an act to provide for the establishment of school district libraries," approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred fifty-nine, be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the State board of education of education to make a list of books which are unsectarian in character, and suitable for district or township libraries, which list they may, from time to time, revise and amend; to advertise for proposals for furnishing the same, and to contract with the lowest responsible bidder to furnish such books to the districts or townships ordering them, in suitable binding and at stipulated prices; said contract to be made biennially, and the advertisements for proposals to be made in at least two papers of the largest cir culation in the State, for one month before making the contract. Selection of Previous to the first day of January in each year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall send to the director of each district having a district library, and the clerk of each town

books.

ship having a township library, a list of the books contracted
for, with the prices of the same, from which list the district
board, or township board of inspectors, shall, unless a different
order shall have been made by the voters of the district or
township, annually or oftener, select and purchase books for
the district or township libraries, to the full amount of library
moneys in their hands.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 18, 1863.

[ No. 134. ]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to provide means for the redemption of the bonds of the State maturing January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three," approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

amended.

Sec. 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections five and six, of act number one hundred and twenty-two, Sections of session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be and they are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

ceived placed to credit of

to purchase

Sec. 5. The amount of money so received and set apart shall Money rebe placed to the credit of said fund on or before the first day of July, in each year; and between the said day and the first fund. day of January next thereafter, it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer Treasurer to use the whole amount thereof in purchasing, at bonds. market rates, the bonds hereby authorized to be issued: Provided, That the said money shall not be used in the purchase of Proviso. any of said bonds, except those which may be first maturing after any of said fund, or any part thereof, shall come into the treasury; and if said bonds then next maturing cannot be purchased, the said fund shall be used, so far as necessary, in redeeming the temporary loan of fifty thousand dollars issued in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.

funds appli

Sec. 6. All money which may be paid into the treasury after School January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the credit of the ed to purprimary school, normal school and university funds, shall be

chase of books.