and no father, mother, brother, nor sister, his estate shall descend to his next of kin in equal degree, excepting that when there are two or more collateral kindred in equal degree, but claiming through different ancestors, those who claim through the nearest ancestor shall be preferred to those claiming through an ancestor more remote: Provided however,

Sixth-If any person shall die leaving several children, or leaving one child, and the issue of one or more other children, and any such surviving child shall die under age, and not having been married, all the estate that came to the deceased child by inheritance from such deceased parent shall descend in equal shares to the other children of the same parent, and to the issue of any such other children who shall have died, by right of representation;

Seventh- If, at the death of such child who shall die under age, and not having been married, all the other children of his said parent shall also be dead, and any of them shall have left issue, the estate that came to said child by inheritance from his said parent shall descend to all the issue of other children of the same parent; and if all the said issue are in the same degree of kindred to said child, they shall share the said estate equally, otherwise they shall take according to the right of representation;

Eighth-If the intestate shall leave a widow and no kindred, his estate shall descend to such widow;

Ninth - If the intestate shall leave no widow nor kindred, his estate shall escheat to the people of this State, for the use of the primary school fund.

Any estate, real or personal, that may have been given by the intestate in his lifetime, as an advancement to any child or other lineal descendant, shall be considered as a part of the estate of the intestate, so far as it regards the division and distribution thereof among his issue, and

shall be taken by such child or other descendants toward his share of the estate of the intestate.

All gifts and grants shall be deemed to have been made in advancement, if they are expressed in the gift or grant to be so made, or if charged in writing by the intestate as an advancement, or acknowledged in writing as such by the child or other descendant.

If any child, or other lineal descendant, so advanced, shall die before the intestate, leaving issue, the advancement shall be taken into consideration, in the division and distribution of the estate, and the amount thereof shall be allowed accordingly, by the representatives of the heir so advanced, in like manner as if the advancement had been made directly to them.

Questions-Define the word seized, as use in this chapter. Tenements. Hereditaments. Devise. Issue. Intestate. Lineal. Kindred. Ancestor. When a person dies without a will, to whom does his property descend, first? When we say property descends in equal shares to a deceased person's children, and to the issue of any deceased child by right of representation, what do we mean? When does inheritance, or succession, by "right of representation," take place?

If a man die leaving no issue, how does his estate descend? If he leave no issue or widow? If he leave no issue, nor widow nor father? If he leave no issue, nor widow nor father, and no brother nor sister living at his death? If he leave no issue nor widow, and no father, mother, brother nor sister? If he leave several children or one child, and the issue of one or more other children, and any such surviving child shall die under age and not having been married, what becomes of the share inherited by the deceased child from his parent? If, in the case just mentioned, all the other children of said parent shall also be dead and any of them shall have left issue, to whom does the estate that came to said child by such inheritance go? When does the estate descend to the widow? When does the property escheat to the people of the State? What is said of gifts by way of advancement? When

shall gifts or grants be deemed to have been made in advancement? In case of the death of the person to whom an advancement is made before the death of the person making it, what is done with such advancement?

CHAPTER XLV.

OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

The law of this State provides how many pounds of certain grain, dried fruit, coal, vegetables and products, shall constitute a bushel Wheat, 60; rye, 56; shelled corn, 56; corn on the cob, 70; corn meal, 50; oats, 32; buckwheat, 48; beans, 60; clover seed, 60; timothy seed, 45; flax seed, 56; hemp seed, 44; millet, 50; Hungarian grass seed, 50; blue grass seed, 14; barley, 48; dried apples, 22; dried peaches, 28; potatoes, 60; sweet potatoes, 56; onions, 54; turnips, 58; peas, 60; cranberries, 40 ; dried plums, 28; castor beans, 46; Michigan salt, 56; mineral coal, 80; orchard grass seed, 14; Osage orange seed, 33; stone lime, 70; red-top seed, 14.

A box or basket of peaches must contain seven hundred and sixteen and three-fourths cubic inches, or one-third of a bushel.

A barrel of fruit, roots or vegetables, is that quantity contained in a barrel made from staves twenty-seven inches in length, and each head sixteen and one-half inches in diameter.

All wheat flour, rye flour, and buckwheat meal, manufactured in this State for sale or exportation, shall be packed in good and strong casks, made of seasoned oak or other sufficient timber, and hooped with at least ten good and substantial hoops, three of which shall be on each chime, and properly nailed.

The casks shall be of two sizes, one of which shall contain one hundred and ninety-six pounds of flour or meal, with staves twenty-seven inches in length, and each head sixteen and one-half inches in diameter; the other size shall contain ninety-eight pounds, with staves twenty-two inches long, and each head fourteen inches in diameter.

The casks shall be made as nearly straight as may be, and their tare shall be accurately marked on one head with a marking iron, and they shall also be branded with the weight of the flour or meal contained therein, and with the initials of the Christian and the whole of the surname of the manufacturers thereof, except when such flour or meal shall be manufactured by a company, when the cask may be branded with the name of such company.

Every such cask of wheat flour shall also be branded as follows, namely: If of a superior quality," Superfine," if of a second quality, "Fine," if of a third quality, "Fine middlings,” if of a fourth quality, “Middlings.”

Each cask of rye flour of the first quality shall be branded with the words "Superfine rye flour," and each cask of the second quality, with the words "Fine rye flour," and each cask of buckwheat meal shall be branded with the words "B. meal."

Questions -- Give the weight per bushel of the different grains, fruits and products mentioned in this lesson. What is the size required for a box or basket of peaches? State the size required for barrels of fruit, roots or vegetables. In what way must wheat flour, rye flour and buckwheat meal be packed? What is said of the sizes and capacity of casks? How are the casks to be made and branded? What brands are to be placed on casks of wheat flour? Of rye flour? Of buckwheat meal?

CHAPTER XLVI.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Supervisor and Justices of the Peace constitute a Board of Health for the township in which they reside.

The Board has power to appoint a physician as a Health Officer, and may make such regulations concerning nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness, within their townships, and on board of any vessels in their ports or harbors, as they shall judge necessary for the public health and safety; and if any person shall violate any such regulations, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. The Board of Health are required to give notice of their regulations by publishing the same in some newspaper of the township, if there be one published therein, and if not, by posting them up in five public places in the township.

It is the duty of the Board to make provision to prevent the spread of the small-pox, or other dangerous diseases; and for this purpose may cause any sick or infected person to be removed to a separate house, if it can be done without injury to his health; and if necessary, they may cause the persons in the neighborhood to be removed. They may take possession of convenient houses and lodgings for the sick, and may employ nurses, and attendants, and procure other necessaries for them.

The inhabitants may, if they desire, establish hospitals in any township, for the reception of persons having the smallpox or other diseases which may be dangerous to the public health.