[No. 11.]

Time to col

lect taxes

Manner of collecting

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes for the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, in the township of Pittsford, county of Hillsdale.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the State of Michigan, That the time for the collection of taxes in the township of Pittsford in the county of Hillsdale, is hereby extended to the first day of March next.

SEC. 2. The treasurer of the township of Pittsford, aforesaid, is hereby authorized and empowered to proceed and collect said taxes, in the same manner as during the life time of his warrant, and to make returns to the county treasurer, on or before the first Monday in March next; and his warrant is hereby continued in full force and virtue for the purpose aforesaid, until the said first Monday in March next: Provided, He shall first renew his official bond to the satisfaction of the treasurer of the said county of Hillsdale. SEC. 3. A transcript of all unpaid taxes to the county treasurer, how return-in pursuance of the foregoing provisions, shall be returned to the auditor general as soon as practicable, and such unpaid taxes shall be collected in the same manner, and with interest computed from the same time, as other taxes for the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, duly returned to the auditor general for non-payment. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1847.

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[No. 12.]

AN ACT to authorize the Common Council of the village of Adrian to confirm the appointment of certain firemen. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the common council of the village of Adrian in the county of Lenawee, shall be and are hereby authorized to confirm the selections of firemen made by the several fire companies of said village, between the twelfth of December, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and the seventeenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, as of the date of their selection and service, according to the rules and regulations of said village in reference to firemen.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from the day of its passage. Approved February 3, 1847.

[No. 13.]

AN ACT to change the name of the Village of Truago, in the county of Wayne.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the name of the village of Truago, in the county of Wayne, be, and the same is hereby changed to "Trenton," and by that name shall hereafter be known and designated.

SEC. 2. In all deeds of real estate in said village hereafter made, it shall be lawful to designate the same as situate in the village of Trenton; and such deeds shall have the same force and effect, as if the plat of said village had been acknowledged and recorded as the village of Trenton.

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

Approved February 5, 1847.

[No. 14.]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of Samuel W Hill, while claiming a seat in the House of Representatives.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the state treasurer be, and hereby is authorized to pay, upon the certificate of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, such sum as may be due Samuel W. Hill for travel to and from the capitol, at the rate of three dollars for every twenty miles, and three dollars for every day's attendance while claiming a seat as a member of the House of Representatives during the present session.

SEC. 2. That there be appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient for the purpose aforesaid.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

Approved February 5, 1847.

[No. 15.]

AN ACT to give immediate effect to Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and fortysix.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That chapter numbered one hundred and nineteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and fortysix, entitled "of proceedings by and against public bodies having certain corporate powers, and by and against officers representing them," shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage of this act: Provided, however, That all proceedings which shall be commenced by or against any of the public bodies or officers mentioned in said chapter, before the first day of March next, may, at the option of the party commencing the same, be brought and conducted in accordance with existing laws.

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

Approved February 5, 1847.

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[No. 16.]

AN ACT to authorize the Highway Commissioners of the Township of Kalamazoo to vacate certain Streets.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the highway commissioners of tain street the township of Kalamazoo shall have power, and they are hereby authorized, in case they shall think the public good requires it, to vacate and discontinue Willard street, (so called) in the village of Kalamazoo, as laid out and designated upon the map or plan of said village, or as much thereof as the public good may, in their judgment, require to be discontinued; and in case the said highway commissioners shall discontinue said street, the space of ground occupied by the same shall cease to be public property, and may be

appropriated to such uses as those interested therein and entitled thereto shall deem expedient: Provided, That the highway commissioners shall not in any case, discontinue said street or any part thereof, unless the owners of property or lots bordering upon the same, or which may be damaged by said discontinuance, shall first. by their deeds duly executed and acknowledged assent to said discontinuance, and quit claim and release all claim for damages which may be caused thereby.

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Church st.

SEC. 2. In case said highway commissioners shall discontinue Proceedings said street, or any part thereof, such proceedings as may be had ded. relative thereto, shall be recorded at length in the records of said highway commissioners, and a certified transcript thereof shall be recorded in the office of register of deeds for Kalamazoo county. SEC. 3. Said highway commissioners are also further authorized To vacate to vacate so much of Church street, in said village, as lies between Academy and Jail squares in said village, and that they cause a record of the said vacation of said street to be made in the office of the register of deeds for the said county of Kalamazoo, as required in the second section of this bill, [act] to stand as a part of the recorded plat of said village.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13, 1847.

[No. 17.]

AN ACT to extend the time for the return of certain Taxes in the township of Lima, in the county of Washtenaw.

taxes exten

ded.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Time for the of the State of Michigan, That the treasurer of the township of Li- return of ma, in the county of Washtenaw, be, and he is hereby authorized to make his returns of delinquent taxes for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six to the treasurer of th esaid county on or before the twenty-fifth day of February instant, and such return shall be as valid and have the same force and effect as if it had been made within the time prescribed by law for making like returns in other cases, and the said treasurer of the said county of Washtenaw is

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hereby authorized and directed to receive said returns and forward a transcript of the same to the auditor general, in conformity with existing law.

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

AN ACT to provide for the settlement of the claims of supervisors of the several townships within this state.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioner of the state land office be and he is hereby authorized and required to settle with and pay to the supervisors of the several townships within this state, such sum or sums as shall upon proof made to him, appear to be due to said supervisors, for services rendered by them. under the provisions of an act entitled "an act to establish a land office, to prescribe and regulate the disposition of the public lands, and for other purposes," approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

SEC. 2. The said commissioner of the land office is authorized to pay the same out of any moneys in his hands not otherwise appropriated, primary school and university funds excepted.

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

Approved February 16, 1847.

[No. 19.]

Supervisors

AN ACT to authorize the Supervisors of the County of Kent to construct a canal and locks around the rapids of Grand River, at Grand Rapids.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaauthorized tives of the State of Michigan, That the board of supervisors of the canal. county of Kent, and their successors in office, be and they are

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hereby authorized to construct a canal, with sufficient locks for the passage of boats and other water craft, around the rapids of Grand River, at Grand Rapids in said county.