to be affirm said court by appeal, certiorari or writ of error, the judgment or de- court below eree of the court below shall be affirmed, provided three of said jud-e ed. ges shall concur in such opinion. judges. Sec. 24. Each of the judges of the supreme court shall receive Salary of an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, payable quarter yearly, out of any moneys in the treasury belonging to the general fund, not otherwise specially appropriated by law. Sec. 25. No judge of the supreme court shall practice as attorney, solicitor or counsellor in any court of this State. the court. Sec. 26. The seals of the supreme court now in use shall continue seals of to be used therein; and with such other seals as may be devised for that purpose according to law, shall be the seals of said court. in supreme be submitt'd Sec. 27. All arguments of demurrers, cases, bills of exceptions, Arguments appeals, motions, and other matters in the supreme court, may, at the court may option of the respective parties, be submitted to said court in writing, in writing. subject to such rule as the court may prescribe, except when such court shall, by general or special rule or order, otherwise direct. Court may require cral Sec. 28. The supreme court may, at any time, in accordance with and for the speedy furtherance of justice in any suit, either at law or testimony. in equity, call upon the parties to such suit, or any witness thereto, to testify orally in open court; and said court may by rule provide for a similar practice in the circuit courts. Sec. 29. All cases in the supreme court shall be decided and disposed of before or during the first week of the term next succeeding the one when the same is argued or submitted. Within what time cases to be decided. of supreme Sec. 30. The decisions of the supreme court, with the reasons Decisions therefor, shall be in writing, and signed by the judges concurring court. therein. Any judge dissenting therefrom shall give the reasons of such dissent in writing, under his signature; and such opinions shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the supreme court, where such opinions may have been delivered. delivered to Sec. 31. On or before the January term in each year, the judges when to be of the said court shall deliver to the reporter of said court copies of reporter. their decisions on all questions determined by said court during the preceding year. Chap. 88 of Sec. 32. Chapter eighty-eight, title twenty-one of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, and all acts and parts of acts title 21, of revised sta- contravening the provisions of this law, be and they are hereby re tutes of '46, repealed. pealed. Sec. 33. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the to take ef- first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and When act feet. fifty-two. Approved April 4, 1851. Sec 2 of act ded. [ No. 94. ] AN ACT to amend the second and fourth sections of an act to incorporate the Erin and Mt. Clemens Plank Road Company, approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sec1850, amen- tion two of an act to incorporate the Erin and Mt. Clemens plank road company, approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: Route. Spr 4 amen. ded. Co, may en ter upon and take possession road. "Sec. 2. Said company hereby created shall have the power to lay out, establish and construct a plank road, and all necessary buildings, from the township of Erin in the county of Macomb, on the Fort Gratiot road, so-called, eight miles to or in the village of Mt. Clemens, in said county of Macomb; commencing at the termination of the Detroit and Erin plank road, to wit: twelve miles from the city of Detroit, in the county of Wayne, with the privilege to extend the same from thence, on the most eligible route, to the village of Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair." Sec. 2. That section four of said act be and the same is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: “Sec. 4. As soon as the said company shall be duly organized, the board of directors thereof are hereby authorized to enter upon of a certain and take possession of so much of the Fort Gratiot road, so called, as lies between the termination of the Detroit and Erin plank road, as aforesaid, to wit: a point distant twelve miles from the city of Detroit in the county of Wayne, and the village of Mt. Clemens in the county of Macomb, and proceed to construct and maintain thereon a plank road: Provided, That during the construction of said plank road, the said company shall in no wise prevent or improperly obstruct the usual travel thereon." Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its AN ACT to amend section twenty-two of "an act relative to Plank Roads," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fortyeight, in reference to subscriptions of stock. Sec. 22 of Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section twenty-two of an act relative to plank roads, approved March thir- act No. 62 teenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and the same is hereby mended. amended so as to read as follows: of 1848 a Subscript'n stock; time extended. "Sec. 22. If the entire capital stock of such company shall not be subscribed at the time first provided by this act, the board of direc- cap tors of any such company may at any time receive subscriptions to such capital stock, until the whole amount of the capital stock allowed by its charter shall be subscribed." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. [ No. 96. ] AN ACT supplemental to an act to incorporate the Plymouth and Dearborn Plank Road Company, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That when. ever the Plymouth and Dearborn Plank Road Company, incorporated March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall have completed three consecutive miles of their plank road, they may erect and maintain a toll gate thereon, and collect and take tolls at the rates authorized by their act of incorporation. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 4, 1851. of this state tain tract of to the Uni [ No. 97. ] AN ACT to cede jurisdiction to the United States over Land to be occupied as a site of Light House Buildings in this State. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Jurisdiction jurisdiction of the State is hereby ceded to the United States over a over a cer- certain tract or parcel of land, for the purpose of erecting light house land ceded buildings thereon, described as follows, to wit: lying and being in the ted States. county of Ottawa, State of Michigan, "being part of lot number eight of fractional section number twenty-eight, in township number ten north of range number seventeen west; the entire front bordering on Muskegon river, and running back the same distance, containing one acre," and being the acre of land selected by Henry B. Miller, superintendent and inspector of lights, for the purpose of erecting light house buildings thereon: Provided always, And this Condition cession is upon the express condition, that the State of Michigan shall so far retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the tract of land aforesaid, that all civil and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the said State, against any person or persons charged with offences committed without the bounds of said tract, may be executed therein in the same way and manner as though this cession had not been made. Approved April 4, 1851. of cession. rized to is for certain [ No. 98. ] AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled an act to incorporate the Section 1. The people of the State of Michigan enact, That for Co. autho- the purpose of providing means for the construction and completion sue bonds of the plank road of the Grand Rapids and Plainfield Plank purposes. Road Company, and its buildings and equipments, the said company may issue its corporate bonds or obligations for such amounts, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and in such form as it may deem proper, and payable at such times and places within this State, upon such terms and with such rates of in terest (not exceeding ten per cent. per annum) as the board of directors of said company may determine, with the approval of the holders of a majority of the stock of said company; and may seeure the payment of the whole or any portion of said bonds or obligations by mortgage of the road or other property of said Company: Provided, No such bond or obligation shall be issued for a Proviso, less sum than one hundred dollars. And said company may sell, dispose of and negotiate such bonds or obligations, either within or without this State, at such rates, for such prices and on such conditions as the company may determine; and in case said bonds or obligations, or any of them, shall be thus sold, disposed of or negotiated at a discount, said sale, disposal or negotiation shall be as valid and effectual as if said bonds or obligations had been sold, disposed of or negotiated at their par value; and said bonds or obligations shall be valid and binding as a security for the whole sum payable by the terms thereof, in the same manner as if they had been sold, disposed of or negotiated at their par value: Provided, That none of such bonds or obligations shall be sold at less than par without the consent of the holders of three-fourths of the stock of said company. Proviso. ' issue con stock. Sec. 2. For all or any of the purposes aforesaid, said company may create and issue shares or guarantied stock, to be denominated Authority to construction stock," to such an amount as it may determine, not to struction exceed (with the original stock subscribed to the capital of said company) the amount of their capital stock allowed by law; which construction stock shall be entitled to such dividend and payable at such place and in such manner and with such preference or priority over the remaining stock of said company in the payment of dividends as the directors of said company may determine, and as shall be approved by the holders of three-fourths of the stock of said company at their annual meeting or any special meeting called for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of issuing such stock; and the holders of such construction stock, and their representatives, shall be entitled to vote and have an equal voice in the management of the affairs of said company with the holders of an equal amount of the original stock of said company: Provided, That no such construction stock shall be authorized to be issued at any mecting of said compa Holder of, entitled to vote. 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