Duty of owner or association in mission of neglect or refusal, or for neglecting to keep such books open for inspection as aforesaid. Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the owner or association owning the trans- any telegraph line, doing business within this State, to receive disdispatches. patches from and for other telegraph lines and associations, and from and for any individual; and on payment of their usual charges for individuals for transmitting, dispatches, as established by the rules and regulations of such telegraph line, to transmit the same with impartiality and good faith, under the penalty of one hundred dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do, to be recovered, with costs of suit, in the name and for the benefit of the person or persons sending or desiring to send such dispatch. Ibid. Proviso. Sec. 15. It shall likewise be the duty of every such owner or association, to transmit all dispatches in the order in which they are received, under the like penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered, with costs of suit, by the person or persons whose dispatch is postponed out of its order, as herein prescribed: Provided, however, That arrangements may be made with the proprietors or publishers of newspapers, for the transmission for the purpose of publication of intelligence of general and public interest, out of its regular order. Sec. 16. Any person connected with any telegraph company in the nature this State, or connected with any such company transacting business tents of pri- in this State, either as clerk, operator, messenger, or in any other camunic'tions pacity, who shall wilfully or negligently divulge the contents or the Penalty for divulging of the con vate com Lien of the nature of the contents of any private communication entrusted for transmission or delivery to the agent, clerk, operator, messenger, of other person in the employ of such company, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same, shall, on conviction before any court, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer imprisonment in the county jail where such conviction shall be had, for a term not exceeding six months, or shall pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court; and such company shall be liable to the party aggrieved for all damages sustained thereby. Sec. 17. The State shall have a lien upon any line constructed under this act, and its appurtenances, and for all taxes which may accrue thereon to the State, by virtue of the provisions of this act, Duty of state treasurer in payment of tax. which shall have precedenee of all other liens; and in case the tax or any part thereof shall remain unpaid at the time hereinbefore provided for its payment, then the State Treasurer shall have power, and it is hereby made his duty, to advertise such line for sale for the case of nonamount of such tax remaining unpaid, in some newspaper published in the city ot Detroit, by giving three weeks' previous notice, and to sell the same accordingly for the amount of tax and interest, and charges of sale: Provided, The same shall not be paid before the Proviso. time of sale; and the surplus money, if any, shall be paid to the owner or owners of such line. legislature. Sec. 18. The Legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal Power of this act; and any such alteration or amendment shall act as an alteration or amendment of the corporate rights of all companies formed, created, organized, or at any time doing business. under its provisions; or they may annul or repeal any corporation formed under this act; but such alteration, amendment, annulling or repeal shall not, nor shall the dissolution of any such company, take away or impair any remedy given for or against any such corporation, its stockholders or officers, for any right acquired or liability which shall have been previously incurred. Sec. 19. This act shall take effect immediately. [ No. 60. ] AN ACT directing the publication of a statement of lands to be sold in Cass county, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Auditor General shall cause the statement of the lands to be sold in the county of Cass, in October, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to be published in the National Democrat, in Cassopolis, in said county; which statement shall be published in the same manner, for the same time, and to the same effect as like statements required by law to be published in other cases. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 31, 1851. Sections 33, chap. 79 of utes of 1846, amended. [ No. 61. ] AN ACT to amend sections thirty-three, thirty-four and thirty-five, chapter seventy-nine of the revised statutes, relative to the sale of real estate on execution. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sec34 and 35 of tions thirty-three, thirty-four and thirty-five of chapter seventy-nine revised stat- of the revised statutes be severally amended as follows, viz: by inserting in the eighth line of said section thirty-three, after the word "purchaser," the words "or to the assigns of such purchaser." And also, by adding at the end of said section thirty-four, the words following: "Provided, That in any case under this or the preceding section, where the rights of the person or persons entitled to such real estate, or any interest therein, shall render it necessary, the circuit court of the county in which the officer who made the sale resided, on a hearing of the parties interested, properly brought before it by bill or petition, may direct the conveyance to be made to the person or persons equitably entitled thereto, in such manner as shall be just; and such conveyance shall have the same effect as provided in the preceding section:" and also by inserting in the first line of said section thirty-five, after the word "conveyed," the words "to any executor or administrator;" so that said sections, as amended, shall respectively read as follows: Convey "Sec. 33. After the expiration of fifteen months from the time of the sale of any real estate, if any part of the premises sold shall remain unredeemed by the person against whom the execution issued, or by any person entitled to redeem the same within one year from the time of such sale, according to the provisions of this chapter, the officer making such sale, or his successor in office, shall complete the same by executing, in due form of law, a conveyance of the premiwhom to be ses so remaining unredeemed, either to the original purchaser or to the creditor who may have acquired the title of such original purchaser, or to the assigns of such purchaser, or to the creditor who may have purchased such title from any other creditor, as the case may be; which conveyance shall be valid and effectual to convey all the right, title and interest which was sold on such execution. ance, when and to made. "Sec. 34. In case the person who, by the provisions of the preceding sections, would be entitled to a conveyance of any real estate veyance to executors, &c. sold by virtue of an execution, shall die before the execution of the When conconveyance, the officer shall execute and deliver such conveyance to be made to the executor or administrator of the person so deceased: Provided, That in any case under this or the preceding section, where the Proviso. rights of the person or persons entitled to such real estate, or any interest therein, shall render it necessary, the circuit court of the county in which the officer who made the sale resided, on a hearing of the parties interested, properly brought before it by bill or petition, may direct the conveyance to be made to the person or persons equitably entitled thereto, in such manner as shall be just; and such conveyance shall have the same effect as provided in the preceding section. &c., to hold trust. "Sec. 35. The real estate so conveyed to any such executor or ad- Executor, ministrator shall be held in trust for the use of the heirs of such de- same in ceased person, subject to the dower of his widow, if there be any; but the same may be sold for the payment of debts and legacies, in the same manner as lands whereof the deceased died seized." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 31, 1851. [ No. 62. j AN ACT to provide for the construction of a bridge across Grand Construc. bridge a River in the Jackson,au thorized. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the qualified electors of the township of Jackson in the county of Jack-tion of a son, be and they are hereby authorized, at any annual township meet-cross Grand ing of said township, to raise by a vote of a majority of the elec- village of tors present a sum of money not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be levied and collected in the same manner as other township expenses, for the purpose of making, constructing and building a bridge across Grand river, on Main or St. Joseph street, in the village of Jackson, in said township, which money when collected shall be held. by the treasurer of said township subject to the order and control of the common council of said village. Sec. 2. For the purpose of determining whether the money shall be raised as provided in the preceding section, those voting in favor Form of ballots. Power of common council. Fees of township Treasurer. of such tax shall have written or printed on their ballots, "for the tax;" and those voting against such tax shall have written or printed on their ballots, "against the tax.” Sec. 3. The common council of the said village of Jackson shall have the direction of the making, constructing and building said bridge, and may provide for its construction by contract or otherwise, and may issue orders upon the said township treasurer for the amount hereinbefore authorized to be raised; and the township treasurer is hereby required to pay the amount of such orders, out of any moneys in his hands raised for that purpose. The said township treasurer shall have the same fees for collecting and disbursing said moneys as in other cases. Sec. 4. The village of Jackson shall be deemed a portion of the township of Jackson for the purposes herein before mentioned. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 31, 1851. [ No. 63. ] Two terms of C. Court annually. AN ACT to establish a circuit court in the county of Montcalm. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That two to be held terms of the circuit court be held in the county of Montcalm during the present year, (eighteen hundred and fifty-one,) and two terms of said court in each year thereafter, at such times as shall be hereafter appointed. Cir. Judge the times of Sec. 2. The circuit judge of the fifth circuit, within twenty days. to appoint after the appointment of a judge for the said circuit, is hereby authorholding ized and required to appoint the times of holding the terms of the Cir. Court circuit court in the county of Montcalm, required by the preceding Copy of ap- section, and transmit to the county clerk of said county of Montcalm terms of pointment mitted to to be trans- a copy of such appointment, which shall be filed and preserved by Rapids Enquirer, a paper published in the county of Kent, the last |