tourt may deem it necessary. The court shall be opened at 10 'clock in the forenoon of the first day of the term.”

take effect.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its When to passage, except in the counties in the Upper Peninsula, where it shall take effect and be in force on and after the second Tuesday of June next, and all process and recognizances shall be returned, and all causes continued till the quarterly term under this act next ensuing the time to which any cause may have been continued, or any process or recognizance made returnable, unless the same shall have been continued or ma le returnable at a time fixed by this act. Approved February 26, 1850.

[ No. 44. ]

AN ACT to modify an act entitled an act to incorporate theDouglas Houghton Mining Company.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Act amend of the State of Michigan, That the Douglas Houghton Mining Com- ed. pany may, at any regular meeting of the stockholders thereof, within two years after the passage of this act, divide the capital stock of said company into shares of not less than thirty nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided. That the capital stock of said company shall not be increased beyond the amount in the original act of incorporation mentioned.

ceptance.

Sec. 2. Should the said company adopt the modification in this act sha' file accontemplated, a statement of the terms of such modification shall, within twenty days after the adoption thereof, be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the same shall be conclusive on, and control said company.

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

Approved February 27, 1850.

[No. 45. ]

AN ACT to modify the act of incorporation of the North Western
Mining Company of Detroit.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

Act amend

ed.

Shall file acceptance.

of the State of Michigan, That the North Western Mining Company of Detroit, may, at any regular meeting of the stockholders thereof, within two years after the passage of this act, divide the capital stock of said company into shares of not less than thirty nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided, That the capital stock of said company shall not be increased beyond the amount in the original act of incorporation mentioned.

Sec. 2. Should the said company adopt the modification in this act contemplated, a statement of the terms of such modification shall, within twenty days after the adoption thereof, be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the same shall be conclusive on, and control said company.

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

Approved February 27, 1850.

[ No. 46. ]

AN ACT amending section 71, chapter 20, of the revised statutes of 1846, in relation to the printing of statements of lands delinquent for taxes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That section 71, chapter 20 of the revised statutes of the State of Michigan of the year 1846, be so amended as to authorize the Auditor General to cause the statement of lands delinquent for taxes, as provided by sections 69 and 70 of said chapter 20, for the counties of Saginaw, Lapeer, Barry and Eaton, to be published in a newspaper printed in each of said counties, if there be one which shall have been established therein thirty days prior to the first day of April, A. D. 1830.

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

Approved February 27, 1850.

[ No. 47. ]

AN ACT to modify the act incorporating the Algonquin Mining

Company.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

ed.

of the State of Michigan, That the Algonquin Mining Company Ael atendmay, at any regular meeting of the stockholders thereof, within two years after the passage of this act, divide the capital stock of said company into shares of not less than thirty nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided, That the capital stock of said company shall not be increased beyond the amount in the original act of incorporation mentioned.

ceptance.

Sec. 2. Should the said company accept the modification in this act shall fle ac contemplated, a statement of the terms of such modification shall, within twenty days after the adoption thereof, be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the same shall be conclusive on and control said company.

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

Approved February 27, 1850.

[ No. 48. ]

AN ACT to authorize Harriet A. Bassett and Lafayette Bassett, of the county of Branch, to convey certain real estate.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Harriet A. Bassett and Lafayette Bassett, minors, of the county of Branch, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey all their interest in and to all that certain piece or parcel of land, situate in said county of Branch, and described as follows, to wit: The south half of the north-west quarter of section thirty-five, in ownship six south, range seven west, containing eighty acres, more or less, in as good, sufficient and ample a manner, and with the same effect as if the said Harriet A. and Lafayette were of full age: Provided, That no such conveyance shall be of any effect unless the Judge of Probate of said county of Branch, under his hand and the seal of his office, shall certify upon the back of such conveyance his approval of the same, and such approval shall be recorded with the said conveyance: Provided further, That the legal guardian or guardians of said minors shall assent to such sale, and sign the approval thereof on the back of the deed, which shall be recorded with the deed.

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

passage.

Approved February 28, 1850.

[ No. 49. ]

AN ACT for the relief of John Conger.

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 and required to pay to John Conger, for serviees rendered as agent of the State under a requisition of the Governor, in pursuing Julius C. Cross, a fugitive from justice, the sum of eightyfive dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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

Approved February 28, 1850.

No. 59. ]

Loan autho

fazed.

Bonds; how
Issued.

AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Hinsdale to loan money for the purpose of building a court house with county offices.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the board of supervisors of the county of Hillsdale are hereby authorized to loan upon the credit of said county the sum of four thousand dollars in addition to the sum they are now authorized by law to raise, for the purpose of building a court house with county offices in said county.

Sec. 2. The said board of supervisors, for the purposes of this act, are hereby authorized to issue bonds against said county, or draw warrants on the treasurer of said county in the usual form, in sums of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars each, to the amount of the said sum of four thousand dollars, payable in equal amounts, in two, three, four and five years from the first day of February, 1850, drawing interest at the rate of seven per cent. per

annuca.

Sec. 3. The said board of supervisors are hereby authorized and Tar required to levy a tax on the taxable property of said county, as a part of the contingent expenses thereof, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds or warrants, which shall be drawn as aforesaid, for the purpose of raising money with which to build said court house with county offices, and the treasurer of said county is hereby directed to pay the interest on all such bonds or warrants presented to his office Payment of for payment, at any time after the said interest shall be due, out of any moneys levied and collected for that purpose.

Sec. 4. The board of supervisors of said county shall cause a sufficient sum of money to be raised by tax on the taxable property of said county to pay and discharge the bonds or warrants made or drawn under this act as fast as the same shall become due. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1859.

interest.

Tar.

[ No. 51. ]

AN ACT to incorporate the Utica and Almont Plank Road Com

pany.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Charles W. Chappel, Joshua Price, Samuel Rodgers, Nathan Dickinson and Calvin Shaw, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, under the direction of a majority of whom subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the Utica and Almont Plank Road Company, and the subscribers thereto, with such other persons as they shall associate with them for that purpose, their successors and assigns, shall be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Utica and Almont Plank Road Company, with corporate succession. Sec. 2. Said company hereby created shall have power to lay out, establish and construct a plank road, and all necessary buildings, from the village of Utica in the county of Macomb, to Rodger's Mill (so called) in the township of Almont, by the way of the vil lage of Almont in the county of Lapeer, with the right of uniting said road at any point with the plank road of any other company.

Incorpora

tion.

Route.