INDEX.

INDEX.

Vins

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ABSTRACTS
of lands sold for taxes and unredeemed : Auditor General required
to make.....

-. 15
certificates, etc. ; rate of fees to be charged by Auditor General for. 18
of the title to real estate in the county of Kent: protection and
preservation of, etc., provided for....

....... 132–3
ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES

authorized to do business in this State......................... 31
ACCOUNTS,

State : revision of the system of keeping, provided for ............ 290
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of deeds and other instruments affecting real property, by married

women: act relative to.....
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE:

(See Laws.)
ADJOURNMENT

of civil causes in justices' courts : act relative to, amended........ 67–8
ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE :
certificate of the Secretary of State relative to.......

312
AUMINISTRATORS:
time entitled to possession of estate .......

......................... 126
ADVERTISEMENT,

foreclosure by: act relative to, amended............
AGENTS,

insurance : act relative to the responsibility of, amended.......... 33
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE :
appropriation for

...........
ALIENATION BY DEED:

act relative to, amended.......
ALIMONY:
enforcement of decrees for....

.............

. 32-3
court may decree.....

... 72
ALMS-HOUSES :

act to provide for the establishment and control of ................ 190–2
AMBLER, SCHUYLER W.:
joint resolution for the relief of........

..... 284-5

..........

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297

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AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION:
votes for, how taken, canvassed, etc.......

62–3
joint resolutions proposing....

.......299, 301
proposed by the Legislature of 1875 and ratified by the people in
1876.....

................. 311
ANIMALS:
noxious : act relative to the destruction of, amended......

35-6
act for the prevention of cruelty to......

55-7
act relative to the racing of, amended....

68
formation of corporations for the prevention of cruelty to......... 108-9
act to prevent, from running at large in the public highways,
amended ..

.......

199
APPEALS
from courts of chancery: act relative to, amended.....

7-8
in chancery cases : how taken to Supreme Court........

17-18
APPLES:
act to establish the weight of a bushel........

. 51
APPROPRIATIONS :

for heating, and incidental expenses of State House of Correction.
for the heating, etc., of new Capitol : Auditor General authorized

to advance from general fund........
for expenses, etc., of commissioner of mineral statistics......
for the purchase of books for the State Library......
for State Pioneer Society...........

. 14-15
for completing, etc., the new capitol......
for current expenses of the State Normal School......

33-4
for the completion and furnishing of the State House of Correction.

48-9
for the State Reform School...

62
for State Public School.......

69-70
for Agricultural College.......

77-8
transfer of unexpended balances of, to general fund.............. 85-6
for removal of State library, and for salary of assistant librarian... 104
for the improvement of the grounds surrounding the State capitol,
for furnishing the legislative halls, etc.....

124-5
for the board of fish commissioners.............

125
for the maintenance of patients at the asylum for insane, etc..... 127-8
for the erection of an addition to the normal school building.... 128-9
for furnishing the new State capitol............

.... 143_4
for the State officers and State government.....

....... 146-7
for finishing and furnishing the eastern asylum for the insane, etc..149-50
for building additions, etc., to the State prison............

159
for the University...

.......199-200
for the Institution for educating the Deaf and Dumb, and the
Blind ......

........211-12
to liquidate indebtedness of Centennial Board of Managers, etc..... 300
Of land:

to aid in constructing a railroad through the Menominee iron range 22-4
to aid in the construction of a railroad from the Straits of Macki.
naw to Marquette Harbor, authorized.

.116–17
to reconstruct a part of the Cass River and Bay City State road,

authorized........

..

120

288

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APPROPRIATIONS (Continued):
Of land :

for the constrnction of a State road in the county of Isle Royal.... 123-4
for the removal of a certain jam or raft of flood-wood from the Shi.
awassee river, authorized......

.... 151-2
to complete certain sections of the Duncan, Alpena, and Au Sauble
State road, authorized ...........

.... 152-3
to build a bridge across Muskegon river, authorized.............. 195
APPROPRIATIONS ASKED OF CONGRESS :
for the erection of a light-house and steam fog signal on Stannard's
Rock, Lake Superior.......

........ 283
to construct a light-house on the point of Little Traverse Harbor, in
the county of Emmet......

.. 283-4
for the improvement of the harbor at Holland, in Ottawa county.. 287-8
for the improvement of the harbor at Saugatuck, Allegan county..
for making a harbor of refuge at Grand Marais Harbor, on Lake

Superior................................................ 289
for the improvement of the harbor at New Buffalo, Berrien county. 289
to construct a light-house at the mouth of Thunder Bay River,
Alpena county..................

....-

291
for the construction of a harbor at Menominee.......... ........ 291-2
ASSESSMENT

of taxes : law relative to, amended......
of highway labor: act relative to, amended...

26-7
of corporate property, etc.....

152
in incorporated villages........

170-1
ASSIGNEES
of insolvent debtors: duties and obligations of........

201
ASSOCIATIONS:

mutual benefit and coöperative: act to facilitate the organization of. 19-20
coöperative savings : incorporation of.........

.. 274–8
partnership: formation of............................

...... 207-10
ASYLUM FOR INSANE:

appropriation for the maintenance of patients at....... .... 127-8
Eastern: appropriation for finishing and furnishing ----... ....149-50
Michigan and Eastern: organization, regulation, and management
of, etc........
--.....................

.215–26
ATTACHMENT:

act relative to proceedings against debtors by, amended....... ... 3

act to regulate proceedings by, against foreign corporations, amended 148–9
ATTORNEY GENERAL
to examine management of societies for receiving, loaning, and
investing money, in certain cases.......

269
may require detailed reports of coöperative savings associations..... 278
and Commissioner of Railroads authorized to ascertain by what

authority the Michigan Central Railroad extends its property in
excess of the necessity of its business.........

----------------...309-10
ATTORNEYS,

who are notaries public, not to administer oaths in certain cases.... 3
AUDITOR GENERAL:

required to make abstracts of lands sold for taxes and unredeemed.

din

cases..........................