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piler's section seven thousand six hundred and one of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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(7601.) SEC. 50. Every person who shall willfully or maliciously Maliciously break down, injure, remove, or destroy any monument erected for ments, extin the purpose of designating the boundaries of any township, or of guishing lamps, any tract or lot of land, or any tree marked for that purpose, or boards, etc. shall so break down, injure, remove, or destroy any mile stone, mile board, guide post, or guide board, lawfully erected upon any highway or other public way, turnpike, or railroad, or shall willfully or maliciously deface or alter the inscription on any such stone, post, or board, or shall willfully or maliciously mar or deface any building or sign board, or extinguish any lamp, or break, destroy, or remove any lamp or any lamp post, or any railing or posts erected on any bridge, sidewalk, street, highway, court, or passage, or shall willfully or maliciously injure, remove, deface, or destroy any board or structure lawfully erected or used for the posting of bills, posters, or other notices, or shall willfully or maliciously mutilate, deface or destroy any bill, poster, or other printed or written notice lawfully posted on any board or structure, used for that purpose, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than three months, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Approved May 10, 1877.

[No. 10%.]

AN ACT to amend section five hundred and eleven of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section thirty-five of chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and forty-six relative to county treasurers.

amended

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section five hundred and eleven of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section thirty-five of chapter fourteen, laws of eighteen hundred and forty-six, relative to county treasurers, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

longer than four

SEC. 35. The county treasurer shall be elected at the general County treasurer election for the term of two years, and shall be incapable of hold- not to hold office ing the office of county treasurer longer than four in any period of years in six six years. He shall give a bond for the faithful and proper dis- Bond. charge of the duties of his office as hereinafter directed. Approved May 10, 1877.

years.

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Time for re

etc., limited.

Damages to

Bond may be given when

amount of dam

ages cannot be agreed upon.

[No. 108.]

AN ACT to amend section two thousand and nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being section one of chapter forty-six of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, relative to timber and lumber floating upon waters, or carried upon adjoining lands.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That compiler's section two thousand and nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one be and is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

(2009.) SEC. 1. Whenever any logs, timber, boards, or planks, moving timber, in rafts or otherwise, shall be drifted or float upon any island in any of the waters or streams of this State, or upon the banks or shores of such waters, or lands adjacent thereto, the owner of such logs, timber, or plank, or any person or corporation entitled to the possession thereof, may at any time within two years remove the same upon paying or tendering to the owner or occupant of such bank, owner of bank, shore, or lands such reasonable damages as may have been caused by such occupancy and removal, or such owner or person or corporation entitled to such logs, timber, or plank may, if the amount of such damage cannot be agreed upon, execute and deliver to such Owner or occupant of such shores, banks, or lands, a bond in such penal sum, with such sureties as shall be approved by any circuit judge, or by any circuit court commissioner of the county in which such logs, timber, boards, or planks are situated, conditioned for the payment of all damages which may have been caused by the drifting or floating of such logs, timber, boards, or planks upon such shores, banks, or lands, remaining thereon and the removal thereof therefrom; and upon the execution and delivery of such bond, such owner, person, or corporation may enter upon said shores, banks, or lands, and remove such logs, timber, boards, and planks therefrom, and no action shall be brought or maintained for any such damages except upon the bond so executed and delivered, unless the circuit court of the county shall, upon cause shown and due notice, otherwise order. If such logs, timber, boards, or plank shall not be removed within the said two years, under the provisions of this section, the same shall be deemed the property of the owner or occupant of said shores, banks, or lands.

SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved May 10, 1877.

[No. 109.]

AN ACT to amend section thirteen (13) of chapter forty-seven
(47) of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one
(1871), being compiler's section seventeen hundred and fifty-
seven (1757), relative to draining swamps, marshes, and other
low lands, as amended by act numbered one hundred and fifty-
nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section
section thirteen (13) of chapter forty-seven (47) of the compiled
laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one (1871), being compiler's
section seventeen hundred and fifty-seven (1757), be and the same
is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

amended.

misioner to alter

courses, dykes,

(1757.) SEC. 13. Said commissioner shall have power to re-locate Power of comany drain or drains, and to alter or vary the size or extend the line or extend thereof, with the consent of the contractor or contractors, if such ditches, water extension be necessary to provide a suitable outlet; and the power etc. herein conferred on said commissioner for digging and draining shall also extend to and include deepening and widening, and clearing out any ditches or drains which have heretofore been or may hereafter be constructed; also straitening, cleaning out, and deepening the channels of creeks and streams; also to extend to and include the construction, maintaining, remodeling, and repairing of levees, dykes and barriers for the drainage and reclaiming of low lands, swamps, and marshes; but no expense exceeding twenty- Limit of expense. five dollars on any one drain or creek, levee, dyke, or barrier shall be charged and assessed as aforesaid, unless upon such application

as provided for in section four of this act.

SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved May 10, 1877.

[No. 110.]

AN ACT providing for the transfer of unexpended balances of

appropriations.

ance to be trans

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Unexpended bal if the amount appropriated by the Legislature for any purpose be ferred to general not needed for the purpose specified, within the time fixed in the fund. act making such appropriation, the balance of any such appropriation remaining in the State Treasury shall be transferred to the general fund: Provided, That in cases where appropriations are Proviso. made from special funds, the unexpended balances shall be transferred to the respective funds from which such appropriations were made.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall apply to all appropria- Act to apply to tions heretofore made, any part of which shall be unexpended at the appropriations passage of this act, and to all appropriations hereafter made, and hereafter made;

heretofore or

the Auditor General shall, at the end of each fiscal year, close the account with each and every appropriation made to cover expenditures from the State Treasury prior to the first day of January next preceding the close of the current fiscal year.

Approved May 10, 1877.

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[No. 111. ]

AN ACT relating to the punishment of bank, safe, and vault robbery.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That whoever, with the intent to commit the crime of larceny or any felony, shall confine, maim, injure, or wound, or attempt, or threaten to confine, kill, maim, injure, or wound, or shall put in fear any person for the purpose of stealing from any building, bank, safe, or other depository of money, bonds, or other valuables, or shall by intimidation, fear, or threats compel or attempt to compel any person to disclose or surrender the means of opening any building, bank, safe, vault, or other depository of money, bonds, or other valuables, or shall attempt to break, burn, blow up, or otherwise injure or destroy any safe, vault, or other depository of money, bonds, or other valuables in any building or place, shall, whether he succeeds or fails in the perpetration of such larceny or felony, be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison for life or any term of years.

Approved May 10, 1877.

Section amended.

Bonds of county

officers to be ap

[No. 112.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number twenty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the approval of the official bonds of county officers by the Board of Supervisors."

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section one of act number twenty-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "An act to provide for the approval of the official bonds of county officers by the board of supervisors, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1. All official bonds of county officers which are now proved by board required by law to be approved by the judge of the circuit court, shall hereafter be approved by the board of supervisors of the

of supervisors.

county in which said officers are elected: Provided, however, That Proviso. if the board of supervisors in any case shall not have approved of such bonds or the sufficiency of the sureties thereto, before any such officer shall enter upon the duties of his office, the circuit judge of the circuit to which such county may be attached, or the judge of probate of such county may, on application of the officer so elected, approve of the bond and the sureties thereto, on being satisfied of the pecuniary responsibility of the sureties to meet the exigencies of said bond, subject, however, to the approval of the board of supervisors at their first meeting thereafter: Provided, Proviso-Wayne That this act shall not be in force or operation in Wayne county. Approved May 11, 1877.

county excepted.

[No. 113. ]

AN ACT to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of companies for mining, smelting, and manufacturing iron, copper, silver, mineral coal, and other ores or minerals, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations.

tions formed.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That it How corpora. shall be lawful for any number of persons not less than three, by articles of agreement in writing, to organize themselves into a corporation for the purpose of engaging in [and] carrying on any kind of mining business, or for refining, smelting, or manufacturing any and all kinds of ores, minerals, or metals, or for both mining, refining, smelting, and manufacturing any or all such ores, minerals, or metals, and such persons so organizing themselves shall, with their successors and assigns, constitute a body corporate under the name assumed by them in their articles of association: Provided, No two companies shall assume the same name.

and signed.

SEC. 2. The articles of association of any corporation organized Articles to be under the provisions of this act shall be acknowledged by not less acknowledged than three of the persons whose names are signed thereto, before some person authorized by the laws of this State to take the acknowledgment of deeds, or if acknowledged outside of the State, it may be done before a commissioner of deeds of this State, a notary public having a seal, or any other person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, and such articles shall state:

First, The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is What to be formed;

Second, The amount of the capital stock, and the number of shares;

Third, The amount of cash actually paid in on the capital stock, and the cash value of any property, real or personal, conveyed to the corporation contemporaneously with its organization;

Fourth, The names of the stockholders, their respective residences, and the number of shares held by each person;

stated therein.

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