LIST OF JOINT RESOLUTIONS. No. TITLE. 1. Joint resolution to ratify the action of the Board of Control of State swamp lands in letting contracts in the burnt district, on State roads, and to authorize them to make any further contracts necessary, approved March 3.... 2. Joint resolution for the payment of printing done by George A. Waterbury, approved March 14. 3. Joint resolution authorizing the Governor to issue a patent to Nelson Sperry for the south half of the northeast quarter of section sixteen (16), township ten (10) north, of range nine (9) east, the same being primary school lands, approved March 17. PAGE. 68 68 69 LIST OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS. No. TITLE. 1. Concurrent resolution requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use all reasonable and honorable means to procure congressional legislation which shall promptly and effectually extirpate polygamy from our midst, approved March 9... PAGE. 70 2. Concurrent resolution directing the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to index and superintend the publication of the journals and documents, approved March 15.. 70 PUBLIC ACTS, 1882. [ No. 1. ] AN ACT appropriating money for the purpose of constructing work shops at the State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Appropriation. there is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury, to the State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the following purposes, namely: For constructing one work shop fifty feet by one hundred and thirty-five feet, two stories high, with a basement, to be used as a pail and tub manufactory; and one shop fifty feet by one hundred and thirty-five feet, two stories high, with a basement, to be used in part for shop room and in part for storage by the different manufacturies at said State House of Correction. SEC. 2. That the money hereby appropriated may be drawn from How drawn and the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General, in expended. such sums and at such times as shall be made to appear to him necessary; the sum named in this act shall be expended only for the purposes specified herein, and its receipt and disbursement shall be accounted for by duplicate vouchers and monthly accounts current, as provided for by act number one hundred and forty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three. to incorporate in SEC. 3. That the Auditor General is hereby authorized to incor- Auditor General porate the sum of ten thousand dollars in the State tax for the year State tax. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and when collected place the same to the credit of the general fund. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 3, 1882. [ No. 2.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the completion of buildings already erected, and for other improvements, at the Michigan School for the Blind. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Appropriation, sum of eleven thousand three hundred dollars be and the same is Proviso. hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the State treasury for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for the following: named purposes, for the Michigan School for the Blind, to wit Four thousand three hundred dollars for the completion of buildings already erected, eight hundred dollars for the construction of a reservoir, three thousand seven hundred dollars for grading streets and grounds, drainage, graveling driveways, planting trees, etc., two thousand five hundred dollars for library and apparatus: Provided, That if any one of the amounts specified shall not all be required for the purpose for which it is asked, any such balance remaining unexpended may be used for either of the other purposes mentioned in this act, under the direction of the board of control. SEC. 2. The Auditor General shall incorporate in and add to the to incorporate in State tax for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two the amount appropriated by section one of this act, which amount, when collected, shall be placed to the credit of the general fund to reimburse said fund for the amount hereby appropriated. Auditor General State tax. Incorporation and powers. Proviso. Appropriation for aid. Ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 3. ] AN ACT to incorporate the Board of State Fish Commissioners. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Board of State Fish Commissioners, appointed and organized under and by virtue of an act entitled, "An act to establish a board of commissioners to increase the product of the fisheries and to make an appropriation therefor," approved April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and the acts amendatory thereof, or of any act of the Legislature of this State which may hereafter be passed, shall constitute a body corporate, with the name and title of the "State Board of Fish Commissioners," with the right, as such, of suing and being sued, of making and using a common seal, and altering the same at pleasure, and of taking conveyances and leases of lands and tenements, and holding the same, in the said corporate name, for the uses of said board in carrying out the objects of their organization and appointment: Provided, That all leases and conveyances of lands intended for such uses shall be made to the "State Board of Fish Commissioners." Ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 4. ] AN ACT making an appropriation for the relief of sufferers by the great fire of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in several counties of this State. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be and hereby is appropriated out of the State treasury for school the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended for furnishing aid to the sufferers by the great fire of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in Sanilac, Tuscola, Huron, and other counties affected thereby. SEC. 2. There shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the Appropriation State treasury the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much houses. thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in assisting to rebuild or pay for the rebuilding school-houses in the several school districts in this State in which school-houses were destroyed by the great fires of eighteen hundred and eighty-one. The commissioners hereinafter mentioned shall pay to the assessor of each of said districts so rebuilding a school-house therein the sum apportioned their respective districts, which sum said assessors shall place to the credit of the building fund of their respective districts: Provided, Proviso. That no moneys appropriated by this section shall be paid to any school district until a school-house shall have been erected and completed therein of an appraised value equal to the sum apportioned to such district. SEC. 3. The several appropriations made by this act shall be How expended. expended or disbursed as the case may require by the relief commission heretofore appointed by the Governor of this State, consisting of Henry P. Baldwin, chairman, A. H. Dey, D. C. Whitwood, George C. Codd, F. W. Swift, C. T. Gorham, and Omar D. Conger, who are hereby constituted a commission for that purpose. SEC. 4. The commission herein provided for may from time to Requisition on time make requisitions upon the Governor of this State for such Governor. sums of money out of the appropriations herein made as they may deem necessary for the several purposes herein provided for, submitting with such requisitions all information in regard to the necessity of using said appropriations which the commission shall from time to time obtain through its agencies, and shall, on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eightythree make to the Governor a detailed report of its expenditures. drawn from SEC. 5. The Governor, upon examination of the requisitions, and How money information presented to him, under the provisions of section four State Treas of this act, may from time to time by his certificate in writing, ury. require the Auditor General to draw his warrant on the State treasury for such sums of the money hereby appropriated as he may deem necessary from the information submitted to him. And the Auditor General is hereby authorized and required upon presentation of the Governor's certificate to draw his warrant as therein required, payable to the chairman of said commission. SEC. 6. There shall be assessed upon the taxable property of this Assessment. State in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three the further sum of one hundred and forty thousand dollars to be assessed and levied in like manner as other State taxes are by law assessed, levied, and paid, which tax when collected shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse to the same the sum to be drawn therefrom as provided in this act. Ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 11, 1882. |