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SEC. 16. The shares of any company formed under this act shall Shares deemed be deemed personal property, and may be transferred as shall be property. prescribed by the by-laws of such company.

process against.

SEC. 17. Service of any legal process against any such corporation Service of legal may be made on the president, treasurer, or upon any of the directors of such company.

Ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved April 21, 1883.

[No. 40.]

AN ACT making an appropriation for the support of insane soldiers at the Michigan asylum for the insane.

for support of

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there Appropriation be and hereby is appropriated from the State treasury to the Mich- insane soldiers. igan asylum for the insane, the sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-four cents, the amount due for the support of insane soldiers from February first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, to June second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, inclusive, admitted under the provisions of act ninety-one, laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three. This amount is to be paid out of the general fund. Approved April 21, 1883.

[ No. 41. ]

AN ACT to amend section nine of an act to provide for the incor- . poration of Holland christian reformed churches, approved April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section nine of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of Holland christian reformed churches," approved April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, be amended so as to read as follows:

may incorporate

SEC. 9. The congregation of any church, the trustees of which How churches have been incorporated under any law of this State, may elect to now incorporated dissolve their existing organization and take corporate powers under under this act. this act: Provided, That the consent of two-thirds of all persons Proviso. present and entitled to vote under such law at a public meeting, be obtained therefor, of which meeting due notice of time, place and object thereof shall be given in the manner prescribed in section three thousand and fifty-seven of the compiled laws. If such consent shall be obtained, a certificate thereof shall be executed and acknowledged by the presiding officer and secretary of such meeting, and shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where the original certificate of incorporation was recorded; and on compliance with the provisions of this act providing for the creation

day of June next, to canvass the votes in the townships of said county of Arenac, for county officers, to which board the proper township officers are required to make returns of such votes on or before the day of meeting of said board as provided in this section; Board to approve and said board is also authorized, and it is hereby made their duty, to approve the proper bonds of said county officers.

bonds of county officers.

County declared

SEC. 6. Said county is hereby created and declared a body cora body corporate porate and politic with all the powers and duties conferred upon or required of organized counties by the constitution and laws of this State.

and politic.

Register to

make transcripts

of records.

Territory organ

ized to remain

county for certain purposes.

SEC. 7. The county register of said county shall make transcripts of all records in other counties necessary to be and appear upon the records of the said county of Arenac.

SEC. 8. All the territory herein described and designated as the attached to Bay County of Arenac shall, until organized according to the provisions of this act, remain attached to the county of Bay, for judicial, taxable, and other purposes, and nothing in this act shall in any way interfere with the authority of the officers of the county of Bay for collecting the taxes assessed within the territory comprised in said county of Arenac for the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-two; Provided, Said county of Arenac shall bear its just proportion of State taxes for the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-three.

Representative

cial circuit of.

SEC. 9. Said county of Arenac to remain in the second represendistrict and judi- tative district of Bay county, and shall also remain in the thirtieth senatorial district, and in the eighteenth judicial circuit. The Returns for State returns for State senator, and for representative in the State legissenator and rep- lature for the second district of Bay county shall be made to the county clerk of Bay county, and shall be forwarded by the board of township inspectors of election on the day prescribed by law for the meeting of county canvassers until the next apportionment is made for members of the State legislature.

resentative, to whom made.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 21, 1883.

Mutual fire insurance com

to do business in this State.

[No. 36.]

AN ACT to allow mutual fire insurance companies of other States to do business within this State.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That it panies from other shall be lawful for any mutual fire insurance company, organized States authorized under the laws of any other State of the United States, and being possessed of at least two hundred thousand dollars of actual net cash assets, to transact the business of fire insurance in this State, in like manner as stock companies of other States may do, upon receiving from the commissioner of insurance a certificate of authority. Such amount of two hundred thousand dollars shall be deemed to be the actual capital of such company, and shall be treated as capital by the commissioner of insurance, in determin

ing the solvency of such company. In all other respects such mutual fire insurance companies shall be subject to all the penalties and provisions of law applicable to stock fire insurance companies of other States, transacting business in this State.

Ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 21, 1883.

[ No. 37. ]

AN ACT to incorporate the grand army of the republic, department of Michigan, and subordinate posts of the grand army of the republic.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Incorporation grand army of the republic, department of Michigan, and subordi- authorized. nate posts of the grand army of the republic of the department of Michigan may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of

this act.

executed and

SEC. 2. The commander, senior vice commander, junior vice Articles of assocommander, assistant adjutant general, of the department of Mich- ciation, by whom igan, grand army of the republic, may make and execute articles of what to set forth. association under their hands and seals, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, andshall set forth:

First, The names of the officers above mentioned and their places of residence ;

Second, The corporate name by which the association shall be known in law;

Third, The object and purpose of such association, which shall be to promote the general welfare of the order known as the grand army of the republic, and the period for which it is incorporated, which shall not exceed thirty years.

and rules, etc.,

SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association, together with a copy Copy of articles of the rules and regulations of the grand army of the republic shall of association be filed with the secretary of State, and thereupon the persons who to be filed. shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed

in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in law capable May acquire and to purchase, take, receive, hold, and enjoy to them, and their suc- hold property. cessors, estates, real and personal; of suing and being sued, and to have a common seal which may be altered or changed at pleasure: Provided, That the value of real and personal estate shall not Proviso. exceed the value of ten thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of said real and personal estate or part thereof at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents, and incomes to be disposed of as directed by the department at its annual meeting. Said cor

By-laws, rules, etc,

Copies of arti

cles of associa

poration shall have full power to make and establish rules and bylaws for regulating and governing all the affairs and business of said corporation, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State or the United States, and to designate, elect, or appoint from its members, such officers, under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations of the grand army of the republic.

SEC. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of association under tion as evidence. the seal of the State, duly certified by the secretary of State, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due organization of such corporation.

May charter posts, etc.

Subordinate posts of, may become incorporated.

Proviso.

Corporations may erect halls, etc.

Create capital stock.

May acquire cemeteries, etc.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. Such corporation when duly formed shall have power to institute and charter posts of the grand army of the republic within this State, and from time to time issue such orders for the government of posts as are not repugnant to the rules and regula. tions of the grand encampment of the grand army of the republic of the United States.

SEC. 6. At any time when a subordinate post of the grand army of the republic shall by a two-thirds vote of the members present, at any regular meeting of said post, resolve to become incorporated, the commander, senior vice commander, junior vice commander, and adjutant of such post, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, specifying as provided in section two of this act, and file a copy of the resolutions passed at a regular meeting of the post, with the clerk of the county in which such corporation shall be formed, which shall be recorded by such clerk in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, and thereupon such post of the grand army of the republic, the officers thereof, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in law with the same powers, duties, and liabilities as the grand army of the republic, department of Michigan, have under section three of this act: Provided, That a certified copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the circuit court of the county where such record is recorded, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all the courts in this State of the existence and due organization of such corporation.

SEC. 7. Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act, may erect and own such suitable edifice, building, or hall, as to such corporation shall seem proper, with convenient means for meeting; and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than ten thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of not more than ten dollars each; and any such corporation may take, purchase, hold, and own suitable lots or parcels of ground as may be convenient for the purpose of a cemetery, and make all lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of lots, and the burial of the dead therein as to such corporation may seem proper: Provided, This act shall not be construed to affect any municipal regulations in regard to cemeteries.

SEC. 8. All corporations formed under this act shall be subject to

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the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirty of the compiled General law laws of this State, so far as the same may be applicable to corpora- governing.

tions formed under this act.

Ordered to take immediate effect.

Approved April 21, 1883.

[No. 38.]

AN ACT to provide for adjustment of rights and liabilities on division of territory of cities and townships.

ete., and division

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Adjustment of when land shall be detached from any city or township in this rights, liabilities, State and attached to any city or township, the moneys, rights, of property. credits, and personal property belonging to any city or township, the boundary of which may be so changed, shall be divided between said cities, or city and township; the city to which said territory is attached to have such a proportion as the value of the taxable property attached thereto bears to the whole value of the taxable property of the city or township from which said territory was detached, and the city or township from which said territory is detached shall be entitled to the balance of said moneys, rights, credits, and personal property, the value of said taxable property to be ascertained from the assessment roll of said city or township made immediately before said change of boundary.

divided.

SEC. 2. When the boundary of any city or township shall be Lands to be sold changed in the manner provided in the preceding section, any land and proceeds of which such city or township, from which said territory is detached, shall be seized, shall be sold by the proper city or township authorities of the city or township in which said land was located before the division, and the moneys derived from such sale shall be divided between the said city and township in the manner provided in section one of this act; and the city or township in which the said land may be situated after the change of boundary may purchase the said real estate.

SEC. 3. The preceding section of this chapter shall not apply to Cemeteries and any cemetery or burying ground belonging to any city or township, burying grounds. but the same shall belong to the city or township within which it

may be situated after the division shall have been made.

SEC. 4. All debts owing by a city or township from which terri- Apportionment tory has been detached, as provided for in section one of this act, shall of indebtedness. be apportioned in the same manner as the personal property of such city or township, and each city and township shall be charged with and pay its share of the debts according to such apportionment.

be given of

SEC. 5. As soon after the said change of boundary as practica- When change able either any city or township, the boundary of which has been made notice to changed, may give notice to the other cities or townships, the meeting for boundaries of which have been changed by such division, to meet with said city or township giving the notice for a settlement of the

settlement, etc.

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