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[No. 10.]

Libraries to the value of

from execu

AN ACT to authorize the exemption of certain libraries and other articles from execution.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen$100 exempt tatives of the State of Michigan, That in addition to goods and tion. chattels now exempted by law from execution or sale for any debt, damages, fine, or amercement, each person shall be entitled to hold exempt as aforesaid, a library of books, (including maps, prints, philosophical apparatus or cabinet,) not exceeding in value, in the whole, the sum of one hundred dollars, and all family portraits: Provided always, That this act shall not be so construed as to exempt from execution and sale duplicates of the same books, maps and prints, as aforesaid. Approved February 14, 1839.

Regents of

the universi

travelling

and other

expenses.

[No. 11.]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the expenses of the Regents of the University, in certain cases.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaty to be paid tives of the State of Michigan, That the regents of the university of said state shall be paid, out of the interest of the university fund, all travelling and other necessary expenses incurred by their attendance at any meeting of their board, until the university buildings at Ann Arbor shall have been completed; the auditors of said board shall audit and allow said expenses, the same as other claims are audited and allowed, and take the same vouchers of payment as in other cases: Provided, That said pay shall not exceed two dollars for every twenty miles travel to and from the place of holding their meetings, and two dollars for each day actually spent at the sessions of said board.

Sec. 2. This act shall be in force for three years from and after its passage, unless sooner repealed.

Approved February 14, 1839.

[No. 12.]

AN ACT to change the name of John F. Kerchofer. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for John F. Kerchofer to take and assume the name of John F. Kirk, and by that name he shall be hereafter known and designated.

Approved February 21, 1839.

[No. 13.]

AN ACT relative to the records of the court of probate for the county of Cass.

Whereas, it has been represented that the records of the proceedings of the court of probate for the county of Cass, from the organization of the said county until the first day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, were kept upon sheets or files of paper, and are still preserved in that form in the office of said court, and are liable for that cause to be lost or destroyed; therefore,

probate to procure books and

certain re

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Judge of sentatives of the State of Michigan, That it shall be lawful for the judge of probate of the said county, and he is hereby autho- transcribe rized and required to procure at the expense of said county, a cords. suitable book or books, and to transcribe or cause to be transcribed therein, at the expense of said county, all the records of the proceedings of the said court within the periods above mentioned from the files now in the office of said court.

same with

&c.

Sec. 2. The said judge of probate of said county shall carefully Compare the examine the said transcript, and compare the same with the the originals, original files aforesaid, and shall certify to the correctness of said transcript under his hand and seal of office, and attach said certificate to said transcript; and for his services herein he shall receive the same fees as is allowed by law for recording the proceedings of courts of probate.

be given to

Sec. 3. Due credit shall be given to the said transcript in all Due credit to courts of law and equity in this state, as if the said records had transcript. been originally transcribed therein from time to time, according to law.

Approved February 27, 1839.

Common council to

diction

purchased

for hospitals,

&c.

[No. 14.]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Monroe," approved March 22d, 1837.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprehave juver sentatives of the State of Michigan, That the common council all ground shall have power to exercise jurisdiction over all grounds which have been or may hereafter be purchased out of, and within one mile of the limits of said city for cemeteries, hospitals, or workhouses, and to have the same control and the same power to enforce the ordinances and by-laws, and the powers of police over and respecting them, as though they were actually within the limits of said city, as defined by the charter.

No ward to elect more than one alderman.

Sec. 2. That no ward in said city shall elect more than one alderman.

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

Approved March 2, 1839.

[No. 15.]

Sheriff of
Wayne to

AN ACT to authorize the removal of certain convicts to the state prison.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repreconvey cer- sentatives of the State of Michigan, That the sheriff of the county

tain convicts

to state

prison.

Commissioner to receive them,

And pay expense of

transporto

tion.

of Wayne be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to convey to the state prison at Jackson, all the convicts now confined in the jail of said county, under sentence of imprisonment in the state prison.

Sec. 2. That the acting commissioner for building the prison be, and he is hereby required to receive into his custody and safely keep said convicts, and to require them to labor on the public works, and that he provide for their support until further provision be made by law.

Sec. 3. That the acting commissioner pay to the said sheriff a reasonable compensation for the expense of transportation of such convicts; and that the same be audited by the auditor general, and paid to said keeper out of the state treasury on his

warrant.

Sec. 4. That this act shali take effect from the passage thereof.
Approved March 2, 1839.

[No. 16.]

AN ACT to extend the time of payment of the university and school moneys, and for other purposes.

cases, time of

be extended.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- In certain tatatives of the State of Michigan, That in all cases where the payment to interest due on moneys for which university and school lands have been sold, shall be paid by the first day of May next, it shall be lawful for the superintendent of public instruction to accept the same, and extend all further payments to the first day of December next, at which time, on the payment of all interest then due, and enough of the principal to make twenty per cent with what shall have been paid theretofore, the said superintendent may suspend further payments one year from that time, at which time he may receive the interest and five per cent of the principal, making in all twenty-five per cent of the principal to be paid by the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty; and said superintendent at the request of any purchaser or purchasers, is authorized to receive either five or ten per cent of the principal annually after the payment of twenty-five per cent of the principal, or may thereupon postpone further payments of the principal, for a period not exceeding ten years, unless otherwise directed by the legislature: Provided, the extensions or postponements of payments herein authorized can, in his opinion, be granted without prejudice to said funds.

certificates

for land sold

to be given.

Sec. 2. Whenever the superintendent of public instruction has when new sold or shall hereafter sell university and school lands, and has given or shall give a certificate or certificates of sale, it shall be lawful for him to transfer said lands by a new certificate in the following cases: first, to a bona fide purchaser of the first purchaser; secondly, when two or more persons hold a certificate of sale together, and one or more of them fail to pay, the certificate may be transferred to such of said purchasers as will make the required payments.

lands not to

Sec. 3. In cases of forfeiture of contracts for lands, the super- Forfeited intendent shall not sell the same at a price less than the original be sold at less bid, and on the terms now prescribed by law.

Approved March 4, 1839.

than the original bid.

[No. 17.]

AN Act relative to school books and books for school district libraries.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresenSuperintend- tatives of the State of Michigan, That the superintendent of public out and pub instruction is hereby authorized, and it shall be his duty, to make

ent to make

lish catalogue

of schoolbooks, &c.

out and cause to be published on or before the first day of April next, in the Journal of Education and in the state paper, a catalogue of school books, to be recommended by him to be used in the several classes in the primary schools throughout the state, and a list of books recommended as suitable for school district libraries; and it shall be the further duty of the superintendent, in his next annual communication to the legislature, to report what provision, in his opinion, could or ought to be made by law to insure a regular and sufficient supply of such books to every school district, on the most economical terms, or what other pro. vision, if any, should, in his opinion, be made to insure uniformity, as near as may be, in the books to be used in primary schools. Approved March 4, 1839.

[No. 18.]

AN ACT to ascertain the value of a certain school section in the county of Branch.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenof iron ore on tatives of the State of Michigan, That an examination of the iron

Examination

the section,

to be made by state geologist.

Expenses to

minimum

price of land.

ore on section sixteen, in township five south and range seven west; in the county of Branch, shall be made under the direction of the state geologist, in order to ascertain the value of said school section, and the superintendent of public instruction is hereby authorized to pay the expenses of such examination, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, out of the school fund, provided the citizens interested in said examination will pay a like sum, to be expended in making like examinations, on said section, or on lands adjacent thereto.

Sec. 2. The amount of money expended out of the school fund in pursuance of this act, shall be added to the minimum price of said section before any sale shall be made thereof.

Approved March 4, 1839.

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