east, and township thirty-five north, ranges two, three, and four east, shall be organized into a township by the name of Moltke; and the first township meeting thereof shall be held at the house of Stephen Reiger, on the third Monday of April next, and Andrew E. Banks, Stephen Reiger, and Frederick Sorgenfrei shall be the inspectors of the election.

SEC. 6. All the remainder of said county of Presque Isle not em- Township of braced in the township named in the foregoing sections of this act, Rogers organare hereby organized into a township by the name of Rogers; and the first township meeting thereof shall be held at the union school house in the village of Rogers City on the third Monday of April next, and Leonard C. Crawford, Hermon Hoift, and Frederick D. Larke shall be the inspectors of election.

SEC. 7. The county seat of said county shall be and remain at County seat. Rogers City, in said county of Presque Isle, until such time as the same shall be changed in accordance with law.

county officers.

SEC. 8. At the township meeting of the several townships of said First election of county, to be held on the third Monday of April next, there shall be an election of all the county officers to which the said county is entitled, whose term of office shall expire on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and when their successors shall have been elected and qualified. Said election shall be conducted in the same way, by the same officers, and the returns thereof made in the same manner, as near as may be, as the same now required by law in the election of county officers in this State.

SEC. 9. The county canvass of votes cast for county officers Canvass of shall be held on the second Tuesday succeeding the election votes. at the court house in Rogers City aforesaid, and said canvass shall be conducted in the same way and by the same officers, as the requirements of law now provide for organizing counties, as nearly as may be, by the appointment by the board of canvassers of one of their own number to act as secretary for the board of connty canvassers.

SEC. 10. Said county shall be in the eighteenth judicial circuit. Judicial crout. SEC. 11. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved April 9, 1875.

[ No. 81. ]

AN ACT to amend sections one, two, and three of an act entitled "An act to authorize and empower the board of control of State swamp lands to make an appropriation of State swamp lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the straits of Mackinaw to Marquette harbor on Lake Superior," approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and an act amendatory thereof, approved March twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections one, two, and three of an act entitled "An act to author- amended.

Board of control may make swamp lands.

Proviso.

ize and empower the board of control of State swamp lands to make an appropriation of State swamp lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the straits of Mackinaw to Marquette barbor on Lake Superior," being act number thirty-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and the act amendatory thereof, approved March twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be amended as follows, viz:

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That appropriation of to secure the early construction of a railroad from the straits of Mackinaw to Marquette harbor on Lake Superior, and for the purposes of drainage and reclamation, the board of control of State swamp lands are hereby authorized and empowered, if by them deemed expedient, and to the best interest of the State and to the section of country to be penetrated by said railroad, to appropriate not to exceed sixteen sections of State swamp lands per mile to any railroad company that shall construct and complete such railroad in running order on or before December thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven: Provided, however, That if from the financial condition of the country and the present discredit of all railway investments, difficulties shall occur in raising the money for the construction of said railroad, which may delay its inception and progress, the rights of the company to the grant and privileges hereby authorized shall not be forfeited by reason of the noncompletion of the road at the time specified: Provided, The progress of the work be such at said time as to render the completion thereof assured to the satisfaction of the said board of control, within a reasonable time thereafter, not exceeding one additional year, and the same shall be actually completed within that time. Said board of control of State swamp lands in their discretion may award and of twenty mile convey to the company constructing said railroad, the number of sections of road. acres earned, upon the completion of any twenty mile sections of Farther proviso, said railroad: Provided further, That said sections are completed ready for the rolling stock, and the said Board of Control shall deem the same necessary to facilitate the completion of said railroad.

Conveyance

upon completion

Power and authority of board.

Where land to be selected.

SEC. 2. To promote and further the construction of said railroad, and for the better protection of the interests of the State, the board of control as aforesaid shall have full power and authority over said lands, the reservation necessary, and the privileges requisite in the application of such lands to such a purpose: Provided, That such lands shall be selected from the vacant and unreserved State swamp lands in the counties of Mackinaw, Chippewa, Schoolcraft, Time lands may and Marquette: And provided further, That the said board of conbe exempt from trol shall make no contract exempting said lands from taxation for any period longer than the time during which they shall remain unsold by the railroad company which shall become entitled to the privileges of this grant: Provided, No such exemption shall in any against State for event be for a longer term than sixteen years from the time such quantity of land. lands are patented: And provided further, That in no event shall any claim exist against the State for any deficiency in the number

taxation limited.

Proviso-no claim to exist

deficiency in

of acres that may be donated under the provisions of this act, it being the intention to provide for the donation of all the unappropriated State swamp lands in the counties hereinbefore named, not exceeding the sixteen sections to the mile.

amend contracts,

SEC. 3. The said board of control shall have power to modify Power of board or amend any contract already made for the construction of said to modify or railroad, or negotiate any new contract with any new or other etc. company, and to secure the construction of the said railroad, may use the increased power and authority given them by this act; and any contract made within the authority conferred upon them by this act shall be valid and binding upon all the authorities of this State.

SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved April 15, 1875.

[ No. 82. ]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the return and settlement of tax sales of county treasurers," being section one thousand one hundred and thirty-six of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section amended section one thousand one hundred and thirty-six of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one be amended so

as to read as follows:

urer to settle

ly.

(1136.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, County treas That it shall be the duty of the county treasurers of the several with Auditor counties in said State to return to the Auditor General of the General annualState one of the books, and duplicate certificates connected with the sale of lands for taxes in their respective counties, and make a settlement of said sales with said Auditor General annually, on or before the first day of December following said sales; and Penalty for negif any county treasurer shall refuse or willfully neglect to return to the Auditor General of the State the books, and duplicate certificates as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every offense. Approved April 16, 1875.

[ No. 83. ]

AN ACT making appropriations for the State Reform School for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

lect.

penses, etc., for

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Appropriations there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of twenty-five thou- for current sand dollars for each of the years eighteen hundred and seventy- 1873 and 1876. five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six for the current expenses of the State Reform School for each of those years, and the

Further sum

further sum of five hundred dollars for each of said years for the purchase of books and current literature for said school, and the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for the purpose of lighting the buildings of said school with gas, and the further sum of one thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to meet the expenses already incurred for a new boiler.

SEC. 2. The further sum of five thousand dollars is hereby apfor repairs, etc. propriated for the following purposes: Repairs on buildings, two thousand dollars; for furniture, five hundred dollars: for kitchen furniture, two hundred dollars; for oven, three hundred and fifty dollars; for repairs on laundry and engine, five hundred dollars; for new fence, five hundred dollars; for out-houses and wash room, five hundred dollars; for improvements on farm, four hundred and fifty dollars.

SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by sections one and two of this act shall be passed to the credit of the State Reform School, from the funds already in, or from regular sources to come into, the State Treasury, and paid on the order of the Board of Control, according to law.

SEC. 4. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved April 16, 1875.

[ No. 84. ]

AN ACT to amend section three thousand five hundred and ninety-three of chapter one hundred and thirty-six of the compiled laws, relative to meetings of school districts.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact. That section three thousand five hundred and ninety-three, of chapter one hundred and thirty-six, of the compiled laws, being section twelve of the primary school law, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 12. Special meetings may be called by the district board; and it shall be the duty of said board, or any one of them, to call such meetings on the written request of not less than five legal voters of the district, by giving the notice required in the next succeeding section; and any district organized under the law for graded and high schools, and any district organized by a special act of the legislature that shall so determine at a regular annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, shall thereafter hold its annual meeting on the second Monday in July; and the officers of the district shall date their terms of office from that day: Provided, That such action shall not change the time of the commencement of the school-year or the taking of the school census. No business shall be transacted at a special meeting unless the subject is indicated in the notice of said meeting. Approved April 16, 1875.

[No. 85.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter twenty-one of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being an act to provide for a uniform assessment of property, and for the collection and return of taxes thereon.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section amended section twenty of chapter twenty-one, being section nine hundred and eighty-six of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and serenty-one, be amended so as to read as follows:

ments, when to

assessments.

SEC. 20. On the third Monday of May, it shall be the duty Review of assessof the supervisor of each of the several townships, to be present be made by su at his office from eight o'clock in the forenoon until twelve pervisor. noon, and from one o'clock in the afternoon until five o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of reviewing his assessment, and so on the two next following days; and on the request Power to alter of any person, his agent, or attorney, considering himself aggrieved, on sufficient cause being shown, to the satisfaction of the supervisor, he shall alter the assessment in such manner as shall to him appear just and equal; and to this end he may in either case examine, on oath, the person making the application, or any other person present, touching the matter, which oath the supervisor is hereby authorized to administer. And it shall also be supervisor to the duty of such supervisor to be and remain at his office during stoner of highthe time the commissioner of highways shall be employed in assess- ways in assessing highway ing the highway tax or taxes of his township, and render such tax assistance as may be required of him by such commissioner in assessing such highway tax.

SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved April 16, 1875.

[ No. 86. ]

AN ACT to amend sections one thousand four hundred and sixtyone, one thousand four hundred and sixty-two, one thousand four hundred and sixty-five, one thousand four hundred and seventy-six, one thousand four hundred and eighty, one thousand four hundred and ninety-six, and one thousand five hundred of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being sections of the act entitled "An act to regulate the manufacture and provide for the inspection of salt."

assist commis

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Bections sections one thousand four hundred and sixty-one, one thousand four hundred and sixty-two, one thousand four hundred and sixtyfive, one thousand four hundred seventy-six, one thousand four hundred and eighty, one thousand four hundred and ninety-six, and one thousand five hundred of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being sections of an act entitled "An act to regulate the manufacture and provide for the inspection of salt," shall be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: