Salary and expenses of inspector of salt. Salaries of deputies. How paid. Provise. Two mills paid for each bushel inspected. Proviso. Proviso. Neglect or refusal to pay. (1461.) SEC. 4. The inspector shall be entitled to receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars. He shall also be allowed the further sum of five hundred dollars annually for the expense of providing and furnishing his office, and for clerk hire, stationery, books, printing and traveling expenses. His deputies shall be entitled to such sums as he may approve, not exceeding in any case the sum of one hundred dollars per month for the time actually employed. All salaries and expenses provided for by this act shall be retained by the inspector out of the money received under section five of this act, and accounted for and paid out by him as provided in this act; salaries to be paid monthly: Provided, That in case the amount of money received for the inspection of salt, according to the provisions of section five, shall not be sufficient to pay the salaries and expenses of the inspector and his deputies, as provided herein, that the amount of such deficiency shall be deducted from said salaries pro rata to each. (1462.) SEC. 5. Each person, firm, company, and corporation engaged in the manufacture of salt, or for whom any salt shall be inspected, shall from time to time, as salt is inspected, or offered for inspection, pay on demand to the inspector, or the deputy of the district where the salt is inspected, two mills for each bushel of salt inspected or offered for inspection: Provided, That the same may be required to be paid in advance: And provided further, That but one inspection fee shall be paid upon the same salt. In case any person, firm, company or corporation shall neglect or refuse to pay such inspection fees, on demand, at his, their or its office or manufactory, the party so refusing shall be liable to an action therefor, in the name of the inspector; and the certificate of inspection, with proof of the signature of the inspector or deputy giving the same, shall be prima facie proof of the liability, and the extent of liability of the party so in default; and it shall be lawful for the inspector and his deputies to refuse to inspect salt manufactured at the works so in default, until the amount due is paid; all money received by or paid to any deputy inspector under this section shall be forthwith paid to the inspector. The inspector shall keep just and true accounts of all money received under this section, and an account of the amounts received from or paid by each person, firm, company and corporation engaged in the manufacture of salt, and all other things appertaining to the duties of the office, and the said books and accounts shall always duropen for inspec- ing office hours be subject to the inspection and examination of any person who may wish to examine them, shall be deemed the books of the office, and shall be handed over to his successor in office, together with all the money and effects appertaining to the office. Moneys received to be paid to in Inspector shall spector. keep accounts. Books and accounts shall be tion, etc. Location of office. (1465.) SEC. 8. The inspector shall keep his principal office in either Saginaw or Bay county, and the deputy for the district in which such office is located may occupy the same office. This office shall be open at all times during business hours. All the Reports of dep- books, records and accounts shall be kept at this office, and each deputy shall, at least once in each month make a written report, by Office hours. uties. mail or otherwise, to the inspector, of the salt inspected by him during the month, stating for whom, and the quantity and quality thereof. Abstracts of these reports shall be entered in books pro- Record of same. vided for that purpose. Said inspector shall, in proper books, keep a full record and account of all his transactions; and such books shall also be open for the examination of all persons wishing to examine the same during office hours. inspection. (1476.) SEC. 19. Each inspector or deputy shall deliver to the Certificate of party for whom he shall inspect salt, a certificate of the quantity and quality inspected, and shall thereupon direct the employes of the manufacturer to brand and mark, under his personal super- Brand. vision, with durable paint, the package containing the salt so inspected, with the surname of the inspector at length, and the initials of his christian name, with the addition of the word “Inspector," in letters at least one inch in length, and shall also cause to be marked or branded by the employes of the manufacturer upon the head of the barrel, cask, or package, the weight pre- Weights to conscribed for such barrel, cask, or package by the inspector, when prescribed by such weights are in conformity to the rules and regulations pre- inspector. scribed by the inspector in that regard; and if such weights do not correspond to the rules and regulations, he shall cause the same to be repacked so as to conform thereto. form to rules of salt. (1480.) SEC. 23. The inspector and his deputies, in their daily Inspecter shall examination of the several salt manufactories, shall examine all examine all bins bins of salt for the purpose of ascertaining whether any salt is packed contrary to the provisions of the foregoing section. case of vacancy. (1496.) SEC. 39. In case of any vacancy from any cause, in the Who to act in office of the inspector, the deputy who has been longest continuously in office shall possess the powers and perform the duties of inspector until such vacancy shall be filled; and the bond of the inspector and his sureties shall continue to be liable for the acts of all the deputies until such vacancy shall be filled. (1500.) SEC. 43. In case the inspector shall, at the time of mak- How inspector ing any annual report, have a surplus of money arising from the to dispose of surplus money. inspection fees in this act provided for, in his hands, he shall apportion back and pay such surplus to the persons, firms or corporations for whom salt has been inspected during the last preceding year in proportion to the amounts paid by them respectively for inspection fees: Provided, That in no case shall the State be Proviso, SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved April 16, 1875. Section amended. Appointment of elerk to act as court. [ No. 87.] AN ACT to amend section nineteen of an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization of the supreme court, pursuant to section two of article six of the constitution," approved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, being section four thousand nine hundred and one of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section nineteen of an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization of the supreme court, pursuant to section two of article six of the constitution," approved February sixteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, being section four thousand nine 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: (4901.) SEC. 19. The clerk of the county of Ingham may, in addeputy county dition to the general deputy which he may now appoint by law, clerk of supreme appoint a deputy who shall act as clerk of the supreme court. And such appointee shall be authorized to perform all the duties as Compensation. clerk of the said court. And he shall receive, in addition to the compensation now allowed by law, annually the sum of three hundred dollars, which sum shall be paid quarterly, out of any moneys in the treasury belonging to the general fund not otherwise appropriated. Approved April 16, 1875. [ No. 88. ] Authority to lay out and make deed of land as private burial ground. Buch land a purposes. AN ACT to exempt private burial grounds and places of interment for the dead from taxation and levy on execution or attachment. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That it shall be lawful for any person or persons in this State to lay out and survey any tract of land, not included within the corporate limits of any city or village, which may be owned by such person or persons, as a private burial ground for the use of their families or descendants for purposes of interment of members of such families and descendants, and for no other purpose, not exceeding in quantity one acre of land, and may make a deed of the same to some person or persons to be named therein as trustees, with such provisions for continuing such trusteeship as they shall deem necessary, which said deed shall be acknowledged by such persons making the same, in the same manner as other deeds of land, and shall be recorded in the county where such land shall lie. SEC. 2. Such land so laid out and described in said deed, when Euchreven for recorded in the register's office of the county where such land lies, shall operate as a grant forever of the land described in such deed to said trustees and their successors forever, for the purposes described in said deed; and no sale, judgment, or decree shall be made which shall have the effect to divert the same from the objects of Effect of such grant. said grant, set forth in such deed; and the same shall not be taxed Approved April 16, 1875. [ No. 89. ] AN ACT to amend sections six, fifteen, and twenty-three of an act entitled" An act to authorize the formation of corporations for mining, smelting, or manufacturing iron, copper, mineral coal, silver, or other ores or minerals, and for other manufacturing purposes," approved February five, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, being sections two thousand eight hundred and forty-one, two thousand eight hundred and fifty, and two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections sections six, fifteen, and twenty-three of an act entitled "An act to amended. authorize the formation of corporations for mining, smelting, or manufacturing iron, copper, mineral coal, silver, or other ores or minerals, and for other manufacturing purposes," approved February five, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, being sections two thousand eight hundred and forty-one, two thousand eight hundred and fifty, and two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: (2841.) SEC. 6. The amount of the capital stock in every such Capital stock. corporation shall be fixed and limited by the stockholders in their articles of association, subject to the following limitations and re quirements: First, The capital stock shall not be less than ten thousand dol- Minimum. lars in any case; Second, The capital stock of any one corporation engaged in Maximum. mining or manufacturing iron, steel, silver, lumber, or copper, shall not exceed two million five hundred thousand dollars; Third, The capital stock of any other corporation organized or Idem. existing under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars; Fourth, The capital stock of each corporation shall be divided Shares. into shares of twenty-five dollars each; Fifth, Subject to the foregoing limitations the capital stock and How tncreased. number of shares may be increased at any meeting called for that purpose, by a vote of two-thirds in interest of the entire capital Corporation may Limit. stock of the corporation, and at such meeting the stockholders shall have power to make all necessary provisions for calling in and cancelling the old, and issuing new certificates of stock. (2850.) SEC. 15. Any corporation organized or existing under hold real estate. the provisions of this act, shall have power to acquire and hold real estate in fee, by lease, or otherwise, to the following extent for the purpose of carrying on its business, to wit: Any corporation organized or existing under this act shall be allowed to hold three thousand acres of land; any corporation engaged in lumbering or in mining, smelting or manufacturing iron, steel, copper, or the ores thereof, shall be allowed to so acquire and hold fifty thousand acres of land; no corporation shall hold more lands than is permitted by this section, unless authorized by some other act of the legislature, and all conveyances of land heretofore made by or to any corporation organized or existing under this act, are hereby confirmed and declared as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if made under the present provisions of this section. When any corporation has heretofore disposed of its property, by sale or lease, in the usual manner in which corporations perform such acts, and has done the same in good faith and for a fair and valuable consideration, then such sale or lease is hereby declared legal and valid, although not done in the manner provided in section two thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Sales of property heretofore made, valid. (2858) SEC. 23. If the directors of any such corporation willfully neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions, and to perform the duties required of them by sections three, five, eighteen, and nineteen of this act, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars each, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year; and such directors shall also be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars per day for each day after the first of August, in each year, that they willfully neglect or refuse to make the reports required by law. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 90. ] What districts may elect board of trustees. AN ACT to provide for the election of trustees of graded school districts by ballot, in the Upper Peninsula. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any school district in the Upper Peninsula, containing more than one hundred children between the age of five and twenty years, may elect a district board consisting of six trustees: Provided, The district shall so determine at an annual meeting, by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters attending such meeting: Provided Farther proviso. also, That the intention to take such vote shall be expressed in the notice of such annual meeting. When such change in the district Proviso. |
