Annual reports to superintendents of poor. [ No. 107. ] AN ACT to require supervisors, directors and overseers to make poor. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That it shall be the duty of any director or overseer of the poor authorized by law to furnish relief to poor persons, and of the supervisors of each township and ward in this State, annually hereafter, on or before the first day of October, to make ånd transmit to the county superintendent of the poor of the county in which such What to contain. township or ward is situated, a full statement or report of the num Secretary of State to furnish blanks. Penalty for re. fusal to make report. Compilation and publication of election laws of Supreme Court thereon. ber of poor persons who have been relieved by them during the SEC. 2. Any supervisor, director, or overseer of the poor who Approved April 23, 1875. [ No. 108. ] AN ACT to provide for the compilation and distribution of the election laws to certain county, township, and city officers. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Secretary of State and Attorney General are hereby directed, with decisions of previous to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventysix, to compile and procure to be printed in pamphlet form, all the laws of this State now in force relative to elections, together with a brief digest of the decisions and rulings of the supreme court thereon, and that the Secretary of State forward to each of the county clerks in this State a sufficient number of copies to furnish one to each election board of every city, ward, and organized township in this State, and it shall be the duty of each county clerk in the several counties to make the distribution at least one month previous to the next general election. Distribution. Approved April 23, 1875. [ No. 109.] AN ACT to amend section five hundred and forty of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to county clerks. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section amended section five hundred and forty of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to county clerks, shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: (540.) SEC. 63. Each county clerk shall appoint one or more County clerk to deputies, to be approved by the circuit judge, one of whom shall appoint deputies. be designated in the appointment as the successor of such clerk in case of vacancy from any cause, and may revoke such appointment May revoke at his pleasure, which appointment and revocation shall be in appointment. writing, under his hand, and filed in the office of the county treasurer, and the deputy, or deputies, may perform the duties of such clerks. Approved April 23, 1875. [ No. 110. ] AN ACT to repeal section four thousand three hundred and eighty-nine, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the same being "An act to provide for the administration and distribution of estates of intestates." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section repealed. section four thousand three hundred and eighty-nine (4389), chapter one hundred and fifty-six (156) of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one (1871), the same being an act entitled "An act to provide for the administration and distribution of estates of intestates," be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved April 23, 1875. [No. 111.] AN ACT to legalize the record of the Coit and Curtis partition plat of lands in the city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent. Whereas, The record of the original plat of township (7) seven Preamble. north, part of range (11) eleven and (12) twelve west and marked A; and of the original plat of part of sections (19) nineteen and (30) thirty in township (7) seven north, of range (11) eleven west, and marked B, as surveyed by E. C. Martin in January, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for the division of property between Daniel W. Coit and Benjamin Curtis, of the city, county, and State of New York, as the same were recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Kent county, Michigan, was destroyed by the fire which destroyed a Record of original plats declared public. large portion of the records of the county of Kent in said register's office, in January, eighteen hundred and sixty; And whereas, The said original plats were again recorded in liber number two of plats of Kent county, on pages twenty-two and twenty-three, in said register's office, April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy; And whereas, The record of said plats so made is the only record of the same now in existence; And whereas, The premises and all portions thereof contained in said plat are necessarily described in all conveyances and papers pertaining thereto, by the descriptions thereof laid down in said record, and according to the same; therefore be it enacted as follows: SECTION 1. The Feople of the State of Michigan enact, That said record of said original plats, known as "Coit and Curtis partition plat," as the same appears on said pages twenty-two and twenty-three of liber two of plats of said Kent county in said register's office, is hereby declared to be and established as a public record, and in all the courts in this State, and in all suits and proceedings therein, and before all officers of this State having jurisdiction in such suits and proceedings, and shall be and are prima facie evidence of the matters thereof, and of all things therein stated, and shall have the same virtue and effect as, by present provisions of law, the records of the office of register of deeds do possess. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Section amended Notice for meeting to let contracts for construction of drain. [ No. 112. ] AN ACT to amend act number forty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being an act entitled "An act to provide for the draining of swamps, marshes, and other low lands," approved March twenty-two, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the same being section one thousand seven hundred and fiftythree of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section nine of act number forty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being an act entitled "An act to provide for the draining of swamps, marshes, and other low lands," approved March twenty-two, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the same being section one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be amended so as to read as follows: (1753.) SEC. 9. Said commissioner shall give at least fifteen days' public notice in some newspaper published and circulating near such drain or drains of the time or times when, and the place or places where he will meet parties to contract for the excavation and construction of such drain or drains; such place or vey, apportion reasons for correcting appor dent owners or rection. pend con places to be convenient of access by the people resident near, and interested in the proposed drain or drains; and at least three such notices shall also be posted in the most public places of travel and resort in each township, and as near as may be along the line of such proposed drain, at least ten days next preceding such meeting. Said commissioner shall also name in, or in connection with Notice of day and place for such published and posted notices, a convenient place near such exhibiting surdrain or drains, and at a time not less than three days nor more ment, etc. than five days prior to the day fixed in said notices, for letting the construction of such drain or drains; at which time and place he will exhibit surveys of the proposed drain or drains, and descriptions of the several parcels of land by him deemed to be benefited thereby; and the amount and description, by divisions and subdivisions, of the proposed drain or drains by him apportioned to the Hearing of owner of each description of land to construct, and to each town- reviewing and ship to construct, on account of drains benefiting highways, if [any] tionment. such benefit there be, and hear reasons, if any are offered, why such Notice to resiapportionments should be reviewed and corrected. And said com- occupants of missioner shall also give at least six days' notice in writing, to each lands assessed, of meeting for and every resident owner or occupant of any of the lands assessed review and corfor the incidental expenses, damages, and expense of construction of drains, as mentioned in section eight of this act of such meeting for review and correction of apportionment. And if at this Protest of twotime two-thirds of the persons whose lands are to be taxed for such thirds shall susdrain or drains enter a protest against said drain, and pay the struction. costs and expenses up to this time, all proceedings for the construction of said drain or drains shall be suspended for one year. Between such day of hearing and review and the appointed day of Apportionment letting, the commissioner shall, if need be, revise his apportionment of such drain or drains. At the time and place for letting Land owner may named in said notices, the owner of each such parcel of land, or making his porhis or her agent or attorney, may appear and make and execute to tion of the ditch. said commissioner a contract or contracts, with good and sufficient surety for the faithful performance of the excavation and construction within the time limited by said commissioner, in such contract or contracts, of so much of such drain or drains as said commissioner has adjudged or set off to such land. When any part of When contract such drain or drains is offered to be let, and the owner of the land let to the lowest to which it is assigned, or his or her agent or attorney, shall not at once, and without unnecessary delay, enter into contract as aforesaid, to excavate and construct the same, as provided in this section, it shall be the duty of said commissioner to let the same to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders therefor, who shall execute and file a contract or contracts, with good and sufficient surety as aforesaid, with said commissioner, for the faithful performance of the excavation and construction of the same, according to said contract or contracts; and the cost of such excavation where expense and construction and its portion of the incidental expenses and of drain shall be damages shall be levied and assessed upon the land to which such part or parts of said drain or drains have been assigned as aforesaid. If at the time of the letting of said drain or drains, accord revised. contract for bidder. levied. Letting of contracts may be postponed. Commissioner of highways may at meeting for hearing and letting. lands reported ing to said notice, no suitable land owners or bidders for the construction of the same or any part thereof, appear to take or bid and contract, with good and sufficient surety, for the construction and completion of the whole of the same, or for any other cause by said drain commissioner deemed important and sufficient, he may postpone and adjourn such letting, in whole or in part, and from time to time, to such other time or times, to be by him at the time of such adjournment publicly announced, as shall to him seem meet and proper, but not in all more than sixty days from and after the time of the letting at first advertised and noticed as aforesaid. At the hearing and the letting provided for in this secact for township tion, the commissioner of highways of any township named in said notice, and to which has been assigned any construction of drain or tax for incidental expenses or damages on account of benefit by such drain or drains to highways, may appear and act in Taxes on State behalf of such township. Any taxes so assessed on State lands shall be at once reported by said commissioner to the Commissioner of the State Land Office, who shall enter on the books of his office, against each description of such State land, the amount of drain taxes assessed thereon, and no patent shall issue for such lands until said drain taxes are paid or otherwise provided for. Any person resident in said county failing or neglecting to file in writing, waived right of with said commissioner, on or before such appointed day of hearing and review, his claim for damages, or objections to such assessments, shall be held to have waived his claim for damages and his right to appeal: Provided, That in case, from sickness or other good and sufficient cause, the commissioner is not able to be present in person on the day of exhibiting surveys and apportionment, and reviewing and correcting the same, or on the day of letting the contracts, it shall be competent for him to cause an adjournment of the same through his duly authorized agent or attorney. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved April 23, 1875. to Commissioner of State Laud Office. When persons held to have appeal, etc. Proviso-in case of sickness, etc., commissioner may postpone the letting of contracts, etc. Appropriation. How drawn. [No. 113.] AN ACT to provide for paying the outstanding interest-bearing warrants of the University of Michigan. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be and is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury of the State of Michigan not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying the outstanding interest-bearing warrants on the treasury of the University of Michigan. Said money shall be drawn from the treasury on the presentation of said warrants accompanied by the proper voucher of the treasurer of the board of regents of the University of Michigan to the Auditor General, and on his warrant to the State Treasurer. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. |