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Such real and limited.

sors, estates real and personal, of suing and being sued, and they and their successors may have a common seal, which may be changed and altered at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of fifty personal estate thousand dollars, and that they, and their successors, shall have authority and power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise, and dispose of said real estate, or part thereof, at their will and pleasure, and the proceeds, rents, and incomes shall be devoted exclusively to the charitable and benevolent purposes of the Independent Order of Philanthropists, of the State of Michigan. Said corporation shall have full power and authority to make and establish rules, regulations, and by-laws for regulating and governing all the affairs and business of said corporation, according to the laws of this State and 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 customs of their order.

Rules, regulations, etc.

Copy of articles as evidence of incorporation.

Chartering of subordinate lodges,

SEC. 4. A copy of the record of said articles of association, under the seal of the State, duly certified according to law, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation.

SEC. 5. Such corporation, when duly formed, shall have power to institute and charter subordinate lodges within this State, and from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, and establish such constitution, general laws and by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as it shall judge proper for the regulation and government of such subordinate lodges, not repugnant to the laws of this State. SEC. 6. All corporations formed under this act shall be subject this act subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and thirty of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy one, so far as the same may be applicable to corporations formed under this act; and the legislature may alter and amend this act at any time. Approved March 10, 1875.

Corporations

formed under

to Chap. 130, C.

L.

Railroad com

panies required

[ No. 27. ]

AN ACT to authorize railroad companies to cut decayed or dangerous trees standing within a certain distance of either side of their track.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That to cut dangerous any railroad company owning, controlling, or operating any line or lines of railroad in this State, be and is hereby authorized and required to cut any tree or trees that are dangerous and liable to fall or blow over and obstruct such track.

trees.

Approved March 10, 1875.

[ No. 28. ]

AN ACT to amend section forty-eight of chapter eighteen of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being consecutive section eight hundred and seventy-five, relative to the militia.

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section forty-eight of chapter eighteen of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being consecutive section eight hundred and seventy-five, be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

troops for serv

provision for

(875.) SEC. 48. All officers, non-commissioned officers, and pri- Compensation of vates, shall receive for their services for each day actually spent by ices in quieting them on duty, in case of riot, tumult, breach of the peace, resist- rits, etc., and ance of process, or whenever called upon in aid of the civil author- payment of same ities, and for the time necessarily spent by them in traveling from their homes to the place of rendezvous, and in returning to their homes, the following compensation, together with necessary rations and forage, to wit: To each private one dollar per day; to each non-commissioned officer and musician one dollar and twenty-five cents per day; to all commissioned officers of the line, and to the field, staff, and other commissioned officers, the pay proper of officers of the army of the same rank in the service of the United States, together with all necessary rations and forage; and for each horse of all mounted officers and men one dollar per day. Such compensation, and such rations and forage, and the cost of all ammunition used, or purchased for use by any officer [in command] of any State troops so called out, and the cost of all necessary transportation of such troops from their place of rendezvous to the place or places where they are ordered and sent under such call, and in returning to their homes, shall be audited and allowed by the Auditor General, upon the certificate of the commanding officer of such troops, approved by the Quartermaster General. The Auditor General shall, upon auditing and allowing such accounts, draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer therefor, who is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. And any such sums are hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated; and the Auditor General shall charge all such moneys as drawn to the county where such service is rendered, to be collected and returned to the general fund, in the same manner as any State taxes are required to be by law. Approved March 12, 1875. 4

Section amended

Distinct farme,

lots, etc., when one parcel, to

not occupied as

sold separately.

[ No. 29. ]

AN ACT to amend section six thousand nine hundred and eighteen, being section seven of chapter two hundred and eighteen of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section six thousand nine hundred and eighteen, being section seven of chapter two hundred and eighteen of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement, be and it is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 7. If the mortgaged premises consist of distinct farms, tracts, or lots not occupied as one parcel, they shall be sold separbe ately, and no more farms, tracts, or lots shall be sold than shall be necessary to satisfy the amount due on such mortgage at the date of the notice of sale, with interest and the costs and expenses allowed by law; but if distinct lots be occupied as one parcel, they may in such case be sold together.

Election of trustees and designs

name.

Approved March 12, 1875.

[ No. 30. ]

AN ACT to provide for the exercise by religious societies of corporate powers for certain purposes.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That tion of corporate when there is organized within this State any diocese, synod, conference, district, or other organization, being an association of congregations or societies of a religious denomination, which shall desire to possess corporate powers in order to effectuate the purposes of such organization, such diocese, synod, conference, or board of district stewards, at a meeting thereof, held and conducted according to the rules and regulations of such organization or association, there being present at such meeting a majority of the members constituting such organization, may elect trustees in number not more than nine nor less than three, and also designate the corporate name by which such trustees and their successors in office shall be known.

Certificate of election.

edged and re

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the officer presiding over such election to give to such trustees a certificate of their election under his hand and seal, specifying the name by which such trustees and their successors shall thereafter be known. Such certificate shall To be acknowl- be acknowledged by the person making the same before some officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, which certificate and the acknowledgment thereof shall be recorded by the county clerk of the county in which such meeting was held, in a book provided for such or similar purposes; such clerk shall be entitled to receive ten cents for each folio for recording the same; and thereafter such trustees and their successors shall be a body corporate by the name expressed in such certificate; they and their

corded by county clerk.

successors shall hold their office for the term of one year, or until Term of office. the organization or association first making such election elect others to succeed them.

poration relative

of real and per

SEC. 3. Such trustees may have a common seal, and may alter Powers of corthe same at pleasure, and by their corporate name may take into to the enjoyment their possession, hold, and enjoy all the property, real or personal, sonal property, purchased for, devised, granted, or conveyed to them for the use etc. and benefit of such religious organization; they may also in such corporate name sue and be sued in all courts, recover and hold all debts, demands, rights, and privileges, and when such organization shall so order by vote, at a meeting thereof, a majority of all the members composing such organization being present and voting therefor, such trustees may sell and convey, mortgage, or lease any real estate belonging to such organization or held by them as such trustees: Provided, Such trustees shall, before sell- Proviso relative ing any part thereof, apply to the circuit court of the county in estate and the which such organization is situated, and if said court shall deem application of the it proper to make an order for the sale of any real estate belong- therefrom. ing to such organization, it may also direct the application of any money arising therefrom to such uses as the same organization, with the consent and approbation of such circuit court, shall conceive to be most for the interest of the corporation to which the real estate so sold did belong. Approved March 12, 1875.

[ No. 31. ]

AN ACT for the relief and regulation of the educational, charitable, reformatory, and penal institutions of the State.

to the sale of real

moneys arising

drawn from State Treasury

months for cur

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Funds may be the trustees of the Michigan Institution for Educating the Deaf and the Dumb, and the Blind, the board of control of the Reform during certain School, the board of control of the State Public School, are hereby rent expenses. severally authorized to draw from the general fund of the State Treasury, in the months of January, February, and March, in the years in which the regular sessions of the Legislature are held, such amount of money as shall be made to appear to the Auditor General to be necessary to meet the current expenses of the institution for which the money is asked during said months, which amount drawn

shall not exceed one-fourth the amount appropriated for current Amount limited. expenses for such institution for the year preceding said regular sessions of the legislature.

considered an

SEC. 2. That all amounts so drawn shall be considered as an Funds so drawn advance to the institution drawing the money on any appropriation advance. made by the legislature at its regular session for the year in which the appropriation is made, and shall be deducted therefrom.

ed in annual

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said boards, and the boards of all certain informaother educational, charitable, reformatory, and penal institutions ton to be includof the State, at the time of making their annual reports, to report reports. in detail the number and names of the various professors, superin

Otsego county organized.

Election of county officers.

Canvass of votos.

Location of county seat determined by

tendents, officials, and all other employes, and the wages or salary
paid to each, and what, if any, other emoluments are allowed, and
to whom.

SEC. 4. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 12, 1875.

[No. 32. ]

AN ACT to organize the county of Otsego.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Otsego, consisting of the territory embraced by the present county of Otsego, being townships twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one north, of ranges one, two, three, and four west, and township thirty-two north, of ranges one, two, and three west, be and the same is hereby organized into a separate county by the name of Otsego, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the privileges, powers, and immunities to which, by law, the inhabitants of other organized counties in this State are entitled. SEC. 2. At the township meeting of the several townships in said county, to be held on the first Monday of April next, there shall be an election of all the county officers to which, by law, the said county is entitled, who shall hold their several offices until the first day of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ɛeventy-seven, and until 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 is now required by law in the election of county officers in this State.

SEC. 3. The county canvass of the votes cast for county officers shall be held on the second Tuesday succeeding the election, at the village of Otsego Lake, in the county aforesaid; and said canvass shall be conducted in the same way, and by the same officers as the requirements of law now provide in organized counties, as nearly as may be, by the appointment by the board of canvassers of one of their own number to act as secretary to said board of county

canvassers.

SEC. 4. The location of the county seat of said county shall be determined by the vote of the electors of said county at a special vote of electors. election, which is hereby appointed to be held by the several townships of said county, on the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and seventy six. There shall be written or printed on the ballots there polled, by the qualified electors of said county, the name of one place, and the place which shall receive the highest number of votes cast at such election shall be the county seat of the county of Otsego.

Duty of inspect

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the several boards of township ors of election. inspectors in each of the townships of the said county to conduct the elections authorized by the provisions of this act, and to make returns thereof in accordance with the general provisions of law for conducting general elections in this State, so far as the same may be applicable thereto.

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