た [No. 43.] AN ACT to provide for the ceding to the United States of SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Territory the State of Michigan hereby cedes to the United States exclu- ceded. sive jurisdiction over the site and grounds selected, or to be hereafter selected, for the erection of a public building for the Purpose. uses of a United States postoffice, custom house, court, inter nal revenue office, and other public offices of the United States in the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, during the time the United Time. States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of the State of Exception. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 44.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred and SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That incorporate. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That May Purpose, etc. Members. pose of mutual insurance of property against loss or damage by fire or lightning, which property, primarily to be insured, shall consist of flouring, grist, or feed mills, with the accompanying machinery and stock, or secondarily may include elevators, warehouses, stores, storehouses, or outbuildings and their contents, or manufactories of flour, meal, feed, or other products of the country, and the machinery necessary to run the same, and the stock connected with the manufacture or conduct of such business; and all holders of policies of such incorporated companies, whether residing within or without this State, are there by members of the Form of policy. company issuing such policy, which policy need not be in the form of words prescribed under the act to establish a uniform policy of insurance; but no company organized under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to the benefit of these amendments until articles of association and by-laws in accordance therewith have been adopted by a regular or special meeting of such company, due notice of which shall have been mailed to the members at least fifteen days before the date of such meeting. Exceptions. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Received in the Executive Office March 26, 1889.* Jurisdiction. Board of Escheats to convey, etc. [No. 45.] AN ACT for the relief of Cornelius Dwyer and providing that the property of his wife shall not be subject to the law of escheats. WHEREAS, Sarah Dwyer died on the eleventh day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at Sears, Osceola county, Michigan, intestate, owning real property in Osceola and in Lake counties, and then being a resident of said county of Osceola, and leaving a husband, Cornelius Dwyer, now living, and leaving at her death no father, mother, brother nor sister, nor issue, nor other lineal descendant, nor of brothers or sisters; therefore SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the probate court of Osceola county shall have and entertain jurisdiction of a petition by Cornelius Dwyer of Sears, Michigan, to be declared the legal heir of Sarah Dwyer, late of said Sears, now deceased. SEC. 2. If, on the hearing of such petition, said probate court shall find to be true the facts set forth in the preamble of this act, the State hereby releases all its claim, by way of escheat, to the real estate left by said Sarah Dwyer, and the Auditor General, State Treasurer and Secretary of State, known as the Board of Escheats, are hereby authorized and required to convey to Cornelius Dwyer all of the interest which the State of Michigan has heretofore or may hereafter acquire in and to the real estate left Probate court by Sarah Dwyer, and the probate court is authorized to make a *Became a law under section 14, article IV. of the constitution, without the approval of the Governor. may decree, etc. decree declaring said Cornelius Dwyer to be the heir of said govern. SEC. 3. All the proceedings under this law shall be under the Statutes to This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 46.] AN ACT giving the assent of the Legislature of the State of and money SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Assent given the legislative assent required by section nine, of act of Congress accepted. approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, being an act entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several states, under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and acts supplementary thereto," is hereby given, and the moneys thereby given are accepted under the conditions and terms in said act named. SEC. 2. That the moneys derived by authority of said act shall How used. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 47.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the purchase of books for appropriation. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Amount of the sum of three thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and the sum of three thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury of the State to the credit of the general fund not otherwise appropriated for the purchase of books for the State library. AN ACT making an sportomason fre the support and expenses of & State Wacier ServiE. Szomocy 1. The Bogie if the Sf Wà per mod, That shere shall be an i berecy, a appromet 101 of the State treasury, for the Laribora of weather obnouts and cold wave warnsad the Light of wester synas tree thousand dollars; fie the estudianment and simport if mar 20servers' stations, one thousand art: hindred and say illas: for stationery, recorda, books and internal expenses, eitt hundred and ninety dollars: for salary of the buretik, era: anndred dollars: for salATT TÍ COM MENGANT to the director, was shall be appointed by the State Board of Agriculture, zoe tornand eight hindred dollars; MEETHENILE The sum of eg the sand three hundred soi fifty Sillars, of which the me-half shall be paid in the year coe thousand engas handmed and eiptoven be and the sober half in the year one ansamad eget kapined soi nizery, when sii nccers sprropriated by this aco, 17 so math thereid as shall be necessary, shall be expended, under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture, for the purpose sfrrest, by the Lovetor of the Mith gan State Teather Service, detailed for the purpose from the signal corps of the Taited States army, and shall be inawa form the treasury on presentation of the proper tertines of the sail board to the Auditor Geners, soi en his warments to the State Treasurer. A property parthased or agmured ander the provisions of this aca, or received for the purpose of arging the same into efect, file and ran the property of the State of Mich gan, and be ander the direction and sentrol of the State Board of Agrinimore, and the instrumenta sztás and recent books so partioased or required or received shall be rated only in secordsame with much rules and regulatins as said State Board of Agrimiture may prescribe. Sz. 2. Asany of the cbservations of the director of the Michigan State Weather Service, berein named, shall be farcished monthly to the Secretary of State for publication and distribu assessed, etc. SEC. 3. There shall be assessed upon the taxable property of Tax for, when the State in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine the sum of four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, and in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety, four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be assessed and levied in like manner as other taxes are assessed, levied and paid, which tax, when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reimburse to the same the sums to be drawn therefrom, as provided for in this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 49.] AN ACT to provide for the re-compilation and copying of the records in the office of the Adjutant General pertaining to the enlistment, muster and final disposition of the volunteer soldiers from this State during the war of the rebellion, and to make an appropriation therefor. of records, etc. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Re-compilation the Adjutant General is hereby authorized and directed to provide suitable books and to re-compile and copy from papers now on file in his office, or from such other official papers as he may obtain, the military history of each and every soldier who enlisted from and was credited to this State during the war of the rebellion. Such history shall show, as far as may be possible, the name, age, date of enlistment and final disposition of each such soldier. SEC. 2. The sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropri- Appropriation. ated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any moneys in the State treasury, to the credit of the general fund not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes mentioned in this act. Auditor General shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer upon the certificate of the Adjutant General, not to exceed the sum of four thousand dollars, as the same may be required to carry out the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in Tax. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |