STATISTICS OF INEBRIATES. COLLECTION OF PENALTIES, ETC. commission 153 That the governor of the State of Michigan may commission a Governor may suitable and competent person, whose duty it shall be, without suitable perexpense to the State, to procure information and statistics rela- son, etc. tive to the scientific treatment and cure of the victims of intemperance.- 851. XIII. PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES.-DUTIES OF IN CASE OF VIOLATION OF OF THE COLLECTION OF PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES. From chapter 128 of Revised Statutes of 1846, or chapter 216 of Compiled Laws of 1871. visors to prosecute. 574. *(6852.) SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of every super- Duty of supervisor, whenever he shall know or have good reason to believe that any penalty or forfeiture has been incurred within his township, which shall be recoverable by action before a justice of the peace, according to the foregoing provisions of this chapter, forthwith to commence and prosecute a suit, in the name of the people of this State, for the recovery thereof.-§ 8439. township 575. (6853.) SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of every other Duty of other township officer, who shall know or have good reason to believe officers. that any penalty or forfeiture has been incurred within his township, forthwith to give notice thereof to the supervisors.§ 8440. sor to give 576. (6854.) SEC. 14. Whenever any supervisor shall know When supervior have good reason to believe that any penalty or forfeiture has notice to prosebeen incurred within his township, which cannot be recovered cuting attorney. before a justice of the peace, it shall be his duty forthwith to give notice thereof to the prosecuting attorney of his county. $8441. Duties of prose 577. (6855.) SEC. 15. In the cases mentioned in the last pre- cuting attorney. ceding section, and in all other cases where the prosecuting attorney shall know or have good reason to believe that a penalty or forfeiture has been incurred within his county, it shall be the duty of such prosecuting attorney, without delay, to prosecute for such penalty or forfeiture; and in all cases where any suit shall be instituted by the supervisor, as provided in this chapter, it shall be the duty of such prosecuting attorney, if requested by such supervisor, to attend to and conduct such suit on behalf of the plaintiffs.-§ 8442. *574. The State can only be recognized by the courts as a suitor in legal proceedings through the agents or representatives appointed by law to speak and act in its name in the matter in hand; and, unless in the given case the proper agent or representative is present, in legal contemplation the State is not present; and this presence of such agent or representative can be made known and attested only by the record.-People vs. Navarre, 22 Mich., 4. |