powers

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empower and authorize such commission or board to construct, Rights and operate, and maintain the necessary works contemplated in this which may act; and said commission or board shall have power and the on the comright to enter upon any land for the purpose of examining and the common ascertaining whether the same is suitable or necessary for such purposes, and cause surveys of the same to be made, without being liable to the owners or claimants thereof for any damages occasioned thereby; and upon said land being condemned, and payment or tender made as provided in section thirteen, the said commission or board may immediately enter upon, take possession of such lands, and commence the erection and construction of such works, lay pipes, and do any other act they may consider necessary, under the power herein conferred, or conferred upon them by such ordinance; and no appeal taken under the provisions of this act shall operate or stay their proceedings, nor shall they during the pendency of such appeal, in any manner, or by any court, be restrained from proceeding with the construction of such works, or from laying pipes: Provided, That the amount awarded to such Proviso. claimant, being the appellant or appellee in such appeal case, be by said commission or board deposited with the treasurer of such city or village, payable to the order of such claimant. Sec. 17. If in the opinion of such commission or board it Commission shall be advisable or necessary to use any public highway for public highthe purpose of laying the pipes connected with such waterworks, or for any other purpose necessary for the construction and maintaining of such water-works, such board or commission may at any time use such highway, or any portion of the same, for such purpose: Provided however, Such use shall not proviso. prevent the free use of such highway by the public.

may use

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Freeholder

not incompetent to act as juror on

Sec. 18. No freeholder of such city, village, or township, in which or through which such water-works may be constructed or pipes laid, shall be deemed incompetent as a juror on account of account of his interest in the event of such proceedings: Provided, Such interest be such only as he has in common Proviso. with the inhabitants of such city, village, or township.

interest.

Penalty for Sec. 19. Any person willfully interfering with or injuring injuring water-works. such water-works or pipes shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not over one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not over sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 20. This act as amended shall apply to all cities and villages in this State.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 30, 1872.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

[ No. 1.]

JOINT RESOLUTION for the use of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal and other canals in Michigan, by the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States.

Whereas, By the provisions of article twenty-seven of the "Treaty between the United States and Great Britain," made May eight, and proclaimed July four, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the United States contracted to urge upon the State governments to secure to the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty the use of the several State canals connected with the navigation of the lakes or rivers traversed by or contiguous to the boundary line between the possessions of the high contracting parties, on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States; therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That for the purpose of carrying out article twenty-seven of said treaty, that the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall have the use of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal, and any other canal connected with the great lakes or contiguous to the boundary line between the possessions of the high contracting parties in said treaty, and within the limits of this State, on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States.

Approved March 23, 1872.

[No. 2.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for the erection of an additional building at the Asylum for the Insane at Kala

mazoo.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the board of trustees of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo be and are hereby authorized to erect a building at said Asylum, as soon as the same can conveniently be done, of sufficient capacity to accommodate twenty-five patients, at an expense not exceeding ten thousand dollars when fully completed and furnished. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of said board of trustees to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for such a sum of money as said board may deem necessary for the purchase of materials for the construction of said building, which warrant, when approved by the president of said board, and countersigned by the Auditor General, shall, on the presentation thereof, be paid by the State Treasurer out of the "Asylum extension fund," appropriated by act No. eighty-seven of the Session Laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act to provide for the erection of an addition to the present Asylum for the Insane at Kalamazoo, and for other purposes," approved April twelve, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. The State Treasurer is also hereby authorized to pay on presentation thereof out of said "Asylum extension fund," upon warrants, drawn, approved, and countersigned as aforesaid, such sum or sums, not exceeding in all the amount aforesaid, as may be necessary to fully complete and furnish said building.

This resolution shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 29, 1872.

[No. 3.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for the publication of the geological reports, maps, charts, and surveys of the State of Michigan.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the State Geological Board be and they are hereby authorized to cause the publication of two or three thousand copies of the geological reports of the Upper and Lower Peninsulas, in one volume, and an equal number of the accompanying maps, charts, and surveys, in a separate volume, at an expense to the State, upon the most reasonable terms they can obtain, not to exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars; and the Board of State Auditors are authorized to audit and allow the accounts for such publication, within the sums aforesaid, as shall be approved and recommended by the State Geological Board.

Approved March 29, 1872.