No. LIST OF ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1879. TITLE. PAGE. 1. An act to provide for the appointment of an assistant prosecuting attorney for the county of Kent, approved January 16.. 2. An act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act to authorize and empower the board of control of state swamp lands to aid in the construction of a railroad from the straits of Mackinaw to Marquette harbor, on lake Superior," approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and also by an act approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, and also by an act approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, approved February 15. 3. An act to amend section twenty-two of act number one hundred and thirteen of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, relative to providing for the incorporation of companies for mining, smelting, and manufacturing iron, copper, silver, mineral coal, and other ores or minerals, and to fix the duties and liabilities of such corporations, approved February 21... 4. An act to repeal added section eighty of act number two hundred of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and to authorize the warden of the state prison to receive moneys due and to become due upon contracts made while said section was in force, approved February 21..... 5. An act making an appropriation for the state reform school, to cover a deficiency in the current expenses for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, approved February 27.... 6. An act to amend act number thirty-three, session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to prohibit the use of naphtha, or any product of coal oil or petroleum, for lighting passenger cars," approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved March 11... 7. An act making appropriations for the current expenses of the state normal school, approved March 11..... 8. An act to amend section sixty-four of chapter one hundred and eightynine, being compiler's section six thousand and thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to trial of issues of fact, approved March 13. 1 1 3 3 3 4 4 5 9. An act making an appropriation for the purchase of books for the state library, approved March 15...... 10. An act to amend section number thirty-six, of chapter twenty-one, 11. An act to authorize the surveying and establishing of section corners PAGE. 14. An act to amend sections eighteen and thirty-three of act number two hundred and thirteen of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, relative to the compensation of inspectors, and salaries of officers and keepers of the state prison, approved March 24..... 10 15. An act to reorganize the first, fourth, seventh, and sixteenth judicial circuits, and to create the twenty-second and twenty-fourth judicial circuits, approved March 25. 16. An act to legalize the election of the officers of certain school districts, approved March 26..... 17. An act to amend and reënact section three of an act entitled "An act to organize the county of Roscommon," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved March 26...... 18. An act to amend consecutive section one thousand and forty-four of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended by act number one hundred and thirty-five of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and to amend consecutive sections one thousand and fifty-seven, one thousand and fifty-eight, one thousand and ninety-one, one thousand and ninety-three, one thousand and ninety-five, one thousand one hundred and fifteen, and one thousand one hundred and twenty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the execution of deeds by the auditor general, approved March 27................ 19. An act to amend sections one, two, and four of an act entitled "An act to provide for laying out and establishing a state road in the counties of Ontonagon and Houghton," approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, approved March 29. 20. An act to fix the per diem of members of the state legislature from the Upper Peninsula for and during the session of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, approved April 1... 21. An act to amend section two of an act approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to authorize the sale of the Central railroad and to incorporate the Michigan Central Railroad Company," " approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, approved April 1.. 11 12 13 13 16 17 17 No. TITLE. PAGE. 22. An act to appropriate twenty-five thousand dollars to reimburse the military fund, for expenses incurred in calling out the state troops during the railroad strike, in the year eighteen hundred and seventyseven, approved April 1.. 23. An act to confer certain powers upon manufacturing companies, approved April 1. 18 18 21 24. An act to amend sections one and two of an act entitled "An act to ascertain the annual cereal products of the state of Michigan," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, being sections eight hundred and four and eight hundred and five of chapter fifteen, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and to add three new sections thereto, approved April 2.. 19 25. An act to establish the Benton Harbor Ship Canal as a common highway and public navigable waters, received in the Executive office April 3.... 26. An act to amend section two of chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's section four thousand four hundred and two, relative to the appraisal of the estates of deceased persons, approved April 3.. 21 27. An act to amend section twenty-five of chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventyone, being compiler's section four thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour, relative to the appraisal of the estates of wards, approved April 3.... 28. An act to amend section twenty-two of act number fifty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, relative to the adoption of children belonging to the state public school, approved April 3..... 21 22 29. An act to promote the early extension of the Menominee River Railroad through the Menominee iron range, approved April 3.................. 22 30. An act to amend sections one hundred and forty-six and one hundred and forty-eight of chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relating to appeals to the supreme court from the circuit courts in chancery, the same being compiler's sections five thousand one hundred and eighty-two and five thousand one hundred and eighty-four, approved April 3.. 25 31. An act to amend section twenty-three of act number one hundred and sixty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, being compiler's section three thousand three hundred and twenty-one of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventyone, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages," approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, approved April 4.. 32. An act to prevent the spread of the yellows, a contagious disease among peach, nectarine, and other trees, and to extirpate the same, and to repeal local act three hundred and seventy-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved May first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April 4... 26 27 |