Authority of.

Official oath.

Commissioners, before whom the same shall be taken or made, under his seal, which certificate shall be endorsed on said deed or instrument aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect, and be as good and valid in law for all purposes, as if the same had been taken or made before any officer authorized to take such acknowledgment residing in this State.

(297.) SEC. 2. Every Commissioner appointed by virtue of this act, shall have full power and authority to administer an oath or affirmation to any person who shall be willing and desirous to make such oath or affirmation before him, and such affidavit or affirmation made before such Commissioner, shall, and is hereby declared to be as good and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if taken by any officer authorized to administer oaths, resident in this State: Provided, that wilful and false swearing in taking any such oath or affirmation, would, by the laws of the State wherein the same shall be made, be deemed perjury.

(298.) SEC. 3. Every Commissioner appointed as aforesaid, before he shall proceed to perform any duty under, and by virtue of this law, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a Justice of the Peace, in the city or county in which such Commissioner shall reside, well and faithfully to execute and perform all the duties of such Commissioner, under and by virtue of the laws of this State; which oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of this State.

Act for appointment of, continued.

An Act to Continue in Force "An Act to Authorize the Appointment of Commissioners to
take the Acknowledgement of Deeds and Instruments of Writing under Seal
out of the State."

[Approved March 15, 1847. Laws of 1847, p. 57.]

(299.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the act entitled, "An act to authorize the appointment of Commissioners to take the acknowledgment of deeds and instruments of writing under seal out of the State," approved March nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in full force and effect, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and the several commissions issued under said law be revived and continued in force, and the official acts of such Commissioners shall be as good and valid as if the act aforesaid had not been repealed.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and

Counties.

(300.) SECTION 1. The boundaries of the several counties in Boundaries of this State shall remain as now established, unless the same shall hereafter be changed by the Legislature.

Rights, powers, etc., of Counties.

For what purposes Counties

(301.) SEC. 2. All the rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities of the several counties shall remain as now established, until the same shall be altered by law.

(302.) SEC. 3. Each organized county shall be a body politic bodies corporate, and corporate, for the following purposes, that is to say: to sue and be sued; to purchase and hold real and personal estate for the use of the county; to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and repairing county buildings, and for the building of bridges; to make all necessary contracts, and to do all other necessary acts in relation to the property and concerns. of the county.

Conveyances for the benefit of

effect.

(303.) SEC. 4. All real and personal estate, heretofore conCounties, their veyed by any form of conveyance to the inhabitants of any county, or to the County Treasurer, or the Governor of the late Territory of Michigan, or to any committee, trustees, or other persons, for the use and benefit of such county, shall be deemed to be the property of such county; and all such conveyances shall have the same force and effect as if they had been made to the inhabitants of such counties by their respective corporate names.

How Real Estate of County may be conveyed.

(304.) SEC. 5. The Board of Supervisors of each county, or other public officers having the charge and management of the county lands, may, by their order of record, appoint one or more agents to sell any real estate of their county not donated for any special purpose, and all deeds made on behalf of such county, by such agents, under their proper hands and seals, and duly acknowledged by them, shall be sufficient to convey all the right, title, interest and estate which the county may then have in and to the land so conveyed.

Common inrisaletion of Wayne and Monroe.

Civil process from.

(305.) SEC. 6. The counties of Wayne and Monroe shall have jurisdiction, in common, of all offences committed on that part of Lake Erie which lies within the limits of this State; and such offences may be heard and tried in either of said counties in which legal process against the offender shall be first issued, and in like manner, and to the same effect, as if such offence had been committed in any other part of either of said counties.

(306.) SEC. 7. All civil process from either of the counties of Wayne or Monroe, may run into, and be executed within

and upon that part of Lake Erie which lies within the limits of this State.

tion of Wayne,

Clair.

(307.) SEC. 8. The counties of Wayne, Macomb and St. Common juri-dieClair, shall have jurisdiction, in common, of all offences com-Macomb and St. mitted on that part of Lake St. Clair which lies within the limits of this State; and such offences may be heard and tried in either of said counties in which legal process against the offender shall be first issued, in like manner, and to the same effect, as if the offence had been committed in any part of either of said counties.

from.

(308.) SEC. 9. All civil process from either of the counties civil process of Wayne, Macomb or St. Clair, may run into, and be executed within and upon that part of Lake St. Clair which lies within the limits of this State.

tion of Berrien,

gan, Ottawa, and

(309.) SEC. 10. The counties of Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan, common jurisdieOttawa and Mackinaw, and such other counties as shall here- Van Buren, Alleafter be organized upon the easterly shore of Lake Michigan, Mackinaw. shall have jurisdiction, in common, of all offences committed on that part of Lake Michigan which lies within the limits of this State; and such offences may be heard and tried in either of said counties, in which legal process against the offender 1841, p. 14, Sec. shall be first issued, in like manner, and to the same effect, as if the offence had been committed in any part of either of said counties.

1.

from.

process

(310.) SEc. 11. All civil process from either of the counties civil of Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan, Ottawa or Mackinaw, or from any such other counties as shall hereafter be organized upon the easterly shore of Lake Michigan, may run into, and be exe- 1841, p. 14, Sec. cuted within and upon that part of Lake Michigan which lies within the limits of this State.

2.

tion of Saginaw,

Clair.

(311.) SEC. 12. The counties of Saginaw, Mackinaw and St. Common jurisdieClair, and such other counties as may hereafter be organized Mackinaw and St. upon the shore of Lake Huron, shall have jurisdiction, in common, of all offences committed on that part of Lake Huron which lies within the limits of this State; and such offences may be heard and tried in either of said counties in which legal process against the offender shall be first issued, in like manner, and to the same effect, as if the offence had been committed in any part of either of said counties.

from.

(312.) SEC. 13. All civil process from either of the counties civil process of Saginaw, Mackinaw, or St. Clair, or from such other counties as may hereafter be organized upon the shore of Lake Huron,

Chippewa, etc.

Civil process from.

may run into, and be executed within and upon that part of Lake Huron which lies within the limits of this State.

(313.) SEC. 14. The county of Chippewa, and such other counties as may hereafter be organized upon the shore of Lake Superior, shall have jurisdiction, in common, of all offences committed on that part of Lake Superior which lies within the limits of this State; and such offences may be heard and tried in either of such counties in which legal process against the offender shall be first issued, in like manner, and to the same effect, as if the offence had been committed in any part of either of said counties.

(314.) SEc. 15. All civil process from the county of Chippewa, or from such other counties as may hereafter be organized upon the shore of Lake Superior, may run into, and be executed within and upon that part of Lake Superior which lies within the limits of this State.

Each County to provide suitable buildings.

Prison limits.

When County shall reimburse Sheriff, etc.

COUNTY BUILDINGS.

(315.) SEC. 16. Each organized county shall, at its own proper expense, provide a suitable court house, and a suitable and sufficient jail, and fire-proof offices, and all other necessary public buildings, and keep the same in good repair.

(316.) SEC. 17. The prison limits of each county shall extend to all places within the boundaries of the county.

(317.) SEC. 18. In case of the escape of any prisoner, by reason of the insufficiency of the jail, whereby the Sheriff, or other officer performing the duties of Sheriff, shall be made liable to any party at whose suit such prisoner was committed, the county shall reimburse and pay all sums of money recov ered of the Sheriff, or such other officer, by such party, by reason of such escape.

Certain districts

annexed, to be

UNORGANIZED COUNTIES.

(318.) SEC. 19. Unorganized counties and other districts, deemed part of annexed, or hereafter to be annexed to any organized county

County.

for judicial purposes, shall, for every purpose, be deemed to be within the limits of the county to which they are, or may be so annexed.