Land appro

sold.

February 20, 1847, be so amended as to authorize and require the commissioner of the State land office to sell to the order of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Kent or their authorized agent, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the whole or any portion thereof, in any legal subdivisions, the lands appropriated in priated, how section number two of said act: Provided, That for the term of one year from the passage of this act all the lands selected under the provisions of the act hereby amended lying within the limits of township five, north of range fourteen west, and township five, north of range thirteen west, shall be reserved by the Commissioner of the Land of fice, and certificates of sale for any tract or parcel thereof shall during the said year only be issued upon the presentation of a written order therefor, signed by the Rev. A. C. Van Ralte, the recognized director of the affairs of the Holland Colony.

payment

and duties

sioner.

Sec. 2. The said commissioner shall receive in payment for all Funds resuch sales as may be made under the provisions of this act, internal ceivable in improvement warrants of this State, or specie, and hold the said funds, of commis whether warrants or specie, until such time as the judges of the counties of Kent and Ionia, or a majority of them, shall, as contemplated by section six of said act, certify and file in the State land office, that said work has been finished and completed, when the said specie or warrants, or both, as the case may be, shall be paid over by said commissioner, to the order of the said Board of Supervisors or their successors in office, to such person or persons as shall be designated by them, in lieu of the lands so sold: Provided, That whenever the con- P.oviso. tractor for said work shall have completed one half of the work contemplated by said act, and the Board of Supervisors of Kent county shall so certify to the commissioner of the State land office, the said commissioner shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay over to said contractor an amount of the proceeds of the sales of said lands not exceeding in amount one quarter of the whole of said appropriation: Provided, The said contractor shall file with said Proviso. commissioner satisfactory security for the refunding of the same in case he, (the said contractor,) shall fail to complete the said canal, locks and dam within the time and in the manner specified by said act.

ed.

Sec. 3. That section four of said act be amended by striking out Act amendthe words "thirty-five," in the third line of said section, and inserting

Proviso.

Rates of toll and account

thereof.

the word "ten;" also, by striking out the word "thirty," in the fourth line of said section, and inserting the words "twenty-two;" also, by striking out the words "twenty-nine," in the fifth line of said section, and inserting the words "twenty-one ;" also, by striking out the words "one-hundred and thirty," in the fifth and sixth lines of said section, and insert the words "one hundred and five," so that the said section shall read as follows: "That the said canal shall not be of less capacity than forty-five feet on the water line, four feet deep at all seasons, and the lock or locks not less than one hundred and ten feet in length, and twenty-two feet in width in the clear; and the same shall be so constructed as to receive boats twenty-one feet wide and one hundred and five feet long, and of thirty inches draft, in slack water below the foot of the rapids, and pass them to slack water above the rapids, at all stages of the water: Provided, That the Board of Supervisors or a majority of them, and the contractor and his sureties for the completion of said work shall first, and on or before the first day of June next, file their assent to the provisions of this act in the State land office.

Sec. 4. The rates of tolls which shall from time to time be collected as contemplated in sections seven and nine of said act, shall be paid into the Treasury of Kent county, and be denominated the canal fund; and it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer for Kent county, af ter said work shall have been finished and completed, to keep a separate account of all moneys received for rates or tolls on account of said canal; also, of all expenditures made for the purpose of keeping said canal, locks and dam in repair.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 29, 1848.

No. 23.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to establish and improve the Pontiac and Grand River road, approved March 12, 1845.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa

tives of the State of Michigan, That section two of an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to establish and improve the Pontiac and Grand River road, approved March 12, A. D. 1845, be amended by inserting after the words, of the county of Oakland, in the fourth line of said section, "and Marcellus Hillman, of the county of Livingston."

Sec. 2. And that section six be amended by striking out the words, "Board of Supervisors," in the seventeenth line of said section, so far as relates to the counties of Oakland, Genesee, Livingston and Shiawassee, and inserting therein the words "Judge of Probate."

Act amen

ded.

Ibid.

Commis

Sec. 3. The several commissioners of said Board in the counties of Oakland, Genesee, Livingston and Shiawassee, in and for their re- sioner empowered. spective counties, are each hereby invested with all the powers for opening said road in their respective counties, with which Commissioners of Highways are invested for opening highways in their several townships.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 29, 1848.

No. 24.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of interest on the liquidated portion of the five million loan.

State Trea

surer to cam

cel certain

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the State Treasurer is hereby authorized, from time to time, and as often as they semi-annually be- coupons on full paid come due, to pay up and cancel the coupons upon the full paid five bonds. million loan bonds, and the interest on the bonds heretofore issued for unpaid interest on said loan bonds up to July 1, 1845, outstanding and falling due in January and July, annually, out of any moneys in the Treasury, to the credit of the general fund, and not otherwise appropriated, whenever, in his opinion, such payments can be made without impairing the ability of said fund, to promptly meet its just indebtedness and accruing liabilities.

Sec. 2. To reimburse the said general fund for all payments made therefrom by the State Treasurer, in accordance with the provisions contained in the first section of this act, the said Treasurer is hereby

State Treasurer to make trans

fer.

authorized and required to transfer and place to the credit of said fund a sum equal to the aggregate of all such payments, out of the first moneys coming into the Treasury as the proceeds of the extra State tax authorized to be raised for the payment of the coupons upon said full paid bonds by the "act to liquidate the public debt and to provide for the payment of interest thereon, and for other purposes," approved March 8, 1843 Provided, That in estimating any deficiency under the provisions of the act in this section referred to, for the purpose of Deficiency, levying an extra State tax to meet such deficiency, the Auditor Gented by Au- eral is hereby directed to estimate such deficiency without deducting therefrom any payment that may have been made under the provisions of this act from the general fund.

how estima

ditor Gen.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 29, 1848.

ded.

No. 25.

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection and return of taxes in the township of Greenfield, in the county of Wayne.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaTime exten- tives of the State of Michigan, That the time for the collection of taxes for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the township of Greenfield, in the county of Wayne, is hereby extended to the first day of March next.

Duty of

Treasurer

to renew

bond, &c.

Sec. 2. The Treasurer of said township is hereby authorized and township empowered to proceed and collect said taxes as fully as he could have done during the life time of his warrant, and make his return any time before the first day of March next; and his said warrant is hereby continued in force until the said first day of March: Provided, he shall first renew his official bond to the satisfaction of the Treasurer of said county of Wayne.

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taxes to be returned.

Sec. 3. A transcript of all unpaid taxes returned to the County of unpaid Treasurer, in pursuance of the foregoing provisions, shall be returned to the Auditor General as soon as practicable; and such unpaid taxes shall be collected in the same manner, and with interest computed from the same time as other taxes for the year eighteen hundred and fortyseven, duly returned to the Auditor General for non-payment.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its

passage.

Approved January 31, 1848.

No. 26.

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection and return of taxes in the township of Brighton, in the county of Livingston.

ded.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Time extentives of the State of Michigan, That the time for the collection of taxes in the township of Brighton, in the county of Livingston, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, is hereby extended to the first Monday of March next.

Duty of

Treasurer.

Sec. 2. The Treasurer of said township is hereby authorized and empowered to proceed and collect said taxes as fully as he could have township done during the life time of his warrant, and make his return at any time before the first Monday of March next: Provided he shall first renew his official bond to the satisfaction of the Treasurer of said county.

turned, &c.

Sec. 3. A transcript of all unpaid taxes returned to the County Unpaid taxTreasurer, in pursuance of the foregoing provisions, shall be returned es to be reto the Auditor General as soon as practicable, and such unpaid taxes shall be collected in the same manner, and with interest computed from the same time as other taxes for the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, duly returned to the Auditor General for non-payment. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 31, 1849.

No. 27.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the draining of swamps, marshes and other low lands, approved March 17, 1847.

ed.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Act amendtives of the State of Michigan, That section eleven of an act entitled an act to provide for the draining of swamps, marshes and other low lands, approved March 17, 1847, be amended by adding thereto the