AuditorGen eral to contract for wood for Capitol. Sec. 5. The Auditor General is hereby authorized to contract for the preparation and delivery of the necessary firewood for the use of the State officers at the Capitol, and of the two Houses of the Legislature during the present session, and upon the presentation at the State Treasury of any account for such firewood actually furnished during said period of time, duly audited and certified to by the Auditor General, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same out of any moneys in the Treasury, to the credit of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 12, 1848. of State tax heretofore made. le galized. No. 2. AN ACT concerning the assessment, collection and returns of the Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaAssessment tives of the State of Michigan, That the assessment of the State tax for 1847 for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, by the Boards of Supervisors in the counties in which such assessment has been made, (and the several tax rolls in which said tax is assessed and set down, and which are now in the hands of the respective Township Treasurers in said counties,) shall have the same force and validity in the law, as though the levying of the same had previously been auDuty of thorized by law, and the said Township Treasurers are hereby auTownship treasurers. thorized and required to collect the said tax with the other taxes enumerated and inserted in their respective rolls as directed by the warrant for the collection of the same as prescribed by law, and all the existing provisions of law concerning the collection and returns of taxes, shall be applicable to the collection and returns of said State tax, and the same shall be made with the other taxes above mentioned in the same manner and at the same time as is therein prescribed. Sec. 2. The Boards of Supervisors for the counties in which the assessment of the said State tax for the year 1847 has been omitted or neglected to be made, are hereby authorized and required to assess assess State such tax at the rate of two and a half mills on the dollar of the aggretax for 1817. gate equalized valuation of all the taxable property of their respective Supervisors where assessment has been omitted to counties for the said year, at the time of the assessment of the taxes required by law to be assessed for the year 1848, and the said State tax shall be inserted in the several tax rolls of the last mentioned year in the column for State, county and town taxes, and be collected or returned with the other taxes, and in the same manner as the laws prescribe. eral State sessed an after. Sec. 3. The tax for the annual support and ordinary expenses of Rate of genthe State government for the year 1848 and for each subsequent year, tax to be asshall be at the rate of two and a half mills on the dollar of the aggre- nually heregate equalized valuation of all the taxable property of the several counties, and the same shall be annually assessed by the several Boards of Supervisors of the respective counties at the time of the assessment of other taxes required by law; and the Auditor General is hereby required on the first day of February next, and on the first day of February in each and every year thereafter, to charge to the several counties the amounts ascertained to be due for their quota of the said tax respectively, according to their returns of the said valuation, as provided by law. of the act Sec. 4. The Auditor General is hereby directed to transmit for pub- Publication lication copies of this act to the State paper, and Advertiser of the city of Detroit, and to one other newspaper published in each Senatorial District, as soon as is practicable after its passage. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 13, 1848. No. 3. AN ACT to change the name of the township of Pewonagawink, in the county of Genesee. Pewonaga ed to "Mon Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Name of tives of the State of Michigan, That the name of the township of Pe- wink changwonagawink, in the county of Genesee, be, and the same is hereby trose." changed to "Montrose," and by that name shall hereafter be known and designated. Approved January 15, 1848. Tax roll of township of for 1847 le galized. No. 4. AN ACT to provide for the collection of taxes in the township of Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair, for the year 1847, and to extend the time for the collection thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaPort Huron tives of the State of Michigan, That the tax roll for the township of Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair, for the year 1847, be, and the same is hereby declared to be as valid and legal as if the same had been made out and delivered to the Township Treasurer, at the time prescribed by law. And that the Supervisor of said township deliver said roll to the said Treasurer, with his warrant for the collection thereof, as soon as may be after notice of the passage of this act. Township Sec. 2. That the Treasurer of said township file his bond, as retreasurer to quired by law, within five days after the reception of said roll, and before he proceeds to the collection of the taxes. file bond. Time for Sec. 3. That the time for the collection of said taxes be extended to collecting the first day of March next, and that the said Treasurer make return taxes exten as provided by law in other cases, on or before the tenth day of March next. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 15, 1848. $5,000 ap for expenses of volun wer regim't. No. 5. AN ACT to provide for defraying the expenses of enlisting, transporting and subsisting the volunteer regiment called from this State, to serve in the existing war with the Mexican Republic. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representapropriated tives of the State of Michigan, That out of the moneys in the Treaat disposal of Governor Sury, to the credit of the general fund, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, and placed at the disposal of the Governor of this State, to be by him applied in defraying the expenses that have been, and may hereafter be incurred in enlisting, subsisting and transporting into service, the volunteer regiment called from this State, to serve in the existing war with the Republic of Mexico. surer to pay draft of the Sec. 2. Upon the presentation at the State Treasury of any draft, State Trea order or certificate, signed by the Governor, and drawn against the out on the sum appropriated in the first section of this act, and for the purposes Governor. therein specified, it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys in the Treasury, to the credit of the general fund. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 15, 1848. No. 6. AN ACT to amend title 21, chapter 94, section 18, of the Revised Statutes. Statutes Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Revised tives of the State of Michigan, That title 21, chapter 94, section 18, amended. of the Revised Statutes be amended, by adding after the word "therein," in the sixth line of said section, the following: "Whereupon the said Justice of the Peace shall discharge said person from custody." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 21, 1848. No. 7. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to appoint Commissioners to lay out a certain State road," approved March 17, 1847. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Act amentives of the State of Michigan, That the act entitled an act to appoint ded. Commissioners to lay out a certain State road, approved March 17, 1847, be, and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the second section thereof, and adding in lieu thereof the following sections, to stand as a part of said act, viz: commission ers to file survey, &c. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Commissioners appointed by the Duty of first section of the act hereby amended, to cause the survey and field notes of said State Board, together with a map thereof, to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State; also, so much of said survey and field notes of said State Road, as is embraced within the limits of each Commissioners to expend sub of the several townships through which said road has been by them laid, to be filed for record in the office of the clerk of said townships respectively. Sec. 3. That for the purpose of opening said road for public travel, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized forthwith to lay out and scriptions. expend the money and labor subscribed by individuals, for that object, in cutting, clearing, grubbing, grading, ditching and bridging, upon the portions of said road running through lands, the owners of which shall relinquish all claim for damages against the proper townships for the laying out and opening said road through their premises respectively. Appraisal of damages. When road to be a pub Sec. 4. If any person interested in lands through which said road has been laid, shall, for any cause, refuse to relinquish his claim for damages on account of the laying out and opening of said road, for the space of ten days after personal service of a copy of this act and the act to which this act is amendatory, the said Commissioners or any one of them may apply to a Justice of the Peace of the township in which said premises are situated, or an adjoining township, for the appointment of three appraisers to appraise said damage, and thereupon the same proceedings shall be had in all respects, as is provided by law, in case of the laying out of a road by the Highway Commissioners of a township. Sec. 5. Upon the filing of the survey and field notes, as provided lic highway. in this act, and upon the payment of the damages awarded in any such appraisal and the proper expenses thereof, the said State road shall become a public highway, to be further worked and improved, according to the provisions of the existing law relative to public highways. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 22, 1848. No. 8. Time for collection extended. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection and return of certain taxes for the year 1847, in the townships of Monroe and French town. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the time for the collection of |