Proviso. street, lane or alley; which jury being first sworn by the recorder faithfully and impartially to make such inquiry, and assess the damages in question, and having heard the testimony of witnesses, if any be sworn, and the representations of the person or persons interested in the premises, shall, if such necessity appear, assess the damages sustained by each person respectively, whether as owner or occupier thereof, according to their several interests in the same, which assessment shall be signed by the jurors assessing the damages and be delivered to the recorder, who shall cause the same to be filed in his office. All sums so assessed shall be paid or tendered to the person or persons in favor of whom such assessment shall be made, before such street, lane or alley shall be opened or used. If any person in whose favor such assessment shall be made, shall refuse to receive the amount of such assessment, or if he shall not reside in said village, so that the same can be tendered to him, the money shall be deposited with the treasurer of the village to be delivered to the person lawfully entitled to receive the same, and thereupon the common council may proceed forthwith to cause such street, lane or alley to be opened and used: Provided, That any persons claiming damages who shall be aggrieved by such assessment may appeal therefrom to the Circuit Court of the county of Berrien, upon giving written notice to the recorder of his intention to appeal, within five days after the assessment shall be made; but such appeal shall not prevent the immediate opening or altering or using such street, lane or alley. Upon filing a copy of said assessment with a copy of the notice of appeal in the said Circuit Court at its next session, or within ten days after such assessment is made, the court shall have jurisdiction of the appeal, and shall proceed in the same manner as is usual in other cases of appeal, to assess the damages; and if the damages awarded by the court upon such appeal shall not be greater than the damages assessed by the jury, or than shall have been tendered or deposited as hereinbefore provided, the court shall give judgment against the party appealing, for the costs of the appeal. The amount of damages determined as above provided shall be assessed by the common council upon the property benefitted by the opening or altering of any street, lane or alley, and the amount of such assessment shall be collected in the same manner as is hereinafter provided for the collection of other taxes." Sec. 3 That section fourteen of said act be and the same is hereby amended. common assess and taxes. airended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 14. On completion of the as- Sec. 14, sessment roll as aforesaid, the common council shall assess and appor- Power of tion upon the real and personal estate therein described, such tax as they council to may deem necessary for the use of said village for the current year, not apportion exceeding one per cent., and a further poll tax, not to exceed one dollar upon each and every male inhabitant of said village over twenty-one years of age; and the recorder shall make a duplicate of the roll for the use of the collector. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved January 29, 1857. [ No. 24. ] AN ACT to provide for the completion of the east wing of the State purposes. commis tinued for 2 SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Office of office of State Prison building commissioner, created by act number sioners conone hundred and thirty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-years. five, entitled "An act to provide for repairing and furnishing the State Prison, and for the construction of cells therein," approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, be and the same is hereby continued for the further term of two years according to the provisions and limitations of the said act. tion. Sec. 2. There is hereby appropriated from the State treasury for Appropria the purposes hereinafter mentioned, the sum cf thirty-two thousand dollars, which shall be expended as follows, to wit: for completing the east wing of said State Prison and constructing one hundred and sixtyfour cells therein, the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars; for building additional work shops six thousand dollars; for enlarging the mess room two thousand dollars, and for repairing the agent's house and putting up a fence in front of the entire prison, and such other repairs as the inspector of said prison may think necessary, the further sum of two thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor General to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer from time to time for such sums as the inspectors shall certify to be necessary for carrying on the work aforesaid. Approved January 29, 1857. [ No. 25. ] Duties of board of AN ACT to provide for the collection of taxes in the county of Manitou for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the supervisors board of supervisors of the county of Manitou shall assess at the usual time for the assessment of taxes in eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, all the lands and personal property in said county which were subject to taxation in the year of eighteen hundred and fifty-six. Time for making as sessinent roll for 1856. When col lector to col• 1856. Proviso. Sec. 2. The supervisors of said county of Manitou shall make out the assessment roll for eighteen hundred and fifty-six at the same time that the roll is made for eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. Sec. 3. The collector of taxes for said county of Manitou, is hereby lect tax for authorized and empowered to collect the taxes for the year of eighteen hundred and fifty-six at the usual time for collecting taxes in eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, as is prescribed by law: Provided, That all laws applicable to the collection and return of taxes, and sale of lands returned for non-payment of taxes, shall apply to and govern the proceedings under this act, so far as they are not inconsistent herewith. Sec. 4. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved January 29, 1857. Supervisor authorized tax roll for 1856. AN ACT to authorize the supervisor of the township of Roxand, in the county of Eaton, to make a new tax roll and extend the time for collecting the same. SECTION. 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the to make new supervisor of the township of Roxand, in the county of Eaton, and State of Michigan, be authorized to make a new tax roll for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and deliver the same to the township treasurer, on or before the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, with his warrant attached in due form thereto. Treasurer authorized to collect taxes. Sec. 2. The said treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to collect said tax roll according to law, and make return thereof in due form, on or before the first day of April, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven, and pay the moneys into the county treasury according to law. cable to ceedings Sec. 3. All laws applicable to the collection of taxes shall apply to Laws appliand govern his proceedings therein until he has accounted for the govern promoneys so collected, and made his return of delinquent taxes to the county treasurer. surer to to county County make return Sec. 4. That said township treasurer make return of all delinquent Town treataxes to the county treasurer of said county, as aforesaid, and within the make return time limited in section two of this act, and that said county treasurer) treasurer. is hereby required to receive said returns and transmit them to the treasurer to Auditor General, in pursuance of existing laws, and that the said to Auditor Auditor General is hereby directed to sell and dispose of the lands so Auditor returned in the same manner as other lands returned for non-payment sell lands. of taxes. General. General to to renew Sec. 5. That the said township treasurer renew his official bond to Treasurer the satisfaction of the supervisor of said township, or the county treasurer official of said county. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved January 29, 1857. bond. [ No. 27. ] AN ACT to authoriz: the village of Jonesville to loan money. council authorized to borrow. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Common the common council of the village of Jonesville be authorized and em powered to borrow on the faith and credit of said village a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, for a term not exceeding ten years and at a rate not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, and to execute the bonds of the village therefor under the seal of the said corporation in such manner as the said board shall determine, and that for the purpose of determining whether said loan shall be made, the common council may, at any annual village election or at any special election called for that purpose, vote thereon by ballot, and every ballot in favor of said loan shall have written or printed on it the word “Loan,” and every ballot against it shall have written or printed on it the word "No loan." Notice of the time and place shall be given by publication in a newspaper printed in said village or by posting in five of the most public places in said village, and such election shall be conducted in all res Common council may hold lands. pects as other village election. The said board shall file a certificate of the result with the recorder of said village, and no such loan shall be made unless a majority of the lawful voters vote therefor. Said board are hereby required to provide for the payment of said loan in the same manner as for other debts of said corporation: Provided, There may be raised to pay said loan in any one year not more than one-fourth of one per centum on the taxable property of said village, in addition to the amount now authorized to be raised. Said money so borrowed shall be expended in the building and erection of engine houses and for the purchase of engines and fire equipments for said village. Sec. 2. The common council of said village are hereby authorized acquire and to acquire and hold lands for the use of said village, in one or more parcels, not exceeding in all ten acres, upon which they may erect said engine houses, a town hall, make public grounds, and crnament the same. Approved January 29, 1857. [ No. 28. ] Sec. 3, amended. Tolls. Proviso. AN ACT to amend an act number ninety-one of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section three of act number ninety-one of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, being an act entitled an act to provide for the collection of tolls, and for the care, charge and operating of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal, is hereby amended so as to read: Sec. 3. Before any vessel shall be allowed to pass into or through said canal, there shall be paid to the said superintendent four cents on every ton of such vessel's enrolled tonnage or measurement, or such other rate per ton as may be at any time established by said board of control, after giving thirty days notice of such change in two or more daily papers published in Detroit and Cleveland. No toll or other charge shall be collected upon tug boats, provided they are not employed in the carrying of frieght or passengers; or upon the vessels of the United States engaged in the public service, or in the transportation of property or troops of the United States: Provided, No tolls or other charge shall be collected upon vessels of the United States engaged in the public service, or in |