Justices of

hereby authorized to enter upon the performance of their duties as the peace. such, as soon as they shall qualify according to law.

Sec. 13. The collector of said city shall pay over to the city treas- Collector. urer all moneys received by him to the credit or for the benefit of said city.

court.

Sec. 14. The proper officers of the Mayor's court of said city, are Mayor's hereby authorized to summon talismen to set on juries in said court, and empannel new juries in case of disagreement, in the manner provided by law respecting courts of record.

Monroe and
Frenchtown.

First annual

Sec. 15. The townships of Monroe and Frenchtown shall retain their present organization, subject to the alteration of boundaries herein provided; and the first annual township meeting under this act for said township of Monroe, shall be held at the school house in school meetings. district number three therein; and the first township meeting for said township of Frenchtown under this act, shall be held at the house of Louis Bertholette, in said township of Frenchtown: Provided, That the provisions of law relative to the removal and adjournment of the place of holding such election shall apply to said meetings.

Sec. 16. The common council of said city shall assess the street tax of said city at such time as they may deem proper, and thereupon may issue their warrant to the collector for the collection thereof.

Sec. 17. So much of any and all acts as are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 18. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April next. Approved March 17, 1848.

Street tax.

No. 82.

AN ACT for the relief of Asa Pratt.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Commissioner of the State Land Office be, and he hereby is authorized and required to issue his certificate to Asa Pratt for the south west one-fourth of section thirtythree, in town seven north, of range twelve west: Provided, The said Asa Pratt shall, within one year from the passage of this act, pay into the office of the said commissioner the sum of two hundred dol

lars, with the interest which may be due thereon, reckoning from the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, to the time when said money and interest shall be paid to the said commissioner. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 17, 1848.

pointed.

Route of

road defined.

No. 83.

AN ACT to provide for laying out and establishing a certain state road in the counties of Eaton, Barry and Allegan, and making appropriations therefor.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa 3 special comm'rs ap- tives of the State of Michigan, That Willard Davis, of the county of Eaton, Nathan Barlow, Jr., of the county of Barry, and Ezra C. Southworth, of the county of Allegan, be and they hereby are appointed commissioners, with full powers to lay out and establish a state road from the town of Michigan, in the county of Ingham, to Allegan, in the county of Allegan, upon the following route, viz: from said village of Michigan, on the most direct and practicable route to a point in the south line of the township of Oneida; thence following the township line of Oneida, Benton, Chester and Roxand, westerly, to the northwest corner of section four, in the township of Chester; thence on the most direct and eligible route, to the village of Vermontville; thence on the most eligible route to the village of Hastings, in the county of Barry; thence upon the present traveled route, to a point one mile east of the east line of the county of Allegan; thence on the most practicable and feasible route to the village of Allegan, in the county of Al legan.

Duties of

Sec. 2. The said commissioner, residing in the county of Eaton, is commiss'rs. hereby authorized and empowered to lay out and establish said road from the town of Michigan aforesaid, to a point in the west line of the county of Eaton, upon the route specified in the first section of this act; and the said commissioner residing in the county of Barry is also authorized and empowered to lay out and establish so much of said road as lies within the limits of the county of Barry, and upon the line in the first section designated; and the said commissioner residing in the

county of Allegan, is also authorized and empowered to lay out and establish so much of said road as lies in the county of Allegan, upon the route in the first section of this act specified: Provided, That said road shall be laid in a continuous line, and no part thereof shall be deemed to be laid out or established within a county, until the commissioner thereof shall have filed for record the profile map and field notes, (as provided in the next secton,) of the entire line within his county.

Profile map and field

notes to be

filed in office

clerks.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of each of the above named commis sioners to cause an accurate profile map, with the field notes attached, to be made of the entire route, within the limits of their respective of township counties, and to cause so much of said map and field notes as embrace any portion of a township or touch the boundary line thereof, to he filed for record in the office of the clerk of any such township, in the manner now directed by law for recording public highways.

4000 acr's int

propriated,

Sec. 4. To aid in opening and improving the road authorized to be laid out and established by the provisions of this act, there is hereby ap- imp land appropriated four thousand acres of the internal improvement lands of this state, two thousand acres thereof to be expended upon said road in the county of Eaton, one thousand acres thereof to be expended upon said road in the county of Barry, and one thousand acres thereof to be expended upon said road within the county of Allegan: Provided, That the labor performed and improvements made on said road in the county of Eaton, by virtue of the expenditures of the said appropria tion, shall be divided and expended judiciously throughout the entire line of said road in the county of Eaton.

expend ap. propriation, &c.

Sec. 5. The commissioners appointed and named in the first section of this act shall have the management and general supervision, in their Comm's to respective counties, of the opening and improvement of said road, and the application of the above appropriation for that purpose, and in the execution of the trust hereby confided in them, shall respectively have and possess all the powers of the highway commissioners of the several townships interested by or bounded upon the line of said road, and in the settlement of all the claims for damages by any person interested in lands through which said road may be laid out, shall have authority to make application to a justice of the peace of the proper township, or an adjoining one, for the appointment of appraisers, and the same

Com'r may

in person or

Com'r to

proceedings shall be had in all respects for ascertaining the amount of such damages, and paying the same, as are now prescribed by law for regulating the action of highway commissioners.

Sec. 6. The said commissioners, within their respective counties, superintend are hereby authorized to superintend in person the outlay of so much let contracts of the above appropriation as falls to the share of their several counties, and for that purpose employ laborers and purchase materials, or they may severally let by contract, to the lowest bidder, such jobs as either of them may deem advisable, upon receiving the bond of any such contractor, with sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful perfor mance of the contract: Provided, That the public shall be first notified of the time and place of letting any such job or jobs, by an advertisement to be inserted for three successive weeks in a newspaper printed in the same county, or any adjoining county, in case no newspaper is printed in the county where such commissioner may reside. Sec. 7. Upon the completion of any such job, and in payment of draw order, the amount stipulated in the contract therefor, and also in payment for in paym't of any labor procured or materials purchased by either of said commissioners, for the purpose contemplated by this act, such commissioner may draw his orders upon the Auditor General, for warrants of not less than fifty dollars each, drawn against and payable in internal improvement lands: Provided, That the aggregate orders drawn as aforesaid, by either of said commissioners, shall not exceed the amount of land hereinbefore appropriated to his county, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and that the warrants thus to be issued by the Auditor General, shall be receivable at par by the commissioner of the state land office, in payment for any internal improvement lands unsold, and not otherwise specifically appropriated, at the time of the presentation of any such warrant or warrants at the said land office.

on aud. gen'l

contractors.

Comm'rs to

Sec. 8. The said commissioners, before entering upon the discharge take oath & of their duties, shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, give bond. and severally execute a bond to the people of this state, with sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties devolved upon them as such commissioners, which said bond shall be approved by the proper county treasurer and filed in his office.

Their com

pensation

paid.

Sec. 9. Upon the completion of the duties hereinbefore assigned to said commissioners, they shall severally be entitled to receive for

the time necessarily employed therein, a sum not exceeding two dollars per day, and such compensation, together with the necessary expenses of the survey and making of said road, shall be audited and allowed by the several township boards, and of the townships interested by or bounded upon the line of said road, within said counties respectively according to the pro rata division thereof, made by said commissioners severally, and shall be paid by said townships as other highway expenses are paid by the provisions of existing law.

Sec. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 17, 1848.

No. 84.

AN ACT to provide for laying out a State Road in the County of

Allegan.

lay out road.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That John Parsons, Hiram Sabin and Nelson Chambers, all of the county of Allegan, be and they are here- Com'rs to by appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road, commencing at or near the south east corner of section seven, in township four north, of range ten west, thence on the most eligible route to the south east corner of section sixteen, township four north, of range thirteen west, and thence west on the route of the public highway as laid out by the commissioners of highways of the township of Monterey, to the point of intersection with the Allegan and Holland Colony road. Sec. 2. The commissioners named in this act shall file the surveys of so much of the above mentioned road in the office of the township clerk of each township through which said road shall pass as shall be laid out in such township; and it is hereby made the duty of the township clerks in the said townships to record the surveys of said road in the same manner that the surveys of township roads are directed by law to be recorded.

To file surveys.

State not lia

Sec. 3. The state shall in no case be chargeable with the expense of laying out and establishing said road, and in case the said road shall ble for exnot be surveyed and recorded as herein provided, within two years from the passage of this act, the provisions contained in this act shall

be void.

pense.