sons who may have been the last presiding officer, president, cashier, secretary or treasurer thereof; and such service shall be as effectual to all intents and purposes as if made on such corporation: and in every such case where by the existing provisions of law, the property of individual members of any such corporation vested in its corporate funds, or the shares or stock of any individual member in such corporation are subject to be levied upon by virtue of any execution, attachment or other process, for the payment of his individual debts, such levy may be made by leaving with any of the persons aforesaid, or with the officer or person having the custody of the books of such corporation, an attested copy of such execution, attachment or process; and such property, funds or stock may be sold as is now provided by law." Approved April 2, 1849. [No. 234.] AN ACT in relation to the Recorder of Detroit. Detroit. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- powers of tatives of the State of Michigan, That the recorder of the city of recorder of Detroit, shall have and exercise the same powers as are now exercised by the circuit court commissioner of the county of Wayne. Sec. 2. The recorder is authorized to demand and receive the same fees for the services so rendered as are now by law permitted to be demanded and received by the circuit court commmissioner. Sec. 3. This law shall take effect immediately after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. Fees. [No. 235.] AN ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Michigan. tion. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen Incorporatatives of the State of Michigan, That Jeremiah Moors, as grand master, Paul B. Ring, as deputy grand master, John Stewart, as grand senior warden, William H. McCumber, as grand junior warden, Levi Cook, as grand treasurer, and James Fenton, as Powers of ourporation. General provisions. grand secretary, with their associates and successors, be and they hereby are incorporated and declared a body politic and corporate in deed and in law, by the name and style of the grand lodge of free and accepted masons of the state of Michigan. 5004 Sec. 2. Said grand lodge shall have succession and shall be in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impl-aded, answering and being answered, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors shall have a common seal and may change and alter the same at their pleasure; and that they and their successors, by the same name shall he persons in law capable to purchase take, receive.bold and enjoy, to them and their successors, estates real and personal provided that the value of such real and personal estve shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have full authority and power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of the said real and personal estate or any part thereof at their will and pleasure; and that they and their successors shall have power from time to time, to make, constitute, ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances and regula tions as they shall judge proper for fixing the times and places of the meeting of the said corporation, and for regulating all the af fairs and business of the said corporation, provided such by-laws and regulations shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, or of the state of Michigan. Sec 3. This act shall be subject to the provisions of chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of 1846, so far as the same may be applicable. Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful for said company to use their funds, or any part thereof, in any banking or brokerage, or exchange, or in buying or selling money, or bank notes, or in any other business whatever, except that especially provided for by this act. Sec. 5. The stockholders of this corporation shall be individually liable for all debts incurred by said company to the amount of stock by each of them severally held: Provided, That the corpo rate property shall be first exhausted, before the private property of any member of said company shall be taken.. Sec. 6. The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act. Approved, April 2, 1849. [ No. 236. ] tion. AN ACT to incorporate the St. Clair Plank Road Company. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Incorporatatives of the State of Michigan, That Pierce G. Wright, Charles Kimball, Horatio N. Monson, Simeon B. Brown, Harmon Cham. berlin, John E. Kitton and Marius H. Miles, be and they are here. by appointed commissioners, under the direction of a majority of whom subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the St. Clair plank road company, and the subscribers thereto, with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, their successors and assigns shall be and they are her by created a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the St. Clair plank road company, with corporate succession. road. Sec. 2. Said company hereby created shall have power to lay Route of out, establish and construct a plank road, and all necessary buildings, from the village of St. Clair in the county of St. Clair, to such point in the town of St. Clair, on the line of the Fort Gratiot turnpike as the company sha'l judge best, with the right of uniting said road at any point with the plank road of any other company. Sec. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be twenty thousand dollars in four hundred shares of fifty dollars each. Capital stock. Duration of asendment Sec. 4. This act shall be and remain in force for the term of sixty years from and after its passage, but the legislature may at charter-its any time, alter, amend or repeal this act by a vote of two-thirds of repeal, &: each branch thereof; but such alteration, amendment or repeal shall not be made within thirty years of the passage of this act, unless it shall be made to appear to the legislature, that there has been a violation by the company of some of the provisions of this act: Provided, That after said thirty years, no alterations or reduction of the tolls of said company shall be made during its existence, unless the yearly net profits of said company, over and above all expenses shall exceed ten per cent. on the capital stock invested, provided there be no violation of the charter of said company. Sec. 5. The provisions of an act entitled an act relative to plank roads, approved March 13th, 1848, shall be and are made a part of this act. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Part of vil cated. [No. 237. ] AN ACT to vacate certain village plats in the counties of Calhoun and Ottawa. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen se pat va-tatives of the State of Michigan, That all that part of the plat of the village of Tekonsha lying east of Mason street, also all that part of said village lying on the south side of the mill race, from Mason street westertly to where said race terminates in the river: also all that part of said village lying south of the river from the point where the race terminates in the river, be and the same is hereby vacated. of Victoria Sheldon va. Villageplats Sec. 2. The village plats of the villages of Victoria and Port and Port Sheldon, in the county of Ottawa, shall be and are hereby vacated: and hereafter the lands upon which said villages were platted, shall be assessed in the same manner as other lands are upon which viïlage plats have not been made. cates Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. Convicts [ No. 238. ] AN ACT relative to convicts sentenced to solitary imprisonment in the State Prison for life. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen sentenced tatives of the State of Michigan, That the convicts which have confinement been or may be sentenced to "solitary confinement in the state prisployed as on at hard labor for life," may be released from solitary confine to solitary to be cm other con VICH, &c. ment and employed as other convicts are, whenever and for such times as the inspectors may by resolution direct, until such time as proper cells are prepared to enable such sentence to be fully en forced. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1849. [ No. 239.] AN ACT to create a road fund for the benefit of the State Road between Lansing, Ingham County, and Eaton Rapids, in Eaton County, and to authorize the appointment of a Commissioner to expend the same. way taxes ted on cer Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- N R higir tatives of the State of Michigan. That for the purpose of improving appropriathe road leading from Lansing, in the county of Ingham, to Eaton tail road. Rapids, in Eaton county, there is hereby appropriated to be expended, as hereinafter provided, the unexpended highway tax which was assessed for the year 1848, and all the highway tax which may be assessed for the present year, and for the three next succeeding years, upon the lands owned by non-residents upon the line of said road, within a distance of two miles each way from the centre thereof: Provided, That if any lot or description not exceeding eighty acres of land (owned by non-residents as aforesaid,) shall be partially embraced within said limits, and extend beyond said two miles, the highway tax upon said description, shall be deemed appropriated as aforesaid. Special powers and Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the governor is hereby authorized to appoint a special com'r-bus commissioner; and said special commissioner, in expending the duties. moneys that may be subject to his control by the provisions of this act, shall be governed by the laws, so far as the same may be appli cable, which are now or may hereafter be in operation for the gov ernment of township highway commissioners: and said special commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties herein assigned him, and file the same in the office of the county clerk of his county. |