the person above named, his heirs or assigns, to enter upon or flow the lands of any other person or persons. Sec. 6. The legislature may at any time alter, amend or repeal this act. Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1849. AN ACT relative to the Kalamazoo and Black Lake Piank Road [No. 89. ] ceiving sub scriptions to capital sto'k extend'd,&s Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Time for resatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioners named in act entitled "an act to incorporate the Kalamazoo and Black Lake plank road company," approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and they are hereby authorized, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to proceed to estimate the length of the road proposed in said act, and cause books to be opened for the subscription in stock to said company, according to the provisions of an act entitled "an act relative to plank roads," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the proceedings shall be as valid as if had within the six months contemplated by the provisions of the act last aforesaid. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1849. [ No. 90. ] AN ACT relative to the Flint and Fentonville Plank Road Com pany. ceiving sub capital sto'k Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Time for retatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioners named seriptions to in an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Flint and Fentonville extend'd,& plank road company," approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and they are hereby authorized, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to proceed to estimate the length of the road proposed in said act, and cause books to be opened for the subcription of stock in said company, according to the provisions of an act entitled "an act relative to plank roads," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the proceedings shall be as valid as if had within the six months contemplated by the provisions of the act last aforesaid. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1849. [No. 91. ] Time for re #criptions to extend'd,&c AN ACT relative to the Owasso and Bad River Plank Road Company. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenceiving sub- tatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioners named capital sto'k in an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Owasso and Bad river plank road company," approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and they are hereby authorized, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to proceed to estimate the length of the road proposed in said act, and cause books to be opened for the subscription of stock in said company, according to the provisions of an act entitled "an act relative to plank roads," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the proceedings shall be as valid as if had within the six months contemplated by the provisions of the act last aforesaid. Time for reeeiving subcripti's, &e extended. Sec. 2 All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1849. [No. 92. ] AN ACT relative to the Genesee County Plank Road Company. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioners named in an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Genesee county plank road company," approved April 3, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and the same are hereby authorized, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to proceed to estimate the length of the road proposed in said act, and cause books to be opened for the subscription of stock in said company, according to the provisions of an act entitled "an act relative to plank roads," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the proceedings shall be as valid as if had within the six months contemplated by the provisions of the act last aforesaid. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1849. [ No. 93. ] AN ACT relative to the Corunna and Saginaw Plank Road Company. ceiving sub capital sto'k Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Time for re tatives of the State of Michigan, That the commissioners named scriptions to in an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Corunna and Saginaw extend'd,& plank road company," approved April third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and they are hereby authorized, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to proceed to estimate the length of the road proposed in said act, and cause books to be opened for the subscription of stock in said company, according to the provisions of an act entitled "an act relative to plank roads," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the proceedings shall be as valid as if had within the six months contemplated by the provisions of the act last aforesaid. Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1849. Exemptions [No. 94. ] AN ACT to exempt certain property from taxation. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenfrom taxat'a tatives of the State of Michigan, That the following property shall be exempt from assessment and taxation: 1st. Household furniture, including stoves put up and kept for use in any dwelling house, not exceeding in value one hundred dollars: 2d. All spinning wheels and weaving looms, and apparatus not exceeding in value, fifty dollars: 3d. A seat, pew or slip occupied by any person or family in any house or place of public worship: 4th. All cemeteries, tombs and rights of burial while in use as repositories of the dead: 5th. All arms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by any person; all wearing apparel of every person or family: 6th. The library and school books of every individual and family, not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty dollars, and all family pictures: 7th. To each householder, ten sheep with their fleeces, and the yarn or cloth manufactured from the same, two cows, five swine and provisions and fuel for the comfortable subsistance of such householder and family for six months. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passsage. Approved March 16, 1849. [ No. 95. ] Becs. 1 and 6 AN ACT to amend Chapter one hundred and six of title twentytwo of the Revised Statutes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen chap. 106 R. tatives of the State of Michigan, That sections four and five, of 2. amended. chapter one hundred and six, of title twenty-two of the revised statutes, in relation to judgments and executions, be and the same are hereby repealed, and the following substituted in their places as sections four and five of said chapter, to wit: "Sec. 4. Whenever judgment shall have been or may hereafter be rendered in any court of record, execution to collect the same may be issued to the sheriff or other proper officer of any county of this state; and successive or alias executions may be issued one after another, upon the return of any execution unsatisfied in whole or in part, for the amount remaining unpaid upon any such judg ment. "Sec. 5. But no such execution or alias execution shall be issued, unless within two years from the time of the rendition of such judgment, or from the return day of the last preceding execution, or two years from the time when the party was entitled to sue out the same, unless the court, in term time, or some judge or justice thereef, or circuit court commissioner, in vacation, upon special application for that purpose, and due notice to the opposite party, shall make an order granting leave to issue the same." Approved March 16, 1849. [No. 96. ] AN ACT for the encouragement of Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Mechanic Arts. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That in any county of this state where the inhabitants thereof have organized and established or may hereafter organize and establish a society for the encouragement and advancement of agriculture, manufactures and the mechanic arts, and shall raise from said society annually the sum of one hundred dollars or over, for the promotion of the above objects in said county, the board of supervisors of said county, at their annual session in each and every year, are hereby required to levy a a tax of not less than one-tenth nor more than one-fifth of one mill on the dollar on the assessment roll of the county, which tax shall be collected and paid to the county treasurer of the county in the same manner that other taxes are collected and paid. Sec. 2. The treasurer of the county shall keep the sum so raised subject to the order of the board of supervisors of said county. Sec. 3. The said board of supervisors shall draw upon the said treasurer for the sum so raised and the same shall be expended, under the direction of said board, for the benefit of said society in the Tax to be le vicd by bo'rd of supervi fors in cer tain cases. Apportionment of proceeds of su' |