Sec. 12. The fee of admission to the regular university course in the department of literature, science and the arts, shall not exceed ten dollars, but such course or courses of instruction as may be arranged under the provisions of section nine of this act, shall be open without fee to the citizens of this State. Admission fees. To whom Sec. 13. The university shall be open to all persons resident of this State, without charge of tuition, under the regulations prescri- open. bed by the regents; and to all other persons under such regulations and restrictions as the board may prescribe. whom paid Sec. 14. The moneys received from such source shall be paid to the treasurer, and so much thereof as shall be necessary for the pur- Moneys to pose, shall be expended by the regents in keeping the university and how buildings in good condition and repair, and the balance shall be appropriated for the increase of the library. Sec. 15. The board of regents shall make an exhibit of the affairs of the university in each year, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, setting forth the condition of the university and its branches; the amount of receipts and expenditures; the number of professors, tutors and other officers, and the compensation of each; the number of students in the several departments and in the different classes; the books of instruction used; an estimate of the expenses for the ensuing year; a full transcript of the journal of their proceedings for the year; together with such other information and suggestions as they may deem important, or the Superintendent of Public Instruction may require to embody in his report. Report. University expended. Sec. 16. From the increase arising from the interest of the university fund, the board of regents may erect from time to time, such fund: how buildings as are necessary for the uses of the university, on the grounds set apart for the same; but no such buildings shall be erected until provision shall be made for the payment of the existing indebtedness of the university, nor until one branch of the university shall be established in each judicial circuit of the State. Interest expended. Sec. 17. The board of regents shall have power to expend so much of the interest arising from the university fund, as may be necessary fund; how for the improving and ornamenting the university grounds, for the purchase of philosophical, chemical, meteorological, and other apparatus, and to keep the same in good condition. Branches. Ibid. Meetings. Board of Report. Pay of regents and Visitors. Orders. Repeal. Sec. 18. As soon as the income of the university interest fund will admit, it shall be the duty of the board of regents to organize and establish branches of the university, one at least in each judicial circuit or district of the State, and to establish all needful rules and regulations for the government of the same. They shall not give to any such branch the right of conferring degrees, nor appropriate a sum exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, in any one year, for the support of any such branch. Sec. 19. The regents may establish and organize a branch or branches, by the creation of a trusteeship for the local management of the same, or they may in their discretion select for a branch, under the restrictions aforesaid, any chartered literary institution in the State. Sec. 20. The meetings of the board may be called in such manner as the regents shall prescribe; five of them shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a less number may adjourn from time to time. Sec. 21. A board of visitors, to consist of three persons, shall be appointed biennially at the commencement of the collegiate year, by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It shall be their duty to make a personal examination into the state and condition of the university in all its departments and branches, once at least in each year, and report the result to the Superintendent, suggesting such improvements as they may deem important; which report shall be embodied into the report of the Superintendent. pay Sec. 22. The regents and visitors of the university shall each receive for the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties, which shall be paid out of the university interest fund. Sec. 23. All orders on the treasurer shall be signed by the secretary, and countersigned by the president. Sec. 24. Chapter fifty-seven of the revised statutes is hereby repealed. Approved April 8, 1851. [ No. 152. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, two and three of chapter ninetyfive of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, two and three of chapter ninety-five, title twenty-one of an act entitled "an act for revising and consolidating the general statutes of the State of Michigan," approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be and the same are hereby amended by striking out section one of said chapter, and substituting therefor a new section, to stand as section one; also by striking out the word "appointed," in the first line of section two, as printed, and inserting "elected;" also by striking out the words "within fifteen days after notice of his appointment, and," in the first and second lines of section three, as printed; so that said sections when amended shall read as follows, viz: Secs. 1, 2 & 3 of chap. 95 of R. S. amended. Cir. court comnussioner to be "Sec. 1. There shall be elected at the general election to be held in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and every two years thereafter, one circuit court commissioner in each of the organized elected. counties of this State, who shall enter upon the discharge of their official duties on the first day of January succeeding their election, and hold their offices two years, and be vested with judicial powers not exceeding those of a judge of the circuit court at chambers." "Sec. 2. No person shall be elected a circuit court commissioner unless he be at the time an attorney and counsellor at law of the supreme court." "Sec. 3. Every circuit court commissioner, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this State, before some judge or clerk of a court of record, and transmit the same to the Secretary of State, to be filed in his office." Approved April 8, 1851. [ No. 153. ] AN ACT relating to the State Library. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Elligibility. Oath. Library room., Shall keep meteorolog State library room shall be appropriated to the use of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for his office. Sec. 2. The State Librarian, in addition to the duties prescribed ical tables. by law, shall keep a set of meteorological tables, after the forms adopted by the Smithsonian Institute, and under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction; and the same shall be embraced with annual report of the Superintendent, together with the report of the Librarian. Shall depo &c., library. Sec. 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall cause the c. in state books, papers, maps, apparatus, &c., pertaining to his office, to be deposited in the State library; and it shall be his duty to collect such books, maps, apparatas, &c., as can be obtained without expense to the State, and deposit the same in the library. Assistant. Sec. 4. The librarian shall also act as assistant to and shall perform such duties as may from time to time be required by the Superinten dent, free of expense to the State. Approved April 8, 1851. [ No. 154. ] Secretary to cause re ports to be printed. No. of copies. AN ACT to provide for publishing the reports of the State officers for the year 1852, and every second year thereafter. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all State officers or boards of officers from whom annual reports are required by law to be made to the Legislature, shall, in the year 1852, and every second year thereafter, report to the Governor of this State, at the time now required by law, who shall immediately deposit the same in the office of the Secretary of State; and the Secretary shall cause a sufficient number of copies of each of said reports to be printed by the person who is under contract to do the State printing for the time being, in the usual form, to furnish each township in the State one copy for the use of the library thereof; also one copy of each for each county clerk and county treasurer, and ten copies of such reports to each city, for the use of the city library, and also one hundred and fifty copies of each, which shall be placed in the State library, and five hundred copies of each which shall be preserved for binding in the joint documents of the next succeeding Legislature; and one hundred copies for the use of the officers making such reports. of reports. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, as soon as Distribution said reports shall be printed and ready for distribution, to forward one copy of each to the township clerk of each organized township, which shall be deposited in the township library, one copy to each county clerk and county treasurer; also ten copies of each to each city clerk for the use of the city library, five hundred copies shall be placed in the State library, and the remaining five hundred copies shall be retained by him, and be bound in the joint documents of the next Legislature. Approved April 8, 1851. [ No. 155. ] AN ACT to provide for the formation of companies to construct plank roads. tions; how Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any Corpora number of persons, not less than five, may be formed into a corpora- formed. tion for the purpose of constructing and owning a plank road, by complying with the following requirements: Notice shall be given in at least one newspaper, printed in each county through which said road is intended to be constructed, of the time and place or places where books for subscribing to the stock of such road will be opened; if there be no newspaper printed in the county, then such notice shall Notice. be printed in a newspaper in the city of Detroit: and when stock to Stock. the amount of at least two hundred dollars per mile of the road so intended to be built shall be in good faith subscribed, and five per cent paid thereon, as hereinafter required, then the said subscribers may, upon due and proper notice, elect directors for the said corporation; and thereupon they shall severally subscribe articles of as- association. sociation, in which shall be set forth the name of the company, the number of years the same is to be continued, which shall not exceed fifty years from the date of said articles; the amount of the capital stock of said company, the number of shares of which said stock shall consist; the number of directors and their names, who shall Articles of |