Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, Volume 3

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J. S. Bagg, 1871 - Law
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Page 51 - ... at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent per annum; and may also issue bonds, or promissory notes, at the same rate of interest in payment of any debts or contracts for constructing and completing their road, with its equipments and...
Page 212 - ... notice, to be posted in at least three of the most public places in the...
Page 59 - ... shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday of...
Page 291 - State; but all such citizens of any religious denomination whatever, who from scruples of conscience may be averse to bearing arms, shall be excused therefrom upon such conditions as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 291 - ... provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State or of the United States, in ! the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district...
Page 289 - Senate district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and persons of color not taxed; and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall at all times consist of contiguous territory...
Page 290 - January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an election, or who has resided in this State two years and six months, and declared his intention as aforesaid, and every civilized male inhabitant of Indian descent, a native of the United States...
Page 157 - He shall execute a bond to the people of this state in the penal sum of...
Page 291 - And the General Assembly shall, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight on the different railroads in this State.
Page 291 - No railroad corporation shall consolidate its stock, property, or franchises with any other railroad corporation owning a parallel or competing line ; and in no case shall aiiy consolidation take place except upon public notice given of at least sixty days to all stock-holders, in such manner as shall be provided by law.

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