of the public, and best connect the road from the Kalamazoo river, running south on the lake shore, with that running on or near the line of the river, and the said township board are further authorized to take such time within the limit mentioned in section second, as in their opinion will best subserve the public interest for erecting said bridge, and also, as to contracts for labor and compensation of work men. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. No. 84. AN ACT for the relief of Mark Cannon. Mark Can Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the board of state auditors are here. by authorized and required to enquire into and investigate the facts non. and circumstances that may be submitted to them relative to the injury sustained by Mark Cannon upon the Southern Railroad, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and if said board shail conclude that such injury resulted from the carelessness of inadvertance of any or either of the state agents, employed upon said road, they shall award to said Mark Cannon such compensation as in their opinion justice and equity require. Sec. 2. That the Auditor General is hereby authorized and required to draw a warrant in favor of Mark Cannon, for the sum so awar. ded, and that sum is hereby appropriated out of the general fund. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. No. 85. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to inccrporate the Cottonwood Swamp Turnpike Company." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaives of the State of Michigan, That an act entitled "an act to in corporate the Cottonwood Swamp Turnpike Company," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, be amended by striking out the word "five" in the second line of section five, and inserting "two and a half" in place thereof, also by striking out the words "one" and "two" in the second line of the proviso to said section five and inserting 'two' in the place of 'one' and 'four' in the place of 'two' in said proviso. Sec. 2. That section six be amended by striking out the word 'said' Amendment in the fifth line of said section, and inserting "each" in place there ot, also by striking out all that occurs in said section between the words "to wit" in the sixth line, and the word "for" in the fourteenth line, and inserting the following in place thereof, "for every score of hogs or sheep, six and one fourth cents; for every wagon drawn by two horses, mules, or oxen, twelve and a half cents; for every additional horse, mule or ox, four cents; for every coach, pleasure wagon or pleasure carriage, drawn by two horses, eighteen and three fourth cents; for every additional horse, six and a fourth cents; for every cart drawn by two oxen, nine cents; for every additional yoke or single horse, six and a fourth cents; for every horse, mule or ass, rode,led or driven, six and a fourth cents; for every cart drawn by one horse mule or ox, eight cents; for every pleasure wagon, gig, chair or sulkey, drawn by one horse or mule, twelve and a half cents; for each head of neat cattle driven, one and a half cents. Sec. 3. That section fifteen be amended by striking out the word "three" in the second line of said section, and inserting the word 'five' in place thereof. Approved March 24, 1845. John Silk.. No. 86. AN ACT for the relief of John Silk. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Auditor General is hereby authorized to draw a warrant in favor of John Silk, for the sum of two hundred dollars, and that sum is hereby appropriated out of the internal improvement fund; and warrants shall be drawn by the Auditor General, not bearing interest therefor, which shall be in full for all claims of said John Silk against the state. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. No. 87. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to amend an act providing for the final adjustment of all unsettled claims for damages growing out of the internal improvements of the state," approved February 20th, 1844. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Michigan, That section two (sec. 2,) of said act be amended by striking the word "one" out of the fifth line in said section, and inserting the word "two" in place thereof, so that said section when amended will read as follows: Sec. 2. Every person who did not present his claim to, or whose claim was not adjusted by the board of State Auditors, before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-three, as required by the aet to which this act is amendatory, may present the same to the board of State Auditors for final adjustment at any time within two years from and after the passage of this act." Approved March 24, 1845. Amendment Limitation. No 88. AN ACT to provide for the laying out of certain State SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Festus A. Holbrook, John Wittenmeyer and John Cronkhite, be and they are hereby authorized, as commissioners to lay out and establish a state road, commencing at the village of St. Joseph, in the county of Berrien, thence to be located as near the bank of lake Michigan as practicable, to the village of New Buffalo, in said county. State Roads Commiss'rs. Sec. 2. William Hammond, Samuel Stratton and John Witten To file sur veys. meyer, be and they are hereby authorized and appointed, as commissioners, to lay out and establish a state road, commencing at the village of New Buffalo, in the county of Berrien, thence on the most eligible route by the way of New Troy in said county, to the village of St. Joseph, in said county. Sec. 3. The above named commissioners shall file the surveys of the above mentioned roads in the office of the township clerk of each township through which each of the above mentioned roads shall pass, as shall be laid out in such township. Sec. 4. That the state shall not be chargeable for laying out and establishing said roads, nor for any expenses whatever connected therewith. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. State offic'rs No. 89. AN ACT to authorize the State Officers to act as trustees of the Michigan State Bank, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Robert P. Eldredge, Secretary of State, Charles G. Hammond, Auditor General, John J. Adam, Trustees &e State Treasurer, and their successors in office be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to act as trustees of the Michigan State Bank, under the appointment and direction of the Supreme Court of the State aforesaid, in the receipt and disposal of certain assets transferred to said State by said bank, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, "amounting nominally to six hundred and thirty-three thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and ninetyeight cents:" Provided, That in the judgment of the State officers aforesaid, the acceptance of said trust will subserve the interest of the State of Michigan. Appropria tion. Sec. 2. That there be and is hereby appropriated the sum of ten thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents, ($10,743 99,) and lawful interest thereon from the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, out of the general fund, in payment of a judgment obtained by said bank against the State aforesaid. Sec. 3. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed out of the appropriation aforesaid, to pay to said bank, its agents or attorneys, on the warrant of the Auditor General, the said sum of ten thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents, ($10,743 99,) with interest on the same or such portion thereof as may remain due, in four equal annual payments, commencing at such time as shall be mutually agreed on by the said state officers, and the bank, its agents or attorneys aforesaid respectively. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after S. Treasur er. No. 90. AN ACT to provide for the sale of the Salt Spring Sale of salt Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That whenever the Governor shall have notice of the passage of an act by the Congress of the United spring l'nds. States, authorizing the state to sell the lands heretofore selected for the state as salt spring lands, either by official publication of such act as directed by law or by a certified copy of such act from the office of the Secretary of State of the United States, it shall be his duty to notify the Commissioner of the State Land Office thereof, who shall thereupon proceed to advertise and sell the said lands as hereinafter directed. Com'r to' Sec. 2. The Commissioner, upon being notified by the Governor, as provided for in the preceding section, shall thereupon prepare and give notice. cause to be published in one newspaper in each representative district having a newspaper published therein, for four weeks, that on a day subsequent to such publication, and to be therein designated, he will offer at public sale, at the State Land Office, in Marshall, the state salt spring lands, lying west of the principal meridian, and on another and subsequent day, at the office of the Auditor General and |