Price. Sale. Private sale. Conditions. State Treasurer, in the city of Detroit, the state salt spring lands Ïy. ing east of said principal meridian, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter mentioned: Provided, That such salt spring lands as have been improved by the state, by boring thereon for salt springs, and such other state salt spring lands as in the opinion of the Governor, State Geologist and Commissioner, or a majority of them, should not be brought into market at the first sale, shall be reserved and not offered at the aforesaid public sales. Sec. 3. The minimum price of unimproved state salt spring lands shall be five dollars per acre, and the value of improvements on any state salt spring lands, made by former lessees or otherwise, shall be appraised by the Commissioner and State Geologist, and the Supervisor, for the time being, of the township wherein such improved salt spring lands are situated, or a majority of the same, and being added to the minimum price of the improved lands, shall constitute the minimum price of the several parcels or tracts of improved salt spring lands. Sec. 4. The salt spring lands shall be offered for sale according to the United States' surveys, and sub-divisions in parcels of eighty acres each, as near as may be: Provided, That whenever, in the opinion of the Commissioner, any of said lands, from contiguity to a village or otherwise, ought to be sub-divided into village lots, or other similar parcels than eighty acres, he may cause the same to be subdivided by a competent surveyor, and a plat thereof filed in the reg ister's office, of the proper county, and also in the State Land Office, and offer the same for sale, according to such plat and sub-division, in which case the minimum price of the respective lots or sub-divisions shall be appraised and determined by the Commissioner, State Geologist and Supervisor of the township where the lands lie, or a majority of them, and shall be the minimum price at which the same shall be offered for sale. Sec. 5. All lands offered at either of the public sales above mentioned, and not then sold, shall be subject to entry at private sale, at the State Land Office, at any time thereafter at their minimum prices respectively. Sec. 6. The terms and condition of sale of the state salt spring lands shall be the same as are provided by law, in regard to state building lands, in the thirty-first section of the act entitled "An act to interest,how establish a land office, to prescribe and regulate the disposition of the public lands, and for other purposes," approved March 11, 1844, and all sum sreceived on account of the sale of said lands when paid into the state treasury, shall be passed to the credit of the "salt spring lands." Sec. 7. In payment of principal and interest due from purchasers Principal & of salt spring lands, there shall be receivable all warrants drawn by paiu. the Auditor General on any of the funds of this state, and all outstanding treasury notes, or funds receivable by law, for other state lands, until there shall have been received on account of said salt spring lands an amount equal to the appropriations heretofore made and expended in the improvement of state salt springs, including interest on the same; a statement of which appropriations and expenditures shall be made by the Auditor General to the Commissioner of the Land Office, showing the dates and amounts of the warrants issued under the aforesaid appropriations, from which date interest shall be computed on the respective warrants so drawn. After the receipt of an amount in warrants or other funds, equal to the principal and interest on the amount appropriated and expended as above mentioned, treasury notes and specie, or its equivalent, shall alone be receivable in payment for principal or interest due on purchases of state salt spring lands. Approved, March 24, 1845. No. 91. Relief of trict. AN ACT for the relief of school district number six, in the township of Manchester, county of Washtenaw. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the inhabitants of school district school disnumber six in the township of Manchester, county of Washtenaw, and State of Michigan, be and they hereby are released and forever set free from a tax voted by said district in one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, for the purpose of erecting a school house in said district. Sec. 2. That the treasurer of said township be and he hereby is Treasurer authorized to return his warrant for the collection of said tax to the of township supervisor of said township of Manchester; and he is hereby decla red to be absolved from all liability on his bonds, incurred by virtue of the first section of this act. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. Amendment No. 92. AN ACT to amend part first, title four, chapter one, of the revised statutes. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That section eleven of part first, title four, chapter one, of the revised statutes, be amended by adding the following: “Provided, That whenever it shall become impossible from any cause whatever, to hold a special or general township meeting in any township in this state, at the place or house designated for holding the same, then the township board of any such township may adjourn the meeting to some other suitable place for holding the same. Approved March 24, 1845. No. 93. AN ACT to provide for laying out a certain state road. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the State of Michigan, That Hervey T. Lee, and Alonzo State Road. Slayton, of the county of Livingston, and Elisha Holmes of the county of Genesee, be and they are hereby authorized commissioners to lay out and establish a state road commencing at the village of Brighton in Livingston county, to the village of Fentonville, in the county of Genessee. Com'rs. Sec. 2: The commissioners appointed by the first section of this act shall file the survey of the above road in the office of the township clerk of each township through which the said road shall pass, as shall be laid out in such township. Sec. 3. The non-resident highway taxes of each section through taxes. which the said road shall pass, shall be applied by the highway com- Non-resid't Sec. 18. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. No. 94. in AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to prescribe the powers and duties of justices of the peace civil proceedings, and for other purposes.' Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That act No. 49, entitled "an act to prescribe the powers and duties of justices of the peace in civil proceedings," approved April 9, 1841, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding new sections, to stand as sections twelve, (12) thirteen, (13) and fourteen, (14) of said act, in the words following, to wit: Amendment mended. Sec. 12. If the plaintiff, or other credible person, shall make and file with said justice an affidavit stating therein that the deponent has sec. as agood reason to believe that any person (naming him,) has property, (describing it,) in his possession belonging to the defendant, or that he is indebted to the defendant, the justice shall include such person in the summons aforesaid, or shall issue a new summons for said person, at the option of the plaintiff, requiring him to appear before said justice at the time and place mentioned in the summons, against the defendant, and answer under oath, all questions put to him touching the property, money and credits of the defendant in his possession, and within his knowledge. And the said person so summoned, from the time of the service of such summons, shall stand liable to the plaintiff to the amount of the property, money and credits in his hands or due from him to the defendant." "Sec. 13. If such person (so summoned) shall neglect or refuse to appear in court, as required, the same proceedings shall thereupon be had, as near as may be, as are now or may hereafter be required in relation to garnishees." Sec 11 a mended. Sec 8 amen ded. Sec. as amended. Amendment Sec. 14. The service of the summons contemplated in section twelve of this act, and the return thereon, shall conform in all respects to the requirements of law relative to the service and return of summonses against defendants." Sec. 2. Section eleven (11) of the act above recited, shall be, and the same is hereby amended by striking out in said section the word "four," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twelve ;" also in line four of said section, between the words "may" and "take,” insert the following: "within ten days after the service of the first summons." Sec. 3. That section three of an act entitled "an act to prescribe the powers and duties of justices of the peace in civil proceedings," approved April 9, 1841, shall be and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the word "township," in the third clause of said section, the words "or city," so that said section shall read as follows: Sec. 3. Every such action shall be brought before some justice of the the peace, of the township or city where. First, the plaintiff or any of them reside Second, where the defendants or any of them reside : or Third, before some justice of another township or city, în the same county next adjoining the residence of the plaintiff or defendant, or one of the plaintiffs or defendants. Sec. 4. The several sections of the act above recited, shall be so amended as to correspond with the numeration effected by the introduction of new sections twelve, thirteen, and fourteen-(12, 13, 14.) Approved March 24, 1845. and No. 95. Dam, AN ACT to authorize Fabius Miles to construct a dam across the Paw Paw River, in the county of Van Buren. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Fabius Miles, his heirs and as signs be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to construct a dam across the Paw Paw river, in the county of Van Buren, on section twelve (12) in township number three south of range sixteen west: Provided, Such dam shall not exceed four feet in height |