No. 105. AN ACT in relation to taxing banks. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the specific state tax of onehalf of one per cent on the capital stock of all banks within the state provided for in part first, title five, and chapter eight, of the revised statutes, shall be demed and construed to be in lieu of any like tax imposed by the charter of any banks incorporated prior to the taking effect of said revised statutes, and in lieu of all other taxes imposed on the capital stock of any bank within the state for state purposes: Provided, That all the real and personal property of any such bank other than their capital stock shall be subject to taxation for state purposes: And provided further, That the real and person- Taxation of al property of all banks, including their capital stock shall be subject to taxation for county, township, and other purposes, as is now, or may be provided by law for the assessment and collection thereof. Sec. 2. Every bank which shall within four months from the passage of this act, prove by the oath or affirmation of its president or Cashier, or other evidence to the satisfaction of the Attorney General and State Treasurer, that it has since the taking effect of the revised statutes, or since its incorporation, paid state and other taxes imposed by law of this state equal to or exceeding one-half of one per cent per annum on the amount of its capital, shall be exempt from liability to suit or prosecution for non-payment of any specific tax imposed by law and heretofore payable; and if the amount so paid shall be less than one-half of one per cent on the capital stock, such bank shall be liable for the deficiency only. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, March 24, 1845. banksi Jurisdiction 8. No. 106. AN ACT ceding jurisdiction to the United States over a tract of land situate in Wayne County, reserved by said United States out of the public lands for the site of an Arsenal. Sec. 1. Be t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States over a certain tract of land containing about two hundred and twenty-four acres, situate in Wayne county, which tract was reserved from sale by the United States, and is occupied and known as the site of the United States arsenal at Dearbonville, commonly called the Detroit Arsenal; said tract of land being bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a point on the right bank of the main ceded to U. branch of the River Rouge, five chains and twenty-four links above the mill dam, and runni ug thence south seventy-three, west eightyone chains and forty-five links, thence south thirteen degrees, east twenty-five chains and fifty-five links to the northern line of Chicago 'urnpike road; thence along the northern boundary line of said road seventy-five chains fifteen links; thence north thirty-one degrees, east to the junction of the stream known as the west branch of the River Rouge with the main branch of that river, and thence up said mían branch with the meanders thereof to the place of beginning: Provided always, and the assent aforesaid is granted upon the ex, press condition, that this state shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the tract of land aforesaid, so far as that all civil and such criminal processes as may issue under the authority of this State against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without the bounds of said tract, may be executed therein in the same way and manner as though this assent had not been granted. Approved March 24, 1845. No. 107. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Kalɛ mazoo Mutual Insurance Company," approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. ils, co. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R presentalives of the State of Michigan, That the words "within one year a- Kalamazoo ter giving notice as aforesaid of said loss or damage, and not afterterwards," contained in the seventh section of an act entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Kalamazoo Mutual Insurance Company," "approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-four," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen undred and forty-one be and the same are hereby struck out and repealed. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. No. 108. AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "An act to modify the License Law. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the act to modify the license law, approved March, 1845 shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. No. 109: AN ACT to vacate a certain Territorial Road. License law vacated. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the State of Michigan, That David Bagg, Jessee Decker, and Daniel Pease, be, and they are hereby authorized, if in their dis- Ter, road cretion it will benefit community, to vacate so much of a certain territorial road located in pursuance of an act entitled "an act to provide for laying out a certain territorial road," approved June twenty six, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as lies between a point beginning at the place where the highway running east through the village of Perrysburg, in the township of Orion, in the county of Oakland, intersects said territorial road and the place where the highway running north through the village of Orion, in said county, intersects said territorial road, and file a certificate of such vacation in the office of the township clerk of the township of Orion. Sec. 2. This state shall not be chargeable with any expense made by said commissioners. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. Dues of state offic'rs No. 110. AN ACT to provide for paying salaries of State Officers for the year one thousand cight hundred and forty-five. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated out of the general fund for the current expenses of the state government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, to wit: For the salaries of the Governor, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and the Chancellor, fifteen hundred dollars each; for the salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, sixteen hundred dollars; for the salaries of the Judge of the District Court, Auditor General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Commissioner of the Land Office, one thousand dollars each; for the salaries of the Chief Clerk of the Auditor General and the State Treasurer, seven hundred dollars each; for the salaries of the two Assistant Clerks for the Auditor General, six hundrd dollars each; and for the salaries of the Deputy Secretary of State, Deputy Commissioner of the Land Office, and one Clerk of the Land Office, at the rate of five hundred dollars a year each for the time actually employed in the service of the state, said Auditor and Commissioner resctively certifying that such deputies and clerks during the time employed were necessary; for the salary of the Attorney General eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, five hundred dollars; for the salary of the Adjutant Gen eral, three hundred dollars; for the salary of the Recorder of the Land Office, four hundred dollars; and for the State Geologist, one thousand dollars.; for the salary of the State Topographer, eight hundred dollars; and for the current expenses of the Geologist and Topographical survey, such sums as might be necessary, not exceeding four hundred dollars, and for the engraving for the final report of the State Geologist, five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. That there be appropriated the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars to the contingent fund to be paid out upon the warrant of the Auditor General upon the order of the Governor. Sec. 3. The salaries above specified shall be payable quarterly, commencing from the first day of January of the present year, or at the same rates for fractional quarters. Sec. 4. There is hereby appropriated so much money in addition to the amount already appropriated, to be paid out of the general fund, as may be necessary to pay to the officers and members of the present legislature the amounts that shall be due them respectively at the rates fixed by law. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1845. No. 111. AN ACT making appropriations to defray certain expenses authorized for the year eighteen hundred and forty-five. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated out of the general fund: To W. Greusel, W Greusel. jr., for wood furnished at capitol, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirteen cents, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-four; to John Cunningham, for repairing fire arms, nine dollars and fifty- J. Cuningfour cents; to John Webster, for stove for Governor's office, twenty- J. Webster. seven dollars and thirty-eight cents; to E. N. Lacroix, for transla- E, N. La ham. Croix. |