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Section repealed.

Penalty.

Com'r may

forfeited lands may be advertised for resale, as is now provided by law, at any time before the said first day of October, in each year, but shall not be sold until the expiration of the time herein limited for redemption by the purchaser.

Sec. 3. Sections 23, 24, 25 and 26, of the act to which this is amendatory, be and the same are hereby repealed; and every supervisor or township clerk, as the case may be, shall, on or before the first Monday in September next, pay over to the Commissioner all monies received by him on account of leases (his legal fees excepted) given under the provisions of said sections, and at the same time report in writing to the Commissioner the several sums remaining due and unpaid by the lessees, and the said supervisor or township clerk shall sue for and collect the several amounts due and unpaid as aforesaid or otherwise dispose of the several notes or obligations held for the payment of the same according to the discretion of the Commissioner; and every supervisor or township clerk as the case may be, who shall refuse or neglect to do and to perform all the duties herein required of him, shall be liable for treble the amount of damages which may be sustained by the respective and appropriate fund by reason of such neglect or refusal, and the Commissioner may sue for and collect the same according to law.

Sec. 4. The Commissioner, in his discretion may lease or direct to may lease, be leased for a term not exceeding two years any of the lands mentioned in the act to which this is amendatory, upon such terms as he may deem advantageous to the respective funds to which they belong, and all certificates of purchase shall be subject to the leases given previous to the date of such certificate for any of the lands described therein.

Settler may

Sec. 5. Any settler mentioned in or contemplated by the act to enter lands. provide for the sale of certain lands to the settlers thereon, and for other purposes, approved March 25th, 1840, and the several acts amendatory thereof, whose land has been forfeited to the state or has not become a purchaser of the lands upon which he resides, and on which his settlement is made, and who shall hereafter become a pur chaser of the same, shall be entitled to enter the same according to the terms established by law for the sale of unimproved university and state building lands, irrespective of the value of said improve

ments, and no amount shall be charged to him for the value of said improvements so made by or assigned to him.

Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of Repeal.

this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its

passage.

Approyed March 24, 1845.

RESOLUTIONS.

No. 1.

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Governor to appoint' a Private Secretary.

retary.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Governor by, and he is hereby autho- Private Secrized to employ a Private Secretary during the present session of the legislature, who shall receive such compensation as the legislature shall direct, not exceeding three dollars per day. Approved January 10, 1845.

No 2.

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Commissioner of the State Land Office to release to D. C. Vantine and others, the right to construct a Mill Race or canal across certain University Lands.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the DC Vantre State of Michigan, That in consideration of the crection of a flouring mill by D. C. Vantine and others, within the term of two years,' upon the university lands in the township of Marshall now owned by said Vantine; the Commissioner of the State Land Office is hereby aathorized to release and quit claim unto said Vantine his heirs and assigns a right of way of sufficient width for a race or canal to conduct the waters of Bear Creek to said mill, through any of the said

Instructions

university lands now unsold or which may be hereafter forfeited to the state: Provided, The said Commissioner shall be convinced that the university fund will not be injured thereby.

Approved January 23, 1845.

Νο. 3.

PREAMBLE AND JOINT RESOLUTION relating to Salt
Spring Lands.

Whereas, The grant by Congress of certain lands to the state of Michigan for Saline purposes, is so construed as to restrict the state from the sale and conveyance of said lands, thus rendering the same unavailable and unproductive for the object intended by said grant; therefore,

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby instructed, and our Representatives requested, to procure the ear ly passage of a law giving to the state the right to sell and convey said lands so that they may be made available for the purposes of the grant.

Resolved, That the Governor be and he is hereby requested to forward copies of the foregoing preamble and resolution to each of our Senators and Represetatives in Congress.

Approved January 23, 1945.

Instructions

No. 4.

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the annexation of Texas.

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives be and are hereby requested to use all proper exertions for the annexation of Texas to these United States at the earliest practical period.

Approved February 3, 1945.

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