SEC. 8. The board of supervisors shall have power to locate the county seat.

An election for township and county officers shall be held at the time prescribed by statute for the annual election of township officers in the various towns in the State.

SEC. 10. The inspectors of election in the township of Stony Creek shall, for the purpose of such election, constitute the board of county canvassers for the county of Oceana, and shall meet to canvass the votes given at such election for county officers on the first Tuesday succeeding such election; and the inspectors of election in the several towns of the county shall make return of the votes given at such election in their respective townships for county officers, to the respective boards of county canvassers hereby constituted, on or before the first Tuesday succeeding such election, in the manner prescribed by law.

SEC. 11. The county hereby organized shall be a body corporate and politic, and shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the liabili ties usual in counties in the State: Provided, The several county officers elected at the election herein provided for, shall take the oath of office, and file bonds where any are required, and enter upon the duties of their respective offices on or before the first day of June, next. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 12. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved February 13, 1855.

County-seat, Hart, a village in Hart township on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.

OGEMAW COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SECTION 13. That portion of the State embraced in towns 21, 22, 23 and 24 north, of ranges 1, 2, 3, and 4 west, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the county of Ogemaw. Approved April 1, 1840.

An act organizing the county of Ogemaw was approved April 27, 1875. County-seat, West Branch.

OMEENA COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SECTION 19. That part of the State embraced in towns 25, 26, and 27 north, of ranges 9, 10, 11, and 12 west, and town 28 of ranges 9 and 10 west, and including all the peninsula at the head of Grand Traverse bay, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the count of Omeena.

Approved April 1, 1840.

The name of this county was changed to Grand Traverse by act of the Legislature, approved April 7th, 1851.

ONTONAGON COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SEC. 5. All that portion of the State embraced within the line between ranges 37 and 38 west, the north boundary of township 41, the Montreal river and Lake Superior, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the county of Ontonojon; together with the Isle Royal of Lake Superior.

Approved March 9, 1843.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SEC. 3. All that portion of the State embraced within the line between ranges thirty-seven and thirty-eight west, the north boundary of township forty-one, the Montreal river and Lake Superior, shall be laid off as a separate county and known and designated as the county of Ontonagon.

Approved April 3, 1848.

County-seat at the village of Ontonagon.

Ontonagon-an Indian name derived from Nunda-norgan, hunting

river.

OSCEOLA COUNTY.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Osceola be and the same is hereby organized, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges to which by law the inhabitants of the other organized counties of this State are entitled. SEC. 2. The county-seat of said county shall be and is hereby located at the village of Hersey, and upon such grounds as shall be donated to the county for that purpose, such donation to include at least one acre of land; and James Kenedy, Lynus F. Stevens, and Alanson D. Wood, of said county, are hereby appointed commissioners to select such location,

SEC. 3. At the annual township meeting, in the year 1869, the electors of said county shall elect the proper officers for said county, whose terms of office shall expire on the first day of January, 1871, and when their successors shall be duly elected and qualified; said so elected officers shall, on or before the first day of July next ensuing, after such election, take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed to be taken by the constitution and laws of this State, and shall have and possess all the powers, and discharge the duties conferred upon or required of county officers in this State, and shall enter upon the discharge of such duties on the first day of July aforesaid.

SEC. 4. The supervisors who may be elected at said annual township. meeting, in their several townships in said Osceola county, shall be a board of canvassers for said county, for the first election of county officers of said county; and for the purpose of such canvass, shall meet at the village of Hersey, on the second Tuesday next ensuing after said election, to which board the proper township officers shall make returns of such

votes, on or before the day of meeting of said board, as provided in this section; and said board is hereby authorized, and it is hereby made their duty to approve the proper bonds of the county officers, except such bonds as are required to be approved by the circuit judge, and such bonds may be approved by the judge of the fourteenth judicial circuit.

SEC. 5. Said county is hereby created and declared a body corporate and politic, with all the powers and duties conferred upon or required of organized counties by the constitution and laws of this State.

SEC. 6. The register of deeds of said county shall make transcripts of all records in other counties necessary to be and appear upon the records of the said county of Osceola.

SEC. 7. The said county of Osceola, until fully organized and officered, according to the provisions of this act, shall remain attached to the county of Mecosta, for judicial, municipal and other purposes; and nothing in this act shall in any way interfere with the authority of the officers of said Mecosta county, within said Osceola county, until the election and qualification of the county officers of said Osceola county, as provided in this act.

SEC. 8. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 17, 1869.

Osceola county was laid out in 1840 as the county of Unwattin.

The seat of justice for Osceola county is at Hersey, a village on the Muskegon river, first settled in 1867. This county was named from the Seminole chief of that name.

OSCODA COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SEC. 16. That portion of the State embraced in towns twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven and twenty-eight north, of ranges one, two, three, and four east, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the county of Oscoda. Approved April 1, 1840.

OKKUDDO COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SEC. 22. That portion of the State embraced in towns 29, 30, 31 and 32 north, of ranges 1, 2, 3 and 4 west, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the county of Okkuddo. Approved April 1, 1840.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SEC. 11. The name of the county of Okkuddo, as now organized by law, is hereby changed to that of Otsego.

Approved March 8, 1843.

OTSEGO COUNTY.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Otsego, consisting of the territory embraced by the present county of Otsego, being townships twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one north, of ranges one, two, three, and four west, and township thirty-two north, of ranges one, two, and three west, be and the same is hereby organized into a separate county by the name of Otsego, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the privileges, powers, and immunities, to which, by law, the inhabitants of other organized counties in this State are entitled.

SEC. 2. At the township meeting of the several townships in said county, to be held on the first Monday of April next, there shall be an election of all the county officers to which, by law, the said county is entitled, who shall hold their several offices until the first day of January, A. D. 1877, and until their successors shall have been elected and qualified; said election shall be conducted in the same way, by the same officers, and the returns thereof made in the same manner, as near as may be, as is now required by law in the election of county officers in this State.

SEC. 3. The county canvass of the votes cast for county officers shall be held on the second Tuesday succeeding the election, at the village of Otsego Lake, in the county aforesaid; and said canvass shall be conducted in the same way, and by the same officers as the requirements of law now provide in organized counties, as nearly as may be, by the appointment by the board of canvassers of one of their own number to act as secretary to said board of county canvassers.

SEC. 4. The location of the county-seat of said county shall be determined by the vote of the electors of said county at a special election, which is hereby appointed to be held by the several townships of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1876. There shall be written or printed on the ballots there polled by the qualified electors of said county, the name of one place, and the place which shall receive the highest number of votes cast at such election shall be the county-seat of the county of Otsego.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the several boards of township inspectors in each of the townships of the said county to conduct the elections authorized by the provisions of this act, and to make returns thereof in · accordance with the general provisions of law for conducting general elections in this State, so far as the same may be applicable thereto.

SEC. 6. The board of county canvassers for the special election for locating the county-seat shall consist of the persons appointed on the day of such special election by the several boards of township inspectors, and said board of county canvassers shall meet on the second Tuesday succeeding the day of said special election, at the village of Otsego Lake, in the county aforesaid, and having appointed one of their number chairman, and the county clerk of said county acting as secretary, shall proceed to canvass the votes, and determine the location of the countyseat in accordance therewith; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said board to file a copy of the determination of said board as to the location of the county-seat, signed and certified by him, and countersigned by the chairman, with the Secretary of State, and with the township clerks of the several townships in said county.

SEC. 7. The county-seat for said county of Otsego shall be tem

porarily located at the village of Otsego Lake, in said county, until the county-seat has been located as provided for in section four of this act. SEC. 8. The said county of Otsego, when so organized, shall be in the eighteenth judicial circuit.

SEC. 9. The register of deeds of said county shall make, or cause to be made, a transcript of all records made in other counties which are necessary to be and appear upon the records of said county of Otsego; and the board of supervisors of said county shall, within one year after the first meeting of the board, make provision for defraying the expense of the same.

SEC. 10. The Secretary of State is hereby directed to furnish the township clerk of the township of Otsego Lake with a certified copy of this act; and it shall be the duty of said clerk to give the same notice of the elections to be held under the provisions of this act that is required by law to be given by the sheriff of organized counties.

SEC. 11. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 12, 1875.

Otsego county-Seat of justice at Otsego Lake.

OTTAWA COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan: SECTION 5. That the country included within the following limits, to wit: west of the line between ranges twelve and thirteen, west, and east of the shore of Lake Michigan; south of the line between townships ten and eleven; north of the line between townships four and five north of the base line, be, and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name of Ottawa.

Approved March 2, 1831.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:

SECTION 2. That the county of Ottawa be, and the same is hereby organized and the inhabitants thereof entitled to all the rights and privileges to which, by law, the inhabitants of the other counties are entitled.

SEC. 3. All suits, prosecutions and other matters now pending before any court, or before any justice of the peace of either of the counties to which the said county of Ottawa is now attached, for judicial purposes, shall be prosecuted to final judgment and execution, and all taxes heretofore levied shall be collected in the same manner as though this act had not passed.

SEC. 5. The circuit court for the county of Ottawa shall be held, until suitable buildings are erected at the county-seat, at such place as the county commissioners shall provide, on Thursday of the same week in which said court is held in the county of Kent.

SEC. 6. There shall be elected in the county of Ottawa, on the second Monday of April next, all the several county officers to which, by law, the said county is entitled, and whose terms of office shall severally expire at the time the same would have expired had they been elected on the first Monday and next succeeding day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six; the said election shall in all respects be conducted and held in the manner prescribed by law for holding elections for county and State officers.