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for public uses and other lots, such person or persons shall
forfeit and pay double the value of the ground so promised
and not set forth on the map, three-fourth parts thereof to
the use of the county where such town lies, for the express
purpose of purchasing ground within, and for the use of such
town, in lieu of that which was so promised, and the other
fourth part to the use of the person prosecuting.

may alter Plat.

or

(1135.) SEC. 4. That the Circuit Courts in and for the sev-Circuit Court eral counties are hereby authorized and empowered, on vacate Town application made by the proprietor or proprietors of any town within their proper county, to alter or vacate the same, or any part thereof.

tion to Court for

(1136.) SEC. 5. That if any proprietor or proprietors of a Notice of applica town shall be desirous of altering or vacating the same, or any that purpose. part thereof, such proprietor or proprietors shall give notice in writing of such intended application, in at least two places in the county wherein such town may be situated, one to be set up in the most public place in said town, and one on the Court House door of the said county, and insert a copy of the same in a newspaper, printed or in circulation in said county, at least sixty days prior to the sitting of the Court to which he, she, or they, intend to make such application.

to be granted.

(1137.) SEC. 6. That if such applicant or applicants shall When application produce to said Court satisfactory evidence that the notice. required by the preceding section of this act has been given, and that all persons, owning any lot or part thereof in said town, have agreed that the whole or a part thereof shall be altered. or vacated, or that there is no reasonable objection to making such alteration, the Court shall proceed to alter or vacate said town or any part thereof, and order their proceedings therein to be recorded by their clerk, with the record of said Court: Provided, That the vacating of any town plat, or any part of a town plat, shall not vacate any part of a State or county road.

to be recordedty

(1138.) SEC. 7. That the clerk of said Court shall give to the Record of Court applicant a certified copy of such record, for which he shall County Register. be entitled to receive the sum of one dollar; and it shall be the duty of such applicant to have such certificate recorded by the Register of the county, within six months thereafter.

to be recovered

(1139) SEC. 8. That the several forfeitures arising under Forfeitures how this act may be recovered in an action for debt, by any person who shall sue for the same, before any Court having cognizance of the same; and in any action to be brought for any

Register to Record Plats filed,

ledged.

penalty incurred under this act, where judgment shall be given for the plaintiff, the Court shall award to him his legal costs of suit, and if, in any case, the body of a proprietor cannot be found, the property of such proprietor shall be liable to be attached as for any other demand, and where any forfeitures are not, by this act, otherwise appropriated, they shall be paid over to the plaintiff prosecuting for the same; and in case no individual prosecutes for the same, it shall be the duty of the Prosecuting Attorneys of the respective counties, in all cases of the failure of the proprietor or proprietors any lands laid out as aforesaid, to comply with the provisions of this act, to prosecute such proprietors on behalf of their respective counties, for the penalties herein prescribed. (c)

of

(1140.) SEC. 9. That in all cases where plats of any town, or but not acknow village, or additions to any town, or village, are now filed in the Register's office of the respective counties, and such plats have been so filed by the proprietor, or proprietors, their agent, or Attorney, and the same have not been duly acknowledged and recorded, as provided by the act to which this is amendatory, it shall be the duty of the Register of Deeds of the county in which the lands so laid out are situated, to record the same as provided in said act, and when so recorded, the said plat shall be as valid and effectual for the purposes of the assessment, collection and return of taxes, and of the sale of said lands which may be delinquent in the payment thereof, as though the same had been duly acknowledged and recorded according to the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory, and the said Registers shall receive for the services rendered under the provisions of this act, such sums as the Boards of Supervisors of their respective counties shall deem reasonable, to be paid from the Treasury of the county. (d)

Effect.

Person interested
may appear and
oppose
tion.

Judgment.

(1141.) SEC. 9. When application is made to alter or vacate applica- any Town or Village Plat, as aforesaid, any person or persons interested may appear in person or by attorney, and oppose the same, by having his or their appearance entered upon the records of said Court for that purpose; and in case the proprietor succeed in his application, then judgment shall be rendered in his favor, and costs against the person or persons opposing the same; but in case the proprietor does not suc

(c) As Amended by Act 118, of 1818. Laws of 1848, p. 141.

(d) Added by Act 118, of 1848, which took effect May 26, 1848; and Amended by Act 5, of 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 4.

ceed in his application, judgment shall be rendered in favor of the person or persons opposing the same, for costs, and shall be taxed and execution issued therefor as in other cases. (e)

An Act to Amend an Act entitled, "An Act to Amend an Act to Provide for the Recording of
Town Plats, and for Vacating the same in certain cases; approved April 19, Eighteen
Hundred and Thirty-Nine."

[Approved Jan. 17, 1849. Laws of 1849, p. 4.]

Record of Town

(1142.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House Act relative to of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the act Plats amended. approved March 27th, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being "An Act to Amend an Act to provide for the Recording of Town Plats, and for vacating the same in certain cases, approved April 19th, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine," be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

(1143.) SEC. 2. Amend section one by inserting the words, Ibid. "of deeds," after the word "Register," in the tenth line. (1144.) SEC. 3. Strike out of the seventh line in section three Ibid. (f) the words, "County Register," and insert in the place thereof the words, "Register of Deeds of the County."

legalized.

(1145.) SEC. 4. All Town Plats recorded since the passage Certain Records of the act hereby amended, shall be deemed as valid and effectual in law, as if the same had been recorded, under the provisions of said act, as hereby amended.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and

after its passage.

An Act Relative to Town Plats.

(Approved March 20, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 72.)

valid.

(1146.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Plats; when Representatives of the State of Michigan, That in all cases in which the proprietor or proprietors of any piece of land shall heretofore have caused the same to be laid out and platted as a town or village, and shall have caused such plat to be recorded ent of Recordin the office of the Register of Deeds of the county in which knowledged. such land is situated, without having acknowledged the same according to the statute in such case made and provided, and

ed Plat not ac

() Added by Act 210 of 1850, approved and in force from April 1, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 212. (f) Section 9 as above given.

255.

Proviso.

shall have sold and conveyed lots in such town or village by deeds duly acknowledged, referring to such recorded Plat, such Hav. Ch. R. 404. Plat so recorded shall be deemed to have the same effect in all 2 Doug. Mich. respects whatsoever, as if the same had been acknowledged by such proprietor or proprietors, according to the statutes in such case made and provided: Provided, That all mortgages upon, or sales, contracts of sale of, or any vested rights in any lands so conveyed by any Village Plat, and which lands shall be described without reference to such Plats, or any suit or foreclosure of mortgage now pending in relation to the same, shall not in any wise be affected by the operation of this section. (1147.) SEC. 2. The record of any Village Plat heretofore made and duly acknowledged, shall be evidence as against the parties so acknowledging, of the sufficient dedication, gift and grant to the public of any portion thereof represented in such Plat as a public square; but the rights of parties to any suits now pending in relation to the same shall not be affected by the provisions of this act.

Plat to be evidence against parties.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

TITLE XI.

OF THE REGULATION

OF TRADE IN CERTAIN CASES.

CHAPTER XXIX. Of the Inspection of Provisions and other Merchandises, and Regulations respecting the Sale thereof.

CHAPTER XXX. Of Weights and Measures.

CHAPTER XXXI. Of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.

CHAPTER XXXII. Of Limited Parterships.

CHAPTER XXXIII. Of Private Associations and Partnerships for Mining and Manufacturing

Purposes.

CHAPTER XXXIV. Of the Construction of Lines of Telegraph by Individuals and Associations.
CHAPTER XXXV. Of Money of Account, and of the Interest of Money, and on Judgments,
Verdicts, etc.

CHAPTER XXXVI. Of the Support and Regulation of Mills.

CHAPTER XXIX.

OF THE INSPECTION OF PROVISIONS AND OTHER MERCHANDISES, AND REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE SALE THEREOF.

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