transact any needful business appertaining to the object of the association, and their action shall have the same force and effect as if a majority of all the members of the association.

were present.

and expul.

(3296.) SEC. 7. Said company may add to their numbers or Admission expel members under such regulations as they may prescribe; sion. and whenever a new member has been admitted or expelled, a record or entry of such admission or expulsion shall be made on the books of said association by the secretary or other proper officers thereof.

(3297.) SEC. 8. Such company may hold and possess real Donations. and personal property to the amount of ten thousand dollars, which shall not be used for any other purpose than the legitimate business of the association, and may receive donations in money and other property to be applied to the objects of the organization, and make assessments upon members of the association for the same purpose.

sion of

(3298.) SEC. 9. Such company shall have power to call to Apprehentheir aid the peace officers of this State in accordance with criminals. law, in the pursuit and apprehension of felons and reclaiming stolen property; and each and every one of the members of such company, when engaged in arresting offenders against the criminal laws of this State, shall be entitled to all the protection, rights, and privileges of constables, when so engaged. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 28, 1873.

[ No. 56. ]

AN ACT to amend section twenty of an act entitled "An act to regulate the manufacture and provide for the inspection of salt," approved March six, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, being section one thousand four hundred and seventyseven, chapter thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section twenty of an act to regulate the manufacture and pro

Barrels, how made, etc.

vide for the inspection of salt, approved March six, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being section one thousand four hundred and seventy-seven, chapter thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy one, be and the same is amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 20. If the said salt shall be put up in barrels it shall not be marked unless the barrels are thoroughly seasoned, stout, and well made, with such number of hoops as shall be prescribed by the inspector, to be well nailed and secured. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 28, 1873.

Disinter

ment and

deceased

[ No. 57. ]

AN ACT to provide for the disinterment of dead bodies in certain cases, for the purpose of holding inquests thereon.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That inquest of whenever complaint in writing and upon oath shall be made to persons sup- any justice of the peace that any person has died, and that posed to have died by such person was buried in the county where such justice resides,

means of

Bome crimi
Dal act.

and specifying in what township or city said person was buried, and containing a further statement that the complainant knows or has good reason to believe that the said deceased person came to his or her death by means of poison or violence, or in consequence of any criminal act committed by any person known or unknown, it shall be the duty of such justice to examine the complainant and such witnesses as may be produced by him on oath, and reduce the same to writing, and if such justice shall be satisfied from such examination that there is just cause to believe that the deceased person named er described in such complaint came to his or her death by means of poison or violence, or in consequence of any criminal act, and that a post mortem examination of the body of such deceased person is necessary or will materially aid in the prose

cution of any person charged or who may be charged with any criminal act resulting in the death of such deceased person, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace to issue an order or process under his hand, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding such sheriff, in the name of the people of the State of Michigan, forthwith to proceed with his under-sheriff, or one of his deputies, to the place where such deceased person lies buried, and to disinter and remove the body to some suitable and convenient place within the township or city where such body was buried, for the purpose of holding an inquest over the same; and said justice shall also provide at once to summon a jury of inquest in the same manner as provided in chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, of the revised statutes of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, the same being chapter two hundred and sixtythree of the compiled laws of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and as soon as the sheriff shall have removed such body to a suitable place as above provided, the justice, as well as the jury so summoned, shall proceed in the same manner, and shall have and exercise the same powers and duties as prescribed in said chapter.

ment.

SEC. 2. As soon as the inquest shall have been completed, as Re-interprovided for in the preceding section, the sheriff shall at once cause the body of the deceased person to be re-interred in the same place from whence he removed the same.

SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 28, 1873.

[ No. 58. ]

AN ACT to declare copies of certain volumes of the records of the county of St. Joseph public records.

Whereas, A large portion of the records of the county of Preamble, St. Joseph were stolen from the office of the register of deeds

Idem.

Copies estab-
Nished as

public rec

ords.

of said county, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and before said records were recovered by said county many volumes thereof were so badly damaged by water that, in order to preserve said records, it became necessary to make copies thereof; and,

Whereas, In consequence of such damage to said records, the board of supervisors of said county, on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entered into a contract with Sovilla Desvoignes, of said county of St. Joseph, for the making of copies of volumes C, twelve, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-two, and one hundred pages of volume fifteen of deeds, and volumes B, eight, nine, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twentyfour, and two hundred and twenty-five pages of volume eighteen of mortgages of the records of the said county of St. Joseph; and the copying of said volumes is now being done under the supervision of the said board of supervisors;

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the said copies of said volumes of the records of the county of St. Joseph so being made, and each and every one thereof, when the same shall be completed and shall have attached thereto a certificate of the said board of supervisors that the same is a correct copy in such form as the said board shall direct, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be established as a public record; and in all courts in this State, and in all suits and proceedings therein, and before all officers of this State having jurisdiction in such suits and proceedings, said copies of the said volumes or parts thereof of the records of the said county of St. Joseph, when so completed and certified, each and every one thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the matters therein stated, and shall have the same virtue and effect as, by present provisions of law, the original records of the office of register of deeds do now possess.

SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 28, 1873.

[ No. 59. ]

AN ACT to provide for a municipal court in the city of
Detroit, to be called "The Superior Court of Detroit."

court of

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Superior there shall be a municipal court in and for the city of Detroit, Detroit. which shall be called "The Superior Court of Detroit," which shall be a court of record, and whose first term shall commence on the first Tuesday of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

election of

his term of

election.

SEC. 2. On the first Monday of April, in the year eighteen First hundred and seventy-three, the qualified voters of the city of judge, and Detroit shall elect a judge of said court, whose title and office office. shall be "Judge of the Superior Court of Detroit," and who shall hold his office for six years from the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. Notice of such elec- Notice of tion shall be given by the clerk of the city of Detroit, in the manner prescribed by law in case of the election of city officers for said city: Provided, That five days' notice of the first Proviso. election shall be deemed sufficient; and at such election the person receiving the highest number of votes for said office shall be declared duly elected thereto. The provisions of laws Laws applirelative to holding elections of city officers in said city, can- election. vassing the votes and making returns thereof so far as applicable, shall regulate and apply to elections of the judge of said court.

cable to

office.

SEC. 3. Any judge of said court, before entering upon the oath of duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by article eighteen of the constitution of this State. Such oath may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the city of Detroit.

SEC. 4. On the first Monday of April next preceding the Elections. expiration of the term of any judge of said court, his successor in said office shall be elected in the same manner and upon