Proviso. Act repealed. injury, chasing or worrying of sheep, shall be deemed the owner of such dog, for all purposes of this act: Provided, That this shall not apply to the Upper Peninsula, nor to any county where sheep are not kept. (1187.) SEC. 10. Act number two hundred and ten of Session Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act to protect the owners of sheep from damages done by dogs," and approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby repealed, and all moneys collected under the provisions of that act shall be returned by the Auditor General to the counties from which they arose, and the county treasurers of such counties shall return such money to the townships or cities from which it came; and the clerk of such townships or cities shall apportion the same among the several school districts in his township or city, in the same manner as the primary school money is apportioned. SEC. 11. This act shall take immediate effect. Laws taxing in nies extended to include compa nies insuring An Act to regulate insurance companies and their agents, associations, partnerships, and individuals doing business and making insurance upon the life of domestic animals, and against loss by accident, disease, or theft of such animals, not incorporated by the State of Michigan. [Approved March 27, 1867. Laws of 1867, p. 224.] (1188.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, surance compa- That all the provisions of law now existing, imposing a tax upon persons and companies engaged in the business of fire and marine lives of animals. and other insurance, which are not organized and existing under the laws of this State, shall extend to and include, so far as the imposition of said tax is concerned, of all companies and persons making insurance upon the life of domestic animals, and against loss by disease, accident, or theft of such animals, which are not organized by virtue of the laws of this State. Supervisor to mining compa nies. An Act authorizing the supervisors of the several towns in the Upper Peninsula to assess and collect [the State] taxes upon all mining companies' real estate, or other property. [Approved March 15, 1861. Laws of 1861, p. 409.] (1189.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, tax property of That the several supervisors of the différent townships in the counties in the Upper Peninsula, be and are hereby authorized and required to assess and collect, in the same manner that taxes are assessed on other property, the State taxes upon all real and per sonal property belonging to any mining corporation or association formed under the general mining laws of this State, that are not actually carrying on and engaged in the business of mining. the Mining companies to pay State tax on ex cess of real estate over 640 acres. file description county clerk. (1190.) SEC. 2. All mining corporations organized under general mining laws of this State, and those organized under special acts of the Legislature, prior to the adoption of the Constitution of this State, or those that may be hereafter organized. under the general mining laws, that are actually engaged in and carrying on the business of mining, shall pay a State tax upon all their real estate that exceeds in quantity six hundred and forty acres of land; and to entitle any corporation to the exemption Companies to from taxation of a quantity of lands, not exceeding six hundred of lands with and forty acres, they shall file in the county clerk's office of their respective counties a full and complete description of said land, and accompanying said description with a map and survey of the same. The supervisors of the several townships in which any of Duty of supersaid lands belonging to any mining corporation may be located, are hereby authorized and required to assess the State tax on all the lands belonging to such mining corporations, not herein exempt: Provided, That nothing in this act shall release any Proviso. mining corporation or association from paying any specific tax now provided by law. visor. (1191.) SEc. 3. All acts or parts of acts contravening the pro- Repeal. visions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take immediate effect. t TITLE IX. HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, FERRIES, AND PRIVATE ROADS. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXVI. Officers having the care and superintendence of highways and bridges, Persons liable to work on highways, and assessments therefor. Laying out, altering, and discontinuing public roads. OFFICERS HAVING THE CARE AND SUPERINTENDENCE OF N. Y. Rev. Stat., Art. 1, Title 1, Chapter twenty-two of Revised Statutes of 1846. (1192.) SECTION 1. The commissioners of highways in the several townships in this State shall have the care and superintend ence of highways and bridges therein, and it shall be their duty, First. To give directions for the repairing of roads and bridges within their respective townships; Second. To regulate the roads already laid out, and to alter such of them as they shall deem inconvenient; as have Third. To cause such of the roads used as highways, been laid out but not sufficiently described, and such as shall have been used for twenty years, but not recorded, to be ascertained, described, and entered of record in the township clerk's office; Fourth. To cause the highways, and the bridges over streams s Barb. S. C. R. intersecting highways, to be kept in repair; Fifth. To divide their respective townships into so many road districts as they shall judge convenient, by writing, under their hands, to be entered of record in the township clerk's office; but no such division shall be made within five days next preceding the annual township meeting; Sixth. To assign to each of said districts such of the inhabitants, liable to work on highways, as shall reside in such district or own lands therein; and, Seventh. To require the overseers of highways, from time to time, and as often as they shall deem it necessary, to have all persons assessed to work on the highways perform their labor thereon with such teams, carriages, sleds, or implements as said commissioners, or any of them, shall direct. 645, 2 Hill, 619. 6 Hill, 463. discontinue (1193.) SEC. 2. The commissioners of highways shall have power, To lay out and in the manner and under the restrictions hereinafter provided, to roads. lay out and establish, upon actual survey, such new roads in their respective townships as they may deem necessary, and to discontinue such old roads and highways as shall appear to them to have become unnecessary. count to town (1194.) SEC. 3. The commissioners of highways of each town- To render acship shall render to the township board, at the annual meeting of ship board. such board in each year, an account in writing, stating, First. The labor assessed and performed in their township; Second. The sums paid for delinquencies and commutations, and other moneys received by them, and the application thereof; Third. The improvements which have been made on the roads and bridges in their township during the year preceding such report, and the condition of such roads and bridges; and Fourth. The improvements necessary to be made on the same, and an estimate of the probable expense thereof beyond what the labor to be assessed in that year will accomplish. presented at township meet ing; moneys and collected. (1195.) SEC. 4. The township board shall cause such statement statement to be to be presented at the then next annual township meeting, and such meeting may vote for the raising of such sum, not exceeding may be voted two hundred and fifty dollars in any one year, for the improvement of the roads and bridges within the township, as a majority of the electors present shall deem necessary; and the sum so voted shall Duties of overseers. To remove loose stones. When highway taxes to be collected. be levied and collected in the same manner as other township expenses. (1196.) SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the overseers of highways: First. To repair and keep in order the highways, within the several districts for which they shall have been elected or appointed respectively; Second. To warn all persons assessed to work on the highways in their respective districts to come and work on such highways according to law; Third. To cause the noxious weeds within the limits of the highways in their respective districts to be cut down or destroyed twice in each year, once before the first day of July, and again before the first day of September; and the requisite labor shall be considered highway work; and, Fourth. To collect all sums due for delinquencies and commutation money, and to execute all lawful orders of the commissioners of highways. (1197.) SEC. 6. It shall also be the duty of the overseers of highways, once in every month, from the first day of April to the first day of December, to cause all the loose stones lying on the beaten track of every road within their respective districts, to be removed. (1198.) SEC. 7. Every overseer of highways shall cause at least two-thirds of the assessment of highway taxes to be collected from all the resident inhabitants of his district before the first day of July, and all the remainder of said assessment before the first day Duties of over- of November, and if, after the account required in section seventeen of chapter twenty-one of Compiled Laws shall have been rendered, and before the township meeting following next thereafter, it shall be necessary to remove obstructions from the highway, or to repair culverts or bridges injured by freshets or otherwise, the To call out per proper overseer of highways is hereby authorized and required to seer. sons. To give certifi cate of number of days worked. Proviso. call out any person or persons in his district liable to pay highway 1 As amended by Act 93 of the Laws of 1871, p. 140, approved April 12, 1871. |