duties devolved upon him by the provisions of this act, payable from the said appropriation, and shall render to the Auditor General an account of all services rendered by him, verified by his oath, who shall thereupon issue his warrant for the amount drawn against and payable in internal improvement lands included in the above appropriation. Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 23, 1848. 2000 acres int imp land appropriat'd appointed. No. 103.. AN ACT appropriating certain internal improvement lands for the improvement of a state road in the counties of Livingston and Ge nesee. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Seaten and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That two thousand acres of internal improvement lands belonging to this state, be and the same are hereby appropriated for the purpose of opening and improving a state road eading from the village of Brighton in the county of Livingston, to Fentonville in Genesee county; also, a further appropriation of one thousand acres is hereby made for the improvement of the said state road between the villages of Fentonville and Flint, in said county of Genesee. Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into Special commisioner effect, the Governor of the state is hereby authorized to appoint a special commissioner, who shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, and shall file a bond with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Auditor General, conditioned to the faithful discharge of his duties as such commissioner. com'r. Sec. 3. The said special commissioner shall, by virtue of his apPowers of pointment, have the control and management of the improvement contemplated by this act, and shall have power to let out by contract the working and improvement of said roads to the lowest bidder, who shall execute and deliver to said commissioner a good and sufficient bond, with sureties, to be approved by him, and conditioned for the faithful performance of the work stipulated in said contract: Provi ded, That before such letting of work, the said commissioner shall advertise for proposals for opening and improving said road, or any part thereof, in separate sections or jobs, describing the same; such advertisement to be published at least four successive weeks in a newspaper published in the counties of Livingston and Genesee, respectively. contractors, Sec. 4. Whenever any contractor, under the preceding section of Payment of this act, shall have finished his job according to the terms and speci- &c. fications of his contract, and the same shall have been accepted by said special commissioner, or any service shall have been rendered under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of said special commissioner to pay said contractor or contractors for any such services or work, by his order drawn on the Auditor General for warrants drawn against and payable in internal improvement lands, and which warrants shall be received at the land office in payment for any internal improvement lands belonging to the state, not otherwise appropriated Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the Commissioner of the State Land Office to sell any of said lands at a price less than that now established by law, or in less quantity in any. one certificate than forty acres. Sec. 5. Said special commissioner shall proceed in the outlay of the appropriation made by this act with the diligence and dispatch that shall be compatible with proper economy and the best interests of the state, and shall receive for his services a sum not exceeding two dollars per day for the time necessarily employed by him in the discharge of the duties devolved upon him by virtue of this act, payable pro rata from said appropriation hereinbefore made, and shall render to the Auditor General an account of all services by him thus rendered, verified by his oath; and the Auditor General shall issue his warrant drawn against and payable in internal improvement lands for such amount, to be included in the appropriation by this act. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Aproved March 23, 1848. Compensa tion of al com'r, his spec acc't audited by Aud. Gen'l. No. 104. 1st township AN ACT to regulate the first township election in the township of Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa election of tives of the State of Michigan, That at the first township election Grosse Pointe. Act repealed to be held in the township of Grosse Pointe, in the county of Wayne, the electors present may choose viva voce, any three of their number, who shall constitute the inspectors of such election during the continuance treof; and such inspectors shall appoint some competent person as clerk of such election; and such clerk and each of such inspectors shall, before entering on their duties, take the constitutional oath of office, which oath may be administered by either of the inspectors; and said inspectors and clerk shall be subject to the general provisions of law relating to the inspectors and clerk of township elections. Sec. 2. An act entitled "an act to authorize the polls to be opened at two places in the township of Hamtramck," approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1848. No. 105. AN ACT authorizing Marcus S. Stone to Estate. convey certain Real Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Marcus S. Stone be, and he is hereby authorized to execute a deed or deeds, in due form of the following described premises, to wit: the south east quarter of the north east quarter of section thirty-five, in township five south, of range two west, to any person or persons who may purchase the whole or any part thereof; and any such deed or deeds duly executed and recorded, shall be deemed to convey and assure to the grantees therein named, their heirs or assigns, forever, the full and sufficient legal title in and to the aforesaid premises, for all intents what ever. Sec. 2. Before the said Marcus S. Stone shall sell the premises above described, and execute any deed or deeds therefor under the provisions of this act, he shall execute and deliver to the judge of probate of Hillsdale county, a bond, in such penalty as said judge shall direct, conditioned that he, the said Marcus S. Stone, will faithfully account for and pay over to said judge of probate, for the benefit of the widow and heirs of William Stone, deceased, the money received for the premises aforesaid, who is hereby authorized to divide the same among the parties interested, according to their legal interests therein Provided, That no sale by said Marcus S. Stone shall be valid or binding unless the said judge of probate shall endorse upon the deed or deeds to be executed his approval of such sale. Approved March 24, 1848. No. 106. AN ACT to amend "an act incorporating the Pittsburgh and Boston Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That "an act incorporating the Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company of Pittsburgh," be so amended as to insert the word "company" after the word "mining," in the first section of said act. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Act amend'd No. 107. AN ACT to organize a School District from portions of the counties of St. Clair and Macomb. Boundaries Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the following described pieces and parcels of land be set off and constituted into a school district, to of school dis wit: commencing at a point on Lake St. Clair, in the county of St. Clair, where the north-east side of tract number six hundred and four. trict defined. Lake district privileges of teen intersects the lake; thence north, forty-one degrees west, on said north-east side of the aforesaid tract until it intersects the east line of Macomb county, in section twelve, township three north, of range fourteen east ; thence west on the east and west quarter line through the centre of said section twelve, and so far into section eleven as to include the east half of the south-east quarter of said section eleven ; thence south through sections eleven and fourteen, and so far into section twenty-three as to include the north half of the south-east quarter of said section twenty-three; thence east to Lake St. Clair, in the county of Macomb; thence by the centre of said lake to the place of beginning. Sec. 2. The inhabitants residing within the limits aforesaid, shall be and they are hereby constituted a school district, to be known and designated as Lake District, and they shall have and possess the same power to meet and elect officers, under the direction of the school inspectors of either of the townships embracing said district or any part thereof, whose duty it shall be to issue their warrant to some taxable inhabitant, directing him to notify the inhabitants of said district of the first meeting for the election of officers, in the same manner as other districts are organized under existing laws. Sec. 3. And the said district when thus organized, shall have, posPowers and sess and enjoy, all the privileges, powers and immunities enjoyed and sand district. possessed by other school districts of this state, for the purposes of purchasing or leasing a site for a school house, levying and collecting moneys for the erection of the same, to hire teachers, and do all and singular, the necessary acts and duties to maintain a common school in said district, which the officers and inhabitants of school districts or ganized under existing laws may of right do. trict officers. Sec. 4. The officers of said school district shall report the scholars Duties of dein the said district to the proper officers of said respective towns, embracing the same, in the same manner, as near as may be, as is now required by law where districts are organized out of parts of different townships, and the clerk of the board of school inspectors shall report to the county clerk of the county in which the school house is situated and shall apportion the public money to suid district according to the number of scholars therein, in the same manner, as near as may be, as is now required by law for school districts situated in the same county. |