TABLE OF CONTENTS Act No. 1. Authorizing surrender of special charter of Detroit, Grand Haven and Mil- 2. Providing for issuance of bonds for sewage disposal systems. 3. Amending general liquor law. 4. Appropriation for Michigan state prison. 5. Amending act to define powers and duties of boards of supervisors; com- 6. Amending act providing for recording of town plats. 8. Appropriation for Central Michigan normal school. 9. Regulating height of aeroplanes, etc., over open air assemblies. 10. Amending act relative to assessing, etc., school taxes. 11. Amending act to purchase site and erect buildings for a state tuberculosis 12. Amending act providing for annexation to city school districts of school dis- tricts in territory annexed to certain cities comprising one school district. 13. Amending act authorizing sale of certain lands owned by the state. 14. Authorizing boards of supervisors to create sinking fund to purchase sites, 15. Creating commission to investigate criminal court procedure, etc. 16. Repealing act providing for service of process upon occupants of land in action for foreclosure of mortgage, etc. 17. Providing method of pledging real estate by sureties on criminal bonds, etc. 18. Creating commission to inquire into expenditures, etc., of Michigan patriotic 19. Amending act relative to foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement; notice. 20. Amending motor vehicle act; extension of time for registration renewal. PUBLIC ACTS [No. 1.] AN ACT to authorize the proper state officers to contract on behalf of the state of Michigan with the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company for the surrender of its special charter, for the acquiring and improving by the state of property for a new right of way for said railway company, including station grounds and facilities at Birmingham, and the exchange thereof for said railway company's present right of way adjacent, or in close proximity to, state trunk line road number ten between said railway company's mile posts number thirteen and twentytwo and one-tenth in Oakland county, Michigan, and for the reimbursing of the state by said railway company of the cost of acquiring and improving said new right of way; and to provide for the carrying out of the terms and conditions of said contract. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whereas, the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company is a corporation organized, existing and doing business in the state of Michigan under a special charter consisting of the act of March seven, eighteen hundred thirty-four, of the territorial legislature of Michigan, and acts amendatory and supplementary thereto, and claims privileges and immunities thereunder, certain of which, viz., tax limitations whereby said company pays only twenty-five thousand one hundred seventy-one dollars and forty cents a year in taxes, has been adjudged by the courts of last resort to be binding in perpetuity, and Whereas, the state of Michigan has for many years desired to obtain a surrender of said special charter by said Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company and to have said company incorporate under the general railroad laws of the state, whereby it would pay a specific tax for the benefit of the primary school fund on the same basis as other railroad companies in this state are taxed, and Whereas, the state of Michigan also desires to obtain the railroad right of way of the said Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway Company from Royal Oak (its mile post number thirteen) to a point between Birmingham and Pontiac (its mile post number twenty-two and one-tenth) in Oakland county, Michigan, hereinafter referred to as the old right of way, for the widening and improving of state trunk line road number ten, also known as Woodward avenue, and |