Public and Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan

LIST OF ACTS.

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1. An act to provide for the payment of officers and mem

bers of the legislature, and for other purposes, 2. An act to vacate a part of the village of Niles, 3. An act to change the terms of the Court of Chancery, 4. An act to provide for the payment of the assistant libra

rian, the private secretary of the Governor, and the

messengers of the two Houses of the legislature, 5. An act to incorporate the Misses Clarks school at Ann

Arbor, 6. An act to provide for the repairing the jail in the coun.

ty of Wayne, 7. An act to authorize Samuel Demarast and others, to

build a dam across Flat river, in the county of Mont

calm, 8. An act to amend an act to incorporate the Detroit and

Grand River Plank Road Company, 9. An act to amend an acı enriiled an act amendatory to

the several acts incorporating the Wesleyan Semina

ry at Albion, 10. An act to amend an act authorizing William W. Bliss,

administrator of Harvey Bliss, &c., deceased, to con

vey certain real estate, approved February 22, 1843, 11. An act for the relief of George Davis, 12. Au act to amend an act entitled an act for the destruc

tion of wolves, 13. An act to amend an act authorizing the construction of

a wagon road on the line of the Northern Railroad, 14. An act to provide for the completion of the Palmyra and

Jacksonburgh Railrood as a branch of the Southern

Railroad, 15. An act to provide for the completion of the Central

Railroad from Marshall to Kalamazoo, 16. An act to amend the law in relation to criines, 17. An act authorizing the State Geologist to perform cer

tain acts, and for other purposes, 18. An act to amend an act entiiled an act to amend an act

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to authorize the erection of a toll gate and for keep-
ing in repair the Detroit and Saginaw road, an for oth-

er purposes, approved January 26, 1844.
19. An act to provide for the construction and improvement

of a certain stale road running from Kalamazoo, in

Kalamazoo county, to Ionia, in the county of Ionia, 20. An act to provide for establishing and constructing

a road from the village of Lyons, in the county of lo

nia, to the village of Ada, in the county of Kent,
21. An act 10 provide for the construction of a certain state

road from the village of Schoolcraft, in Kalamazoo
county, to where said road intersects the territorial

road from Kalamazoo to St. Joseph, in Berrien county, 22. An act in relation to redemption of general fund war

rants and delinquent tax stock or bonds,
23. An act to amend the charter of the city of Detroit,
24. An act to lay out, establish and provide for the con-

struction of a state road, commencing at the quarter
post between sections twenty-three and twenty-six,town
4, north of range 10 west, in the county of Barry,
thence by the most direct and eligible route to the vil.

lage of Grand Rapids, in Kent county,
25. An act to amend an act entitled an act to establish and

improve the Pontiac and Grand River road, approved

March 9, 1844, 26. An act 10 change the name of Michigan village, 27. An act to provide for locking the Clinton and Kalama

zoo canal into the Clinton river, at the village of Fred

erick, and for other purposes, 28. An act to authorize Philo Beers and Anson Ensign 10

erect a dam across Flat river, in the county of Mont

calm, 29. An act to provide for the payment of G. F. Rood & Co. 30. An act to provide for laying out and establishing a state

road from Grand Rapids to Muskegon, 31. An act to provide for the service of process upon agents

of corporations in certain cases, 32. An act to incorporate the Michigan Central College at

Spring Arbor, 33. An act concerning certain records of the Circuit Court

of the county of Oakland, 34. An act to provide for laying out a certain road from

Grandville to Grand Haven, 35. An act to provide for laying out a certain road from

Grand Rapids to Muskegon Lake, 36. An act to provide for laying out a state road from Augus

tine, in the county of Kalamazoo via Gull Mills to

Yankee Springs, in Barry county, 37 An act to authorize Arad Melvin and John Scales to

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erect a dam across Flat river, in the county of Kent, 38. An act to provide for taking the census for the year eight

een hundred and forty-five, 39. An act to amend an act to establish a board of county

auditors for Wayne county, and for other purposes, ap

proved March 11, 1844, 40. An act to provide for laying out a state road from Vic

tor, in the county of Clinton, to the New Mills, so

called, in the same county, 11. An act to incorporate the Odd Fellows Hall Association

of the city of Detroit, 42. An act to organize certain townships to change the name

of certain townships, and for other purposes, 43. An act for the relief of the Monroe and Ypsilanti Rail

road Company, 44. An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the re

spective counties of this state, to raise by tax a suffi

cient sum to erect county buildings, 45. An act to revive and extend an act entitled an act to ex

tend Fort street, in the city of Detroit, until it inter

sects the road leading from Detroit to Dearbonyille, 46. An act to modify the license law, 47. An act to organize a road district of parts of the coun

ties of Oakland, Macomb and Wayne, 48. An act to amend an act entitled an act to divide the Up

per Peninsula into six counties, and to define the boun

daries of the same, approved March 9, 1843. 49. An act to provide for the alteration of a certain state

road, 50. An act to authorize the appointment of commissioners

to take acknowledgment of deeds and instruments in

writing under seal out of the state, 51. An act to provide for laying out and establishing and

constructing a state road in the county of Macomb, 52. An act to authorize Ann Reeves to execute a convey

ance of certain real estate, 53. An act to amend an act to incorporate the village of

Coldwater, in the county of Branch, approved Febru

ary 29, 1837, 54. An act to amend chapter 3, title 3, part 1st of the Re

vised Statutes relative to the duty of county surveyors, 55. An act to amend chapter 4, title 1, part 3 of the Revised

Statutes,
56. An act relative to the Militia,
57. An act appropriating certain highway taxes for the im-

provement of the state road from the village of Paw
Paw in the county of Van Buren, to the village of St.

Joseph, in the county of Berrien,
58. An act to authorize John R. Haynes to construct a dam

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across the Paw Paw river, in the county of Van Bu.

ren,
59. An act to provide for establishing and constructing a
wagon

road from Jackson to the village of Saranac in
the county of Ionia, to be denominated the Clinton

road,
60. An act to provide for laying out a state road from Union

city to Bowman's mills,
61. An act to authorize the sale of certain lands on the

Macon reserve,
62. An act to amend the several acts in relation to the vil.

lage of Pontiac,
63. An act to vacate portions of certain streets in the vil.

lage of Bertrand,
64. An act to provide for the sale of lands bid in by the state

for delinquent taxes, and for other purposes,
65. An act to repeal a part of an act entitled "an act in re-

lation to certain actions in ejectment,
66. An act for the relief of Horace Steevens,
67. An act to provide for the re-assessment of taxes rejected.

by the Auditor General, and for other purposes,
68. An act to incorporate the St. Clair and Romeo Turnpike

Company,
69. An act to amend an act relative to common schools, ap-

proved March 8, 1843.
70. An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the coun-

ty of Hillsdale to build a jail,
71. An act to amend an act entitled an act 10 prescribe the
powers

and duties of justices of the peace in civil pro-
ceedings, approved April 9, 1841,
72. An act to provide against trespass upon the towing path

of canals,
73. An act to re-locate a certain state road,
74, An act to amend un act entitled an act to repeal the

charters of certain banks, and for other purposes, ap

proved February 16, 1842,
75. An act to incorporate the Ypsilanti Seminary,
76. An act to incorporate the Ann Arbor Female Seminary,
77. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for

the laying out of a certain state road, and for other

purposes, approved March 9, 1844,
78. An act for the relief of the heirs of Timothy Crittenden,
79. An act to authorize Orange J. Niles and George Niles,

to build a store-house on the margin of the Clinton and

Kalamazoo canal,
80. An act to amend the second clause of section 3, chap

ter 1, title 5, part 3 of the Revised Statutes relative to

costs,
81. An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the

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publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court and

Court of Chancery, approved February 29, 1844, 82. An act to change the name of Willson Hamilton Coffin, 83. An act to authorize the township board of the town of

Newark, county of Allegan, to build a free bridge

across Kalamazoo river, at or near its mouth, 84. An act for the relief of Mark Cannon, 85. An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the

Cottonwood Swamp Turnpike Company,
86. An act for the relief of John Silk,
87. An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act

providing for the final adjustment of all unsettled claims
or damages growing out of the internal improvements

of the state, approved February 20, 1844,
88. An act to provide for the laying out of certain state roads
89. An act to authorize the state officers to act as trustees

of the Michigan State Bank, and for other purposes, 90. An act to provide for the sale of the salt spring land be

longing to the state, 91. An act for the relief of school district number six, in the

township of Manchester, county of Washtenaw, 92. An act to amend part first, title four, chapter one of the

Revised Statutes, 93. An act to provide for laying out a certain state road, 94. An act to amend an act entitled an act to prescribe the powers

and duties of justices of the peace in civil proceedings, and for other purposes, 95. An act to authorize Fabius Miles to construct a dam a

cross the Paw Paw river, in the county of Van Buren, 96. An act to provide for laying out a state road from Ponti

ac to Hillman's tavern, in the township of Tyrone,

county of Livingston, 97. An act to provide for the laying out and establishing a

state road, and for other purposes,
98. An act for the relief of the township of Marcellus,
99. An act to authorize the commissioners of highways of

the town of Jackson, in the county of Jackson, to al-
ter a state road mentioned therein, and for other pur-

poses,
100. An act in relation to the duties of the circuit court com-

missioners, 101. An act to provide for improving the state road from Mar

shall to Ionia,
102. An act to establish a Board of Auditors to investigate

certain claims growing out of the sales of the primary
or common schools, university and internal improve-

ment lands,
103. An act appropriating certain non-resident highway tax-

es for the purpose of improving the Detroit and Grand

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