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[No. XIX.]

AN ACT appointing commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Dexter, in the county of Washtenaw, to Lyons, at the mouth of the Maple, in the county of Ionia.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That there shall be a state road laid out and established from Dexter, in the county of Washtenaw to the county seat of Ingham county, and from thence by the most direct and eligible route to the village of Lyons, at the mouth of the Maple. And that Solomon Southerland, of Unadilla, Edward Lyon and A. Crossman, of Dexter, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for that purpose.

Sec. 2. That in laying and establishing said road, the state shall not be liable for the expenses or damages incurred thereby.

Sec. 3. That if the commissioners shall not have performed the duty imposed upon them by the first section of this act, before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and all other things required by the existing laws, in relation to the laying out of state roads, then this act shall be void and of none effect.

Approved February 16, 1837.

[No. XX.]

AN ACT to provide for a geological survey of the state.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the governor is hereby authorized and directed to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to appoint a competent person, whose duty it shall be to make an accurate and complete geological survey of this state, which shall be accompanied with proper maps and diagrams, and furnish a full and scientific description of its rocks, soils and minerals, and of its botanical and geological productions, together with specimens of the same; which maps, diagrams and specimens shall be deposited in the state library, and similar specimens shall be deposited in such literary and scientific institutions as the governor shall direct; and the governor is fur

of assistants.

ther authorized to appoint from time to time, as the exigencies of Appointment the case may require, competent persons to act as assistants under the direction of the geologist.

tions.

Sec. 2. A sum not exceeding three thousand dollars for the Appropriayear one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, a sum not exceeding eight thousand for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and a sum not exceeding twelve thousand for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses that may be incurred under this act, which sums shall be paid out of the treasury from any money not otherwise appropriated, at such times, and in such sums as the governor may direct; and an account of all the expenditures of each year shall be annually reported to the legislature.

Sec. 3. The geologist, appointed under the provisions of this Report. act, shall make a report annually to the legislature, on the first Monday of January, in each year, setting forth generally the progress made in the survey hereby authorized.

Approved February 23, 1837.

[No. XXI.]

AN ACT to provide for recording patents for land, and for other purposes.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That it shall be the duty of the re- Registers to gister of deeds in the several counties of this state, to receive for tents.

record and record all patents for land from the United States, in the same manner as by the existing law he is required to receive and record deeds and conveyances.

record pa

evidence

Sec. 2. The record of a patent recorded in the register's office, Record or or a transcript of such record certified by the register in whose of gravite fice the same may be recorded under his hand, may be read in evidence in any court in this state, without further proof thereof. Approved February 23, 1837.

Terms of circuit court, 1st

circuit.

St. Clair.

Macomb.

Lapeer.

Genessee.

[No. XXII.]

AN ACT to alter the terms of the circuit courts in the first circuit.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaties of the State of Michigan, That the terms of the circuit courts for the several counties in the first circuit, shall be holden as follows: for the county of St. Clair, on the first Tuesday of April and October; for the county of Macomb, on the second Tuesday of April and October; for the county of Lapeer, on the third Tuesday of April and October; for the county of Genesee, on Thursday after the third Tuesday of April and October; for the county of Saganaw, on the fourth Tuesday of April and October; for the county of Oakland, on the first Tuesday of May and November; for the county of Wayne, on the third Tuesday of May and NoMackinac. vember; for the county of Michilimackinac, on the second Monday Chippewa. of July; and for the county of Chippewa, on the second Wednesday after the second Monday of July.

Saganaw.

Oakland.

Wayne.

Causes &c. transferred.

Repeal.

Sec. 2. All causes and other matters pending in either of said courts, and all writs or process issued or to be issued before the first day of April next, and made returnable at any time fixed by law for either of said courts at the time this act is passed, shall be continued to, or returnable at the term hereby established for the same court, and shall be proceeded in by said court as fully and effectually as though the same had been regularly continued to or made returnable at the term of said court hereby established. So much of any act as contravenes this act, or any part thereof, is hereby repealed.

Approved February 25, 1837.

[No. XXIII.]

AN ACT to vacate the present seat of justice of the county of Berrien, and to establish the same at the village of Berrien, in said county.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaCounty seat tives of the State of Michigan, That the present seat of justice of the county of Berrien, be, and the same is hereby, vacated from

of Berrien

vacated.

and after the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

at the village

of Berrien.

buildings.

Sec. 2. That from and after the said first day of May, in the year aforesaid, the seat of justice of said county shall be, and the same is Established hereby, established at the village of Berrien, in said county, as recorded in the register's office of Cass county; and the board of supervisors of said county are hereby authorized and empowered, from and after the said first day of May, to designate and fix the County site for the erection of county buildings for said county, in the village of Berrien aforesaid, upon such lots in the said village of Berrien as may be conveyed by the proprietors of said village for that purpose to the supervisors of said county and their successors in office: Provided always, That this act shall not take effect until after the proprietors of said village of Berrien shall have reimbursed to the former and present proprietors and inhabitants of the village of St. Joseph such sums as they may have expended in the erection of public buildings in said village, and all moneys paid to the commissioners for locating the county seat at St. Joseph, to be ascertained and stated by the said board of supervisors, at a meeting of said board to be holden on the third Tuesday of April next: And provided further, That the title to said Proviso: lots or such other lots as a majority of said supervisors shall elect for public purposes, shall have been previously vested in said county by proper deeds of conveyance.

All lots given

ings, to re

donors.

Sec. 3. All lots in the village of St. Joseph, which, agreeably to the original plot of said village as recorded in the register's of- for Co. buildfice in Cass county, were donated to the county, to enable the vert to the county to erect county buildings thereon, shall revert and vest in the persons donating the same, and their representatives, whenever and as soon as the county seat shall be removed from St. Joseph, and all title and claim to said lots, either in law or in equity, shall be deemed to be cancelled and extinguished, any deed which may have been made to the county to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved February 25, 1837.

[No. XXIV.]

AN ACT to incorporate the village of Coldwater, in the county of Branch.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan That all that tract of land in

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the county of Branch, which is embraced within the following limits, to wit: beginning at a point on the Chicago road, one-half of a mile east of the centre of the public square, in the village of Coldwater, as designated on the recorded plat of said village, running south, twelve degrees west, two hundred and forty rods to a stake and stones; thence north, seventy-eight degrees west, four hundred and twenty-five rods to a stake and stones; thence north, twelve degrees east, four hundred rods to a stake and stones; thence south, seventy-eight degrees east, four hundred and twentyfive rods to a stake and stones; thence south, twelve degrees west, to the place of beginning, excepting so much of section sixteen as may be included within said boundaries, be, and the same is hereby constituted a town corporate, and shall hereafter be known by the name or title of the village of Coldwater.

Sec. 2. It shall be lawful for the free male inhabitants of said town, having the qualifications of electors, to meet at the Central Exchange, in said village of Coldwater, on the first Monday of May next, and on the first Monday of May annually thereafter, and then and there proceed by a plurality of votes, to elect by ballot, a president, recorder and six trustees, who shall hold their offices one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and any five of them shall be a board for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time: Provided, That if an election of president, recorder and trustees shall not be made on the day when pursuant to this act it ought to be made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall and may be lawful to hold such election at any time thereafter, pursuant to public notice, to be given in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

Sec. 3. At the first election to be holden under this act, there shall be chosen viva voce, by the electors present, two judges and a clerk of said election, who shall each take an oath or affirmation faithfully to discharge the duties required of him by this act; and at all subsequent elections, the trustees or any two of them shall be Mode of elec- judges, and the recorder clerk of the election; and at all elections to be held under this act, the polls shall be opened between the hours of nine and ten o'clock in the forenoon, and close at three o'clock in the afternoon, of said day; and at the close of the polls, the votes shall be counted, and a true statement thereof proclaimed to the electors present, by one of the judges, and the clerk shall

tions.