Commission to lay out state road. No. 136. AN ACT to lay out, establish and improve the Benton and Vermontville state road in the county of Eaton. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaer appointed tives of the State of Michigan, That Hosey Hovey is hereby appointed a commissioner to lay out and establish a state road from the village of Vermontville east through the Wheaton settlement, in the township of Chester, and the Hovey settlement in the township of Benton, to a point on the Battle Creek and Michigan state road, within the township of Benton, who shall cause the survey bill of the same to be filed for record in the office of the several township clerks of the townships through which the same shall be laid out. Sec. 2. For the purpose of improving so much of the road to be highway tax- laid out by section one of this act as runs through the townships of Ches Non-resident es appropria ted for said ter and Benton, there is hereby appropriated all of the non-resident road. Special com. missioner. His powers highway taxes of the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for four years next thereafter for two miles each way from the centre of said road within the township of Benton, and for two miles from the centre of said road on the south side thereof, and one half mile from the centre of said road on the north side thereof within the township of Chester. Sec. 3. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of section two of this act, the above named Hosey Hovey is hereby appointed a special commissioner, who shall be governed by the same laws, as far as the same may be applicable, in expending all moneys that may be subject to his control by the provisions of this act, as are now or may hereafter be in operation for the government of township highway commissioners. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said special commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, to take and subscribe an oath to and duties. faithfully perform the duties herein assigned him, and file the same in the office of the county clerk of his county, and deliver to the county treasurer of Eaton county a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties, to be by him approved, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties imposed upon him by virtue of this act; and in default thereof it shall be the duty of said county treasurer to prosecute the same in the same manner as bonds are prosecuted against county officers. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of said special commissioner, on or be. [bid. fore the first day of May next, to make out a list of all non-resident lands coming under the provisions of this act, and deliver the same to the county treasurer, who shall thereupon open an account with the Benton and Vermontville state road fund, and credit to said fund all moneys then in his hands, or which may hereafter be paid into his of fice as non-resident highway taxes upon any of the lands described in said list, and charge said fund all moneys which may be drawn from said fund by said special commissioner. Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of said special commissioner, in payment for any labor performed or materials furnished in the improvement of said road, to issue his certificate to any person who may be entitled to the same, certifying the facts as they exist in the case, and draw his warrant thereon (for the amount due such person or persons) upon the Benton and Vermontville state road fund; and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys to the credit of said fund, and charge the same as provided in section four of this act. Sec. 7. The above named commissioner shall be entitled to receive Ibid. His compen as compensation for any services rendered, in the discharge of any of sation. the duties imposed on him by virtue of this act, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day, for the time employed in carrying out its provisions, and his account for the same verified by his oath, shall be audited by the board of supervisors of Eaton county, and paid out of any moneys to the credit of the above fund. Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 29, 1848. No. 137. AN ACT to amend chapter twenty-seven of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, relative to the erection, repairing and preservation of bridges. utes amend Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Revised stat tives of the State of Michigan, That chapter twenty-seven of the ed. revised statutes be amended by adding thereto the following sections, to stand as a part thereof: Repairs, &c. of bridges, same. Sec. 6. If any bridge over a stream intersected by a highway, in any township of this state, has been within the last year or shall hereafter be injured or destroyed by the occurrence of a freshet, or from any other cause, it shall be the duty of the highway commissioners of such township to proceed with all convenient despatch to repair or reconstruct such bridge, as the case may require, under the personal supervision of one of their number, or by letting a contract therefor under existing provisions of law: Provided, That application for such repairs or reconstruction shall first be made to such commissioners in writing, signed by at least twelve freeholders of the township, and verified by the oath of such applicants, that the public interest requires such repairs or reconstruction: And provided, That the sum to be expended for such repairs or reconstruction shall not in any one year exceed two hundred dollars in any one organized township. Sec. 7. In payment for the labor performed, materials furnished, and necessary expenses incurred, for the purpose in the last precedPayment of labor for the ing section specified, the said highway commissioners are hereby authorized to draw and issue their orders upon the township treasurer, redeemable out of the proceeds of the tax to be levied and collected therefor in the manner provided by the following section. Duty clerk. Sec. 8. For the purposes of levying and collecting such tax, the Dery of town said highway commissioners shall furnish the township clerk with the amount of all the orders drawn by them for the objects aforesaid, on or before the first Monday of October thereafter; and the said township clerk shall thereupon include such amount in the statement of moneys to be raised for township purposes, to be by him delivered to the supervisor, under the provisions of existing law. Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 29, 1848. No. 138. AN ACT to incorporate the Leoni Seminary. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Wilder B. Mack, Jacob SagenIncorporat'n dolph, Aaron Rowe, Abel Scott, Andrew Brown, 2d, William Jackson, Benajah Bayne, Ira W. Kellogg, Mason Branch, Samuel Lapham, Jared Warner and Isaiah Raymond, of the State of Michigan, together with such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors for that purpose, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Leoni Seminary, subject to the provisons relating to corporations contained in chapter fifty-five of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, and such amendments thereof as may from time to time be made by the Legislature. Powers and trustees. Sec 2. The trustees shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to establish in the village of Leoni in the county of Jackson, an duties of institution for the instruction of young persons in ancient or modern languages or literature, and the arts and sciences, and shall faithfully apply all funds received by them for that purpose, by subscription, bequest or otherwise, in providing suitable buildings, employing professors and teachers, procuring books, maps, philosophical and other apparatus necessary or proper for the successful prosecution of study in said institution. Sec. 3. Said board of trustees shall be in law capable of acquiring and holding, by purchase, gift, grant, devise or bequest, or otherwise, and of selling, conveying or leasing any estate, real, personal or mixed, in value not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the use of said corporation, and no other, and shall be held liable for all debts as partners in trade, after the corporate property shall have been exhausted. Ibid. Sec. 4. The institution shall be subject to visitation at any time by. the superintendent of public instruction, and the trustees shall annually, on or before the 20th day of October, in each year, make to the superintendent a full report of the literary and pecuniary condition of port. said institution. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 29, 1848. Annual visitation. Annual re Certificates and orders No. 139. AN ACT to regulate the issuing of certain land warrants by the Auditor General, and limiting the time within which the same shall be receivable at the State Land Office in payment for internal improvement lands. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That all certificates or orders hereaf ter to be drawn by any special commissioner, to be appointed in virof all special tue of any act appropriating internal improvement lands for the conland appro- struction of any wharf, pier, canal, towing path or bridge, or for the 1848 shall be laying out, opening and improvement of any roads, ditches or drains, Aud. Gen', or for improving the navigation of any river or other water course, com'rs on priations for presented to &c. must be pre sented to Aud. Gen'l. which has already passed, and been approved, or shall hereafter be passed and approved, during the session of legislature for the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be presented to the Auditor General, who shall thereupon issue warrants for a like sum drawn against, and payable in internal improvement lands: Provided, That no lands shall be selected by virtue of any act passed at this session of the legislature appropriating any internal improvement lands from the upper peninsula of Michigan: Provided also, That the warrants issued as aforesaid shall, by their terms be receivable for lands in the lower peninsula only. Sec. 2. Every certificate or order so to be drawn by any such speWhen order cial commissioner, in payment for any job, for services rendered, for laborers employed, for materials purchased or articles furnished, shall be presented to the Auditor General for such warrants within one year from the date thereof; and if any such certificate or order shall not be so presented within the time in this section limited, then the same shall become void, and the claim upon which it is founded shall be annulled; and all certificates and orders to be issued as aforesaid, shall contain upon their face a statement of the above limitation, as to the time within which they are required to be presented to the Auditor General for When to be state land of warrants. Sec. 3. Every warrant to be drawn by the Auditor General under presented at said several acts of appropriation, and in pursuance of the provisions fice. of the first section of this act, shall be presented at the state land of fice, and internal improvement lands selected therefor within the peri |