Saginaw to Cheboygan, approved February 4, 26. An act to amend section six of act No. one hun- 27. An act to aid in the improvement of a certain State, approved February 4, 1858,.. 28. An act to provide for laying out and establishing a State road in the county of Sanilac, approved February 4, 1858,... 29. An act to amend act entitled "an act to incorpo- 30. An act to incorporate the city of Ypsilanti, ap- 32. An act to amend an act entitled " an act to provide for assessing property at its true value and for levying and collecting taxes thereon," approved February 14th, 1853, and an act amendatory thereto, approved February 12th, 1855, approved February 4, 1858, . . . Page. 74 75 76 76 81 93 169 176 No. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. Title. Page. 1. Joint resolution relative to an appropriation of a grant of land for the endowment of the Michigan Agricultural College, approved January 29, 1858, 195 2. Joint resolution relative to the protection and per manent security of the St. Mary's Falls ship ca- 3. Joint resolution relative to a Northern Pacific Rail- 195 196 5. Joint resolution of instruction to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, urging the passage of an act of Congress making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors, approved February 3, 1858,.... 6. Joint resolution relative to the extension of Slavery, approved February 3, 1858,... 7. Joint Resolution relative to the indebtedness of the county of Washtenaw to the State, approved February 3, 1858..... 8. Joint Resolution providing for the distribution of highway laws to certain township officers, approved February 3, 1858..... 9. Joint Resolution relative to the distribution of the Session Laws, Journals and documents of the Legislature of the year eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, approved February 3, 1858.... 198 198 200 200 201 201 10. Joint Resolution relative to the Saginaw and Cheboygan State road, approved February 4, 1858,.. 202 LAWS OF MICHIGAN. [ No. 1. ] AN ACT to provide rooms for holding the sessions of of the Supreme Court, and the collection and preservation of the records of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Michigan. General to rooms, bles, &c., for Court. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Attorney That the Attorney General be and he is hereby author-provide ized to procure apartments in the city of Detroit, in which desks, tato hold the sessions of the supreme court, and to provide Supreme the necessary furniture for fitting up the same; and also proper desks, cases, tables and other furniture for the safe keeping and preservation of the records, books and papers of the court, to be kept and preserved in such apartments; and in the name of the people of the State, to sign and execute any lease of such apartments upon such terms as he shall see fit: Provided, Such lease shall not be for a longer term than five years, and shall be de- Limit of terminable whenever any three of the judges of the court shall give, or cause to be given, three months notice to that effect to the lessor, his heirs, executors or assigns, or the person or persons claiming under him or them: And provided further, That the State shall not be responsible Proviso for any damage to such apartments by fire, which lease, or a duplicate thereof, shall be deposited with the Auditor General. lease. paid. Sec. 2. The Auditor General is required to draw his Rent, how warrant on the State Treasury for the amount of rent from time to time falling due on such lease; and also for Duties of elerk of Su of Wayne county. such necessary furniture, upon the certificate of one of the justices of the court that the same has been duly delivered, and upon the presentation and allowance of the same, as in other cases provided, by the Board of State Auditors. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the supreme preme Court court in Wayne county, to collect and obtain possession of all the books of record, files and papers of the supreme court of the Territory of Michigan, belonging to said court in the county of Wayne or elsewhere, and to deposit them in such apartments, in proper order, to be there kept and preserved until removed to some other place by order of the supreme court. Rooms at the capitol to be fitted up. Librarian. Sec. 4. Three apartments in the capitol, at Lansing, are assigned for the use of the supreme court, to be fitted up under the direction of the Auditor General, at the expense Duties of St. of the State, which expenses are to be credited [audited] and allowed by the said Board of Auditors; and the State Librarian is hereby directed to allow such portion of the law books belonging to the state library as the justices shall select, to be removed from the room in which they now are, and placed in one of such apartments for the use of the justices, there to remain during the session of said court. Sec. 5. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved January 29, 1858. Supervisor to make new [ No. 2.] AN ACT to authorize the Supervisor of the township of Macomb, in the county of Macomb, to make a new assessment of the real and personal property of said township, and to extend the time for the collection of taxes in said township. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, assessment. That the supervisor of the township of Macomb, in the county of Macomb, shall have authority to make a new assessment of the real and personal property of said town |