in such county, or if none in the county, then in one published nearest thereto, for at least four successive weeks; the first publication whereof shall be at least thirty days prior to the making of such application. If the business of such Corporation shall not be local in its character, or if the business authorized by the charter shall be confined chiefly to the Upper Peninsula, then such notice shall be published once in each week for four successive weeks, in some paper published in the City of Detroit; the first publication whereof shall be at least thirty days prior to the making of such application. And if the applicant or applicants shall not be able to get such notice published in such paper as in this section mentioned, after having tendered to the publishers thereof a reasonable compensation therefor, then such notice may be filed in the office of the County Clerk of the county where the principal business office of such Corporation may be located, and a duplicate thereof in the office of the Secretary of State, at least thirty days prior to such application; and such filing shall be deemed a sufficient publication thereof; and proof of the publication or filing of such notice as in this section mentioned, by affidavit of the publisher, or the certificate of the Secretary of State, shall accompany every application in this section mentioned. When application (2170.) Sec. 3. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent without previous any Corporation, or any individual, from applying to the Legislature for an amendment of any act of incorporation without such notice as above provided, if the amendment applied for be shown to be necessary to provide for any accident, or to remedy any defect which may have occurred within the period herein above required for the giving of such notice, nor shall this act prevent the Legislature without such notice from amending any charter of a Municipal Corporation in any particular which they may deem necessary for the public interest; and in either of the cases in this section mentioned, one day's previous notice in either House, by a member thereof, shall be deemed sufficient. may be made notice. CHAPTER LXXIX. Of Reports from Incorporated Academies, and other Literary Institutions. CHAPTER LXXX. Of Teachers' Institutes. to have general Public Instruc tion. An Act Prescribing the Duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to Repeal Chapter to Amend said Chapter Fifty Six, approved March twenty-ninth, one [Approved April 4, 1851. Took effect July 8, 1851. Laus of 1851, p. 116.] Superintendent (2171.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, supervision of That the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have general supervision of Public Instruction, and it shall be his duty, Annual Report of. among other things, to prepare annually and transmit a report to the Governor, to be transmitted by him to the Legislature at each biennial session thereof, containing: Report to embody abstracts of Re 1. A statement of the condition of the University, and its branches, of all incorporate Literary Institutions and of the Primary Schools; 2. Estimates and amounts of expenditures of the school. money; 3. Plans for the improvement and management of all educational funds, and for the better organization of the educational system, if in his opinion the same be required; 4. The condition of the Normal School; 5. All such other matters relating to his office, and the subject of education generally, as he shall deem expedient to communicate. (2172.) SEC. 2. He shall make all necessary abstracts of the ports of Inspec- reports of School Inspectors, transmitted to him by the clerks, and embody so much of the same in his report as may be tors. To prepare forms, regulations, etc, сега. necessary. (2173.) SEC. 3. He shall prepare and cause to be printed, for School Off with the laws relating to primary schools, all necessary forms, regulations and instruments for conducting all proceedings under said laws, and transmit the same, with such instructions relative to the organization and government of such schools, and the course of studies to be pursued therein, as he may deem advisable, to the several officers entrusted with their care and management. Forms, etc., to be printed in (2174.) SEC. 4. School laws, forms, regulations and instrucpamphlet form. tions shall be printed in pamphlet form, with a proper index, and shall have also annexed thereto a list of such books as the Superintendent shall think best adapted to the use of the primary schools, and a list of books suitable for township libraries, with such rules as he may think proper for the government of such libraries. Primary School (2175.) SEC. 5. He shall annually, on receiving notice from Apportionment of the Auditor General of the amounts thereof, apportion the Fund. income of the primary school fund among the several townships and cities of the State, in proportion to the number of scholars in each between the age of four and eighteen years, as the same shall appear by the reports of the several Township Inspectors of primary schools, made to him for the year last. closed. ditor General statement of the to each County. (2176.) SEC. 6. He shall prepare annually a statement of the To furnish Auamount, in the aggregate, payable to each county in the State with Annual from the income of the primary school fund, and shall deliver amount payable the same to the Auditor General, who shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of each county for the amount payable to such county. Clerk of amount in each County. (2177.) SEC. 7. He shall also send written notices to the Notices to County clerks of the several counties, of the amount, in the aggregate, to be disb.rsed to be disbursed in their respective counties, and the amount payable to the townships therein respectively; which notice shall be disposed of as directed by an act entitled, "An Act to amend Chapter fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of one Chap. 78, Sec. thousand eight hundred and forty-six." approved March twentyeight, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. (2355). tionment, how Reports defec (2178.) SEC. 8. Whenever the returns from any county, Rates of apportownship or city, upon which a statement of the amount to be ascertained when disbursed or paid to any such county, township or city, shall uve. be so far defective as to render it impracticable to ascertain the share of public moneys which ought to be disbursed or paid to such county, township or city, he shall ascertain, by the best evidence in his power, the facts upon which the ratio of such apportionment shall depend, and shall make the apportionment accordingly. deficiency may the next year. (2179.) SEC. 9. Whenever, by accident, mistake, or any In what cases other cause, the returns from any county, township or city, be apportioned upon which a statement of the amount to be disbursed to any such county, township or city, shall not contain the whole number of scholars in such county, township or city, between the of four and eighteen years, and entitled to draw money from said fund, by which any such county, township or city, shall fail to have apportioned to it the amount to which it shall justly be entitled, the Superintendent, on receiving satisfactory proof thereof, shall apportion such deficiency to such county, township or city, in his next annual apportionment; and Interest on Educational Fund, how computed and how paid. Superintendent at the expiration to Successor the conditions of this section shall extend to all cases which accrue in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty. (2180.) SEC. 10. Upon all sums paid into the State Treasury upon account of the principal of any of the educational funds, except where the provision is or shall be made by law, the Treasurer shall compute interest from the time of such payment, or from the time of the last computation of interest thereon, to the first Monday of April in each and every year, and shall give credit therefor to each and every school fund, as the case may be; and such interest shall be paid out of the general fund. (2181.) SEC. 11. The Superintendent shall, at the expiration of term to deliver of his term of office, deliver over, on demand, to his successor, books, papers, all property, books, documents, maps, records, reports, and all other papers belonging to his office, or which may have been received by him for the use of his office. etc. Certain enactments repealed. (2182.) SEC. 12. Chapter fifty-six of the Revised Statutes of R. S., of 1846, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and an act to amend Chap. 36. 1850, p. 181. said chapter fifty-six, approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, are hereby repealed. SECTION CHAPTER LXXV. OF THE UNIVERSITY, AND ITS BRANCHES. 2183. University continued. 2184. Its objects. 2185. Government vested in Board of Regents. 2188. May remove President, Professors, etc. 2190. Of what Departments University to consist. 2192. To make provision for Meteorological 2193. General direction of Institution. 2194. Admission Fees; What Students admitted without Fee. SECTION 2195. University to be open to Citizens of the State without charge. 2196. Moneys to whom paid, and how applied. 2197. Annual Report of Regents. 2198. Buildings may be erected from increase of 2199. Interest of Fund, how expended. branches. 2202. Meetings of Board. 2203. Board of Visitors may be appointed; Their duties and Report. 2204. Regents and Visitors to be paid their ex- 2205. Orders on Treasurer how signed. |