Such

and valid against said society in its corporate capacity.
mortgage shall be a valid lien upon the property that shall be
mortgaged by such trustees, under the authority aforesaid.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Approved February 15, 1861.

Fection amended.'

Renewal of statem. nt

Proviso.

[ No. 54. ]

AN ACT to amend act number two hundred and forty-eight, of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "an act to regulate fire, marine, life and health insurance companies and their agents, associations, partnerships and individuals, doing fire, marine, life and health insurance business, not incorporated by the State of Michigan, approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty nine.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section four of an act entitled "an act to regulate fire, marine, life and health insurance companies and their agents, associa tions, partnerships and individuals, doing fire, marine, life and health insurance business, not incorporated by the State of Michigan," approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, be amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4. The statement and evidences of investment required by this act shall be renewed annually, in the month of February in each year; and the Secretary of State, on being satisfied that the capital, securities and investments remain secure as at first, shall furnish a renewal of the certificate as aforesaid; and the agent or agents obtaining such renewed certificate shall file a copy of the same, together with a copy of the statement on which it was obtained or renewed, in the office of the clerk of the county in which said agency is established, or propose to transact business: Provided, That for the present year the said statement may be filed at any time within three months after this act shall take effect.

Sec. 2. That a new section be added to the act hereby amended, to stand as section nine, which shall read as follows:

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of any and all companies doing

against off

Sec. 2. That section four, of title eleven, of said act, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4. If any suit shall be commenced against any person Suits
elected or appointed under this act to any office, for any act ceis.
done or omitted to be done under such election or appointment,
or against any person having done any thing or act by the com-
mand of any such officer, and if final judgment be rendered in
such suit whereby any such defendant shall be entitled to costs,
he shall recover double costs, in the manner defined by law,
except in cases wherein the city of Grand Rapids shall be
plaintiff.

Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved February 15, 1861.

[ No. 53. ] AN ACT to authorize the First Presbyterian Society of Ann

Arbor to borrow money and secure the payment thereof. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the trustees of the First Presbyterian Society of Ann Arbor are Losn aa. hereby authorized and empowered to borrow such sum of money, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, as they may deem proper, for the purpose of completing the house of public worship now in process of erection by said society, in the city of Ann Arbor, and for the payment and discharge of its existing obligations; and that for the purpose of securing the payment of the sum of money so borrowed, the said trustees may execute, in the name of said society, a bond conditioned for the payment thereof at Bont and such time or times, and at such rate of interest, not exceeding therefur. ten per centum per annum, as said trustees may determine; and they may also make, execute, acknowledge and deliver a mortgage upon any real estate owned by said society in the city of Ann Arbor, at the date of such mortgage, to secure the moneys mentioned in the condition of such bond; and such bond and mortgage, when made and delivered, shall be obligatory upon

and valid against said society in its corporate capacity. Such
mortgage shall be a valid lien upon the property that shall be
mortgaged by such trustees, under the authority aforesaid.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved February 15, 1861.

Section amended.'

Renewal of

statem nt

Proviso.

[ No. 54. ]

AN ACT to amend act number two hundred and forty-eight, of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "an act to regulate fire, marine, life and health insurance companies and their agents, associations, partnerships and individuals, doing fire, marine, life and health insurance business, not incorporated by the State of Michigan, approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty nine.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section four of an act entitled "an act to regulate fire, marine, life and health insurance companies and their agents, associa tions, partnerships and individuals, doing fire, marine, life and health insurance business, not incorporated by the State of Michigan," approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, be amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4. The statement and evidences of investment required by this act shall be renewed annually, in the month of February in each year; and the Secretary of State, on being satisfied that the capital, securities and investments remain secure as at first, shall furnish a renewal of the certificate as aforesaid; and the agent or agents obtaining such renewed certificate shall file a copy of the same, together with a copy of the statement on which it was obtained or renewed, in the office of the clerk of the county in which said agency is established, or propose to transact business: Provided, That for the present year the said statement may be filed at any time within three months after this act shall take effect.

Sec. 2. That a new section be added to the act hereby amended, to stand as section nine, which shall read as follows:

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of any and all companies doing

No. of poli

to be made

Treasurer.

business within this State, under the provisions of this act, as Statement of
a condition precedent to the renewal of an annual certificate cies issued
by the Secretary of State, to make and file in the office of the to State
State Treasurer, annually, in the month of February in each
year, on oath or affirmation, a statement of the number of poli-
cies issued, and the amount of premiums received or secured
thereon during the year then terminated, and shall pay into
the hands of the State Treasurer a specific tax of one per cent.
on the gross amount of all premiums received in money or secu-Tax on pre-
rities during the said year, which said specific tax may be
recovered in any court, at the suit of this State, and shall be
and hereby is appropriated to the same uses and purposes as How appro-
the specific taxes on railroad corporations are or hereafter may
be; and it shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to give his Teasurer to
receipt for all moneys paid into the State treasury under the
provisions of this act.

Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved February 15, 1861.

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priated.

give receipt.

[ No. 55. ]

AN ACT to amend section five, of chapter eighty-one, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, being section twenty-four hundred and thirty six of compiled laws, relative to bonds of county treasurers, in certain cases.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section five, of chapter eighty-one, of the revised statutes of Section eighteen hundred and forty six, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

amended.

State.

Sec. 5. Before any county treasurer shall receive moneys Bond to the authorized to be paid to him by the preceding section, he shall execute and give to the State a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, in the amount to be fixed by the Commissioner of the State Land Office, which bond shall be conditioned for the honest and faithful discharge of all trusts and responsibilities.

imposed by this act, the sureties to be approved by the judge
of probate and register of deeds of their respective counties.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved February 16, 1861.

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Seohjong
avenued.

Oficers of
the city

[ No. 56. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, four and five, of title two, and

section six, of title four, and sections five, six, seven and ten, of title five, (also, by adding a section to said title to stand as section twenty,) and sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and forty, of title six, of an act to incorporate the city of East Saginaw, approved February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one, four and five, of title two, of an act to incorporate the city of East Saginaw, approved February the fifteenth, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty nine, be amended so that the same shall read as follows:

Sec. 1. The officers of said city shall be one mayor, one recorder, one treasurer, one comptroller, four justices of the peace, one supervisor, one constable in each ward of said city, two aldermen in each ward of said city, and one director of the poor, all of whom shall be elected at the annual city election by the qualified electors of the whole of said city, or of the wards thereof respectively, by ballot, as hereinafter provided ; also, one marshal, and one assistant marshal, who may perform all the duties now devolving on the marshal, except the collection of taxes; one clerk, one chief of police, one city surveyor, one health physician, one city attorney, and so many police constables, watchmen, fire-wardens, common cries, keepers of almshouse, workhouse, city prison, pound masters, inspectors of fire-wood, weights, measures, (weigh masters,] sealers of weights and measures, auctioneers, and such other officers as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers herein granted, as the common council from time to time may direct, are to be appointed by the common council, except as herein otherwise pro