The board to divide

railroad.

an act of Congress, approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereto.

Sec. 2. The board of control are hereby authorized to divide the line of the line of railroad aforesaid, into two equal parts, and to confer said lands, franchises, rights, powers and privileges to two different parties or companies, and to require each of them to construct, within one year from the passage of this act, at least ten miles consecutively of said line of railroad, and ten miles each succeeding year until the same is completed, or said transfer by the board of control shall be void, in which case the board of control shall have the right to confer the aforesaid lands, franchises, rights, powers and privileges to some other competent party.

Repeal.

Sec. 3. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 4, 1861.

Name changed.

Proviso.

[ No. 91. ]

AN ACT to change the name of John Gregg to Charles Welcome Hill.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the name of John Gregg, adopted child of Welcome Hill, of the township of Leoni, in the county of Jackson, in this State, be and the same is hereby changed to Charles Welcome Hill: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until the said Welcome Hill shall execute, acknowledge and file in the office of the judge of probate of the county of Jackson, an instrument in writing, under his hand and seal, adopting the said John Gregg as his lawful heir: And provided further, That in such case, the said Welcome Hill shall thereupon stand in the place of a parent to said child-in-law, and be liable to all the duties, and entitled to all the rights of a parent thereto, and the said John

Gregg shall thereupon become his heir-at-law, the same as if his real child.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 4, 1861

[ No. 92. ]

AN ACT to amend section three thousand four hundred and eighty-three, chapter one hundred and fifteen, compiled laws, regulating the recording and authentication of notice of lis pendens.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section number twenty-nine be amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 29. To render the filing of a bill constructive notice to a Lis pendens.· ́ purchaser of any real estate, it shall be the duty of the complainant to file for record, with the register of deeds of the county in which the lands to be effected by such constructive notice are situated, a notice of the pendency of such suit in chancery, setting forth the title of the cause, and the general Contents. object thereof, together with a description of the lands to be effected thereby; and it shall thereupon become the duty of the register to record such notice, in a book kept for that purpose, To be reupon the payment of the same fees as is provided by law for recording deeds. A copy of such record, authenticated by the Authentica register, shall be evidence of such notice, and the filing of the idence of nosame, in all courts and places.

Approved March 4, 1861.

[ No. 93. ]

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AN ACT to amend section two of an act entitled "an act to revise the charter of the city of Grand Rapids," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section two of an act entitled "an act to revise the charter of Section the city of Grand Rapids," approved February fourteenth,

amended.

City limits.

eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, be amended so as to read as
follows:

Sec. 2. The district of country, in the county of Kent, and
State of Michigan, hereinafter particularly described, is hereby
constituted and declared to be a city, by the name of Grand
Rapids, and subject to the municipal government of said corpo-
ration, said district of country being bounded as follows, viz.:
Commencing at the north-east corner of the south-east quarter
of section eighteen, in town seven north of range eleven west,
running south to the south-east corner of section thirty-one of
said township; thence west on the south line of said township
to the south-west corner of the same; thence extended on the
south line of township seven north of range twelve west, to the
middle of Grand river, on section thirty-four, in said last named
township; thence north-eastwardly, along the middle of Grand
river, to the point which intersects the north and south quar-
ter-line of section thirty-five, in said township seven north of
range twelve west; thence north along a line drawn through
the center of sections thirty-five, twenty-six and twenty-three,
to the center of section fourteen, in said township seven north
of range twelve west, and thence east, to the place of begin-
ning: Provided, That all unpaid taxes assessed on the property
by this act set out of the corporate limits of the city of Grand
Rapids, shall, when collected, be paid to the treasurer of said
city.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 4, 1861.

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: Proviso.

[ No. 94. ]
AN ACT to authorize the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad com:

pany to issue stock in place of the original stock of the
Detroit and Milwaukee railway company.

Section 1. The People of the Slate of Michigan enact: Whereas,
Preamble. The act approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-

nine, under which the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad company

to is no

mer stock

is organized, prohibits the issuing of new stock in said corporation to a greater amount than sufficient, at par, to represent the fair value of all the property and rights now owned by said corporation, unless additional stock shall be in good faith subscribed by persons fully able to pay the same;

Be it enacted, That said Detroit and Milwaukee railroad com- Authorized pany, be and they are hereby authorized to issue to the former stock to for stockholders in the Detroit and Milwaukee railway company,

bulders. in place of their former stock in said company, such an amount of stock in said Detroit and Milwaukee railroad company, as shall be mutually agreed upon between said stockholders and the directors of the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad company: Provided, Said amount of new stock so issued shall not be less Proviso. than twenty per cent. of the par value of the former stock in said Detroit and Milwaukee railway company : Provided further, That neither the foreclosure of the mortgage upon the Provino. road and franchises of said company, nor anything in the act in relation to mortgages against preferred stock in and delivery of goods by railway companies, approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty nine, or in this act, shall be construed in any way to affect or change the rule of taxation, as provided in the charter of said company, and which shall continue to be one per cent. upon the capital stock originally paid in, and upon such stock as may hereafter be paid into said company.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 4, 1861.

[ No. 95. ] AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act in relation to the free

schools of the city of Detroit, approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section

amended. section one of an act entitled an act in relation to free schools

Common council authorized to

in the city of Detroit, be and the same is hereby amended so as
to read as follows:

Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That

in lieu of the ($1,500) fifteen hundred dollars mentioned in the
lovy a taxo (1) first section of an act approved March (12, 1847) twelfth,
for purchas-
ing lots and eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and in addition to all other
erecting
buildings. taxes authorized by law to be assessed and levied for school

purposes in the city of Detroit, the common council of said city
is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect a tax,
not exceeding ($20,000) twenty thousand dollars in any one
year, to be expended in the purchase of lots, and in paying for
lots already purchased in said city for the use of the public
schools thereof, and in the erection and building of schoolhouses,
with the necessary outbuilding and fixtures, on any lots now

owned by the board of education in said city, or which said Tez paid to board may hereafter require. Said tax, when so levied and colboard of

lected, shall be paid to the treasurer of said board, and shall oducation.

vest in said board for the sole purposes hereinbefore stated,
unless the said board shall, by resolution, direct the same to be
applied in whole or in part for the maintenance and support of
the schools of said board, in which case said tax may be 80
applied; said tax shall be collected in the same manner, and
with the same rights, duties, powers and obligations, as the
general school taxes in said city.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 7, 1861.

treasurer of

[ No. 96. ]
AN ACT to discontinue a portion of the Allegan and Lansing

State road.
Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That
Discontin that portion of the highway known as the Allegan and Lansing

State road, which passes through sections twenty-one and
twenty-two, in the township of Watson, in the county of Alle-
gan, be and the same is hereby discontinued.

Approved March 7, 1861.