taxation. shall be actually occupied by them, for the purpose for which they were incorporated; Property ex- 9. All the houses of public worship, with the pews or slips, empt from and furniture therein; also the land on which such houses of worship may stand, so far as occupied by such houses of worship, and for no other purposes, and rights of burial, and tombs, while in use as repositories of the dead; 10. The personal estates of persons who, by reason of infirmity, age and poverty, may, in the opinion of the supervisor, be unable to contribute towards the public charges. Approved February 28, 1861. [ No. 78. ] AN ACT to organize the township of Hamliu, in the county of Mason. tion. tion. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Organiza township nineteen north, of range eighteen west, is hereby or ganized into a separate township by the name of Hamlin, and First elec- the first township meeting therein shall be held at the house of Charles Mears, in said township, on the first Monday of April next. Inspectors Sec. 2. S. P. Saxton, Anton Warevashick and William Barnof election hart, are hereby appointed inspectors of election at the first . , Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 79.] AN ACT to locate and establish the county seat of Nason county.. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. [ No. 80. ] AN ACT to authorize certain highways to be laid out less than four rods wide. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the commissioners of highways of the township of Portsmouth, in Highway authorized, the county of Bay, be and they are hereby authorized to lay out and establish highways leading to the village plat of Daglish Division of Portsmouth, three rods wide, any distance from said village plat, not exceeding one mile. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 81. ] AN ACT to authorize the conveyance of certain portions of section sixteen, township one south of range eleven west, in the county of Kalamazoo. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Governor is hereby authorized to issue patents for any descrir-Governor authorized tion of lots or parcels of land on the south-west quarter of the to issue pa. south-west quarter of section sixteen, township one south of range eleven west, in the county of Kalamazoo, upon payment of a ratable proportion of the purchase money which any such lot or parcel shall bear to the whole of the above recited description: Provided, That the Governor and the Commissioner Provisa tents. ance to be thereon. of the State Land Office shall be satisfied that the interests of the State will not be prejudiced by such conveyance. No convey: Sec. 2. Before any such conveyance shall be made, the Govmade while, ornor and said Commissioner shall be satisfied that the original original or equitable title to the lots or parcels to be conveyed, and that purchaser, or his legal representatives. sale of said premises, but the amount paid for the conveyance Sec. 4. This act shall take immediate effect. contracts $ [ No. 82.] and nine, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That vised statutes, be amended so as to read as follows: be made, as hereinbefore provided, shall report to the court that and sale, be divided, and partitions made thereof, and that other portions, Partition interests or parts cannot be so divided without great prejudice to the owner thereof, the court shall, if satisfied that such report is just, by an order appoint commissioners as herein before provided, and direct said commissioners to proceed to make partition and division of such parts or interest of which division can be made, and set apart such portions, interest or parts thereof to be sold, and the same may be sold as hereinafter provided. Approved February 28, 1861. [ No. 83. ] AN ACT to amend section fifty five of an act entitled "an act to provide for assessing property at its true value, and for collecting taxes thereon," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section fifty-five of an act entitled "an act to provide for as-Sections sessing property at its true value, and for collecting taxes thereon," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty three, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Upon settlemeut the er to en as paid up. treasurer and sureties Sec. 55. Upon the settlement of the amount of taxes directed to be collected by the township treasurer and paid to the county Co. treasur treasurer, such county treasurer shall endorse the bond of the dorse bond township treasurer as paid up, which endorsement shall operate Discharge of as a full discharge of the treasurer and his sureties from the obligation thereof, unless it shall afterwards appear that the return of such treasurer is false, in which case such bond shall continue in force, and such treasurer and his sureties shall be liable thereon for all damages occasioned by such false returns; and the township treasurer shall immediately deposit his tax Tax roll ce roll and warrant with the county treasurer, who shall file and Co. treasur preserve the same in his office, and which said roll, or a duly certified copy thereof, shall, for all purposes, in all courts, suits posited with er. and proceedings, be taken, held and used as evidence, in the Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. rate and [ No. 84. ] Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That ity limits, sections fifteen, sixteen, all that portion of section seventeen lying east of Coldwater river, all that part of the north half of section twenty lying east of the river and lake, and all of sections twenty-one and twenty-two, of township six south of range six west, being the township of Coldwater, Branch county, be and the same are hereby set off from said township, and declared to be a city by the name of the city of Coldwater, by which name it shall be hereafter known. Body corpo. Sec. 2. The freemen of said city, from time to time, being politic. inhabitants thereof, shall be and continue a body corporate and politic, to be known and distinguished by the name and title of Name. the city of Coldwater, and shall be and are hereby made capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered unto, and of defending and being defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all other places whatever; and shall have a common seal, which they may alter and change at pleasure, and by the same name shall be and are hereby made capable of purchasing and holding, conveying and disposing of any real or personal estate for said city. Sec. 3. The said city shall be divided into four wards, as follows: The first ward shall embrace all that portion of the city lying south of the center of Chicago street, and cast of a line commencing at the intersection of the center of Chicago street with the center of Monroe street, running thence southerly, in the center of Monroe street, to the north line of the depot Powers. Common seal. Wards : First. |