term of office. (686.) SEC. 51. At the time and place so appointed, the supervisor Mode of deciding and township clerk shall cause to be written on separate pieces of paper, as near alike as may be, the numbers one, two, three, four, or such and so many of such numbers as shall correspond with the number elected, and shall cause them to be rolled up as nearly alike as may be, and deposited in a box; and the persons elected justices shall severally draw one of the said pieces of paper, and each shall be classed according to the number written on the paper so drawn by him, and shall hold his office for the term as follows: The term of number one shall expire on the fourth day of July then next following, and the terms of the others on the fourth day of July in each succeeding year, respectively, according to the numbers drawn by them. Approved February 17, 1881. [No. 10.] AN ACT to repeal an act to provide for the reference of certain causes in chancery, involving an accounting between the parties, approved May five, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Act amended. act number ninety-six of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the reference of certain causes in chancery, involving an accounting between the parties," approved May five, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be and the same is hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 11.] AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to secure uniformity in the surveys, field notes, diagrams, and records of State roads; to require copies to be made, filed and kept, and to provide for the payment of all necessary expenses attending [the] same," approved April five, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being compiler's sections one thousand two hundred and eighty-five, one thousand two hundred and eighty-six, one thousand two hundred and eighty-seven, and one thousand two hundred and eighty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy one, and extending the provisions of said act to State ditches. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Act amended. an act, entitled "An act to secure uniformity in the surveys, field notes, diagrams, and records of State roads; to require copies to be made, filed and kept, and to provide for the payment of all necessary expenses attending the same," approved April five, eighteen Duty of local to surveys. How survey to be made. hundred and sixty-nine, being compiler's sections one thousand two hundred and eighty-five, one thousand two hundred and eighty-six, one thousand two hundred and eighty-seven, and one thousand two hundred and eighty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: (1285.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, commissioner as That in surveying and locating State roads and ditches hereafter to be surveyed and located, it shall be the duty of the local commissioner, or other person or persons having charge of the same, to cause the survey to be made on the centre line of the road or ditch to be located, and as follows, and the field notes of such survey shall be made to show: The precise location of the beginning, terminus, and intersections, with section lines by course and distance to the nearest convenient monument of the United States survey. Mile posts shall be set at the close of each eighty chains, and the miles so marked off shall be numbered consecutively from the beginning. The distances shall be accurately measured, each eighty chains by itself, from mile post to mile post, and the character of the country shall be carefully noted as passed, so as to show the timber, soil, surface, and topography in detail along the line. All angles in the line shall be established with proper monuments and witnesses thereto, the course of the line from angle to angle shall be accurately given in degrees and minutes, and the particular magnetic variation employed shall be given. In all cases where any bridge may be required on line of road, the field notes of the survey shall be made to show width of stream, height, character of banks, and maximum height of water at flood, all measured with reference to the height of water at its ordinary stage; and the length of bridge required shall be separately stated. In all cases of surveys for ditches, in addition to the mile and angle posts herein before required, there shall be section stakes set and the level actually taken at the end of each two chains of the line. Bridges. Record of survey to be filed in office of State swamp land commissioner. (1286.) SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the local commissioner or other person or persons having charge of the location and survey of any State road or ditch, to cause a full and complete record of every such survey to be made immediately, and filed in the office of the State swamp land commissioner at Lansing. Such record shall be made upon blanks which said State swamp land commissioner is hereby required to furnish, and shall consist of a full copy of the field notes of the survey made upon the right hand page, and a full delineation of the same platted upon the opposite page. The record of survey of any State ditch shall further include a separate delineation thereof in profile, drawn to a scale eight chains per inch horizontal, and four feet per inch vertical. Said profile shall show the proposed grade line of the bottom of the ditch, the depth thereof in figures at each two chains of length, and the width on bottom and slope of sides proposed for such ditch. The surveyor shall endorse upon such record his certificate of the actual performance of the survey and of the date thereof. The local commissioner or other person or persons having charge of the location or construction of such State road or ditch, shall endorse upon such record his certificate that the survey was made under his direction and for the purpose set forth. survey to be filed deeds. (1287.) SEC. 3. After the survey of any State road or ditch shall Transcript of have been approved by the board of control of State swamp lands, with register of the State swamp land commissioner shall cause a full and complete transcript of the record of such survey to be made and filed in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties in which the same is located. And said register or registers with whom any such transcript may be filed shall carefully preserve all files in proper order in his said office and deliver the same to his successor in office. (1288.) SEC. 4. All necessary expenses for making surveys, field How expense of notes, and diagrams of such State roads or ditches required by this by etc., to be paid. act, shall be paid by the several counties, respectively, in that proportion in which they were incurred for making such surveys, field notes and diagrams of the territory in their respective counties, and it is hereby made the duty of the several boards of supervisors of any of the counties of this State, through which any State road or ditch may be located, to audit and pay their respective share of all necessary expenses of the surveys, field notes and diagrams provided for in this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 12.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to enlarge the powers and duties of sheriffs, under and deputy sheriffs," approved January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, being compiler's section five hundred and sixty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section one of chapter ten of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred amended. and seventy-one, being compiler's section five hundred and sixtyeight, be amended by striking out the words "except the county of Wayne," so that the section when amended read as follows: sheriffs as to service of process, SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Powers of deputy any sheriff, under sheriff, or deputy sheriff, of any county of this State, may and shall hereafter be fully authorized to serve or execute any and all process, civil or criminal, issued, or which may by law be issued by any justice of the peace, and to have and to exercise all the powers and duties of constables; and for such services they shall be entitled to the same fees as are now, or may be allowed by law to constables in like cases. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. When cattle, etc., may run at large. Supervisors may allow. [No. 13.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of chapter fifty-nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's sections two thousand and twenty-seven and two thousand and twenty-eight, relative to the prevention of animals running at large in the public highway. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one and two of chapter fifty-nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's sections two thousand and twenty-seven and two thousand and twenty-eight, relative to the prevention of animals running at large in the public highway, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: (2027.) SEC. 1. That from and after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, it shall not be lawful for any cattle, horses, sheep or swine to run at large in any public highway of this State: Proviled, That this act shall be inoperative only in those counties or parts of counties in which it shall be so determined by resolution passed by the board of supervisors of such county: Provided further, That the powers granted to boards of supervisors in this section, shall not abridge the powers reserved to the people of a township, in section four of chapter twelve, of compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (2028.) SEC. 2. In case the board of supervisors in any county shall pass a resolution allowing any of the classes of animals named in section one of this bill to run at large in the public highway, then in such county, after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the following sections of this act shall be null and void, but otherwise they shall be in full force. Approved February 23, 1881. Board of control authorized to appropriate swamp lands. [No. 14.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of control of State swamp lands to make an appropriation of State swamp lands to drain and reclaim certain swamp and overflowed lands in the townships of Owosso and Middlebury in Shiawassee county. SECTION 1. The people of the State of Michigan enact, That the board of control of State swamp lands of this State are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate not to exceed three sections of State swamp lands in the lower peninsula, not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as they may deem necessary after a full investigation of its merits, for the purpose of removing the flood-wood in the Maple river, and to widen, deepen, and otherwise improve the current in said river, to aid in draining and reclaiming the open swamps and overflowed lands situate and being in the townships of Owosso and Middlebury, Shiawassee county, in this State: Provided, That said expenditure shall be made in pursuance of the provisions of law relative to the construction of swamp land This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 15.] AN ACT to repeal compiler's sections thirteen hundred and sixty to fourteen hundred and forty-eight inclusive, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being sections one to ninety, inclusive, of chapter thirty of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, the same being a part of chapter thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "The inspection of provisions and other merchandise, and regulations respecting the sale thereof." SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections compiler's sections thirteen hundred and sixty to fourteen hundred repealed. and forty-eight, inclusive, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being sections one to ninety, inclusive, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, the same being a part of chapter number thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entiled "The inspection of provisions and other merchandise, and regulations respecting the sale thereof," be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved February 23, 1881. [No. 16.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number one hundred and thirty-eight of session laws of eighteen hundred and seventyfive, relative to subjects for dissection for the advancemeut of science, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same being sections two thousand one hundred and ten and two thousand one hundred and eleven of chapter sixty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventyone, as amended. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections one and two of act number one hundred and thirty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, being sections two thousand one hundred and ten and two thousand one hundred and eleven of chapter sixty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended, be amended so as to read as foliows: |