29. Joint resolution relative to new certificates for primary 31. Joint resolution instructing the Board of State Auditors 32. Joint resolution for the relief of the heirs of Beaumont Clark, approved February 14, 1855, Tage. 497 497 497 498 LAWS OF MICHIGAN. [ No. 1.] AN ACT to provide for taking the Census of Saginaw County. sioner and SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Commis Governor be, and hereby is authorized to appoint a Commissioner, Assistants. with one or more Assistants, whose duty it shall be to take the Census of Saginaw County. duty. Sec. 2. The Commissioner, when so appointed, shall take and sub- Oath and scribe the constitutional oath, and shall proceed forthwith to take the census of said county, in the same manner and form as provided in an act entitled " an act to provide for taking the census and statistics of this State," approved February 9th, 1853. where made. Sec. 3. The Commissioner shall make his returns to the clerk of Returns, said county, who shall forthwith transmit a copy of the same to the office of the Secretary of State. tion. Sec. 4. The Commissioner shall be allowed, for every one hundred Compensa names returned by him, two dollars, to be paid by the county treasurer of the county of Saginaw, as provided in section eight of the foregoing named act, and in addition thereto he shall be allowed two dollars, for every one hundred names returned by him, to be audited and paid by the Board of State Auditors, which shall be in full compensation for services rendered by him as such Commissioner. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved January 12, 1855. Appropria tion. Compensation of officers of Travel. [ No. 2.] AN ACT to provide for the payment of the members and officers and incidental expenses of the Legislature. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there be appropriated out of any money in the treasury, to the credit of the general fund, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for the payment of the members and officers of the Legislature. Sec. 2. The compensation of the President and members of the members & Senate, and the Speaker and the members of the House of RepresentaLegislature. tives, shall be three dollars per day, for actual attendance and when absent on account of sickness, for the first forty days of the session, and ten cents for every mile actually traveled in going and returning from the place of meeting, on the usually traveled route, and to the members of the Senate and House from the Upper Peninsula, two dollars per day additional, for the first forty days of the session.. Each member of Stationery. the Senate and House of Representatives shall also be entitled to receive five dollars for newspapers and stationery. The compensation of the Secretary, Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk, and Assistant, if one should be employed, and Sergeant-at-Arms, and Assistant Sergeant-atArms of the Senate, and of the Clerk, Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk, and Assistant, if one should be employed, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, and of the Reporters of either House, and of the clerks employed with the consent of either the Senate or House of Representatives, or by any of the standing or special committees of either of said Houses, shall be three dollars per day for actual attendance during the session. The compensation of the firemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives shall be two dollars per day for actual attendance, during the session. The compensation of the messengers of the Senate and House of Representatives, shall be one dollar and fifty cents per day for actual attendance, during the session. Firemen. Messengers. How certiBed. Sec. 3. Such sums as may be due to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, shall be certified by the presiding officer of the respective Houses, and countersigned by the Auditor General; such sums as may be due the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall be certified by the Seoretary or Clerk of the respective Houses, and countersigned by the Auditor General; and such sums as may be due the members and other officers of either House, shall be certified by the Secretary or Clerk, and countersigned by the presiding officer of the respective Houses; and the State Treasurer, upon the presentation of any such certificates, countersigned as provided in this section, is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same. Sec. 4. No clerk shall be employed by any standing or select committee, except by the consent of the Senate or the House of Representatives. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved January 16, 1855. No. 3.1 AN ACT to amend sections thirteen and fifteen of an act entitled "an act relative to Free Schools in the city of Detroit," approved February 17th, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section thirteen of "an act relative to Free Schools in the city of DeTax, troit," be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 13. The common how levied & assessed council of said city are hereby authorized, once in each year, to assess and levy a tax on all the real and personal property in said city, according to the city assessment rolls of that year, which shall not exceed two dollars for every child in said city between the ages of four and eighteen years, the number of children to be ascertained by the last report on the subject, on file in the office of the clerk of the county of Wayne, or in the office of the Secretary of said Board of Education, and certified by the President thereof; and the said tax shall be collected in the same manner as the moneys raised to defray the general expenses of said city; all said money shall be disbursed by the authority of said Board, for the maintenance and support of said schools, and for no other purpose. The said Board of Education shall have authority to Authority establish a high school in said city, and also to appoint a Superintend- Education. ent of the Public Schools, under the charge of said Board, with such salary and with such powers and duties as shall be prescribed by said Board of Education." Sec. 2. Also that section fifteen of the same act be amended so that said section as amended, shall read as follows: "Sec. 15. The collector' How col lected. of Board of Duty of Col leotor, Report, when made. of said city, when he shall have paid any school money to said treasurer or other person, shall take a receipt therefor, and file the same with the clerk of said Board; and it shall be the further duty of the collector, when he shall have made his final return concerning the collections of said tax, to make a report to said Board, stating the whole amount of school tax, the amount collected, and the amount returned by him to the common council as unpaid or uncollected. If any collector shall neglect or refuse to pay to said treasurer, the sums of money required by his warrant, or to account for the same as unpaid, at the time and in the manner required by law, the recorder of the city of Detroit, or the president of the Board of Education of said city, shall forthwith Warrant to issue a warrant under his hand, directed to the sheriff of said county, Neglect, or refusal to pay over moneys. issue. Return of warrant. commanding him to levy such sums as shall remain unpaid and unaccounted for, together with his fees for collecting the same, of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of such collector and his sureties, and to pay the same to the treasurer of said Board of Education, and return such warrant within twenty days after the date thereof." Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage. Approved January 20, 1855. [No. 4. ] AN ACT to enlarge the powers of School District number eleven, in the city and township of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the qualified voters of school district number eleven, in the city and township of Ann Arbor, in the county of Washtenaw, as said district is now or may hereafter be organized, shall have power to designate sites for as many school-houses, including a union high-school, as they may think proper, by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters present, at any regular meeting, and to direct the district board to purchase such site or sites as may have been, or as shall be thus designatad, and to erect suitable buildings thereon, for educational purposes, and to raise money by tax upon the property within the said district, in the usual manner, to pay for such site or sites, and for such building or buildings, and for furnishing the same. |