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For aiding, etc., prize

jail, or in the Detroit House of Correction, not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Sec. 4. Any person who shall, within this State, enter into fight within any agreement, or understanding whatsoever, aid, advise, or

or without

this State.

counsel in the making of any such agreement or understanding whatsoever, for a prize fight, to take place either within or without this State, or who shall, in this State, train, or prepare any person or persons for a prize fight to take place out of this State, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail, or Detroit House of Correction, not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Approved March 22, 1869.

May hold real, etc., estate.

Amount limited.

Erection of hall,

Section added.

[ No. 47. ]

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of Lodges and Encampments of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and to add one new section thereto.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That any lodge or encampment of the independent order of Odd Fellows, incorporated under the act to which this act is supplementary, may receive, purchase, and hold in its corporate capacity, real and personal estate, and the same or any part thereof, demise, convey, mortgage, use, and dispose of at pleasure to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars; and may subscribe to the stock of any incorporated company, for the purpose of erecting a suitable edifice, building or hall, with convenient rooms for the meetings and use of the fraternity of Odd Fellows.

Sec. 2. That a new section is hereby added to said act, to which this is supplementary, to stand as section ten, and read as follows:

change of

filed.

Sec. 10. The location of the business offices of the Grand Notice of Lodge and Grand Encampment of the Independent Order of office; where Odd Fellows, or either of them, may be changed at any time, upon filing a written notice of such change in the office of the Secretary of State, within twenty days from the time of the change of such location.

Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 22, 1869.

[ No. 48. ]

AN ACT to amend section one of an act entitled "An act rendering persons disqualified for sitting as jurors in certain cases," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, being act number one hundred and twentynine, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section section one of an act entitled "An act rendering persons disqualified for sitting as jurors in certain cases," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

amended.

fled to act as

cuit court,

Wayne

Sec. 1. No persons (excepting justices of the peace of the who qualicounty of Wayne,) shall be qualified to be or become one of a juror in cirpanel of jurors in any circuit court, or court of record in etc., in Wayne county, who, within one year prior thereto, has been or county acted as a member of a panel of jurors, whether summoned on the original panel, or added thereto as talesman, in the same court; and it shall be the duty of the circuit or presiding judge to discharge any such person, (except justices of the peace,) if summoned as a juror, who, within one year, has been a member of a panel of jurors in said court; and it shall be a just challenge. cause of challenge to any juror, in any cause, over and above

all other challenges allowed by law, that he has been within a
year a member of a panel of jurors in said court.
Approved March 22, 1869.

Issue of duplicate tax

ized.

[No. 49.]

AN ACT to authorize the Auditor General to issue new tax deeds in place of those lost.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That deed author- whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Auditor General, by affidavit or otherwise, that any Auditor General's deed for land sold as delinquent for taxes, has been lost or destroyed, it shall be his duty to execute, issue, and deliver to the person making such proof, a new deed of the lands described in said first deed, and the said deed shall have endorsed upon it a statement that it is a new deed issued in place of one that is lost or destroyed; and said new deed, or the record thereof, shall be evidence of title in all courts and proceedings, of title in the grantee, his or her heirs or assigns, the same as the original deed, or the record thereof, would be. Approved March 22, 1869.

Act repealed.

[No. 50. ]

AN ACT to repeal act number one hundred and eighty-six, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act to amend act number two hundred, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, being an act to encourage the manufacture of salt in the State of Michigan, approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,' approved March fifteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

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SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That act number one hundred and eighty-six, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act to amend act number two hundred, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, being an act to encourage the manufacture of salt in the State of Michigan, approved February fifteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine," approved March fifteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 22, 1869.

[ No. 51. ]

AN ACT to amend section fifteen, of act number two hundred and thirty-two, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, being "An act to provide for the incorporation of water-power companies," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

amended.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section fifteen, of act number two hundred and thirty-two, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, being "An act to provide for the incorporation of water-power companies," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixtythree, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

may be re

action of as

Sec. 15. All sums due from any member of said association, Assessments upon the assessment made, as hereinbefore directed, if not paid covered in at the time of, or after notice of said assessment, or at the com- sumpsit. pletion of said work, with the interest hereinbefore required, may be recovered in an action of assumpsit brought in the name of said corporation, in any court of competent jurisdiction. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 22, 1869.

[No. 52. ]

tion.

AN ACT making appropriation for the State Normal School. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the AppropriaState Treasurer shal! transfer from the general fund to the State Normal School interest fund, the sum of ten thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and ten thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and seventy, which sums are hereby appropriated to the Normal School interest fund, and shall be drawn from the treasury in the manner now provided by law, in relation to that fund. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.

Approved March 22, 1869.

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Appropriation, for 1869

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the salaries of the military officers for the years eighteen hundred and sixtynine and eighteen hundred and seventy.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the military fund, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the salaries of the military officers herein named, for the year eighteen hunFor salary dred and sixty-nine: For the salary of the Adjutant General, the sum of ten hundred dollars; for the salary of the Quarterter General. master General, the sum of six hundred dollars; for the salary

of Adjutant

General.
Quartermas-

Inspector
Geneal.

to Quarter

of the Inspector General, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and such further sum as may be necessary to pay his actual necessary traveling expenses, not exceeding one hundred dollars; Arrearages also, the further sum of nine hundred dollars, to pay arrearages master Ger- due the Quartermaster General for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the same having been occasioned by a deficiency in the appropriations made for said years.

eral.

Appropriation for 1870.

Adjutant
General.

Sec. 2. That there be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the military fund, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the salaries of the military officers herein named, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy: For the salary of the Adjutant Quartermas- General, the sum of ten hundred dollars; for the salary of the Inspector Quartermaster General, the sum of six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Inspector General, one hundred and twentyfive dollars, and such further sum as may be necessary to pay his actual necessary traveling expenses, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

ter General.

General.

Approved March 22, 1869.

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