certificate by

SEC. 32. Any inspector who wilfully certifies falsely touch- False ing any vessel under the jurisdiction of this State as to her inspector, hull, accommodations, boilers, engines, machinery or their penalty. appurtenances or any of her equipments, or any matter or thing contained in any certificate signed by him, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction of the offense.

report of,

sioner.

SEC. 33. Within forty-eight hours after a vessel meets with Accident, an accident involving a loss of life or damage to property, it to commisshall be the duty of the owner or the licensed officer in charge of such vessel to prepare a report setting forth the details of the casualty and swear to the same before an officer authorized to administer oaths generally, which report shall be forwarded by mail or otherwise to the Commissioner of Labor without delay.

investigate

SEC. 34. The inspector shall investigate all violations of Inspector to the provisions of this act, and for such purpose shall have violations. the power and is hereby authorized to subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, and he may also administer all necessary oaths to any witnesses thus summoned.

testify.

SEC. 35. In all cases where the issue is the suspension or Accused may revocation of a license, the accused shall be allowed to appear by counsel and to testify in his own behalf before the inspector.

grant license,

SEC. 36. Whenever the inspector refuses to grant a license Refusal to to any person applying for the same, or suspends or revokes etc. the license of any master, engineer, pilot or operator, any person deeming himself wronged by such refusal, suspension or revocation, may, within thirty days thereof on application to the Commissioner of Labor, have his case examined anew by such Commissioner; and the inspector shall furnish to the Commissioner in writing the reasons for his doings in the premises; and such Commissioner shall examine the case Duty of anew, and he shall have the same powers to summon witnesses commissioner. and compel their attendance and to administer oaths that are conferred on the inspector; and such witnesses shall be paid in the same manner as provided for by section thirtyseven of this act; and such Commissioner may revoke, change May modify or modify the decision of such inspector; and like proceedings decision. may be had by any master or owner of any vessel herein required to be inspected in relation to the inspection of such vessel or her boilers, machinery or other apparatus by such inspector.

payment, etc.

SEC. 37. The State Treasurer shall pay such fees to any Fees of witness summoned as provided by the preceding section for his witnesses, actual and necessary travel and attendance as shall be officially certified to upon the back of such summons by the inspector or Commissioner hearing the case, not exceeding the rate allowed for fees and to witnesses for travel and attendance in any circuit court of the State.

Approved May 19, 1909.

Section amended.

Survey and plat made by

Scale of map.

Detailed

description.

[No. 114.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number ninety-one of the session laws of eighteen hundred thirty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the recording of town plats, and for vacating the same in certain cases," being section three thousand three hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number ninety-one of the session laws of eighteen hundred thirty-nine, entitled "An act to provide for the recording of town plats, and for vacating the same in certain cases," being section three thousand three hundred seventy-two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. Whenever any town, township or subdivision civil engineer. thereof, city, village or addition thereto shall be laid out or shall be altered or vacated as hereinafter provided, within this State, the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall cause a survey and a true map or plat thereof to be made by a civil engineer, surveyor or other competent person. Such map or plat shall in every case be made on a scale showing not more than two hundred feet to an inch, on sheets of good muslinbacked paper, eighteen inches by twenty-four inches in size, and more than one plat shall not be made on one sheet. There shall be written or printed upon the paper on which said map or plat shall be made a full and detailed description of the land embraced in said map or plat, showing the township and range in which such land is situated and the sections Name of town, and parts of sections platted, and containing the name of the surveyor, etc. town, city, village or addition platted, the name or names of the proprietor or proprietors thereof, and of the engineer, surveyor or person making said map or plat, with the date. The same shall be signed by such proprietor or proprietors and their wives, and engineer, surveyor or person making the same, and shall be witnessed and acknowledged by the owners, as deeds conveying lands are required to be witnessed and acknowledged. The sections and parts of sections platted shall also be designated by lines drawn upon such map or plat, with appropriate letters and figures, and in case of a subdivision of lots or blocks of a previous survey, the outlines of the original or previous lots or blocks so subdivided shall be designated by lines drawn upon said map or plat, and shall be marked with appropriate letters and figures. There shall also be on such map or plat a plain designation of the cardinal points and a correct scale. Before such map or plat shall be approved by the Auditor General and before such map or plat shall be recorded by the register of deeds, the proprietor

proprietor,

Signatures, witnesses, etc.

Sections, etc., platted, how designated.

Subdivisions

of previous survey.

How

approved and certified.

or plat.

auditor

or proprietors thereof shall cause to be attached to said map or plat a certificate from the county treasurer whether there are any tax liens or titles held by the State or by any individual against such piece or description of land described in such map or plat, and whether all taxes due thereon have been paid for the five years preceding the date of such certificate, and in the absence of such certificate the Auditor General shall not approve said map or plat until such certificate is secured and presented; and before such map or plat shall be approved by the Auditor General, and before such map or plat shall be recorded by the register of deeds, the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall cause to be attached to said map or plat a certificate of approval from the township board, or the city council, or the village council having jurisdiction over the lands so described in the said map or plat. For the purpose of such approval by the Auditor General Copy of map and recording with the register of deeds, the proprietor or proprietors shall cause to be made by a civil engineer, surveyor or other competent person, on the same scale and on paper of the same size and quality as that on which the map or plat is required to be made, an exact copy of said map or plat with detailed description or descriptions, signatures, witnesses, acknowledgment and certificate of county treas urer; and it shall be the duty of the proprietor or proprietors Forwarded to to cause said map or plat to be forwarded to the Auditor general. General for his approval, together with said copy thereof, and to deposit with the Auditor General a fee of four dollars Fee. for approving, filing and recording said map or plat. It shall Auditor be the duty of the Auditor General of the State to approve duty of. said map or plat when same shall conform in his opinion to the requirements of this act, and pay over three dollars of said sum to the State Treasurer to be credited to the general fund and to forward the remaining sum of one dollar to the reg ister of deeds as the registration fee as hereinafter provided. In case such map or plat is approved by the Auditor General In case of of the State, he shall immediately forward said map or plat, approved, with certificate and date of approval inscribed thereon to the register of deeds in the proper county, and shall pay over to said register of deeds the one dollar fee herein provided for at such time when said register of deeds shall have furnished the Auditor General of the State a proper certificate of recording said map or plat. In case said map or In case of plat is not approved by the Auditor General the sum of one non-approval. dollar herein specified as registration fee shall be returned to the proprietor or proprietors of said map or plat; but in no case shall the three dollars which has been turned into the State treasury and credited to the general fund be returned. If for any reason the Auditor General of the State does not Notice to approve the said map or plat, he shall notify the proprietor or proprietors and give his reason therefor. It shall be the Comparison duty of the Auditor General of the State to compare the copy

general,

approval.

proprietor.

of copy.

Proviso, proprietor may retain copy.

of said map or plat with the map or plat, and transcribe on said copy a certificate of the recording of said map or plat forwarded by the register of deeds in the county where said map or plat is recorded, and inscribe on said copy of said map or plat a certificate of the Auditor General of the State, giving the date of filing of said copy and that the same is a true copy of the said map or plat forwarded to the register of deeds for recording: Provided, That in case the said proprietor or proprietors of said map or plat desire to retain a copy of said map or plat, the said proprietor or proprietors shall forward a second exact copy of said map or plat upon paper of the same kind and quality or upon tracing linen, and otherwise in all respects as heretofore provided for the forwarding of the first copy of said map or plat, to the Auditor General who shall return the same to said proprietor or proprietors without additional cost, with a certificate inscribed thereon that the said copy is a true and exact copy of the said map or plat forwarded to the register of deeds for record, and that there is also a true copy of said map or plat cu file in the office of the Auditor General of the State as provided by this act: Provided further, That all plats hereplats hereafter after made in this State including plats of land owned or

Further

proviso,

made.

Auditor

general to keep index.

Register,

duty of, on receipt of map.

Penalty.

Register to record and index maps.

controlled by summer resort associations, and all other plats made by any other person, association or corporation shall be approved, filed and recorded in the manner provided in this section. The Auditor General shall keep an index in which he shall enter alphabetically the name of every town, city, village and addition, a copy of record of the map or plat of which shall be filed in his office, the date of filing the same, and whatever else he may think necessary to facilitate reference thereto. The said register, upon the receipt of said map or plat from the Auditor General of the State, shall fasten the said map or plat in a book of the proper size for such paper so that it shall not be folded, which book shall be strongly bound in leather and provided at the expense of the said county, and such copy so fastened in said book shall be held and taken to be a record of the said map or plat, with like effect as if the said map or plat had been actually transcribed by said register in a book in his office, and for any wil ful violation of this provision by a register of deeds he shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars, and shall also be liable to pay all damages which any person may sustain by reason thereof, to be recovered in an action of trespass on the case. The register shall certify on such map or plat the time when it was recorded as aforesaid, with a reference to the book or page where recorded. He shall note on the record the time when made, and shall keep a separate index of maps or plats, in which he shall enter alphabetically the name of every town, city, village or addition, the map or plat of which shall be recorded by him, with a reference to the book and page where

recording.

plat recorded.

compensation

the same shall be recorded. The register of deeds, after re- Certificate of cording said map or plat as herein provided, and before he shall be entitled to the one dollar registration fee to be forwarded by the Auditor General of the State as herein provided, shall cause to be furnished the Auditor General of the State a proper certificate of the recording of said map or plat upon such blank form which may be forwarded by the Auditor General of the State. The map or plat, with the Record to be prima facie certificate of record endorsed thereon, the record thereof evidence. made as aforesaid, or a properly certified transcript of such record, shall be received in all courts in this State as prima facie evidence of the making and recording of such map or plat in conformity with the provisions of this act, and the copy of such recorded map or plat filed or in the Auditor General's office, or a properly certified transcript thereof, shall be received in all courts of the State as prima facie evidence of the above matters, and also the filing of said copy in the Auditor General's office. If any person or persons Sales before shall sell and convey any lot or lots within any such town, city, village or addition, by reference to such plat before the map or plat thereof shall be recorded and the copy of the record thereof filed as aforesaid, he or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each lot so sold. For all ser- Register, vices by this act required to be performed by a register of of, under deeds in respect to any such map or plat brought into his office act. for record, the said register shall be entitled to receive the sum of one dollar, which shall be paid as herein provided: Provided, That in all cases where the proprietor or proprietors Proviso, when of any piece or pieces of land shall have caused the same to be map made by laid out and platted as a city, town or village, or as an addition to a city, town or village, or where the proprietors have caused such city, town or village lots to be deeded by metes and bounds and courses and have failed or neglected to have a plat thereof made and recorded as provided by this act, the supervisor or assessor of the township, city or village in which such land is situated shall, when authorized by the township board of such township or by the common council or the board of trustees of such city or village, cause a map or plat of said city, town, village or addition to be made under his hand and seal, properly acknowledged by him and in every way following the provisions of this act, except as to the certificate of the county treasurer relating to tax titles and tax liens as provided by this act, and showing by reference to this act the authority for the same. Such plat or map, Relative to when recorded and filed as herein provided by this act, shall be treated in respect to the assessment, collection and return of taxes and the sale of said lands for delinquent taxes, as if the same had been made by the proprietor or proprietors : Provided, That such proceedings shall not interfere with Proviso,

assessor, etc.

taxes, etc.

vested rights.