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Certificate of error; duty of applicant.

Certified copy of receipts.

Delinquent

notified.

position of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," as amended by act number two hundred twelve of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 98a. When taxes have been actually paid to the officer authorized by the provisions of this act to receive the same, and the entry of such payment was not made upon the tax roll, the person thereafter applying for a certificate of error or a cancellation of the taxes, shall present to the Auditor General the certificate of the proper county treasurer that such taxes were paid on the day of .. (giving date,) as appears from copy of receipt therefor on file in his office. The county treasurer shall make a certified copy of receipts so presented to him and file the same in his office, and shall return to the person entitled thereto the original receipt. It shall be the duty of treasurer to be the county treasurer to immediately notify the person or officer receiving such payment of the production of such receipt and require payment to be made forthwith to him, the said county treasurer, of the amount not discharged by entry upon the tax roll at the time of payment. And in case of failure of said delinquent treasurer to pay said amount, as requested, within thirty days of the receipt of said notice, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer so notifying, to institute suit against delinquent treasurer and his bondsmen for the recovery of said amount. Upon the receipt of such money so paid to him, the county treasurer shall at once pay the same over to the proper township or other officer or fund entitled to the same, and shall notify the board of supervisors at their annual session in October of the several amounts thus collected and paid over.

Suit, when instituted.

Money, how disposed of.

Approved March 31, 1909.

Grant of legislative assent.

[No. 20.]

AN ACT giving the assent of the legislature of the State of Michigan to the grant of moneys from the United States by act of congress, approved March sixteen, nineteen hundred six, being an act to provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experimental stations and regulating the expenditure thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The legislative assent required by section two of an act of congress, approved March sixteen, nineteen hundred six, being an act, entitled "An act to provide for an

increased annual appropriation for agricultural experimental stations and regulating the expenditure thereof," is hereby granted and the moneys thereby appropriated are accepted under the conditions and terms named in said act.

how used.

SEC. 2. All moneys derived by authority of said act shall Moneys, be exclusively used in support of the department designated as "an agricultural experimental station" in connection with the State Agricultural College of Michigan. Approved March 31, 1909.

[No. 21.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-one of act number one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, the same being section three hundred eighty-three of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section twenty-one of act one hundred eighty- Section three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," approved May twentyninth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, being section three hundred eighty-three of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

assistant.

SEC. 21. In the eighth circuit the stenographer shall be paid Salary, an annual salary of two thousand dollars. Such stenographer shall from time to time under the provisions of this act furnish at his own expense an assistant when necessary. Approved March 31, 1909.

Section amended.

Salary.

[No. 22.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-eight of act one hundred eighty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," the same being compiler's section number three hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-eight of act one hundred eightythree of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment and to fix the term of office, duties and compensation of circuit court stenographers in the State of Michigan," the same being compiler's section number three hundred ninety of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 28. In the fifteenth circuit the stenographer shall be paid an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. Approved March 31, 1909.

Section amended.

Judgment, appeal from.

Proviso.

[No. 23.]

AN ACT to amend section eighteen of chapter ninety-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, entitled "Jurisdiction and procedure of justices' courts in criminal cases," being section one thousand thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section eighteen of chapter ninety-four of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred forty-six, being compiler's section one thousand thirty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 18. The person so charged with, and convicted by any such justice of the peace of any such offense may appeal from the judgment of such justice of the peace to the circuit court: Provided, Said person shall enter into a recognizance to the people of the State of Michigan in a sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, within ten days after the rendition of the judgment, with one or more sufficient

return.

sureties, conditioned to appear before said court on the first day of the next term thereof to prosecute his appeal at said term to effect and to abide the orders and judgment of said court; and the justice from whose judgment an appeal Special is taken shall thereupon discharge the person so convicted or order his discharge, shall make a special return of the proceedings had before him and shall cause the complaint, the warrant and the return, together with the recognizance and the testimony taken by him, to be filed in the said circuit court on or before the first day of the circuit court next to be holden for said county. In case there shall be any ob- Objections to jections to the complaint, warrant or other proceedings and complaint. the decision of the justice thereon which would not be allowed to be made on the trial of the appeal, the same may be set forth specifically in such recognizance. Such justice shall, in addition to his return as required by this section, make a full and complete return as to all matters specifically mentioned in said recognizance, and the same shall be deemed issues of law for the determination of such circuit court. The complainant and witnesses may also be required to enter Recognizance, into recognizances, with or without sureties in the discretion of the court, to appear at said circuit court at the time last aforesaid and to abide the order of the court therein. Approved March 31, 1909.

for appearance.

[No. 24.]

AN ACT to amend the title and sections two, thirteen and twenty-six of act number two hundred twenty of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act relating to warehousemen and warehouse receipts, and to establish the lien of warehousemen in certain cases," the same being compiler's sections five thousand thirty-one, five thousand forty-two and five thousand fifty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and to add one new section following section twenty-six to be known as section twenty-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended and

SECTION 1. The title and sections two, thirteen and twenty- Title and six of act number two hundred twenty of the public acts of sections eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act relating to section added. warehousemen and warehouse receipts, and to establish the lien of warehousemen in certain cases," the same being compiler's sections five thousand thirty-one, five thousand forty-two and five thousand fifty-five of the Compiled Laws

Lien for storage charges, etc.

Penalty for violation.

Right of recovery.

When owner, mortgagee, etc., may examine property.

Refusal,
when a
misdemeanor.

of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended and one new section is hereby added following section twentysix, to be known as section twenty-seven, said amended title, sections and added section to read as follows: Title: An act relating to warehousemen and warehouse receipts, to establish the lien of warehousemen in certain cases, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof.

SEC. 2. Every warehouseman shall have a lien on all goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property deposited and stored with him by the owner thereof or by any person with the owner or owners' knowledge or assent, for his storage charges and for all moneys advanced by him for cartage, labor, insurance, weighing, coopering and other necessary expenses to or on such property; and such lien shall extend to and include all legal demands for storage and expenses paid as above which he may have against the owner of said property, and it shall be lawful for him to detain said property until such money is paid.

SEC. 13. Any warehouseman who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this act, except as hereinafter provided for in section twenty-seven, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars in amount or by imprisonment in the State prison or county jail not exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and every person or persons aggrieved by the violation of any of the provisions of this act may have and maintain an action at law against the person or persons violating any of said provisions to recover the damages which he or they may have sustained by reason of any such violation as aforesaid before any court of competent jurisdiction, whether such person shall have been convicted of misdemeanor as aforesaid under this act or not.

SEC. 26. All persons owning property or who may be interested in the same by way of chattel mortgage, contract of sale, or where property has been sold on lease, when stored in any public warehouse, at all times during ordinary business hours, shall, on production of either the warehouse receipt, chattel mortgage, contract of sale, lease, or any other written instrument showing that said person is interested in said property so stored, be at full liberty to examine such property, and all proper facilities shall be extended to such person by the warehouseman, his agents and employes for such examination. SEC. 27. Any warehouseman who shall refuse any person the right to examine property stored in his warehouse and who shall not extend to such person or persons proper facilities for so doing, either by himself, his agents or employes, when such person or persons have a lawful right by the terms of section twenty-six of this act so to do, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a

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