Shall have power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of said real and personal estate or any part thereof, at their will and pleasure and the proceeds, rents and income shall be devoted exclusively to beneficent and benevolent purposes of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order. Said corporation shall have full power and authority to make and power to estab- establish rules, regulations and by-laws, for regulating and governing all the affairs and business of said corporation, according to the laws of this State and the United States, and to designate, elect or appoint from its members such officers under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the constitution of the supreme senate. lish rules, etc. Copy of record to be evidence of existence. Shall have power to charter subordinate senates. Proviso. SEC. 4. A copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the State, duly certified according to law, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation. SEC. 5. Such corporation when duly formed, shall have power to institute and charter subordinate senates within the State and from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, and establish such constitution, laws and by-laws, ordinances and regulations, as the supreme senate shall judge proper for the regulation and government of such subordinate senates, not repugnant to the laws of this State: Provided, That the existing subordinate senates, heretofore duly chartered by the supreme senate, shall be subject to the control of the supreme senate, under this act as heretofore, and in the same manner and to the same extent, as those that may be hereafter instituted and chartered under this act: ProFurther proviso, vided, further, That in case the corporators or persons, associating in the first instance, shall by death, resignation or for other cause, under the rules of the supreme senate, become ineligible to act in such capacity their successors may from time to time be appointed by the supreme senate. Subordinate lodge may incorporate. SEC. 6. Any nine or more persons, residents of this State, being members of a subordinate lodge of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, having been duly chartered by the supreme senate, being desirous to become incorporated, may make and execute articles of association specifying as in section two, of this act, and file a copy of the same with the clerk of the county in which such corporation shall be formed, which shall be recorded by such clerk, in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose; and thereupon the persons, who shall have signed said articles of association, Shall be a body their associates and successors shall be a body politic and Where copy to be fled. politic and corporate. Copy of record to be evidence of existence. corporate, by the name expressed in such articles of association, and by that name they and their successors, shall have succession, and shall be persons in law capable to purchase, hold, enjoy, grant, sell, give, lease and demise real and personal estate; of suing and being sued, and may have a common seal and change and alter the same at pleasure; and a certified copy of the record of such articles of association, under the seal of the county, where the said record is kept, own buildings. stock. SEC. 7. Any corporation formed in pursuance of this act, Corporation may may erect and own a suitable edifice, buildings or hall, as to such corporation shall seem proper, with convenient rooms for the meetings of the fraternity of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order; and for that purpose may create a capital stock of not more than fifty thousand dollars, to Limit of capital be divided into shares of not more than twenty-five dollars each; and any such corporation may take, purchase, hold and own such suitable lot or parcel of ground as may be convenient for the purpose of a cemetery, and may make all May own lawful rules and regulations for the disposition of the lots and cemetery. the burial of the dead therein, as to such corporation may seem proper. ground for subordinate en SEC. 8. Any grand encampment of the Knights of the Grand and Ancient Essenic Order of the State of Michigan, and any campments may subordinate encampment thereof, having been duly chartered, be incorporated. may be incorporated in like manner as grand and subordinate senate of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, and enjoy the same powers and privileges and benefits under the provisions of this act. ject to State laws. SEC. 9. All corporations formed under this act shall be shall be subsubject to the provisions of chapter seventy-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one of the State, so far as the same may be applicable to corporations formed under this act, and the legislature may alter or amend this Legislature act at any time. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 40. ] AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and eighteen of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "The voluntary dissolution of corporations and of the abatement of suits by and against them," being compiler's chapter two hundred and eighty-two of second Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan, by adding a new section to said chapter one hundred and eighteen, to stand as section thirty-nine. may amend or alter act. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Chapter That chapter one hundred and eighteen of the revised stat amended. Appeal, when Supreme Court. Proviso as to motion for approval, utes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "The voluntary dissolution of corporations and of the abatement of suits by and against them," being compiler's chapter two hundred and eighty-two of second Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan, by adding a new section to said chapter one hundred and eighteen to stand as section thirty-nine, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 39. That any corporation, person or persons claiming may be made to to be aggrieved by any decree or final order of any circuit court in chancery in any proceedings mentioned in this chapter, may appeal therefrom to the Supreme Court. Such appeal shall be claimed by a written claim delivered or transmitted within forty days from the entry of such decree or final order to the register in chancery of the court where such decree or final order was entered, which said register shall make entry of, and the appellant shall, within forty days, file Register a bond, with said register a bond naming as obligee the said register, and with sufficient sureties approved by the circuit judge, or said court, or a circuit court commissioner of the county wherein said decree was entered, and with such penalty as such judge or commissioner shall approve, conditioned for the diligent prosecution of such appeal and for the performance or satisfaction of any decree or final order of the Supreme Court against the appellant in the cause, and for payment of all costs that may be awarded against the appellant in said Supreme Court in the matter of said appeal: Provided, That the motion for such approval shall be on a notice to whom it may concern, of at least six days, to be filed in the office of said register, said notice to contain the penalty and the names of the sureties of the proposed bond, and on the hearing of such motion, any corporation, person or persons claiming to be interested shall be heard as to the sufficiency of the penalty named and the pecuniary responsibility of the sureties proposed to such bond: And provided further, That in case of such motion being before a circuit court comCommissioner. missioner, the circuit judge or the judge at chambers of the court in which such decree or final order is entered, may, on special motion of any corporation, person or persons claiming to be interested, order an additional bond and fix the penalty thereof and approve the sureties thereto on proper showing: Provided further, That upon the filing of said bond with approval as aforesaid, the appeal shall be deemed perfected and the register in chancery shall, on payment of five dollars to him on behalf of the appellant, make return to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court shall have power to hear and determine such appeal and all matters concerning the same and shall have power to reverse, affirm or alter the order or decree appealed from and to make such other order or decree therein as shall be just, in like manner and with like effect as on appeals in suits in chancery according to the existing statutes of the State of Michigan and the rules of the Supreme Court in such case made and provided: Proviso as to Proviso as to perfecting appeal. stay of pro And provided further, That the Supreme Court while any Proviso as to This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 41. ] AN ACT making an appropriation for additional buildings for the Michigan Mining School at Houghton, Michigan, for the further equipment of the same, and for the support and maintenance of said Mining School for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-three and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to amend section seven of act number two hundred and thirty-nine of the public acts of the State of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred and eightyseven, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the erection and equipment of a suitable building for the use of the Mining School at Houghton, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including all permanent fixtures, heating and lighting apparatus, etc.," approved June twenty-four eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. when suit may SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation. That the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars be, and the same is, hereby appropriated from the general fund in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the Michigan Mining School at Houghton, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said school, as hereinafter specified; and the money for payments under this act shall be drawn from the State treasury on the requisitions by said board of control, signed by the president and secretary thereof, which shall be presented to the Auditor General, who shall draw his warrants on the State Treasurer therefor. SEC. 2. Thirty-five thousand dollars of the amount named Distribution. Board to draw from fund. Money to be raised by tax. Section amended. Compensation for service. in section one of this act shall be used for the construction of an engineering building for the Mining School at Houghton, Michigan, and for the further equipment of said school. SEC. 3. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars of the sum named in section one of this act shall be used for the support and maintenance of said Mining School for the years eighteen hundred and ninety-three and eighteen hundred and ninety-four. SEC. 4. Said board of control is hereby authorized, at any time during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, or thereafter, by requisitions signed by the president and treasurer thereof, to draw from the general fund of the State treasury the amount of money named in section two of this act, at such times and in such amounts as they shall deem necessary for use in the construction of said buildings, and in the equipment thereof, and in a like manner to draw from time to time, as the same may be needed, during the years eighteen hundred and ninety-three and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the support and maintenance of said school, the money named in section three of this act. SEC. 5. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate with the State tax for the year eighteen hundred and ninetythree the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, and for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, to be assessed, levied and collected, as other State taxes are assessed, levied and collected, which sums when collected, shall be placed to the credit of the general fund, to reimburse it for the sum appropriated by section one of this act. SEC. 6. That section seven of act number two hundred and thirty-nine of the public acts of the State of Michigan of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the erection and equipment of a suitable building for the use of the Mining School at Houghton, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including all permanent fixtures, heating and lighting apparatus, etc.," approved June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, be, and the same is, hereby amended so as to read as follows, viz.: SEC. 7. Each of the members of said board of control shall be entitled to receive his actual expenses made in the discharge of his duties under this act, and act number seventy herein before referred to, and the architect and person employed, as provided for in the preceding section, and the treasurer of said board of control, for his services under this act and said act number seventy, and all other acts relating to said Mining School, now or hereafter to be enacted, shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services, to be established by the board of control and approved by the Governor, which compensation and expenses shall be audited by the board of State Auditors. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. |