School funds applied to pur (413.) SEC. 6. All money which may be paid into the Treasury chase of bonds. after January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to the credit of the primary school, Normal School, and University funds, shall be set apart and applied to the purchase of bonds issued under this act, or of the renewal-loan bonds, the temporary-loan bonds, or the war-loan bonds of this State.1 Bids for bonds. Notice of. Proviso. Bonds to be numbered and registered. (414.) SEC. 7. It shall be competent and lawful for the Governor and State Treasurer, if in their judgment it shall be deemed expedient, to invite sealed proposals or bids for the purchase of such bonds, payable in cash or in the bonds of this State, to be redeemed by the loan provided for herein, in the city of New York, at such place as they may designate, on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at which place, also, the new bonds, for which said bids shall be made, shall be deliverable on such payment, which said invitation shall be by notices published in one or more of the principal papers in the city of New York, and at their discretion elsewhere: Provided, That no proposal or bid for the purchase of said bonds at less than par value shall be accepted. (415.) SEC. 8. The bonds authorized to be issued under this act shall be numbered and registered in a book provided for that purpose by the Auditor General, and kept in his office. The Auditor Record of bonds General shall also keep a full record of all the bonds taken up taken up. Exchange of bonds authorized under the provisions of this act, and said record shall be filed in the office of the Treasurer and Secretary of State, and all said. bonds shall be immediately canceled. (416.) SEC. 9. If at any time before the final sale of said bonds, it shall become practicable, in their judgment, the Governor and Treasurer shall be and they are hereby authorized to make and enter into arrangements or agreements with any party or parties holding any of the bonds of the State, maturing in eighteen hundred and sixty-three, to exchange the said outstanding bonds for those herein provided for, upon such terms as they may deem best; and in that case they shall have the power, and they are hereby authorized, to the extent of such exchange, to prepare and cause to be executed, in the manner herein provided, the bonds of the State, and deliver them in exchange for such outstanding bonds as parties may desire to exchange therefor; and in that case the said bonds may bear date at the time when issued, but with interest payable at the times herein stated, and the principal sums to fall due at the several periods above stated. 1 As amended by Act 134 of the Laws of 1863, p. 195, approved March 18, 1963. for expenses. (417.) SEC. 10. There shall be and is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation the general fund, such an amount as may be necessary to pay the expenses of preparing such bonds and of the said negotiations. An Act to fix the salaries of certain deputy State Officers and clerks. 1 tics. (418.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Salaries of depu That the Deputy Secretary of State shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; that the Deputy State Treasurer shall receive an annual salary of fourteen hundred dollars; that the Deputy Auditor General shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; that the Deputy Commissioner of the State Land Office shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; that the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; that the book-keeper of the Book-keepers. State Treasurer's office, the book-keeper of the State Land office, and the book-keeper of the Auditor General's office, shall respectively receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; that the Regular clerks. four regular clerks of the Auditor General shall each receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars; that each of the other other clorks. clerks of the Auditor General shall receive an annual salary not exceeding nine hundred dollars; and that such other clerks as may be necessarily employed in the office of the State Treasurer, Secretary of State, Commissioner of the State Land Office, and of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall each receive an annual salary not exceeding nine hundred dollars; all of which Paid monthly or said salaries shall be payable monthly or quarter-yearly; and there quarterly. shall be made no further or other compensation, pay, or allowance to any or either of the deputies or clerks named in this section, than such as is herein provided, for any services rendered by them respectively. (419.) SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts contravening or Act repealed. conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect. An Act to provide for the payment of the salaries of the State officers. [Approved April 17, 1871. Laws of 1871, p. 285.] (420.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Appropriation. That there be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any 1 This act probably superseded by the following act, though not directly repealed. Salaries. Governor. preme Court, State officers. Deputies. moneys in the Treasury to the credit of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the salaries of the State officers for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and each year thereafter: For the Governor, one thousand dollars; Justices of Su for the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court, two thoujudges, etc. sand five hundred dollars each; for the salaries of the judges of the circuit courts, and the judge of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, fifteen hundred dollars each; for the salaries of the Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, one thousand dollars each; for the salaries of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General, eight hundred dollars each; for the salary of the State Librarian, eight hundred dollars; for the salaries of the Deputy State Treasurer, and the Deputy Auditor General, fifteen hundred dollars each; for the salaries of the Deputy Secretary of State, and the Deputy Commissioner of the State Land Office, fourteen hundred dollars each; for the salary of the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, thirteen hundred dollars; for the salary of the private secretary of the Governor, eight hundred dollars; for the salaries Book-keepers. of the book-keeper and the draughtsman of the Land Office, the book-keeper of the State Treasurer's office, and the book-keeper of the Auditor General's office, one thousand dollars each; for the salary of the clerk of the Attorney General, one thousand dollars; for the salaries of the four regular clerks of the Auditor General, and one regular clerk of the Secretary of State, and one regular clerk of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, one thousand dollars each; for the salaries of all other clerks of the Auditor General, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars each; for the salaries of such additional clerks in the State Land Office, State Treasurer's office, office of the Secretary of State, and office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as may be necessary, not exceeding at the rate of one thousand dollars each, per annum, for the time employed; for the payment of the Compiler of the Legislative Manual of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, two hundred dollars, which shall be the only sum paid him, and shall be in lieu of all other compensation for his services. Clerks. Compiler of No other compensation to deputies and alerks. (421.) SEC. 2. There shall be made no other or further compensation, pay, or allowance to any or either of the deputies or clerks named in section one of this act, than those therein provided, for any services rendered by them, respectively, as such deputies or clerks, or in any other capacity; and the State Treasurer, the into State Treas Auditor General, Secretary of State, and the Commissioner of the State Land Office shall each make, or cause to be made, on proper application, and without unnecessary delay, all such searches, maps, drawings, plats, abstracts, statements, and certificates as may be reasonably called for by any person or persons, and shall charge, or cause to be charged to, and collected from the applicant, all such fees for the same as shall be proper and compensatory; and all such Fees to be paid fees shall be promptly paid into the State Treasury, together with ury. all fees for notarial services and attestations performed or executed by any officer named in this section, or by his deputies, clerks, or employes; nor shall any money be drawn from the State Treasury by any officer named in this bill, or by his deputies, clerks, or employes, in payment for any notarial services or attestations performed or executed by them. An Act to provide for paying publishers of newspapers for publishing the general laws of the State. [Approved January 24, 1871. Laws of 1871, p. 4.} payment for publishing pro vided for. (422.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, General laws, That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby required to pay, on the warrant of the Auditor General, fifteen dollars to every publisher of a newspaper in this State, who has heretofore or may hereafter publish all the general laws passed at any session of the Legislature, on satisfactory proof to the Auditor General of such publication, as authorized by the Constitution. SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. An Act to prevent officers and clerks in the State Land Office and Auditor General's office from purchasing lands while in the employ of the State. [Approved March 16, 1861. Laws of 1861, p. 552.] prohibited from purchasing lands.' (423.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Certain persons That it shall be unlawful for any officer or clerk employed in the State Land Office, or in the office of the Auditor General of this State, during the term of his service, or within three months after the discontinuance of such service, to purchase, either directly or indirectly, from the State, at either of said offices, any lands for sale at said offices, or either of them. (424.) SEC. 2. Any purchases made in violation of the first sec- Purchases to be tion of this act shall be void. void. Copy of certifi cate of comple Auditor General An Act to provide for giving notice to county treasurers of lists of railroad-grant lands which have become taxable. [Approved April 15, 1871. Laws of 1871, p. 235.] (425.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, tion filed with That whenever the Governor shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that any twenty continuous miles of road have been completed as provided for in act of Congress approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, granting lands to the State of Michigan for railroad purposes, he shall also deposit in the office of the Auditor General a copy of said certificate. Auditor General to send list of treasurers. (426.) SEC. 2. The Auditor General shall, as soon as said lands taxable lands to become taxable, forward to the treasurer of each of the counties in which any of such lands are situated, a description of the lands [so] taxable, situated in that county. CHAPTER VIII. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS IN OTHER STATES. Commissioners of deeds; Gov An Act to authorize the appointment of commissioners to take acknowledgment of deeds and instruments of writing under scal out of the State. 1 [Approved March 19, 1845. Took effect April 18, 1845. Laws of 1845, p. 59.) (427.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ernor to appoint Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Governor be hereby authorized to appoint and commission one or more commissioners in each or such of the other States and Territories of the United States or in the District of Columbia, as he may deem Term of office. expedient, which commissioners shall continue in office for the period of five years, unless sooner removed by the Governor, and 1 This act was repealed by chapter one hundred and seventy-three of the Revised Statutes of 1846, but revived and continued in force by the act next following. |