from the list of qualified teachers in said township, by the school inspectors for said township, for any cause that authorizes them to annul a certificate given by themselves, and such Duration of suspension, in either case, shall continue in force until revoked by the authority suspending it.

suspension.

Sec. 3. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved January 18, 1871.

[No. 3.]

AN ACT to provide for paying publishers of newspapers for publishing the general laws of the State.

General SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That laws, payment for the State Treasurer be and he is hereby required to pay, on the publishing provided for. 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. Approved January 24, 1871.

Appropriation.

[ No. 4. ]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the officers and members of the Legislature for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the general fund, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, for the payment of the officers and members of the Legislature for the present session.

tion of

members

and Clerka.

Sec. 2. The compensation of the President and members of Compensathe Senate, and of the Speaker and members of the House of officers and Representatives, shall be three dollars per day each for actual attendance, and when absent on account of sickness, during the present session of the Legislature, and ten cents for every mile actually traveled in going to and returning from the place of meeting, on the usually traveled route; and to the members of or Senators

and Reprothe Senate and House of Representatives from the Upper Pen-sentatives

from Upper insula, two dollars per day each, additional, during the session Peninsula of the Legislature. Each member of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be entitled to receive five dollars for stationery and newspapers. The compensation of the Secretary, or Secretary Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the or ser

geants-atSenate, and their authorized assistants, and of the Clerk, and Årms. Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, and their authorized assistants, and of the clerks employed with the consent of the Senate or House of Representatives, by any of the standing or special committees of either of said Houses, shall be three dollars a day each, for actual attendance during the session, and ten cents for every mile actually traveled in going to and returning from the place of meeting, on the usually traveled route. The or firomea compensation of the firemen of the Senate and House of Representatives, and their authorized assistants, and keeper of the cloak-room, and of the postmaster of the Legislature, shall be of postthree dollars per day, and that of the messenger boys, two dollars per day for the time actually employed in attendance during the session.

Sec. 3. Such sums as may be due, under the provisions of How paid. this act, to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, shall be certified by the presiding officers of the respective Houses, and countersigued by the Auditor General; and such sums as may be due the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall be certified by the Secretary or Clerk of the respective

master,

Counter signed.

Houses, and countersigned by the Auditor General; and such
sums as may be due to the members and other officers of either
House, shall be certified by the Secretary or Clerk, and coun-
tersigned by the presiding officer of the respective Houses; and
the State Treasurer, upon the presentation of any such certifi-
cate, countersigned as provided in this section, is hereby
authorized and directed to pay the same.

Sec. 4. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved January 24, 1871.

Section amended.

[ No. 5. ] AN ACT to amend section seventy-nine, of chapter ninety

three, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and fortysix, entitled “Of courts held by justices of the peace," as amended by act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, being section three thousand seven hundred and thirty-one of the compiled laws.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section seventy-nine, of chapter ninety-three, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled “Of courts held by justices of the peace,” as amended by act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, being section three thousand seven hundred and thirty-one of the compiled laws, be and the same is hereby amended so that

said section shall read as follows: Bond; de. (3731.) Sec. 79. At the time of tendering such plea and fendant to enter into. notice, the defendant, with at least one sufficient surety, to be

approved by the justice, shall enter into a bond to the plaintiff, in a penalty at least two hundred dollars, conditioned that such defendant will pay any judgment that may be rendered against him in such action in the circuit or district court of

such county, and shall also pay the plaintiff's costs legally plaintiff's legal costs. incurred to that time, not exceeding the amount allowed by

To pay

tice's lee.

law in justices' courts, and also the sum of one dollar to the to pay jusjustice for certifying the cause to the circuit or district court.

Approved January 24, 1871.

how shall be

appoint

ers to ex

[ No. 6.1 AN ACT to provide for the collection, compilation, and

reprinting of the general laws of this state. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That General acts, all general laws in force in this State, and all general acts and collected and

reprinted. parts of acts passed by the present Legislature, which shall be approved and become laws, shall be collected and reprinted, without alteration, under their appropriate heads and titles, with marginal notes and references, and an index thereto, pursuant to the provisions of section fifteen, of article eighteen, of the constitution of this State.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint two Governor to commissioners, whose duty it shall be to examine the laws so commissioncollected and arranged, and if found by them to be a correct amine. compilation of all the general laws in force, to certify the same to the Governor. Sec. 3. Said laws, when so collected and examined, shall be How shall be

reprinted reprinted and bound in two volumes of convenient size, under and bound the direction of the compiler, in as good style and in as substantial manner as the compiled laws of this State, ten thou- Number of

copies. sand copies thereof to be completed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State by the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.

Sec. 4. The person so appointed by the Legislature to collect compiler; and examine the laws of this State as aforesaid shall be entitled tion of. to receive for such services the sum of two thousand dollars, which sum shall cover all expenses for such services and assistance, and the commissioners appointed by the Governor to

Sec. of State to furnish compiled

and session

laws,

State Treas

urer author

new compilation.

examine the same as aforesaid shall receive for such services the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars each.

Sec. 5. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed to furnish the person so appointed to collect and compile the laws, three complete sets of the compiled laws, and the same number of all session laws since the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Sec. 6. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed ized to sell to sell, from time to time, any number of the compiled laws when printed and bound as aforesaid, at a fair price, not less than the actual cost thereof, reserving the usual number of copies the disposition of which is provided by law. [Sec. 7. This act shall take immediate effect.] Approved January 25, 1871.

Section amended.

Directors;

when shall

idend.

[ No. 7. ]

AN ACT to amend section eighteen of "An act to authorize the business of banking," approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section eighteen of "An act to authorize the business of banking," approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 18. The directors of each bank shall, se mi-annually, on declare div- the first Monday in January and July, declare a dividend of so much of the net profits of the bank as they shall deem expedient, To make and on each of said days the president or cashier shall make a condition to full, clear, and accurate statement to the State Treasurer of the condition of the bank as it shall be on that day, after declaring the dividend, if any be declared, which shall be verified by the oath of the president or cashier, and shall contain

statement of

State Treas.

urer.