medical institution shall not receive into their possession any bodies This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Board of control authorized to transfer the St. Mary's Canal to the United States. Proviso. Transfer of money and materials. [No. 17.] AN ACT to authorize the board of control to transfer the Saint Mary's Falls ship canal, with the property belonging to the same, to the United States. WHEREAS, Congress at its last session included in the river and harbor bill the following: For improving and operating Saint Mary's river and Saint Mary's Falls canal, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. "And the secretary of war is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States from the State of Michigan the Saint Mary's canal and the public works thereon: Provided, Such transfer shall be so made as to leave the United States free from any and all debts, claims or liability of any character whatsoever, and said canal after such transfer shall be free for public use: And provided further, That after such transfer the secretary of war be and hereby is authorized to draw from time to time his warrant on the secretary of the treasury to pay the actual expenses of operating and keeping said canal in repair;" therefore, SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the board of control of the Saint Mary's Falls ship canal be aud hereby is authorized and directed to transfer the said canal and the public works thereon, with all its appurtenances and all the right and title of the State of Michigan in and to the same, to the United States, in accordance with [the] provisions of the above mentioned clause: Provided, That this cession is upon the express condition that the State of Michigan shall so far retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over the Saint Mary's Falls ship canal, and in and over all lands acquired or hereafter acquired for its use; that any civil or criminal process issued by any court of competent jurisdiction, or officers having authority of law to issue such process, and all orders made by such court, or any judicial officer duly empowered to make such orders, and necessary to be served upon any such person, may be executed upon said Saint Mary's Falls ship canal, its lands, and in the buildings that may be erected thereon, in the same way and manner as if jurisdiction had not been ceded as aforesaid. SEC. 2. The board of control of the Saint Mary's Falls ship canal are hereby authorized and empowered, at any time when they may deem it proper, to transfer all material belonging to said canal, and to pay over to the United States all moneys remaining in the canal fand, excepting so much as may be necessary to put the said canal [No. 18.] AN ACT to restrict the disposition of personal property by last will. to disposition of personal prop erty by will. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Limitations as all dispositions of personal property by last will and testament shall be subject to the following limitations and restrictions: First, If the testator shall leave surviving him, a wife, the testamentary disposition shall be subject to the election of such wife, to take any interest that may be given to her, by the testator in his last will and testament; or in lieu thereof, to take the sum or share that would have passed to her, under the statute of distributions, had the testator died intestate, until the sum shall amount to five thousand dollars, and of the residue of the estate one-half the sum or share that would have passed to her, under the statute of distributions, had the testator died intestate, and in case no provision be made for her in said will, she shall be entitled to the election aforesaid. Second, If by any will, any special devise or bequest is made to the wife in lieu of any particular thing or any particular interest, to which such wife might be entitled, in case of intestacy, the election by the wife to take the special devise or bequest, or the other particular thing or interest, in lieu of which it is given, shail not deprive the party electing, or any other person, of the right to leave the testamentary disposition of property in all other respects unaffected and unimpaired; and to have the benefit of any other provisions therein, the same as he or she would have had, if this act had not been passed. and filed in SEC. 2. The election to take otherwise than under the will, in any Election to take, contingency above contemplated, shall be made in writing, and to be in writing, filed in the court in which proceedings for the settlement of the court. estate are being taken, within one year from the probate of the will; and the failure to file such election within the time above provided shall be deemed an election to take under the will. Approved March 10, 1881. County organ. ized, Election of county officers. [No. 19.] AN ACT to organize the county of Oscoda. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of Oscoda shall be detached from the county of Alcona, and organized into a separate county, to be known as the county of Oscoda, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges, powers, and immunities to which, by law, the inhabitants of other organized counties in this State are entitled. SEC. 2. At the township meeting of the several townships in said county, to be held on the first Monday of April next, there shall be an election of all the county officers to which, by law, the said county is entitled, who shall hold their several offices until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and until their How conducted. successors shall have been elected and qualified. Such election of such officers, and the canvass thereof, shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by law: Provided, That the county canvass of such election shall be held at the office of the township clerk of the township of Atherton, on the Monday next succeeding such election, and the officers so elected shall qualify and enter on the duties of their respective offices on or before the fifteenth day of April Proviso. Location of determined. next. SEC. 3. The location of the county seat of said county shall be county seat, how determined by the vote of the electors of said county at a special election, which is hereby appointed to be held by the several townships of said county on the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. There shall be written or printed on the ballots there polled by the qualified electors of said county, the name of one place, and the place which shall receive the highest number of votes cast at such election shall be the county seat of the county of Oscoda. Elections, how conducted. Board of county canvassers, how duties. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the several boards of township inspectors in each of the townships of the said county to conduct the elections authorized by the provisions of this act, and to make returns thereof in accordance with the general provisions of law for conducting general elections in this State, so far as the same may be applicable thereto. SEC. 5. The board of county canvassers for the special election appointed, and for locating the county seat shall consist of the persons appointed on the day of such special election by the several boards of township inspectors, and the said board of county canvassers shall meet on the second Tuesday succeeding the day of said special election, at the office of the county clerk of said county in the township of Atherton in the county aforesaid, and having appointed one of their number chairman, and the county clerk of said county acting as secretary, shall proceed to canvass the votes, and determine the location of the county seat in accordance therewith, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said board to file a copy of the determination of said board as to the location of the county seat, signed and certified by him, and countersigned by the chairman, with the sec retary of state, and with the township clerks of the several townships in said county. SEC. 6. The county seat for said county of Oscoda shall be Temporary temporarily located in township twenty-five north, range two east, county seat. at the corner of sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight, and twenty-one and twenty-two, now known as Union Corners, in said county of Oscoda, until the county seat has been located as provided for in section three of this act. and sheriff to SEC. 7. The county clerk shall provide a suitable seal and all County clerk necessary books for the use of the circuit court for said county, and provide for holdthe sheriff shall provide a suitable place for holding said court, at ing circuit court. the expense of said county, until a suitable place for holding such court is provided by the board of supervisors of said county. trict. SEC. 8. Said county shall comprise part of the representative Representative, district now composed of the counties of Alcona, Alpena, and gressional, and Presque Isle, and the unorganized county of Montmorency, and Judicial disshall be attached to the twenty-ninth senatorial district, and to the eighth congressional district, and to the twenty-third judicial circuit; and the judge of said circuit court shall fix the time for holding such court on or before the first day of June next. The sheriff Where court to and county clerk of said county shall designate, in writing, the place where said circuit court shall be held, and such designation shall be filed with said clerk, and the same shall remain so fixed until changed by the said board of supervisors. SEC. 9. The secretary of state is hereby directed to furnish the township clerk of the township of Comins with a certified copy of this act; and it shall be the duty of said clerk to give the same notice of the elections to be held under the provisions of this act that is required by law to be given by the sheriff of organized counties. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. be held. Secretary of State to furnish township clerk with copy of act. [No. 20.] AN ACT to provide for an appropriation for the preparation, publication and distribution of the proceedings of the annual meetings of the Michigan Superintendents of the Poor, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Appropriation. there is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for each of the years eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be expended for the preparation, publication and distribution of the proceedings of the annual meetings of the Michigan superintendents of the poor for each of said years. SEC. 2. Said moneys shall be expended under the direction of the How expended. secretary of the State board of charities, who shall report to the governor, on or before the first day of July in each of said years, giving an itemized account of the manner of such expenditures; and the auditor general shall issue his warrant for the payment of said money on presentation to him of the order of the president of the State board of charities, countersigned by the secretary thereof. Approved March 10, 1881. Appropriation for Board of Agriculture. Appropriation for College. Appropriation stitutes, library, etc. [No. 21.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the support of the State agricultural college, to pay the expenses of the State Board of Agriculture, to erect certain buildings, and to make other improvements at the State Agricultural College. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury the sum of seven thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and the sum of seven thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, for the use and support of the State agricultural college and to pay the current expenses of the State board of agriculture. SEC. 2. There shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the construction and heating apparatus of a building to be used for the purposes of a museum, the laboratory dissecting rooms and experimental and class rooms necessary thereto, and for library purposes, the form of said building to be determined by the State board of agriculture, six thousand dollars for the enlargement of the chemical laboratory, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for new buildings for the farm department, and twenty-five dollars for a building for the horticultural department; which said sums embraced in this section shall be paid in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. SEC. 3. There shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State for farmers' in- treasury the sum of six hundred dollars for farmers' institutes, three thousand dollars for the library, two thousand and twenty dollars for the department of mathematics and civil engineering, one thousand dollars for the department of zoology, three thousand dollars for the department of chemistry, three thousand two hundred and twenty dollars for the department of botany and horticulture, three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars for the farm department, three hundred dollars for the mechanical department, and one thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars for repairs; said amounts embraced in this section, aggregating seventeen thousand eight hundred and ninety-one dollars, to be paid, one-half of the same in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and one-half in the year one thousand eight |