location or construction of such State road or ditch, shall endorse upon such record his certificate that the survey was made under his direction and for the purpose set forth. survey to be filed deeds. (1287.) SEC. 3. After the survey of any State road or ditch shall Transcript of have been approved by the board of control of State swamp lands, with register of the State swamp land commissioner shall cause a full and complete transcript of the record of such survey to be made and filed in the office of the register of deeds of the county or counties in which the same is located. And said register or registers with whom any such transcript may be filed shall carefully preserve all files in proper order in his said office and deliver the same to his successor in office. survey, etc., to (1288.) SEC. 4. All necessary expenses for making surveys, field How expense of notes, and diagrams of such State roads or ditches required by this be paid. act, shall be paid by the several counties, respectively, in that proportion in which they were incurred for making such surveys, field notes and diagrams of the territory in their respective counties, and it is hereby made the duty of the several boards of supervisors of any of the counties of this State, through which any State road or ditch may be located, to audit and pay their respective share of all necessary expenses of the surveys, field notes and diagrams. provided for in this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 12.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to enlarge the powers and duties of sheriffs, under and deputy sheriffs," approved January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, being compiler's section five hundred and sixty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy one. amended. sheriffs as to service of process. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Section section one of chapter ten of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's section five hundred and sixtyeight, be amended by striking out the words "except the county of Wayne," so that the section when amended read as follows: SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Powers of deputy any sheriff, under sheriff, or deputy sheriff, of any county of this State, may and shall hereafter be fully authorized to serve or execute any and all process, civil or criminal, issued, or which may by law be issued by any justice of the peace, and to have and to exercise all the powers and duties of constables; and for such services they shall be entitled to the same fees as are now, or may be allowed by law to constables in like cases. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. When cattle, etc., may run at large. Supervisors may allow. [No. 13.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of chapter fifty-nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's sections two thousand and twenty-seven and two thousand and twenty-eight, relative to the prevention of animals running at large in the public highway. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That sections one and two of chapter fifty-nine of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being compiler's sections two thousand and twenty-seven and two thousand and twenty-eight, relative to the prevention of animals running at large in the public highway, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: (2027.) SEC. 1. That from and after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, it shall not be lawful for any cattle, horses, sheep or swine to run at large in any public highway of this State: Provi led, That this act shall be inoperative only in those counties or parts of counties in which it shall be so determined by resolution passed by the board of supervisors of such county: Provided further, That the powers granted to boards of supervisors in this section, shall not abridge the powers reserved to the people of a township, in section four of chapter twelve, of compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one. (2028.) SEC. 2. In case the board of supervisors in any county shall pass a resolution allowing any of the classes of animals named in section one of this bill to run at large in the public high way, then in such county, after the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the following sections of this act shall be null and void, but otherwise they shall be in full force. Approved February 23, 1881. Board of control authorized to appropriate swamp lands, [No. 14.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the board of control of State swamp lands to make an appropriation of State swamp lands to drain and reclaim certain swamp and overflowed lands in the townships of Owosso and Middlebury in Shiawassee county. SECTION 1. The people of the State of Michigan enact, That the board of control of State swamp lands of this State are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate not to exceed three sections of State swamp lands in the lower peninsula, not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as they may deem necessary after a full investigation of its merits, for the purpose of removing the flood-wood in the Maple river, and to widen, deepen, and otherwise improve the current in said river, to aid in draining and reclaiming the open swamps and overflowed lands situate and being in the townships of Owosso and Middlebury, Shiawassee county, in this State: Provided, That said expenditure shall be made in pursuance of the provisions of law relative to the construction of swamp land This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 15.] AN ACT to repeal compiler's sections thirteen hundred and sixty to fourteen hundred and forty-eight inclusive, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being sections one to ninety, inclusive, of chapter thirty of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, the same being a part of chapter thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled "The inspection of provisions and other merchandise, and regulations respecting the sale thereof." repealed. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections compiler's sections thirteen hundred and sixty to fourteen hundred and forty-eight, inclusive, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, being sections one to ninety, inclusive, of the revised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six, the same being a part of chapter number thirty-three of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entiled "The inspection of provisions and other merchandise, and regulations respecting the sale thereof," be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved February 23, 1881. [No. 16.] AN ACT to amend sections one and two of act number one hundred and thirty-eight of session laws of eighteen hundred and seventyfive, relative to subjects for dissection for the advancement of science, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same being sections two thousand one hundred and ten and two thousand one hundred and eleven of chapter sixty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventyone, as amended. amended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections one and two of act number one hundred and thirty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, being sections two thousand one hundred and ten and two thousand one hundred and eleven of chapter sixty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended, be amended so as to read as foliows: Certain boards and officers to deliver certain bodies to the Demonstrator of University. (2110.) SEC. 1. Any member of either of the following boards, and any of the following named officers or persons, to-wit: The board of health of any city, village, or township, the common Anatomy at the council of any city, the board of trustees of any village, the mayor of any city, president of any village, any board, or officer having the direction, management, charge, or control, in whole, or in part, of any prison, house of correction, work-house, jail, or lock-up, county superintendents of the poor, keepers of poor-houses and almshouses, any physician, or other person in charge of any poorhouse or almshouse, sheriff, coroners, the board of State commissioners, the board of trustees, board of control, and all officers, physicians, and persons in charge, in whole, or in part, of any institution for the deaf and dumb, blind, and insane, or other charitable institution founded or supported, in whole, or in part, at public expense, having in his or their possession or control the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative, or legal representative, as hereinafter provided, and which may be required to be buried at public expense, or the expense of any one of such public or charitable institutions, shall deliver such dead body or bodies, within thirty-six hours after death, or after he or they shall become possessed thereof, to the express or railway company at the nearest railway station, placed in a plain coffin and enclosed in a strong box, securely fastened, and plainly directed to the "Demonstrator of anatomy, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan," excepting only the dead bodies of such persons as shall have died from some infectious disease. And such boards, common councils, officers, or other persons making such shipment shall take the usual shipping receipt for such package, and shall notify the consignee of such shipment by letter, mailed on the day the package is so delivered as aforesaid; and shall also inclose in such letter a statement, giving, as nearly as can be ascertained, the name, age, residence, and cause of death of such deceased person, and the name and postoffice address of the known relatives of such deceased person, whose body has been shipped as aforesaid; and also a statement of the costs and expenses which have been incurred in the procuring of the coffin, box, preparation of body for shipment, and shipping the same. And, upon the receipt of such consignment, the said demonstrator of anatomy of the University of Michigan shall immediately forward to such officers, board, council, or institution, or persons making such shipment, or incurring such expenses, the amount thereof, not exceeding in any case the sum of fifteen dollars: Provided, Such dead body shall not be so shipped or delivered as aforesaid, if it shall be requested in good faith for interment by any relative before the same shall be shipped as aforesaid, and in case the dead body of any person so delivered or shipped as aforesaid be subsequently claimed or demanded of said demonstrator of anatomy, or of any other person or institution, into whose possession or under whose control it may have been placed, by virtue of the provisions of this law, by any relative or legal representative of such deceased person, for private interment, it shall be given up to such claimant even after the same shall have Notice to consignee. Amount to be paid for body. Proviso. be used and distributed. been interred, as hereinafter provided. Such bodies shall be used only for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and shall then, in all cases, be interred in some suitable place, kept for that purpose, and a correct record shall be kept of every such body; and all matters by which such body may be identified coming to the knowledge of the person or officer at any time in charge of such bodies, shall be faithfully recorded at length in a book to be kept for such purposes, to the end that the same may be at any time traced and recovered by the friends and relatives of such deceased person: And provided Proviso. further, That the institution, board, council, officer, or person aforesaid in charge of any such body as aforesaid shall, immediately after the death of such person, notify, if possible, by telegraph, or otherwise by letter, one or more of the nearest known relatives of such deceased person of the death of such person; and in no case shall the body of any such deceased person be delivered or shipped as aforesaid until after the expiration of twenty-four hours from death; and every individual officer or party violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (2111.) SEC. 2. The bodies so delivered, or shipped as aforesaid, How bodies to shall be used for the advancement of anatomical science in this State and in the following institutions of learning only, viz.: The university of Michigan, Detroit medical college, and Michigan college of medicine. And said bodies shall be distributed to and among the same equitably, and in the order in which they are received, and the number assigned to each by said demonstrator of anatomy shall be proportional to that of its students in actual attendance. And each of said institutions shall pay quarterly to said demonstrator its ratable proportion of the expenses borne and incurred under this act: Provided, however, That said demonstra- Bodies to be tor of anatomy, upon the receipt of every body, under and by virtue embalmed. of the provisions of this act, shall cause the same to be embalmed or put in a state of preservation, and shall not permit the same to be delivered to either of said institutions for the purpose of dissection, until the same shall have been in his possession at least ten days. And it shall be the duty of said demonstrator of anatomy, Notice to relaupon the receipt of every body, to immediately notify the relatives tives. of such deceased person, if known, of the receipt of such body, either by mail or telegraph, as he may deem best, and that said body will be preserved intact, for the space of ten days, in which time such relative will be entitled to said body for the purpose of private interment, upon payment of the expenses already incurred. And if the relatives or legal representatives of such deceased person When to be shall request said body for the purpose of interment, and shall pay relatives. said expenses, said demonstrator shall deliver to such relative or legal representative, the said body, together with the said coffin and box enclosing the same. But in case said body shall not be requested by such relatives until after the same shall have been applied to the purposes intended, the remains thereof, together with the coffin and box aforesaid, shall be delivered without charge: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the university of Michigan, Detroit medical college and Michigan college of medicine aforesaid, and each and every other delivered to |