shall remain until released by the plaintiff in execution, or till the same shall be sold according to the provisions of this act.

§ 6. The preceding sections of this act shall not extend to Limitation. proceedings as for contempt to enforce civil remedies, nor to action for fines and penalties, or on promises to marry, or for moneys collected by any public officer, or for any misconduct. or neglect in office, or in any professional employment or judgment for trespass.

tion.

§ 7. There shall be no redemption of lands, tenements, or No redempreal or personal estate, sold under the provisions of this act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 27, 1841.

[No. 28.]

AN ACT to organize the township of Wales, in the county of St. Clair.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That all that part of the county of St. Clair, designated by the United States survey as township number six north, of range number fifteen east be, and the same is hereby set off and organized into a separate township by the name of Wales, and the first township meeting shall be held at the house of Joshua Tompkins, in said township.

§2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

Approved, March 27, 1841.

For colored children.

A director appointed.

To enumerate children

a teacher.

[No. 29.]

AN ACT to organize a school district in the city of
Detroit.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the school inspectors of the city of Detroit be authorized to organize a school district, to be numbered as they shall decide; not described by metes and bounds, but composed of the colored children of said city, between the ages of five and seventeen, inclusive.

§ 2. The said inspectors shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to appoint, annually, a director for said district, who shall hold his office until another is appointed.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of said director, to enumerate the and employ colored children in said city, between the ages of five and seventeen, inclusive, and make the returns thereof at the time, and in the manner that school directors of other districts are required by law to do, and to employ a teacher for said district.

When school is

months, to

propriation.

§ 4. If it shall appear by the returns of said director, that a taught three school has been taught for three months, by a competent share in ap- teacher, in the year for which the returns were made, the inspectors of said district are authorized to apportion from the public moneys, to said district, so much thereof as it be entitled to from the number of scholars of which said district is composed.

Director to account.

When ex

penses to be

rents, &c.

§ 5. Such moneys shall be paid to the said director, and by him used in payment of the wages of a competent teacher; and he shall account to the inspectors for the expenditure of such moneys, to their satisfaction, by proper vouchers.

§ 6. The expenses of said school, after the exhaustion of paid by pa- such moneys, shall be paid by the parents and guardians of such children as shall be sent to school, in proportion to the time for which such children are sent; the same to be assessed and collected by the director, together with five per cent, in addition, in full for collecting the same.

§ 7. The directors of the other several school districts in the city, are required not to enumerate the colored children in

their several districts, when taking the annual census required by law.

§ 8. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage.

Approved, March 27, 1841.

[No. 30.]

AN ACT regulating the holding of courts in Shiawas

see county.

other papers

to

be con

veyed to county site.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- Writs and presentatives of the State of Michigan, That the circuit court of Shiawassee county shall hereafter be holden at the county site of said county, any provisions of law heretofore existing to the contrary notwithstanding; and all writs or other process returnable to said court shall be returned to said county site, and all writs or other process heretofore issued in any suit or suits, and returned to any place in said county other than said county site, together with all files and papers pertaining to the same, shall be taken by the clerk of the court of said county and conveyed to the county site thereof. And such suit or suits shall be tried and judgment had thereon, in the same manner as if the process thereon had been returnable and returned to such county.site.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage.

Approved, March 28, 1841.

[No. 31.]

AN ACT in relation to the duties of county commissioners, in certain cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That whenever the board of county commissioners shall deem it expedient to erect

county buildings in their county, they shall have power to cause the amount deemed necessary for that purpose, to be raised by a tax: Provided, That no money shall be raised, as aforesaid, unless authorized by a majority of the electors of such county, as provided for in the proviso to the eighth section of chapter three, title three of part first of the revised statutes. Approved, March 27, 1841.

Member competent witness.

Judges, &c., who are members, may hear

mine,

[No. 32.]

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Kalamazoo mutual insurance company," approved March 7, 1834.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That from and after the passage of this act, any member of the Kalamazoo mutual insurance company, shall, or may be admitted as a competent witness, and his or her deposition used in the same manner as though he or she were not a member thereof: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall prevent the interest of such member being considered as affecting the credibility of such witness, or his deposition, by reason of such interest.

§ 2. The judges of courts and justices of the peace, within their respective jurisdictions, are hereby authorized and requiand deter- red to hear, try, and determine, all actions and causes that come before them, in which the Kalamazoo mutual insurance company is a party, notwithstanding they may be members of said company, by having property insured therein; and that Jurors, also. jurors, also, be required to set in the trial of all causes or suits in which said company is a party, notwithstanding they may be members, by having property insured therein, unless specially objected thereto, for this cause, by one of the parties to such action or suit.

§ 3. Any sheriff or other officer, within his jurisdiction, is hereby authorized to serve or execute any writ or other process, to him directed, in which said insurance company is a

party, notwithstanding such officer shall be a member of said company, by being insured therein, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

directors; hold office

reside in

nually; four

three non

by power of

§ 4. The board of directors of said company, shall hereafter Twenty-one consist of twenty-one members, to hold their office for the term three years. of three years, any seven of whom shall form a quorum for the transaction of business; twelve of the number to be resi- Twelve to dents of the county of Kalamazoo, and nine of them to reside county. in other portions of the state, out of the county; four of the Chosen anresident directors and three of the non-resident directors, shall residents and be chosen annually, and such election shall be made by ballot, residents. a plurality of the votes of the members present, and proxies Proxies vote duly appointed by absent members, by power of attorney duly attorney. executed under seal, and properly acknowledged, constituting an election, allowing to each member one vote, and in case of insurance on property, in which more than one individual is interested or concerned, the firm or company shall be entitled to one vote only; hereby repealing so much of section three of the original charter, as contravenes this act: Provided, That if said proxies reside in the county of Kalamazoo, such power of attorney shall be on file in the secretary's office, at least one week before the election at which they are used.

ting.

§ 5. At the first election hereinafter had, after the passing Mode of voof this act, the secretary shall, under the direction of the tellers, prepare twelve papers of equal size, upon four of which shall be written "one," also four, upon which shall be written the word "two," and upon four the word "three," and deposit in a box; and in another box shall be deposited twelve papers, of equal size, upon each of which shall be inscribed one of the names of the resident directors; the papers shall then be drawn alternately from the boxes, and the name drawn from one box, corresponding with the number drawn from the other, shall designate the term of service of the several directors; the term of service of the non-resident directors shall be determined by a similar process.

§ 6. All buildings insured by and with said company, toge- Buildings ther with the right, title, and interest of the assured, to the

pledged.