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Punishment of
Officers for issu-

Stuck, etc.

of such person; but nothing herein contained shall affect any suit or proceedings heretofore commenced and now pending in any of the Courts of this State.

(2000.) SEC. 56. If any President, Secretary or other officer ing fraudulent of any Railroad Corporation within this State shall willfully, and with intent to defraud said Corporation or any other person, make, sign, issue, sell, or offer to sell any false or fraudulent stock or other evidence of debt of said Corporation, he shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison at hard labor, not less than three years.

Punishment of
Employees for

(2001.) SEC. 57. Any Conductor, Engineer, servant, or other violating Rules. employee of any Railroad Corporation, who shall willfully violate any of the written or printed rules thereof, in relation to the running of cars or train for the transportation of persons or property, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twentyfive, nor more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months.

Punishment of persons obstruct

(2002.) Sec. 58. If any person shall, by the placing of any ing track, etc. impediment upon the track of any Railroad, or by any other means whatsoever, throw from said track any engine or cars used thereon, or attempt so to do, whether such engine or cars be thrown from said track or not, or shall, by any other means whatsoever, willfully endanger or attempt to endanger the lives of persons engaged in the work of said road, or per sons traveling on the engine or cars of said road, he shall be subject to imprisonment in the State Prison during his natural life, or any number of years, at the discretion of the Court.

Check to be affixed to Baggage.

given to person

(2003.) SEC. 59. A check shall be fixed to every parcel of baggage when taken for transportation by the agent or servant of such Corporation, if there is a handle, loop or fixture so that the same can be attached upon the parcel of Duplicate to be baggage so offered for transportation, and a duplicate thereof owning Baggage. given to the passenger or person delivering the same on his behalf; and if such check be refused on demand, the Corporation shall pay to such passenger the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in a civil action; and further, no fare or toll shall be collected or received from such passenger; and if such passenger shall have paid his fare, the same shall be refunded by the Conductor in charge of the train; and on producing said check, if his baggage shall not be delivered to him, he may himself be a witness in any suit brought by him to prove the contents and value of such baggage.

freight, baggage,

posed of.

a description.

(2004.) SEc. 60. Every Railroad Company which shall have unclaimed had unclaimed freight not perishable, or unclaimed baggage, etc., how dis in its possession, for a period of one year at least, may proceed to sell the same at public auction, and out of the proceeds may retain the charges of transportation and storage of such freight, and the expenses of advertising and sale thereof; but no such sale shall be made until the expiration of six weeks from the first publication of notice of such sale in at least one newspaper published in the City of Detroit, and also in one newspaper published at, or nearest the place where such freight or baggage was directed to be left, and also at the place where such sale is to take place; and said notice shall Notice to contain contain a description of such freight or baggage, the place at which, and the time when the same was left, as near as may be, together with the name of the owner or person to whom consigned, if known; and the expenses incurred for advertising shall be a lien upon such freight in a ratable proportion, according to the value of each article, package or parcel, if more than one; in case such unclaimed freight shall be in its nature perishable, then the same may be sold as soon as may be, on giving the notice required in this section, after its receipt at the place where it was directed to be left. Such Company to make. Railroad Company shall make an entry of the balance of the balance; how proceeds of the sale, if any, of each parcel of freight owned of. by or consigned to the same person, as near as can be ascertained, and at any time within five years thereafter shall refund any surplus so retained to the owner of such freight or baggage, his or her heirs or assigns, on satisfactory proof of such ownership.

entry of the

balance disposed

full stop before

Railroads.

(2005.) SEC. 61. Every passenger, freight, or other train of Cars to come to cars running upon any Railroad, shall come to a full stop before crossing other crossing any other Railroad built or constructed upon the same grade; and every Engineer, Conductor, or other person having charge or control of such train of cars, who shall offend against the provisions of this section, shall forfeit for each offence the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt; and any Railroad Company who shall, by their rules and regulations for running trains of cars upon such Railroad, require any passenger, freight, or other train to cross any other Railroad built or constructed upon the same grade, without coming to a full stop before such crossing, shall forfeit a like sum for every day such rule or regulation shall continue in force, to be recovered as aforesaid.

forming passenger trains.

Prohibition in (2006.) SEC. 62. In forming a passenger train upon any Railroad organized under the provisions of this act, baggage, freight, merchandise or lumber cars, shall not be placed in rear of the passengers cars; and if they, or any of them, shall be so placed, the officer or agent who so directed, or knowingly suffered such arrangement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished accordingly.

Acts Repealed.

(2007.) SEC. 63. All acts the subjects of which are herein re-enacted, or which contravene or are inconsistent with the terms and intention of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 64. This act shall take effect immediately.

An Act to Amend an Act entitled, "An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Railroad
Companies."

[Approved February 12, 1855. Took effect May 16, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 193.]

(2008.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section fifty-nine of an act entitled, "An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Railroad Companies," be amended by adding, at the end of said section, the following words: "Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall be in any manner whatsoever construed to revive or continue in force any charter of incorporation, where forfeitures have been incurred, or to affect any suit or proceeding at law now pending relative to any alleged forfeiture of franchises on the part of any such Railroad Corporation of this State, nor in any manner to waive or release any such forfeiture of franchise alleged to have been incurred by any such Railroad Corporation prior to the passage of this Act." So that said section, as amended, will read as follows, viz.: "All Acts, the subjects of which are herein re-enacted, or which contravene, or are inconThis Act not to sistent with the views and intentions of this act, are hereby revive Corpora repealed: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall, proceedings in any manner whatsoever, be construed to revive or continue

be construed to

tions or affect

pending. in force any charter of incorporation, where forfeitures have

been incurred, or to affect any suit or proceeding at law now pending, relative to any alleged forfeiture of franchises on the part of any such Railroad Corporation of this State, nor in any manner to waive or release any such forfeiture of franchise alleged to have been incurred by any such Railroad Corporation prior to the passage of this act." (e)

(e) It will be perceived that original Section sixty-three was the Section designed to be amended by this Act, instead of fifty-nine.

CHAPTER LXVIII.

OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.

SECTION

2009. Chapter 52 of Revised Statutes of 1846, repealed.

2010. Five or more may organize Religious Society, and elect Trustees.

2011. Minister, etc., may be President; Qualifications of voters.

2012. Notice of Election, how given. 2013. Who to be Inspectors of Election, etc.;

Certificate to be made, stating name of Trustees, corporate name, etc. 2014. Certificate to be acknowledged; County Clerk to Record Certificate; Trustees to become body Corporate.

2015. Common Seal of Corporation; Trustees to take possession of Property.

2016. Rights and powers of Trustees; Limitation

of time for holding certain Property; When Land shall revert to donor or grantor.

2017. Trustees may build Meeting Houses, etc., but not for secular purpose.

2018. To manage the temporal affairs of Church. 2019. To appoint certain officers, regulate their

fees, etc.; Duty of Clerk.

2020. Meeting of Trustees, how called, etc; President to have casting vote. 2021. Term of office, classification, etc., of

Trustees; Articles may provide for Annual Election of whole Board of Trustees. 2022. Clerk to notify Minister, etc., of expiration of office of Trustees; Minister to notify Members, and appoint election.

2023. Election to be held six days before expiration of term; Vacancies to be filled for remainder of term. 2024. Certain persons not entitled to vote. 2025. Clerk to register names of stated hearers, etc.

2026. Trustees not to have power to fix salary of Minister, etc.

SECTION

2027. Court may grant order of Sale of Real Estate of Corporation in certain cases.

2028. Notice of application for order. 2029. Lands, etc., conveyed to Trustees to be held in trust.

2030. No Officer of any Church to hold Property in official capacity; Certain grants, etc. void; Ecclesiastical Corporations not recognized as existing at Common Law, etc. 2031. No Ecclesiastical Law or custom to be recognized in the tenure of Real Estate, etc.; Proviso.

2032. Certain bequests to be void; Certain deeds, etc., to be void.

2033. Certain legacies, etc., to be void. 2034. Certain conveyances to be void unless made to Corporation, etc. 2035. Existing Societies confirmed, subject to this Act; Certain vacancies may be filled, and Societies reorganized under this Act. 2036. Act to apply to all Religious Societies. 2037. How Protestant Episcopal Churches may be organized.

2038. What the Articles of Association to contain.

2039. Articles to be recorded. 2040. Who may call first Meeting; Notice of Meeting; Who to be Voter thereat; Election of Vestrymen. 2011. Who may vote at subsequent Meetings; When Annual Meeting to take place. 2042. Vestrymen may appoint Wardens, Secretary and Treasurer; Vestry Meeting, by whom called; Rector to preside; Vacancies in Vestry, how filled. 2043. Vestry to manage temporal affairs. 2044. When Trustees may be appointed by Officers of Churches; Certificate or appointment; Such Trustees to be body Corpo

rate.

2045. Repeal of conflicting enactments.

Chapter 52 of Re

vised Statutes of

An Act concerning Churches and Religious Societies, establishing uniform rules for the acquisition, tenure, control and disposition of Property Conveyed or Dedicated for Religious

Purposes, and to Repeal Chapter Fifty-Two of the Revised Statutes.

[Approved February 13, 1855. Took effect May 16, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 313.]

(2009.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact,

1846 repealed. That Chapter fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of 1846, entitled, "Of Religious Societies," be and the same is hereby repealed, saving all rights which may have accrued under the same, subject to the modifications provided in this act.

Five or more may organize Reli

and elect Trustees.

(2010.) SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for any number of pergious Society, sons of full age, not less than five, who may be desirous of forming themselves into a church, congregation or Religious Society, and who shall sign articles of Association for that purpose, to assemble together at such place as they may se lect, and by a plurality of votes by ballot, elect any number of discreet persons, being laymen, not less than three nor more than nine in number, as Trustees, to take charge of the property belonging to, and transact all the affairs relative to the temporalities of such church, congregation or Religious Society.

Minister, etc., may be President.

voters.

(2011.) SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for any such church, congregation or Religious Society, to choose their minister, priest, curate, rector, parson, or officiating clergyman, for the time being, to be the President of said Corporation and of their Qualifications of meetings, by a vote as aforesaid; and at the first election provided for in this act, every person who shall have signed the articles, and at any subsequent elections every person of full age, who has for six months been a stated worshipper with, or a contributor regularly for one year previous to the support of such church, congregation or Society, shall be entitled to

Notice of Election, how given.

vote.

(2012.) SEC. 4. The minister, priest, rector, curate, parson, or officiating clergyman of such congregation or Society, or if none of them be present, one of the elders or deacons, churchwardens or vestrymen thereof, and for want of such officers, any other person being a member or stated hearer in such church, congregation or Society, shall publicly notify said congregation of the time when, and the place where, any election shall be held, at least fifteen days before the day of such election, and such notification shall be given for two successive Sabbaths, on which such church, congregation or

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