claims, how there is also hereby appropriated from the general fund such sums Certain as may be necessary to pay warrants that may be drawn upon claims paid. allowed by the Board of State Auditors. Sec. 4. No clerk shall be employed by any standing or select committee, except by the consent of the Senate, or the House of Representatives. Approved, January 14, 1853. [ No. 3. ] AN ACT relative to the organization of the County of Ontonagon, in the Upper Peninsula. Election of The People of the State of Michigan enact, SECTION 1. That the election of county officers in and for the county of Ontonagon, in the officers legalized. Upper Peninsula, held and had on the last Tuesday of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and the organization of said county under and by virtue of said election, be and the same are hereby legalized; and the same shall be held valid and effectual to all intents and purposes; and the said county shall be held and deemed to have been duly organized on and after the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and the inhabitants of said county shall possess and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges possessed and enjoyed by the inhabitants of other organized counties of this State. May qualify any time previous to Sec. 2. That if any of the county officers elected in said county at said election shall not at the time of the passage of this act have qualified and entered upon the duties of office as such officers, it shall fifteenth of be lawful for them to do so at any time previous to the fifteenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three. March, 1853. Records of deeds, &c., held valid. Sec. 3. That the records of deeds, mortgages and conveyances of lands, situate in said county of Ontonagon, duly acknowledged and when to be recorded in pursuance of existing laws in the county of Houghton, prior to the said first day of January, shall be deemed and held valid to all intents and purposes in like manner and to the same effect as if the said county of Ontonagon had until that time continued attached to the county of Houghton for judicial purposes. Part of Sec. 4. That all that part of Houghton county lying west of the Co. Annexed line between ranges thirty-five and thirty-six, heretofore constituting to Ontona gon. a part of said county, be and the same is hereby annexed to and This act shall take effect immediately. Election of [ No. 4. ] AN ACT relative to the organization of the County of Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula. The People of the State of Michigan enact, SECTION 1. That the legalized. election of county officers in and for the county of Marquette, held in November, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and the organization of said county under and by virtue of said election, be and the same are hereby legalized, and the same shall be deemed and held valid to all intents and purposes, as fully and to the same effect, as if the said election had been had and held on the second Monday in June, in said year mentioned in an act entitled "An act to perfect the organization of the county of Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula, and to attach the county of Schoolcraft thereto for judicial purposes," approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; and the said county shall be deemed and held to have been fully organized from and after the first day of December, in said year, and the inhabitants thereof to possess and enjoy all and singular the rights and privileges possessed and enjoyed by other organized counties of the State. Sec. 2. The election of county officers had and held in said county on the last Tuesday of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall be deemed and held valid and effectual to all intents and purposes. Xbid. Records of when valid. Sec. 3. The records of deeds, mortgages, and conveyances of land deeds, &c., situated in said counties of Marquette and Schoolcraft made in the office of the register of deeds for said county of Marquette, the said thirty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and fiftyone, and which have been duly acknowledged and there recorded, in pursuance of existing laws, shall be deemed and held valid and ef fectual to all intents and purposes, in like manner as the records of conveyances duly made of lands in other organized counties. Co. of Mar. ferred to the Sec. 4. That all that part of the county of Marquette, embraced Part of the in range twenty-six, and heretofore set off as belonging to the town-quette tr'neship of Marquette, in the organization thereof, be and the same is township of transferred to the township of Carp River, in said county. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. [ No. 5. ] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection and return of taxes in the townships of Campbell and Sebewa, in the county of Ionia, and for the purpose of authorizing the supervisors thereof to make out new and corrected tax rolls for said towns for the year 1852, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the time for the collection and return of taxes in said towns of Campbell and Sebewa, in the county of Ionia, for the year A. D. 1852, be and is hereby extended to the first day of April next. Carp River. Time exten ded. pervisors rected tax Sec. 2. The supervisors of the said towns of Campbell and Sebe- Duty of su wa, in the county of Ionia, are hereby authorized and empowered with regard to making to make out and deliver to the treasurers of said towns, new and cor- new & corrected tax rolls for said towns for the year 1852, based upon the last roll. assessment rolls of said towns, and to include and levy in said tax rolls, all sums of moneys voted and reported by the proper officers of the several school districts of said towns, heretofore made to them, agreeable to the provisions of existing laws. Duty of urer. Sec. 3. The treasurers of the said towns of Campbell and Sebewa, shall, upon receipt of said tax rolls, proceed to collect the taxes there- town treas in levied and taxed, agreeable to existing laws, and to pay the same over to those entitled to receive the same, as directed in the warrants thereunto attached, and to make return to the county treasurer of all non-resident and other unpaid taxes, in the manner now provided by law, by the first day of April next. Sec. 4. The county treasurer of the said county of Ionia, shall, or before the first day of May next, make out and transmit to Auditor General, a certified transcript of all lands upon which on Duty of na the relative to the unpaid tax treasurer transcript of es. Duty of supervisor. taxes are returned unpaid, agreeable to the provisions of section 60 of chapter 20, title 5, revised statutes of 1846; and all proceedings upon said return by the Auditor General, in the manner directed by said act, shall be as valid as if made at the time directed therein. Sec. 5. The supervisors of said towns shall not be entitled to extra compensation for making said corrected tax rolls, and they shall deliver the same to the treasurer, as before provided, within ten days after the passage of this act; they shall also credit upon said roll all such sums as have been paid upon the rolls previously made for said taxes. Sec. 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Governor, Judges, cers, depu ties and elerks, for 1853. [ No. 6. ] AN ACT, making appropriations for the salaries of State Officers for the years eighteen hundred and fifty-three and eighteen hundred and fifty-four. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That there Salaries of be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, to the credit of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the salaries of the State Officers for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three: For the salary of the Governor, one thousand dollars; and for the salaries of the Associate Judges of the Supreme Court, fifteen hundred dollars each; for the salary of the District Judge of the Upper Peninsula, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the District Attorney of the Upper Peninsula, seven hundred dollars; for the salaries of the Auditor General and State Treasurer, one thousand dollars each; and for the salary of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Secretary of State, eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Attorney General, eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the Adjutant General, three hundred dollars; for the salary of the Quarter-Master General, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the salaries of the Deputy State Treasurer and Deputy Auditor General, seven hundred dollars each; for the salary of the Deputy Secretary of State, seven hundred dollars; for the salary of the Deputy Commissioner of the State Land Office, seven hundred dollars; for the salary of the Book-keeper of the State Land Office, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the State Librariau, five hundred dollars; to the Private Secretary of the Governor, the sum of three dollars per day, during the session of the Legislature and for eight days thereafter, to be paid on the certificate of the Governor; for the salaries of the two regular clerks of the Auditor General, six hundred dollars each; for the salaries of all other clerks employed by the Auditor General, a sum at the rate of six hundred dollars a year each; for the salary of the Reporter of the Supreme Court, five hundred dollars. Ibid for Sec. 2. That there be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury to the credit of the general fund, not 1854. otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the salaries of State Officers for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four: For the salary of the Governor, one thousand dollars; for the salaries of the Judges of the Circuit Court, fifteen hundred dollars each; for the salary of the District Judge of the Upper Peninsula, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the District Attorney of the Upper Peninsula, seven hundred dollars; for the salaries of the Auditor General and State Treasurer, one thousand dollars each; for the salary of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, one thousand dollars; for the salary of the Attorney General, eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Secretary of State, eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Adjutant General, three hundred dollars; for the salary of the Quarter-Master General, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the salaries of the Deputy State Treasurer and Deputy Auditor General, seven hundred dollars each; for the salaries of the two regular clerks of the Auditor General, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Deputy Commissioner of the State Land Office, seven hundred dollars; for the salary of the Book-keeper of the State Land Office, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Deputy Secretary of State, seven hundred dollars; for the salary of the State Librarian, five hundred dollars; for the salaries of all other clerks employed by the Auditor General, a sum at the rate of six hundred dollars a year each; |