Judge of tenth; time of election and term of ffice. Election; sheriffs to notify. Clerks to post notices. Sec. 6. The qualified electors of the counties of Saginaw, Midland, Isabella, Clare, and Gratiot shall, on the first Monday in April, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, at the regular township meetings to be held in the respective townships in said counties of Saginaw, Midland, Isabella, Clare, and Gratiot, at that time, elect a circuit judge, who shall hold his office until the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the counties of Saginaw, Midland, Isabella, Clare, and Gratiot, at least five days previous to the first Monday in April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to notify the township clerks of the several townships in their respective counties of the election aforesaid for circuit judge, and the said township clerks shall post notices, in the usual manner, for such elections in their townships, at least three days previous Manner of to the day of election. The said election of circuit judge of said tenth judicial circuit shall be conducted and returns made as provided by law for the election of judges for the several judicial circuits of this State, and the State canvassers Canvass of shall, without delay, on receipt of the certified statement of the votes given in the said counties, proceed to canvass said votes, and deliver to the person elected a copy of their deterJudge to re-mination, as required by law; and no person shall hold the office of circuit judge of said tenth judicial circuit, unless he shall be a resident thereof. conducting. votes. side in cir cuit. Acts repealed. Sec. 8. All acts or parts of acts contravening any of the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Sec. 9. This act shall take immediate effect. ་་ 1 [ No. 45. ] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, and six of an act ontitled "An act to provide for the inspection of illuminating oils, manufactured from petroleum or coal oils," approved April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being act number one hundred and twenty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to add thereto a new section, to stand as section eight of said act. amended.. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Sections sections one, two, and six of an act entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of illuminating oils manufactured from petroleum or coal oils," approved April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, being act number one hundred and twenty-eight of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: when Gov appoint. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, In any Inspector; county of the State wherein any illuminating oils are manufac- ernor may tured for the purpose of burning in any kind of lamp as an illuminator, or where the same is sold for that purpose, the Governor, upon the application of five or more persons, residents of said county, shall appoint a suitable person, who is not interested in manufacturing, dealing, or vending any or either of said oils, whose duty it shall be to examine and test the quality of Duties of all such oils that he shall be requested to examine and test by any manufacturer, vender, or dealer, and if upon such testing or examination the oils shall meet the requirements hereinafter specified, he shall fix his brand or device, viz: "Approved," How he shall with the date, over his official signature, upon the package, bar- or casks. rel, or cask containing the same, and it shall be lawful for any manufacturer, vender, or dealer to sell the same as an illuminator; but if the oil so tested shall not meet said requirements, he shall make in plain letters on said package, cask, or barrel, over his official signature, the words "Rejected for illuminating purposes," and it shall be unlawful for the owner thereof to sell such oil for illuminating purposes. mark barrels. To provide necessary Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the inspector to provide himapparatus. self, at his own expense, with the necessary instruments and apparatus for testing the quality of said illuminating oil, and port as when called upon for that purpose, to promptly inspect all oils What to re- herein before mentioned, and to report as dangerous all oils dangerous. which, at the temporature of one hundred and ten degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, will emit an explosive gas, or take fire on applying thereto or plunging therein a well lighted match: Provided, The quantity of oil used in this test shall not be less than half a pint; and it shall be the duty of said inspector to designate by his brand, the temperature at which said oil will ignite. Proviso. Term of office. Duties. tion. Sec. 6. The term of office of an inspector shall be for two years; and every inspector or deputy inspector shall, upon the requisition of any manufacturer, dealer, or vender of the oils herein mentioned, proceed, without unnecessary delay, to the Compensa inspection thereof, and said inspector shall be entitled to demand and receive from the owner or the party calling upon him, the sum of four cents for each and every package, barrel, or cask inspected and branded by him; and it shall be the duty of every inspector to keep a true and accurate record of all oils so inspected and branded by him and by his deputies, which record shall state the date of inspection, the number of gallons or barrels, and the name of the person for whom inspected, and the record shall be open to the inspection of Deputy to any and all persons interested. And it shall be the duty of to principal. every deputy inspector, within four days after the inspection of any oils herein before mentioned, by him, to make a true return thereof to his principal. To keep record of oils inspected. make report Oils inspected in other free from in Sec. 8. It shall not be necessary for any person to have States to be inspected, under the provisions of this act, oils brought into this spection. State from any other of the United States, which have been inspected under the laws of any other such State, if the package, cask, or barrel in which the same is brought into this State shall bear a brand or device of the State inspector or on cask to de ceive. deputy State inspector of such other State, showing that the Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 46. ] AN ACT making appropriation for the erection of a chemical laboratory for the State Agricultural College. propriated. pended. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Amount apthere shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of building a chemical laboratory for the State Agricultural College, which How exsaid moneys herein appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture, so far as may be necessary for the purpose aforesaid, and shall be drawn from How drawn. the treasury on the presentation of the proper certificates of the said board to the Auditor General, and on his warrant to the State Treasurer. Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. Approved March 25, 1871. [No. 47. ] Districts constituted. Proviso. counties AN ACT to provide for the uniform inspection of lumber. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That each organized county within this State shall constitute a district for the inspection of lumber therein, except the counties of Saginaw and Bay, which shall constitute one district, to be known as the Saginaw district: Provided, That two or Two or more more counties adjoining each other, and not having an inspector general, may be united in one district, if the several boards of supervisors of such counties shall by resolution approve such union, and in such case it shall be the duty of the several clerks of such counties to transmit to the clerk of each of the other of such counties, and to the Governor, a certified copy of such resolution adopted by the board of supervisors of his county, before any application shall be made for the appointment of an inspector general in such district. may be united in one district. Inspector; appointment of. Proviso. precedent to Sec. 2. There shall be appointed for each district an inspector general of lumber, who shall be appointed by and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Governor, but shall not be removed without sufficient cause: Provided, That no such appointment shall be made, except in the Saginaw and Muskegon districts, until the same shall be requested by the board or boards of supervisors of the county or counties composing Conditions such district. And the board or boards of supervisors shall appointment only request such appointment after the application of not less than two-thirds of the lumber manufacturers in any proposed Vacancy district. Any vacancy in said office may be filled by the Governor; and every inspector general, deputy inspector, and sub-inspector appointed under the provisions of this act shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by article eighteen of the constitution of this State. Each inspector general, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the people of the State of Michigan, in the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by a circuit judge, con how filled. Oath of office. Bond. |