LIST OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS. TITLE. PAGE. No. printing of the Senate and House of Representa- Houses of the Legislature, approved January 12.. 407 2. Concurrent resolution appointing the editor of the State Republican to compile and publish the 408 3. Concurrent resolution requiring clerks of circuit courts to furnish statement of business done in said clerks in said years, approved January 24.... 408 4. Concurrent resolution requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to introduce and urge 409 5. Concurrent resolution requesting our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their influence 409 6. Concurrent resolution requesting the State Librarian to remove the books from the south room of the 410 7. Concurrent resolution ordering the printing of one thousand copies of the report of the Special Com- 410 a No TITLE. PAGE 8. Concurrent resolution requesting the Secretary of State to forward to the supreme and circuit court 411 9. Concurrent resolution relative to the intent and meaning of the resolution requesting the Secretary 411 10. Concurrent resolution requesting the postmaster of the city of Lansing to report to the committee on Houses of the Legislature, approved March 29.--- 411 11. Concurrent resolution instructing the Auditor Gen eral to send copies of his report to county clerks, 412 12. Concurrent resolution directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to place the national flag at half-mast in memory 412 13. Concurrent resolution relative to the meeting in joint convention of both branches of the Legislature, 412 14. Concurrent resolution directing the Secretary of State to forward to each supervisor, and each member ordered to take immediate effect, approved April 13, 413 15. Concurrent resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representa- 413 16. Concurrent resolution relative to the final adjourn ment of the Legislature, approved April 15...... 414 LAWS OF MICHIGAN. Section amended. road com consolidate. [ No. 1. ] AN ACT to amend section fifty of an act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies, approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section number fifty of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of railroad companies,” approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 50. Any railroad company in this State, forming a When raflcontinuous or connected line with any other railroad company, panies may may consolidate with such other company, either in or out of this State, into a single corporation: Provided, That no such Proviso. companies owning parallel or competing lines shall be permitted to consolidate themselves into one corporation. directors of said two or more corporations may enter into an into agree agreement, under the corporate seal of each, for the consolidation of the said two or more corporations, prescribing the terms What the and conditions thereof, the mode of carrying the same into shall contais effect, the name of the new corporation, the number of the directors thereof, and the names of those who shall be the first directors, which shall be deemed and taken to be the first election of the directors of the consolidated company, which Number of number shall not be less than seven, nor more than thirteen, the time and place of holding the first election of directors Tuine and place of after such consolidation, which time shall not exceed six holding months after such consolidation has been sanctioned by the stockholders of said two or more corporations as hereinafter The Directors may enter ment. directors. election. shares of, ration, pow. and franchises of. ment of directors deemed Capitalstock provided, the number of shares of capital stock in the new and amount corporation, the amount of each share, the manner of con verting the shares of capital stock in each of said two or more corporations into shares in such new corporation, with such other details as they shall deem necessary to perfect such conNew corpo- solidation of said corporations; and such new corporation era rights, shall possess all the powers, rights, and franchises conferred upon such two or more corporations, and shall be subject to all the restrictions, and perform all the duties imposed by the provisions of their respective charters or laws of organization not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Such agreeWhen agree- ment of the directors shall not be deemed to be the agreement of the said two or more corporations until after it has been agreement of submitted to the stockholders of each of said corporations, corporation. Notice of separately, at a meeting thereof, to be called upon a notice by meeting. publication at least once in each week for four successive weeks, in one of the daily papers published in the city of Detroit, and some newspaper published in each county in this State through which said roads run, in which newspaper shall be published, the first publication to be at least sixty days before the time specified for said meeting, and signed by the secretaries of each of the said companies proposing to consolContents of idate, stating the purpose and object of said meeting, and has been sanctioned by such stockholders by the vote of a majority in interest of the stockholders, in person or by proxy, each share of capital stock being entitled to one vote; and when such agreement of the directors has been so sanctioned by each of the meetings of the stockholders, separately, after being submitted to such meetings in the manner above mentioned, then such agreement of the directors shall be deemed to be the agreement of the said two or more corporations. A copy Copy of of said contract or consolidation agreement, filed in pursuance agreement may be used of this act with the Secretary of State, and certified by him to be a copy, shall in all courts and places be presumptive notice. as evidence. evidence of the consolidation of said two or more companies, Sec. 2. This act shall take immediate effect. [ No. 2. ] and five, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty- amended. section two, of act one hundred and five, of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be so amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 2. (2231.) The board of instruction of the Normal Certificato ; graduates to School shall give to every graduate receiving such diploma a receive. certificate, which shall serve as a legal certificate of qualifica- Efect of, tion to teach in the primary schools of any township in this with county State when a copy thereof shall have been filed or recorded in schools. the office of the county superintendent of common schools. Such certificate shall not be liable to be annulled except by the board of instruction, but its effect may be suspended in any How effect county, and the holder thereof may be stricken from the list suspended. of qualified teachers in such county, by the county superintendent of common schools for the county in which said township may be situated, for any cause and in the same manner as he now is by law authorized to revoke certificates given by himself; and in case there be no such county superintendent When school for the county in which such township is situated, then the may sus pend. said certificate so given by the board of instruction may be suspended in any such township, and the holder thereof stricken when filed Bapt. of of may be inspectors |