act.

SEC. 5. This act shall authorize placing upon the assessment roll Limitation of for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four lands legally subject to taxation when omitted from the assessment roll for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and hereafter shall be limited to the assessment of lands omitted from the assessment roll of either or both of the two years next preceding that in which they are placed upon the roll, and at the time of such omission legally liable to assessment and taxation.

placed upon roll

strued as omit

SEC. 6. Lands heretofore or hereafter placed upon the assessment Lands not roll for any year, but not within the time required by law, the taxes within the time upon which remain unpaid until the expiration of the time herein required, conprovided for the assessment of such land, shall, for purposes of ted. this act, be construed as omitted therefrom, and may be placed upon the assessment roll of the current year in the same manner as indicated above, except that in case the value of lands so placed Exception. upon the former assessment roll shall have entered into the valuation of the property of the town, city, or ward, as was equalized by the board of supervisors, and upon which the tax was thereto apportioned, then the amount of taxes against such land shall not be deducted from the aggregate amount of taxation to be levied upon the town, city or ward, within which they are situated, as provided in section three of this act.

charged back by

when and how collected.

SEC. 7. Whenever the Auditor General shall have rejected any Taxes rejected or tax in the first instance, or have charged the same to the county to Auditor General; which it shall have been credited on account of inaccurate or any imperfect description of land upon which such tax was laid, or for any other reason, the board of supervisors of the county shall, if such tax was rejected or charged back on account of inaccuracy or imperfection of description of the land on which it was laid, add to the then current assessment roll of the proper town, city, or ward, a correct description of such land, and cause to be assessed thereon the tax, interest, and charges in arrears, and the same to be collected with the taxes of the then current year, and in the same

manner.

lands charged

or upon which

paid, etc.

SEC. 8. The taxes, together with all interest and charges in Taxes, etc., on arrears, upon any land rejected or charged back by the Auditor back as not subGeneral for the reason that such land was not subject to taxation at ject to taxation, the time prescribed by law for the assessment for such taxes, or taxes have been that the taxes thereon had been once paid, or that there had been a double assessment thereof, shall, by the board of supervisors, be levied upon the property at large of the proper township, or otherwise disposed of as may appear equitable, except that they shall not be re-assessed upon the same land.

SEC. 9. The taxes, interest, and charges in arrears upon any land Taxes, etc., in rejected or charged back for any reason, except as specified in the flet in two pretwo preceding sections, may be re-assessed upon the same lands, ceding sections. levied upon the taxable property of the proper township, or otherwise disposed of by the board of supervisors as may be equitable.

SEC. 10. The assessments made and taxes levied, under the provisions of this act, shall, in all matters except as herein before specified, be subject to the provisions of an act entitled "An act to provide for a uniform assessment of property, and for the collection and return thereof," approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to the amendments thereto.

SEC. 11. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 24, 1874.

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AN ACT to amend section three thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the sale of swamp and primary school lands, in the mineral range of the Upper Peninsula, heretofore withheld from market as mineral lands.

SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section three thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven, of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the sale of swamp and primary school lands in the mineral range of the Upper Peninsula, heretofore withheld from market as mineral lands, be and the same is amended so as to read as follows:

(3987). SEC. 4. The pay of such agents shall be five dollars per day, for the time actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of their duties, together with their actual and reasonable traveling expenses; and their accounts for such services and expenses, properly verified by such agents, when allowed by the Board of State Auditors, shall be paid by the State Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Auditor General, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. This act shall take immediate effect.
Approved March 25, 1874.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

[ No. 1. ]

JOINT RESOLUTION asking Congress to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Saginaw River.

WHEREAS, The commerce of the Saginaw River, which largely exceeds that of any other navigable stream within the limits of this State, and is constantly increasing, is and has been impeded and rendered difficult by the existence and formation of bars in said river;

AND WHEREAS, The people of Saginaw county have, by the issue of bonds, local taxation and private subscription, expended upwards of two hundred thousand dollars in removing such obstructions and improving such navigation, and kept the channel open without aid from the State or National treasury;

AND WHEREAS, By a report recently made to the Secretary of War by General Weitzel and other United States Engineers, appointed to examine said river, that the sum of fifty thousand dollars additional is necessary to protect and complete the work already accomplished, and such engineers have reported in favor of the general government completing such improvement, which has been endorsed by the War Department, and such report, and a bill appropriating said sum of fifty thousand dollars for prosecuting and preserving such improvement, is now before Congress; therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Congress of the United States be and they are hereby requested to make such appropriation as may be necessary for completing such improvement, and that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested to use all proper efforts to secure an appropriation for that purpose.

Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing preamble and resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

Approved March 23, 1874.

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JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to section one of article seven of the Constitution, in relation to the qualifications of electors.' Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That at the election when the amended Constitution shall be submitted

to the electors of this State for adoption or rejection, there shall be submitted to such electors the following propositions, to be substituted in case of adoption, for so much of Section 1 of Article VII. as precedes the proviso therein, in the present Constitution of this State as it now stands, and substituted for Section 1, Article VII., in said amended Constitution, if the latter is adopted, to wit:

SECTION 1. In all elections, every person of the age of twenty-one years who shall have resided in this State three months, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote ten days next preceding an election, belonging to either of the following classes, shall be an elector and entitled to vote:

First, Every citizen of the United States;

Second, Every inhabitant of this State who shall have resided in the United States two years and six months, and declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an election;

Third, Every inhabitant residing in this State on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

Said proposition shall be separately submitted to the electors of this State, for their adoption or rejection, in form following, to wit: A separate ballot may be given by every person having the right to vote, to be deposited in a separate box.

Upon the ballots given for said proposition shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words "Woman suffrage,—Yes;" and upon the ballots given against the adoption thereof, in like manner, the words "Woman suffrage,-No."

If, at said election, a majority of the votes given upon said proposition shall contain the words "Woman Suffrage,-Yes," then said proposition shall be substituted for so much of Section 1 of Article VII. as precedes the proviso therein in the present Constitution of this State as it now stands, or substituted for Section 1 of Article VII. in said amended Constitution, if the latter is adopted.

Approved March 23, 1874.

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JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Senators and Representatives of the State of Michigan in Congress to use their best endeavors to secure relief from the General Government, to certain Homestead Settlers on railroad land, whose homestead certificates have been canceled by the United States of America, because of conflict with the land grant of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company.

WHEREAS, The following named persons, citizens of the United States of America and of the State of Michigan, to wit: Elias Langdon, Joseph S. Walling, Jared C. W. Taylor, Jacob Stadelbaus, Mark Linton, Wellington Bigger, Robert N. Byers, Charles Taylor, Isaiah Cunningham, David Stewart, Joseph Sheline, Eli Houghtaling, Francis W. Dodge, Alletta M. McClellan, Alonzo Chubb; obtained during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, cer

tificates of homestead entry, under the homestead laws of the United States of America, to certain lands, subject to homestead entry at the land office of the United States, at Traverse City, Michigan, as shown by the books of said office;

AND WHEREAS, Said homestead certificates, given by authority of the Government of the United States of America, have been declared canceled by authority of said government, because of the conflict of said homestead certificates with the land grant made by said United States Government for the construction of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to urge upon Congress and the other proper authorities, the necessity, propriety, and wisdom of granting relief to the aforesaid persons, from the great injuries suffered because of the action of said government authorities of the United States.

Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to send a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

Approved March 24, 1874.

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JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Michigan.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the Constitution of the State of Michigan be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

PREAMBLE.

For the purpose of establishing, defining and limiting the powers and duties of the several departments of government, the People of the State of Michigan do ordain this Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

BOUNDARIES AND SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

SECTION 1. The State of Michigan is bounded as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point on the eastern boundary line of the State of Indiana, where a direct line drawn from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Maumee Bay shall intersect the same, said point being the northwest corner of the State of Ohio, as established by an act of Congress, entitled "An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed," approved June fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; thence with the said boundary line of the State of Ohio till it intersects the boundary line between the United States and Canada, in Lake Erie; thence with the said boundary line between the United States and Canada through the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, the St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the St. Mary's River and Lake Superior, to a point where the said line last touches Lake Superior; thence in a direct line through Lake Superior to the mouth of the Montreal River; thence through the