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TITLE IX.

CHAPTER 48.

When owner, &c., to receive moneys deposited with township treasurer.

Finder neglect. ing to advertise,

&c., to lose bene. fit of this chap

ter.

SEC. 11. If the owner or person entitled to the possession of any such animal, shall appear within one year after the entry with the township clerk as aforesaid, and establish by his own affidavit or othwise to the satisfaction of the township treasurer, his title thereto, he shall be entitled to receive the money so deposited in the township treasury, from the proceeds of the sale; and if no owner or person entitled to the possession of the same shall appear within the said year, such money shall belong to the township.

SEC. 12. If the finder of any lost money, goods, or stray beasts, shall neglect to cause the same to be entered, advertised, or notice thereof to be posted, as directed in this chapter, he shall be precluded from all the benefits of this chapter, and from all claim for keeping such goods or animals, or on account of any charges in relation thereto. SEC. 13. If any person shall unlawfully take away any animal, taken taking stray ani. up as a stray pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, without paying all the lawful charges incurred in relation to the same, he shall be liable to the finder thereof to the value of such animal, which may be recovered in an action of trespass or on the case.

Liability of person unlawfully

mals.

When horses,

&c., may be moderately worked by finder.

SEC. 14. If any horses, mules or oxen, of sufficient age and strength, and used to work, shall be taken up under the provisions of this chapter as strays, and shall not be reclaimed by the owner within one month after the entry thereof with the township clerk, the person taking up the same may moderately and carefully work such horses, mules or oxen, within the township where they were so taken and the value of such labor shall be deducted from the charges aforesaid.

up;

CHAPTER 48.

Exemption of

firemen from militia duty, &c.

1843, p. 17,

Moneys may be raised to compensate firemen.

Payment of compensation.

OF FIRE DEPARTMENTS IN CITIES AND VILLAGES.

SECTION 1. Every person who was a fireman in any incorporated city or village in this state on the sixth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, or at any time thereafter, and who shall have served, and shall continue to serve as such for the term of seven years from that time, or from the time of his appointment, if appointed since that time, and every person who may hereafter be appointed a fireman in any such city or village, and shall serve as such for the term of seven years, shall, during the time of such service, be exempted from serving as a juror in any of the courts of this state, and from the performance of all militia duty, and shall forever thereafter be exempted from the performance of all militia duty, except in cases of insurrection or invasion.

SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for the qualified voters of any such city or village, at their annual election of officers thereof, to authorize the common council or other corporate board of such city or village, to raise a sufficient sum to pay each fireman therein the sum of five dollars; and thereupon such sum shall be levied and collected, in the same manner as the other contingent expenses of such city or village are levied and collected.

SEC. 3. Upon such provision being made for the payment of fire

OF FIRE DEPARTMENTS.

men, as provided in the preceding section, each fireman who shall produce a certificate from the foreman of his company, countersigned by the chief engineer of the fire department of such city or village, stating that he has well and faithfully performed his duties as such fireman during the year then next preceding, shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of such city or village, the said sum of five dollars as a compensation for his services.

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or clerk.

SEC. 4. The recorder or clerk of every such city or village, shall Record to be keep an accurate record, in a book to be provided for that purpose, kept by recorder of the name, occupution and residence of every fireman of such city or village, together with the date of his appointment, and a designation of the company to which he is attached; and whenever any fireman shall resign or be removed, it shall be so entered upon such record; and the appointment, resignation or removal, of every fireman, shall also be entered on the minutes of the common council or other corporate board.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the recorder or clerk of such city or Certificate of village, to deliver to every fireman who shall have served during the service. said term of seven years as provided in this chapter, a certificate to that effect, signed by himself and the mayor of such city, or president of such village; which certificate shall be received as evidence in any of the courts of this state.

pairing engines.

SEC. 6. It shall be lawful for the common council or other corpora- Taxes for purted (corporate) board of each incorporated city or village, to levy and chasing and recollect, by a tax upon all the taxable real and personal property within the limits thereof, in the manner prescribed in the charter of such city or village for the collection of taxes therein, such sums as may be necessary for the purchasing and repairing of fire engines and other fire apparatus, and for defraying all other necessary expenses of the fire department thereof.

SEC. 7. Every fire company shall have power to make such by- Fire companies laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this may make by. laws, &c. state, for their government and discipline, and to prescribe such penalties for the violation thereof, not exceeding five dollars for any one offence, as they may deem necessary to the efficient accomplishment of the object of their organization; and they may sue for and collect such penalties in the name of the common council or other corporate board of the city or village to which they belong.

empted from ex

SEC. 8. All fire engines, and apparatus requisite for, and ordinarily Fire engines exused by fire companies in the extinguishment of fires, which are ecution. now owned, or which may hereafter be purchased and owned by any incorporated city or village, and kept for the use of any fire companies therein, and all waterworks, with the buildings, machinery and fixtures, and the ground occupied thereby, now owned, or which may hereafter be purchased and owned by any incorporated city or village, and used or intended to be used for the supplying of water for the extinguishment of fires and the use of the inhabitants, shall be, 1844, p. 76, 1. and are hereby exempted from levy or sale for any debt, damages, fine or amercement whatever.

1843, p. 19. § 8,

TITLE IX.

CHAPTER 49.

Township board.

shows, and exhibitions.

CHAPTER 49.

OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS OF POLICE.

Theatrical Exhibitions and Public Shows.

SECTION 1. The township board of any township, or the corporate &c., may license board of any village, may at any meeting held for that purpose, license theatrical exhibitions, public shows, and such other exhibitions as they deem proper, to which admission is obtained on payment of money, upon such terms and conditions as they shall think reasonable, and may regulate the same in such manner as they shall think necesfor the preservation of order and decorum, and to prevent any danger to the public peace; but no such license shall be in force for a longer time than the officers granting the same shall have been elected to office.

Punishment for

without license.

sary

SEC. 2. Any person who shall set up or promote any such exhibisetting up shows tion or show, or shall publish or advertise the same, or otherwise aid or assist therein, without a license first obtained, as provided in the preceding section, or contrary to the terms and conditions of such license, or while the same is suspended, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.

Inhabitants of

townships, &c.,

may make regulations in rela

tion to keeping

gun-powder.

When search

issued.

Gunpowder.

SEC. 3. The inhabitants of every township or incorporated village may, at any regular meeting, order that no gunpowder shall be kept in any place within the limits of such township or village, unless the same shall be kept in tight casks or canisters; and that no gunpowder above the quantity of fifty pounds, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, or in any ship or vessel, which shall be within the distance of twenty-five rods from any other building, or from any wharf; that no gunpowder above the quantity of twenty-five pounds, shall ke kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, within ten rods of any other building; and that no gunpowder above the quantity of one pound, shall be kept or depoisited in any shop, store or other building, within ten rods of any other building, unless the same shall be well secured in copper, tin or brass canisters, holding not exceeding five pounds each, and closely covered with copper, brass or tin covers.

SEC. 4. Upon complaint made on oath to any justice of the peace, warant may be by any township or village officer, that he has probable cause to suspect that gunpowder is deposited or kept within the limits of the township or village, contrary to any such order, such justice may issue his warrant, directed to any constable of such township, or the marshal of such village, ordering him to enter any shop, store or other building, or vessel specified in said warrant, and there to make diligent search for the gunpowder suspected to have been deposited or kept as aforesaid, and to make return of his doings to such justice forthwith.

Forfeiture for violating two

preceding sec tions.

SEC. 5. If any person shall commit either of the offences mentioned in the two preceding sections, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; but the two preceding sections shall not extend to any manufactory of gunpowder, nor in any case prevent the trans

portation thereof through any township, or from one part of any township to another part thereof.

Of Dogs.

TITLE IX. CHAPTER 50.

SEC. 6. The inhabitants of any township or incorporated village, Regulations remay make such by-laws concerning the licensing, regulating and re- lating to dogs. straining of dogs going at large, as they shall deem expedient, and may affix any penalties not exceeding ten dollars, for any breach thereof; but no such by-laws shall extend to any dog not owned or kept in such township, and no person shall be obliged to pay more than two dollars annually for any license granted under the provisions. of this chapter.

SEC. 7. All money received for the several licenses mentioned in this chapter, shall be paid to the treasurer, for the use of the township or village, as the case may be.

Moneys received forlicenses to be paid to treasurer.

When owner,

SEC. 8. Every owner or keeper of any dog, shall be liable to any person injured by such dog, in double the amount of damages sustain- &c., liable in ed by him, to be recovered in an action of trespass or on the case.

double damages.

dog.

SEC. 9. Any person may kill any dog that shall suddenly assault when any per him, while he is peaceably walking or riding any where out of the son may kill enclosure of the owner or keeper of such dog; and any person may kill any dog that shall be found out of the enclosure or immediate care of the owner, wounding, worrying or killing any cattle, swine, sheep, lambs, or other animals, unless the same be done by the direction or permission of the owner of such cattle, swine, sheep, lambs or other animals, or which shall have been accustomed to strolling away from the owner or keeper thereof, and worrying or killing sheep or lambs, or doing other injury.

CHAPTER 50.

OF UNAUTHORIZED BANKING, AND CERTAIN NOTES OR EVIDENCES OF DEBT
ISSUED BY BANKS.

law not to be in

SECTION 1. No person unauthorized by law, shall subscribe to, or Persons unbecome a member, or in any way interested in any association or com- authorized by pany formed for the purpose of issuing notes or other evidences of terested in cerdebt, to be loaned or put in circulation as money; nor shall any per- tain associations. son, unauthorized by law, subscribe to, or become in any way interest

ed in any bank or fund created or to be created for the like purposes, or either of them.

SEC. 2. Whoever shall subscribe to, or become a member of any Fenalty for subsuch company, or be interested in any such bank or fund, shall forfeit scribing, &c. one hundred dollars.

company for un

SEC. 3. No incorporated company, without being expressly there- Penalty on di unto anthorized by law, shall employ any part of its effects, or be in rectors, &c., of any way interested in any fund that shall be employed for the pur- lawful banking. pose of reciving deposites, making discounts or issuing notes or other evidences of debt, to be loaned or put in circulation as money; and any director, officer, or agent of any incorporated company, who shall violate any provision of this section, shall forfeit one thousand dollars.

TITLE IX.

CHAPTER 51.

Notes, &c., given

to unauthorized

company, to be

void.

Penalty for issu

ing bills, &c., to circulate as mo

ney, without ex press authority.

SEC. 4. All notes and other securities for the payment of any money, or the delivery of any property, made or given to any association, institution or company, that shall be formed for any such unlawful purpose as aforesaid, or made or given to secure the payment of any money loaned or discounted by any incorporated company or its officers, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be void.

SEC. 5. No person, association, or body corporate, whether public or private, except such bodies corporate as are or shall be expressly authorized by law to do a regular banking business, and to issue bank bills, shall issue any bills, notes, due-bills, drafts, or other evidences of debt, to be loaned or put in circulation as money, or to pass or be used as a currency or circulating medium; and every person, and every corporation, and every member of such corporation, who shall 1842, p. 27, § 1. violate the provisions of this section, shall forfeit one thousand dollars, and any such corporation shall thereby forfeit all its corporate rights and privileges.

Penalty for sign

SEC. 6. No corporation authorized by its charter to do a banking ing certain bills. business, and to issue bank bills, shall make such bills payable in any thing but specie; or at any other place than its banking house, or office, as located by its charter; or not payable on demand; and every such corporation which shall violate any of the preceding provisions of this section, shall thereby forfeit all its chartered rights and 1842, p 28, § 2. privileges; and every person who shall sign any such bills as president, cashier or otherwise of such corporation, shall forfeit a sum not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars.

Penalty for cir culating certain bills.

SEC. 7. No person shall pay, give or receive in payment, or in any way circulate or attempt to circulate any bank bill, promissory note, or other evidence of debt, issued by any banking company, or by any other corporation, within this state, or elsewhere, which shall purport to be for the payment of a less sum than one dollar, or which shall be made payable otherwise than in specie on demand; and every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section, shall for each offence forfeit a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, but no prosecution shall be commenced therefor, after the expiration of three months from the time of committing the offence.

CHAPTER 51.

Bounty for kil

OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WOLVES AND OTHER NOXIOUS ANIMALS.

SECTION 1. Every person, being an inhabitant of this state, who ling wolves, &c. shall kill a full grown wolf, or a wolf's whelp, in any organized township in this state, shall be entitled to a bounty of eight dollars for each wolf over three months old, and four dollars for each wolf's whelp under the age of three months, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided.

Wolf or wolf's

head, &c., to be

SEC. 2. Every person intending to apply for such bounty, shall take taken to justice. such wolf or wolf's whelp killed by him, or the head thereof, with the ears and skin entire thereon, to one of the justices of the peace of the township within which such wolf or whelp shall have been taken,

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